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February 17th, 2014
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University’s Libraries and Special Collections is commemorating 100 years of hosting the Purdue Road School with a special exhibit focusing on Indiana transportation.
“The Crossroads of America: Indiana Transportation in the Early 20th Century,” is on display through March 13 in the Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center on the fourth floor of the Humanities, Social Science and Education Library in Stewart Center. The exhibit coincides with this year’s road school, set for March 11-13, on campus.
The exhibit profiles early transportation in Indiana and includes rare publications on railroads and canals; historical road maps of Indiana; photographs of road construction projects and equipment; documents pertaining to the opening of major highways; and documents chronicling the history of the Purdue Road School and the Joint Transportation Research Project. Themes such as the evolution from horse and buggy travel to streetcars and automobiles, surveying and methods of traffic control, and road and bridge safety, are explored, along with the impact the rise in popularity of the automobile had on rural life.
The Purdue Road School is an Indiana tradition that brings together federal, state and local agency personnel, elected officials and professionals from throughout the field, including industry, consulting and academia. It builds upon a rich tradition dating to professor W.K. Hatt’s efforts to organize a civil engineering conference in 1913.
Purdue Libraries curators for the exhibit include Sammie Morris, associate professor and university archivist, and head of archives and special collections; Neal Harmeyer, digital archivist in archives and special collections; and Michael Maune, graduate assistant in archives and special collections.
Contact: Sammie Morris, 765-494-2905, morris18@purdue.edu
Filed under: events, general, scholcomm, SPECFebruary 14th, 2014
Welcome to Database of the Week. This feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics is intended to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know, with only basic information to get you started. Hopefully, you will be tempted to explore this or other databases.
This Week’s Featured Database: MarketLine, from Informa/Taylor & Francis.
Find it:www.lib.purdue.edu/parrish, Under the column headed Collections, click on List of Business Databases.
Description/focus: Market research reports.
Try it:. MarketLine has an easily navigable interface to find market information on companies, industries, and countries. The search box has a drop down so you can choose to limit your research to a single type such as industries or case studies, and the resulting list can be filtered to further focus your search. Click here to see the basics of searching MarketLine. Beyond the basic search, though, MarketLine also has a group of resources on the home page under the simple heading Databases, where you can get country statistics, build a list of companies by capital raised, compare categories of consumer goods, or check financial deals.
Why you should know this database: MarketLine online reports are easy to navigate but are also downloadable.
Why students should know this database: MarketLine market research reports include SWOT and five forces analyses.
Cost: Paid annually by the Libraries.
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact parrlib@purdue.edu. Database of the Week is archived at https://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/category/MGMT/. For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@ParrishLib).
Feedback is always welcome. If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: database, general, MGMTFebruary 6th, 2014
Purdue University Libraries has collaborated with Purdue’s Human Resources Leadership and Organizational Development (LOD) to acquire a subscription to Business Book Summaries — a collection of concise, comprehensive summaries of various business books.
Access to this resource, which is available to all faculty and staff on the West Lafayette campus, expands employees’ personal resource collection and aids organizations in educating and training leaders and staff on key relevant business topics. Topics covered include communication, diversity, global business, leadership and management.
Subscribers can create a personal account to save their preferences, organize their folders or create email alerts. Subscribers also can read and/or listen to more than 2,000 summaries, browse more than 20 categories, and translate summaries into 32 different languages. Users of iPhones can download the Business Book Summaries App for access on the go.
Business Book Summaries can be accessed at the following locations:
* LOD’s Core Services website at www.purdue.edu/hr/lod/.
* Libraries’ list of databases, available at www.lib.purdue.edu/find/databases.
* An organizational leadership resource guide created by Libraries in collaboration with LOD, available at http://guides.lib.purdue.edu/workforcedevelopment.
Purdue University Libraries has numerous books, journals and databases on topics within the leadership and organizational development discipline that Purdue faculty and staff can access, all of which are listed in the resource guide.
Questions about Business Book Summaries may be addressed to lod@purdue.edu.
Filed under: faculty_staff, generalFebruary 5th, 2014
All of Purdue University Libraries are closed today, Wednesday 2/5, due to the university closure. The Libraries will open Thursday, 2/6, at the regularly scheduled hours.
Filed under: generalFebruary 4th, 2014
On Saturday, February 15, 2014 ProQuest will make improvements to its internal systems to accommodate a growing number of users and to reduce the need for future downtime.
An eight hour (8) maintenance window is needed to perform these enhancements, lasting from 10:00 EST through 06:00 EST. During this time, all ProQuest resources will be unavailable.
A complete list of ProQuest resources can be found here: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/titlelists/tl-menu.shtml
For more information, contact Rebecca Richardson, Electronic Resources Librarian, Purdue University Libraries at (765) 494-9250 or rarichar@purdue.edu.
