News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
Several new guides have been added in the weeks since out last update on February 4th. Two are course guides:
PUB1250 Public Administration in Modern Society – Aisha Pena
SOC/Ant4111 Research Methods – Linda Rath
The others are:
Think Tanks – Louise Klusek
Corporate Finance – Louise Klusek
Harmon Writer in Residence: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc – Stephen Francoeur
An international finance class is researching the foreign equity and debt financing of U.S. companies over the last three years. The standard source for this information is SDC Platinum.
Another source that some of the student have found helpful is Mergent Online. The company synopsis screen includes a tab for “Long-term Debt” with a comprehensive list of all the company’s bond offerings, whether active or matured. (The list can be sorted so the active issues come to the top of the list.) To get the details of the bonds, you need to click on the CUSIP number for each bond. The “Added Details” tab will tell you where the bond was listed and if it was offered globally.
The AACSB released a report on February 11, 2011 on The Globalization of Management Education: Changing International Structure, Adaptive Strategies, and the Impact on Institutions. Complimentary copies are available to educators after registration.
S&P NetAdvantage has added both annual reports and CSR (corporate social responsibility) reports in PDF format to the database. Do a company search and from the menu on the left of the results page, choose “Annual Reports/Statements.” Current reports and an archive of about five years (varies by company) are available.
Students registered for the Winter session have a $ 30 printing account.
I was working with an ESL section of ENG2100 this morning. Their assignment is to write about their native language, its history, grammar, alphabet and writing system. There are several encyclopedias and handbooks in our reference collection that are good resources for this assignment:
Facts about the World’s Languages at REF P371 .F33 2001
The World’s Major Languages at REF P371 .W6 1987
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems at REF Z40 .C67 1996
The World’s Writing Systems at REF P211 .W714 1995
and the Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics (9 vols.) at REF P29 .E48 1994
A student asked about this at the reference desk yesterday. The official announcement from the NBER was made at their website on September 20th. The Wall Street Journal did a nice analysis in this article, “Recession ended in June 2009.”
Google has updated its April Transparency Report to an interactive map. News from the BBC describes it as a new cencorship tool where anyone can “click an individual country to see how many removal requests were fully or partially complied with, as well as which Google services were affected.” Earlier this week, the Official Google Blog posted the announcement about “Tools to visualize access to information.” You can find the map here.
Fed Chief Ben Bernanke was asked at last week’s Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission what readings he would suggest for those wanting to understand the financial crisis. The Wall Street Journal reported his recommendations in an article titled “Ben Bernanke’s Labor Day Reading List.” The only book on the list was The Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed. We have a copy at HG172 .A2 A43 2009. The rest of Bernanke’s testimony can be found in the September 2nd hearings on “Too Big to Fail.”
Math students having problems accessing WebWorks should email Prof. Sherman Wong, the WebWorks coordinator.