lklusek – Page 7 – Reference at Newman Library

Greeting and Helping New Students

New staff will begin working today to help students learn about Newman Library. We will have greeters at the entrance giving directions and welcoming students to the Library. There will also be staff stationed in the printing room and the the copier room. Others will offer help at the course reserve line and work with students who have login, password, or other tech questions.

The new staff will be working the hours from 10:45 to 2 pm and from 4:30 to 7:30 pm. Librarians will also roam throughout the library offering assistance during the hours from 9 am to 8:50 pm.

Reuters Workshops Start Next Week

Our first Reuters workshops of the fall semester are scheduled for next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in the Subotnick Financial Services Center. Please ask students to register on the workshop registration form. Walk ins are accepted only when there are empty seats. Students should be encouraged to join the SFSC Blackboard community and read the tutorial before attending the workshop.

Journal alerts from SSRN

Did you know that faculty can set up individual subscriptions to SSRN and receive alerts from any one of the SSRN networks that we subscribe to. The procedure for establishing a password and selecting the journal alerts is explained in this short video that is part of the SSRN FAQ.

Additional Printers in the Library

Six additional printers are now available on the second floor of the library. Only two of these are in the printer room. Two printers have been placed near the stand up computer terminals and two more are adjacent to the reference desk just outside the printer room.

WRDS for Librarians at SLA

For the first time WRDS offered a session at SLA for college and university librarians and they showed off their new Website and its new interface. Go to http://wrds-web.wharton.upenn.edu and have a look. You will like it.

The best new feature is the Tools tab where you can do a search for any variable across all WRDS databases and find not only which databases to use but also which files to use.

There is also a suite of E-Learning videos that cover each database, downloading and other technical applications, and how to use stat packages like SAS with WRDS files.

WRDS also offers sample programs and research applications where they show how to perform frequently used operations like building portfolios and how to replicate “classic” studies.

WRDS is also planning to add a Librarian category in the WRDS Forums. I use the forums a lot so this should be useful.

WRDS also announced that they hope to offer monthly updates for Compustat soon.

What I Learned at the SLA Exhibits

Mergent Online will be introducing a new interface before September and before year end expects to have its Municipal and Government Manuals in an online format. This will complete the historical archive of the former Moody’s Manuals that we subscribe to in Mergent WebReports.

RefWorks will be at CUNY sometime in August or September to offer training sessions for librarians. The location has not yet been decided but it could be Baruch.

The Copyright Clearance Center now offers an annual licensing service specifically for academic libraries.

Euromonitor has added a new print title Emerging Consumer Markets which covers the BRIC economies –Brazil, Russia, China and India- along with Mexico and South Africa. A table of contents for this title is here.

Business Monitor has added coverage of several more industries including freight transport, water, power, mining and shipping.Reports in these sectors focus on emerging market countries rather than North America.

S&P NetAdvantage is featuring links to its Compustat data more prominently.