Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies News

Purdue Libraries announces late-night study areas

August 27th, 2012

Purdue University Libraries now will offer late-night study areas in Hicks Undergraduate Library and Roland G. Parrish Library.

The newly renovated Hicks Undergraduate Library will have a space open 24 hours, seven days a week. The expanded extended hours section includes UnderGrounds along with a classroom-sized area and additional space.

The Roland G. Parrish Library of Management and Economics will be open 24 hours Monday through Thursday. It will be open through 6 p.m. Friday, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturday, and open at 11 a.m. Sunday. The library is on the second floor of the Krannert Building.

Both of the 24-hours areas support individual and collaborative study. The areas will have workstations, printers and copiers with free scanning capabilities that will be accessible after regular library hours by Purdue student ID card swipe.

Contact: Linda Rose, 765-494-6730, lrose@purdue.edu

Parrish Library’s database of the week (8/24/12): Global Market Information Database (GMID)

August 24th, 2012

Welcome back to campus! And welcome to Database of the Week, a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics.  These weekly database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.

Database name:  Global Market Information Database (aka Passport GMID), from Euromonitor International.

Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/parrish, in the pulldown Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below the Libraries’ search box.

Description/focus:  GMID provides international market intelligence reports.

Start with this hint: Using the GMID simple search field in the top right corner can generate an effective search. Enter a product, company, or industry that currently holds your interest to see a list of reports, or explore reports and documents by categories in the search bar. Click here to see a basic search in GMID, and contact anyone in the Parrish Library for advanced help.

 Why you should know this database:  GMID is one of our most powerful databases, with  domestic and international statistics on consumer goods and services, details on companies and industries, and comprehensive economic information on countries.

How this database can be integrated into the curriculum:  Students can easily navigate the GMID interface to use country consumer data to compare markets.  The reports include financial assessment and SWOT.

Cost: Paid by Krannert School of Management and the Libraries.

Tags:  companies, industries, market research, SWOT, consumers, countries, time series, international research

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Database of the Week comes to you from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. Our intent is to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know.  If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of this or any other library resource for a class, contact kranlib@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).

If you would like us to feature your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.

Science Direct and Scopus Maintenance

August 22nd, 2012

ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable this weekend from Saturday (August 25th) at 7:30AM to Sunday (August 26) at 2:30AM for maintenance and platform improvements. We are sorry for any inconvenience.

Purdue Celebrates Pioneering Midwestern Business Leader Kirby Risk

August 1st, 2012

The late J. Kirby Risk II called himself “a small-town businessman from the banks of the Wabash.” In her newest book, Kirby’s Way: How Kirby and Caroline Risk Built their Company on Kitchen-Table Values, author Angie Klink details the compelling story of  Kirby and the creation of the Kirby Risk Corporation. The book also highlights the importance of community and charity work for Kirby and Caroline, and the compassionate way he ran his company.

Kirby cofounded his battery company in 1926 with $500 he borrowed from his father. Today, Kirby Risk Corporation is a multimillion-dollar electrical products and services industry headquartered in Lafayette, Indiana, and spanning three states. Kirby Risk is committed to  Kirby’s concept of “sacrificial service” and is now run by Kirby’s son, Jim.

Kirby’s Way is a feel-good story about a self-made man in the heart of Indiana. Klink states, “Kirby Risk may not have wanted this book. Yet he would have esteemed it as a parable, a spiritual truth that compels readers to discover certainties for themselves.”

Klink is the author of the inspiring biography Divided Paths, Common Ground: The Story of Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis, Pioneering Purdue Women Who Introduced Science into the Home. She also authored two children’s books, Purdue Pete Finds His Hammer (about Purdue University) and I Found U (about Indiana University). Her writing has been published in numerous Chicken Soup for the Soul books. She has won forty American Advertising Federation ADDY Awards and an honorable mention in the 2007 Erma Bombeck Writing Competition. Klink has a BA in communication from Purdue University.

ITaP’s Customer Service Center moving to HSSE Library

July 27th, 2012

ITaP’s Customer Service Center moving to HSSE Library

July 27th, 2012

Ask a Librarian service expands to text

July 25th, 2012

Starting this fall semester, Purdue Libraries will offer a text message reference service, in addition to email and chat services.

Get a brief answer to your simple question. TEXT Purduelib to 66746 to get started!

Purdue Libraries’ reference service has many options available, whether the physical library is open or not. In fact, Libraries is never closed to people who need information. Choose text for short answers, chat for 1:1 conversational assistance or email for more comprehensive assistance.

Purdue Libraries’ NEW Ask a Librarian website focuses on letting students choose the assistance which fits their needs. For more information visit: www.lib.purdue.edu/askalib

Databib Links Data Repositories and Researchers

July 24th, 2012

A new tool, Databib, has been developed to help researchers identify and locate repositories of research data on the Internet. Its development was led by the Purdue University Libraries with collaborators from Penn State University and the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Many funding agencies like the National Science Foundation require researchers to submit data management plans with their grant proposals and have encouraged researchers to share their data in repositories. Sharing data improves the ability of researchers to validate each other’s work as well as to avoid duplicating effort by reusing existing data. Sharing data in repositories also helps make the results of federally-funded research available to the public.

But the lack of a catalog or directory of data repositories presented a barrier to data-sharing and left many researchers wondering where they could find and deposit datasets.

“Databib answered many questions that researchers were left with when funding agencies gave the data mandate. What repositories are appropriate for us to submit our datasets to?  How do I find appropriate data repositories and discover datasets?” asked Xiaolin Zhang, Executive Director at the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. “Researchers now have a resource that spans the global community.”

Over 200 data repositories have been cataloged in Databib, which is guided by an international board of advisors from Australia, China, India, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It is expected that 500 repositories will be cataloged before the end of the year.

Librarians and other information professionals from around the world are using Databib to catalog and curate information about data repositories that users can browse and search.

“Librarians have expanded our role in e-Science and data curation,” said James L. Mullins, Dean of Purdue University Libraries. “By presenting, linking and integrating information about data repositories in innovative ways, Databib adapts library practice to help organize and describe where research datasets are located.”

For more information about Databib, or to locate data repositories in your area of research or learning, visit http://databib.org.

Libraries faculty publication recognized on LIRT’s Top Twenty Articles list

July 20th, 2012

“Determining Data Information Literacy Needs: A Study of Students and Research Faculty” has been selected as one of the Top Twenty  Articles, by the Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT).

The article, co-written by Libraries faculty members, Jake Carlson, Michael Fosmire, Chris Miller and Megan Sapp Nelson, was published in portal: Libraries and the Academy in 2011 and introduced the concept of data information literacy, providing some preliminary insight into how data information literacy might be defined.

LIRT’s Top Twenty Committee published their annual annotated bibliography of top publications in the field of instruction and information literacy in the June 2012 edition of LIRT News. The Committee is responsible for monitoring the library instruction literature and identifying high quality library-instruction related articles from all types of libraries.

RCUK requires researchers publish in journals that allow deposit of articles in repositories

July 17th, 2012