Last Thursday the Human Resources Council and Center for Nonprofit Strategy and Management at Baruch College presented a forum, called The Helpers Need Help: New York City’s Nonprofit Human Service Organizations Persevering in Uncertain Times. The report has been getting a lot of media attention, including the following, which has a link to the full report:http://www.humanservicescouncil.org/ , which can be downloaded.
NYT article and new report on documentary filmmakers on ethical challenges
Today’s NYT has an interesting story “At Festival, A Splash from Michael Moore but Cautions on Documentaries” (headline of print edition). The story mentions a new report from the Center for Social Media at American University, “Honest Truths: Documentary Filmmakers on Ethical Challenges in Their Work.”
From an information literacy viewpoint, as a librarian I found the article’s references to the report, based on interviews of documentary filmmakers, indicating that manipulation of “individual facts, sequences and meanings of images” if that might help viewers to grasp the documentary’s “higher truth” very interesting. I took a brief look at the full report and plan to read all of it.
New Baruch Geoportal
The Baruch Geoportal (formerly known as the Baruch Geoserver) is now a public website that can be accessed from anywhere. The Geoportal is hosted in the library and provides GIS data, maps, and information about GIS facilities and educational opportunities at Baruch.
You can access it from this url:
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/geoportal/
There are also links to the Geoportal from the library’s databases page and from the geography / GIS subject guide.
New or upgraded EBSCO databases
The following EBSCO databases have been upgraded:
- Academic Search Premier to Academic Search Complete
- Business Source Premier to Business Source Complete
- LISTA to LISTA with full-text
- MEDLINE to MEDLINE with full-text
The following database is new:
- Education Research Complete
Brought to you by ERAC.
D&B Million Dollar Database cancelled
It has been removed from the list of databases.
Growing the U.S. Economy
A current student assignment is to write about an industry or activity that could foster growth of the U.S. economy. One source you might point out to students is our Recession Resources guide, especially the “News & Updates” pages which cover the government response to the financial crisis. The White House does a nice job of covering the Economy in one of their Issues pages.
You can read more about the Recession Resources guide in an interview with Jean Yaremchuk that appeared in the last issue of The Ticker.
Data from Social Explorer
Social Explorer can also be used to find Census data on age, sex, race, education, income, employment status and many other variables. You can export the data to Excel or in report format. If you have used Social Explorer to map an area, you can quickly link to the underlying data. To find out how to do this, follow the simple steps in the video that shows “How to Report from Map.”
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How to Use Social Explorer
Social Explorer has added short videos showing how to map their Census data.
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Procedures for Research Consultations
In the reference wiki, I’ve updated the procedures for handling requests for research consultations. Please make sure that you keep me up to date about any appointments you have been forwarded. It is essential that you let me know that you got the request that I forwarded via email and that you take a minute right after the session ends to fill out the online form detailing how the appointment went (that form is linked to within the reference wiki entry on research consultations).
If you want to help publicize the research consultation, feel free to re-use the language in this memo (written with faculty in mind) about the service (you’ll find that memo attached to the reference wiki entry on research consultations).
Descriptions of CCH databases revised
The descriptions to the CCH databases, CCH Capital Changes, CCH Business & Finance and CCH Tax Research have been revised on the Newman Library homepage to reflect the new name of the database to CCH Intelliconnect.
After discussing this change with Mike Waldman, we decided to retain the names of the current databases, CCH Capital Changes, CCH Business & Finance and CCH Tax Research for awhile and make a reference to see CCH Intelliconnect. There is also a new listing for CCH Intelliconnect. (CCH Accounting Research has not been included in the revision of the CCH databases.)
In CCH Intelliconnect:
Users may search all CCH information products to which Baruch subscribes. (One may not want to do this as thousands of results may be retrieved. Results may then be filtered.
One can limit one’s searches by selecting from among the Practice Areas, or the Quick bar (on the left, which allows one to locate specific sources for news, court cases, IRS rulings, and explanations and other practice tools. I will be doing some workshops next week for graduate students in taxation and after that I will be happy to give demonstrations to any librarian who would like one. Alternatively, one can go through the Intelliconnect Quick Start Guide, available on the website.