rormsby – Reference at Newman Library

Changes in CCH database listings on the Newman Library’s homepage

The Newman Library’s database listings were recently updated and references to CCH Business & Finance, CCH Capital Changes and CCH Tax as separate databases were removed. These resources are included in CCH Intelliconnect, as they have been for several years.

CCH Intelliconnet is the source you need to search CCH’s federal, state, and international tax resources, as well as Tax News, Journals and Newsletters.

Along with these tax sources, listed in the left column of available CCH Intelliconnect content, you will also find Capital Changes and business and finance topics listed.

CCH Intelliconnect is designed to enable searches over a wide variety of resources. You may limit your search to be as specific as an individual source, such as CCH Capital Changes.

Please continue to use CCH Accounting Research Manager for accounting and auditing information. All other information subscribed to by The William and Anita Newman Library from CCH-Wolters Kluwer is provided by CCH Intelliconnect.

Tax Resources Workshop

Learn to search the Newman Library’s databases for tax research by attending a workshop on them.

Workshops will be held in Room 130 of the Newman Library on

Friday, Nov. 7, from 6 pm. to 7:15 p.m.,

Saturday, Nov. 8, from 2 p.m. to 3:15 p.m., and 4-5:15 p.m;

Sunday, Nov. 9, from 4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 7:15 p.m.;

Tuesday, Nov. 11, 6:30 to 7:45 p.m.;

Thursday, Nov. 13 from 1 p.m. to 2:15p.m. and

Saturday, Nov. 15, 2 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. and 4 pm. to 5:15 p.m.

The workshops will cover the same resources and won’t assume that you have used the resources. Undergraduates and graduate students are welcome.

The Zicklin Graduate Tax Society has worked with librarian Rita Ormsby to offer the workshops. If you want to attend, or have questions, please contact her at rita.ormsby@baruch.cuny.edu.

Some additional sources re bridges

The book Silent Builder …about Emily Warren Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge is now available in the stacks at TG25. W53 W45 1984. About 30 pages in the book, written in rather large print, are on the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. A subject search for Roebling brings up several other titles.

The book Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture, TH 845.S33 1980 has a chapter on the Brooklyn Bridge construction that has some illustrations.

A subject search for Othmar Ammann, who designed the George Washington bridge, brings up several books.

A keyword search for Verrazano bridge brings up several titles, but one is in archives, which won’t help the high school students if they need to check a book out.

We have electronic access to a book published by the UN about Ben Van Berkel, a Belgian, who designed the Erasmus Bridge (brug) in Rotterdam. It has helped identify the city in recent years. The design has been copied the world over. We also have a book about Santiago Calatrava, another famous architect of bridges.

A possible subject search is Bridges–New York.

Other possibilities:

The Bridge over the River Kwai, by Pierre Boulle. PQ 2603.0754 P613 1954. It is a fictional account of the construction of the Kanchanaburi bridge by POWS and Asian slave laborers during World War II. (Thousands died constructing the bridge under orders of their Japanese captors; and it was bombed by the Allies.) The book was made into an award winning film.

A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan. D763.N4 R9. Describes the battle in Arnhem, the Netherlands during World War II. The Allies lost many men trying to capture this bridge and in the battle for Arnhem.

I have a book at home that I can bring in. It is The Bridge at Remagen, a book about the battle for this railroad bridge during World War II. It was the first intact bridge that the Allies captured in Germany in 1945. This enabled them to move equipment and men over it, before it was bombed. When I lived in Nebraska it was a very popular book as Karl Timmerman, who led the assault over the bridge, was from West Point, Nebraska, where I lived. Unfortunately he had died of cancer at an early age There is also a movie about this battle and bridge.

New library research guide on New York’s Non-Profit Revitalization Act

I’ve created a library research guide on New York’s Non-Profit Revitalization Act, 2013, with a 2014 amendment, which is available at http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/nynonprofit2014. (You can also find it on the Newman Library homepage, and click Students, then Research Guides and search nonprofits.)

Most provisions of this act became effective July 1. Publications, non-profit organizations, law firms and cpa firms are offering explanations of the act. The act is the first major revision of the New York’s non-profit act in 40 years.