Filed under: general, servicesFebruary 3rd, 2014
The first in a new series, the book Integrating Information into the Engineering Design Process edited by Michael Fosmire and David Radcliffe is now available. Michael Fosmire is Head of the Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Technology Division of the Purdue University Libraries and Professor of Library Science while David Radcliffe is Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education and Professor of Engineering Education. Their collaboration focuses on the practical ways in which library and information science principles can be embedded into the pedagogy of another discipline to power student success. Sharon Weiner, W. Wayne Booker Chair in Information Literacy and series editor of the Purdue Information Literacy Handbooks series, notes that the book is “an outstanding example of the application of information literacy in a discipline. No other work has so thoroughly and capably integrated information literacy with the learning of engineering design. The authors and editors have succeeded in presenting a cohesive and evidence-based approach to an engineering paradigm; the design process.” More information about the book can be found on Purdue University Press’s website.
Filed under: UncategorizedJanuary 31st, 2014
Welcome to Database of the Week. This feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics is intended to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know, with only basic information to get you started. Hopefully, you will be tempted to explore this or other databases.
This Week’s Featured Database: BizMiner, from the Brandow Company.
Find it: www.lib.purdue.edu/parrish, Under the column headed Collections, click on List of Business Databases.
Description/focus: BizMiner delivers industry analysis by tracking 18 million US businesses in 16,000 industry segments.
Try it: BizMiner’s interface is easy to use. The homepage offers 2 types of reports to start with, Industry Financial Ratios and Industry Market Statistics, but also has options to do a keyword search or to drill down through industry categories and subcategories. Once you choose the industry, you can further narrow your search to a state or metro area. See here for a short video tutorial on the basics of searching BizMiner.
Why you should know this database: BizMiner Industry Market reports include industry population by year, market volume, employment class trends, and other statistics. Industry Financial Reports include Income-Expense, balance sheet, and financial ratios.
Why students should know this database: Each report in BizMiner includes explanations of terms, providing students a ready reference tool to help them understand the data and why the information is important.
Cost: For annual subscription information, contact Mary Dugan.
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact parrlib@purdue.edu. Database of the Week is archived at https://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/category/MGMT/. For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@PurdueLibraries).
Feedback is always welcome. If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: database, general, MGMTJanuary 17th, 2014
Purdue University Libraries celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., with informative displays in various Libraries location. Purdue Libraries is proud to collaborate with a variety of entities across campus to educate and create awareness on this day of remembrance.
The list of Libraries displays is also prominently featured on the MLK celebration website at: http://www.purdue.edu/diversity-inclusion/mlk/.
Siegesmund Engineering Library (Potter) – January 13-31
Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Display created by Sandy Galloway
Hicks Undergraduate Library (Hicks) – January 13-31
“Triumph over Fear” – Nelson Mandela’s quest for social justice in South Africa (media display)
Display created by Ann O’Donnell
M.G. Mellon Library of Chemistry (Wetherill) – January 13-31
Julian Bond, American social activist and leader in the American civil rights movement
Display created by Becky Hunt
Physics Library (Physics) – January 13-31
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial and the Martin Luther King Jr. Center
Display created by Becky Hunt
Humanities, Social Sciences & Education Library (Stewart Center) – January 20-31
Zora Neale Hurston, American folklorist, anthropologist and author
Display created by Patrick Whalen
Mathematical Sciences Library (Math, 3rd floor display case) – January 20-February 28
What do Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, Albert Einstein Have in Common?
Display created by Nastasha Johnson
Black Cultural Center Library (BCC) January 15 –February 28
The Black Freedom Struggle across America
Display created by Jamillah R. Gabriel
January 17th, 2014
DMP: Submitting an NSF grant? Have questions about the Data Management Plan requirement? Wondering what PURR is all about and how it can help you? Please plan to attend a free session on Monday, January 27th, 12:30-1:30 in STEW 218D. Topics will include: overall data management plan requirements, identifying target data to publish or deposit, the Purdue University Research Repository, and more. Libraries faculty will be on hand for Q & A or for consultations. Cookies will be provided for refreshment.
Welcome to the spring semester and to Database of the Week. This feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics is intended to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know, with basic information to get you started. Hopefully, you will be tempted to explore this or other databases.
This Week’s Featured Database: Privco, from The Privco Company.
Find it:www.lib.purdue.edu/parrish, Under the column headed Collections, click on List of Business Databases.
Description/focus: Privco is our newest source for private company information.
Try it: Some of the biggest companies in the world are privately owned (Cargill, Mars, Subway), and financial information about these billion-dollar companies is covered by our long-standing company information databases such as LexisNexis. Smaller private companies, though, are a challenge. Privco is our newest databases, specifically obtained to provide in-depth business intelligence about Private companies. See here for a short video on accessing the database and using the interface.
Why you should know this database: Privco will deliver when searched by name of company but the database can also be searched by Privco’s own industry classification system. When a covered private company becomes public, Privco continues to provide its historical information about the company’s private life.
Why students should know this database: Privco’s interface is straightforward and offers options to narrow an initial search.
Tags: executives, financials, investment research, mergers & acquisitions, news, private companies
Cost: For annual subscription information, contact Mary Dugan.
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Database of the Week comes to you from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact parrlib@purdue.edu. Database of the Week is archived at https://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/category/MGMT/. For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@PurdueLibraries). Feedback is always welcome.
If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.
Filed under: database, general, MGMTDecember 19th, 2013
In a recent DC Telegraph post, Digital Commons announced that there are now more than one million open access, full-text objects available across Digital Commons member repositories.
Filed under: Open_Access