Reference at Newman Library

Year: 2011

Leak Near Reference Desk

Buildings & Grounds has been notified concerning a leak in the roof. Rain is leaking and falling in front of the Reference Desk. Currently, there is a recycling bin on the carpet to catch the rain. An orange cone and a yellow “caution: wet floor” sign have been placed around the recycling bin.

Audit Analytics as Source for Info on Company Executives, Board Members, Compensation

For a number of student projects, they are looking for compensation of executives and members of the board of directors.  This information can be found on a number of our databases–historically on the Corporate Library, and searching proxies on Mergent, Edgar Online I-Metrix. Thomson Research, and the SEC site.

Audit Analytics is also a very good source for this information.  You can search by public company name or ticker symbol.  Under the Governance and Compensation tabs, you can locate the names, ages, positions of executives and board members, committees on which they serve, any other board(s) they serve on, and their compensation for attending board meetings (as well as their attendance record at such meetings).  The source of the information is provided, such as the proxy filing, or an 8-K filing.

Changes in executives and board members are also indicated, with the source of the information, and the reason for the change.  For example, this week I did a workshop in which I showed the students AEO, whose ceo recently announced his retirement and the head of the audit committee had submitted his resignation citing “too many commitments.”

Trial to World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean

We have a CUNY-wide trial to World Scholar until the end of May. It is valid on campus only.

This is a new product from Gale that focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean. It contains a wide variety of historical material, at least some of it hard to find. One interesting collection are pamphlets created by various popular Brazilian groups from 1966 to 1986, which were instrumental in bringing about a transition to democracy. As far as I know, this was only available in CD-ROM format in the past.

It also contains a number of historical statistics, even in the areas of business, that I don’t think we find in any of our current resources. It does offer the possibility of having text read to the user, although the voice-machine seems to be more fluent in Spanish than in Portuguese.

This trial is in conjunction with the trial to the Latin American Weekly Report. Please share you comments here or feel free to email me.

JSTOR IX Added

Thanks to CUNY Central we now have access to JSTOR Arts and Science Archive Collection IX. While currently the collection has 39 titles, it is expected to grow to at least 150 titles by the end of 2012. Some of the notable titles in this collection that might be of interest at Baruch include The American Sociologist, International Journal of Sociology and Public Affairs Quarterly. More information on this collection, including a complete list of titles, can be found here.

Trial to Filmakers Library Online

We have a trial to Filmakers Library Online until June 25, 2011. It is available on campus only.

Filmakers Library Online provides documentaries that might be of interest to many areas across the curriculum – race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.

It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide. This release now provides 913 titles, equaling approximately 757 hours.

Please share your comments below or to me via email.