News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
We have a trial to Accessible Archives until March 28, 2011. This is valid on campus only. We have access for the trial to the following historical collections: The Civil War, American County Histories, African American Newspapers, and a number of individual titles.
Please comment below or let me know what your thoughts are on this database.
Please share with your faculty.
I recently created a group site on the CUNY Academic Commons for librarians in CUNY that monitor chat reference via our shared QuestionPoint subscription. I’d like to make this site the main location where librarians at the 8 subscribing libraries in CUNY can find announcements and discussions.
If you haven’t already set up an account on the CUNY Academic Commons, you’ll need to do that first before you can join the group.
http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/questionpointatcuny/home/
Please let me know if you have any questions about this new site.
Thanks.
CUNY is sponsoring a trial to Past Masters until April 30. It is available on campus only via the databases page or here.
This database contains the works of classic literature, philosophy, political science and more. The e-books are not downloadable to a reader.
While versions of many of these are in the public domain, Past Masters offers scholarly editions with the full academic apparatus of notes/linking/etc. There are also some powerful search features available within and across texts.
While it is a database, each title is purchased individually, so we could pick and choose.
Please let me know what you think, either by email or below in the comments.
Stephen Francoeur has published a guide to the Spring semester’s Harman Writer-in-Residence, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc. She writes about social issues and her book, Random Family –about life in the South Bronx– was voted the 2nd best journalistic book of the past decade.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s upcoming reading is Tuesday, March 22nd at 5:45 PM in 750 (Library Building).
More on her life and career can be found on the Harman website.
Gale’s technical support reports that these 2 resources are currently down.
WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, announced today the launch of a new database of global brands and trademarks. You can search by brand name or brand holder. The database contains over 640,000 records from three WIPO databases of international trademarks. Details are in this Press Release.
Several auditing students have asked for help in finding information aboutNew Century Financial Corporation, a subprime lender that filed for bankruptcy in 2007.
There has also been complaints for fraud brought by the SEC (searchable on the SEC site and also CCH Accounting Research Manager) and also some class action securities litigation, found on the Stanford University securities class action website.
A report by bankruptcy examiner Missal has been requested. Although these reports are not usually available full-text, the document was unsealed by the Delaware bankruptcy court and posted on the website of the law firm Missal is associated with. It runs over 500 pages. An explanation of the report is available.
I have been seeing many students doing research on private companies. I put together a guide to Private Companies. It includes a page on basic resources for non-profits.
Forecasts predicting the state of the world economy in 2050 have been featured in articles in the WSJ and FT recently. Baruch faculty have been talking about these reports so I thought I’d share a few of them with you. Willem Buiter and Ebrahim Rahbari at Citi wrote “Global Growth Generators.” Read about it in the FT’s blog. I couldn’t find a copy online.
The others are:
The Super- Cycle Report from Standard Chartered Bank
The World in 2050 from HKSB
A series on the World in 2050 from PWC
World Order in 2050 from the Carnegie Endowment