Author: lklusek

Black Americans: a Statistical Sourcebook & Guide to Government Data (REF E185.5 .B512 2009)
Tables of data, all from government sources, many from the Census.

International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities (REF HQ1090 .I58 2007)
A guide to theoretical and empirical research on men and gender with an international scope. All essays are signed and include bibliographies.

Oxford Handbook of International Business (REF HF1379 .O996 2009)
Essays by scholars. Focus is on the multinational corporation.

Twentieth-Century British Political Facts 1900-2000 (REF JN231 .B8 2000) 
New edition.

A large number of textbooks have been ordered for the spring semester and are expected to arrive and be processed for Reserve next week.  On order records for these items are not in the catalog.

I have left a sheet at the reference desk where you can add the titles of textbooks not yet available. Please include title, author, edition and course name and number when possible.

During the January intersession the Subotnick Financial Services Center will be open from 10 am to 4 pm from Monday to Friday. The Center will be closed on Saturday and Sunday.

The Census is slowly releasing data from the 2007 Economic Census and they are presenting the data in a new report called Industry Snapshots . These reports give a graphic picture of industries at the 2 and 3- digit NAICS levels and include graphs of total shipments/sales, shipments/sales per employee, and a map of shipments/sales per capita.  A table of industry ratios is included. Read more about these reports in this FAQ.

From any of the Snapshot reports, you can link to the Industry Sampler, the old familiar data page for an industry.

Students in a business communications course have to find a white paper and critique it.  Ordinarily we wouldn’t have a problem finding government white papers or white papers that cover social or political issues but in this case students are looking for white papers of a different sort, what the Wikipedia calls “commercial white papers“.  They define these as documents used by businesses as a marketing tool to advertise the benefits of a particular product or technology.

Examples can be found by doing some creative searching with Google.  Combine the term “white paper’ with the name of a company. Try it out with Apple or Cisco or Factiva or LexisNexis.  You could also combine “white paper” with terms like marketing, managment,  operations or technology. The Direct Marketing Association, Network World and TechRepublic all have white papers on their websites.

The SEC  issued three proposals yesterday to make trading through dark pools more transparent. To learn more about the proposals and how dark pools operate, read this SEC Factsheet.

Today’s workshop, “Database Survival: Better Searching Techniques,” brought out a large crowd of students.  The session was part of the library’s Workshops in 30 series.

I know several of us have helped one or more of the teams who are researching the organic baby foods market.  I thought I would share a few of the more unusual sources that I found.

The USDA just published a report on Marketing U.S. Organic Foods. Charts and graphs from the report can be found here. It doesn’t include data on baby foods but has a good survey of who buys organic foods and how much organics cost.

The Economic Research Service of the USDA has a website devoted to Organic Agriculture. It points to a working paper on the demand for organic baby foods published in 2001 and this lead me to a database called AgEcon at the University of  Minnesota.  A search on organic baby foods there found four reports, the latest from 2009.