LexisNexis Academic offers latest GMI ratings on companies

While doing some company research recently, I realized that Lexis-Nexis Academic, a database available through the Newman Library, offers the most recent GMI ratings on companies, including environmental, social, governance, litigation, and accounting-related risk indicators.

Two ways to locate the ratings are: Select GMI Ratings in the Source Directory on Lexis-Nexis Academic (listed in the databases on the Newman Library homepage) and then search by the company names or ticker symbols that you need. The ratings report will be listed for each company. The second way, is to search by ticker or company name in the “Get Company Info” box. In the left column of results, click Analyst Reports. The GMI Rating, if there is one, will be listed. Click on the link for the full report. Lexis-Nexis offers an explanation of the ratings, including the date, which is the date that rating was published.

One may access Lexis-Nexis Academic off campus and on as a Baruch student, faculty or staff. Other CUNY libraries have access to Lexis-Nexis Academic.

The Newman Library also has GMI ratings, available for a number of years and indicators, through the WRDS databases. However, the coverage we have available through WRDS does not include the environmental, social, litigation and accounting-related risk factors. Some accounting and governance information is available through WRDS. Access to WRDS through the Newman Library is limited to current Baruch students, faculty and staff.

ISO has draft standard re indicators for city services and quality of life

The International Standards Organization is working on a new series of standards with indicators relating to the sustainable development and resiliency of cities.

A draft is available.

A Youtube.com video about ISI 37101 is available. Introductory information about the project, includes:

Cities need indicators to measure their performance. Existing indicators are often not standardized, consistent, or comparable over time or across cities.

As part of a new series of International Standards being developed for a holistic and integrated approach to sustainable development and resilience, this set of standardized indicators will help
support sustainable development and resilience in cities.

These indicators can be used to track and monitor progress on city performance. In order to achieve sustainable development, the whole city system needs to be taken into consideration. Planning for
future needs must take into consideration current use and efficiency of resources in order to better plan for tomorrow.

The indicators and associated test methods in this International Standard have been developed in order to help cities:
a) measure performance management of city services and quality of life over time;
b) learn from one another by allowing comparison across a wide range of performance measures;
c) share best practices.

Problem with access to Thomson Reuters Checkpoint federal tax content

I went to federal tax resources on Thomson Reuters Checkpoint (the default screen when one logs on through the Newman Library database) this afternoon and learned we have lost access to most of the primary and secondary resources to which we have subscribed. I have reported this to collection management and it is being looked into.

The Warren Gorham Lamont tax treatises are usually available on this resource.

If you have a federal tax question from a student or faculty member, CCH Intelliconnect is our other database for federal and state tax information. It has the primary sources that are also on Thomson Reuters Checkpoint, as well as secondary resources, including those published by CCH and Wolters Kluwer, that help explain the primary sources; cases, etc. So, please suggest CCH Intelliconnect as an alternative.

Please watch for updates from collection management about the Thomson Reuters Checkpoint resource in the next few days.

Source of information about Holocaust/World War II in Greece

A student came to the reference desk today looking for books, including memoirs, of the Greek Jews in World War II and the Holocaust. We found some titles and the student also learned how to search in World Cat.

The last Greek synagogue in the Western hemisphere, Kehila Kedosha Janina, http://www.kkjsm.org, is located in the Lower East side. I toured it with some visiting friends a few years ago. The guide was a Holocaust survivor. (I learned a lot, as did my friends.)

On their website, under Booklist, there is an extensive list of memoirs and other books about Greek Jews (also called Romaniote Jews or Romoniots) during World II and after, and also additional information under Holocaust in Greece. One of the books listed is Eleni, by Nicholas Gage, which we have, at CT1118.G32 G33 1983. He was a WSJ and NYT investigative reporter. The book tells of his family’s experiences during World War II and afterwards. His mother was later murdered during the Greek Civil War, after arranging for her children to escape from Greece. Gage later returned to Greece and found those responsible for his mother’s death. The book won awards and was made into a film.

The student was really glad to find the resources listed on the synagogue site and was going to look in the library catalog and World Cat for them.

Lib Guide for Friday’s SPA Career Fair

I’ve worked with Alison Charlebois, SPA Career Services Advisor, on a libguide for Friday’s SPA Career and Internship Fair. The guide features agencies that will be present for the fair. It also provides directories to nonprofits and government agencies and links to Newman Library resources. The guide is at
http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/spa_career.