Here is a video I made showing how to set up email delivery of blog posts from the Reference at Newman Library blog and the Newman Library Idea Lab blog. Please let me know if these instructions work for you.
Public Services Blog at Kansas State University Libraries
FWIW, I ran across another library blog written by and for the staff of an academic library. Interesting to see how they use it.
Video Instructions on Customizing Your Name in This Blog
If you haven’t logged in to the blog and changed how your name displays in the blog, please do so. I’ve created this short video, Customizing Your Name in WordPress, that shows you how to do it.
Euromonitor GMID –> Passport GMID?
Mike Waldman mentioned in an email today that we now have access to more content in Euromonitor GMID and that the database seems to have been renamed as Passport GMID:
We have upgraded Euromonitor GMID to Passport GMID. It now includes:
Strategy Briefings
Strategy Briefings offer in-depth forward looking analysis of global trends predicted to influence consumer markets in the future. Recently published strategy briefings include:
- Global Trends 2009 – What is the World Coming to?
- Loyalty Marketing: Attracting and Retaining Customers in Difficult Times.
- Global Market for Food Intolerance: At War with Our Food
Industry Watch
Industry Watch articles allow users to recognize the impact and implications of industry events making the news:
- New product launches, marketing strategies and industry trends
- Acquisitions, disposals and strategic partnerships
- Regulatory issues and seasonal trends
Country Briefings
Country briefings examine key country trends in specified topics. To date we have reported on the business environment and income and expenditure in more than 80 countries.
Country Profiles
Country profiles allow users to locate important country facts easily. They present demographic, macro-economic and political information for 205 countries in a clear systematic way. Facts include head of state, political structure, inflation, GDP growth and more. As well as statistics, they provide a written overview of a country’s operating environment and future outlook. There are also 7 Regional Profiles which are similar in structure.
Country Insight Articles
Topical country insight articles are prominently featured. These articles provide insight into current political, economic and social issues. A typical country insight article may look at topics such as rising unemployment rates, declining housing values and the economic weakening across the globe.
Global Consumer Trend Monitoring Articles
Global consumer trend monitoring articles examine factors influencing consumer behavior. Emerging trends and attitudes are covered along with new consumer segments.Country Pulse
Country Pulse summaries provide constantly updated snapshots of what’s in the public consciousness and how it may affect consumer spending behavior. What are people talking about, what are they concerned with and what excites them?
If you log in to the database, the name Euromonitor GMID has been replaced with Passport GMID, although the site does still feature the name “Euromonitor International” in two locations. Rather than replace Euromonitor GMID from the list of databases with Passport GMID, Mike has added an entry for Passport GMID and kept the entry for Euromonitor GMID. This may help us in a transition period to help get our students and faculty used to this name change. Here’s the real question, though: how long should we keep listing Euromonitor GMID on our library web site? At what point can we assume that those who happen to know the database by name will have gotten the message that the database has been renamed?
Keeping Up with the New MLA Citation Rules
Many of our databases offer a link to click to see a particular record or item in different citation formats. I just noticed today that the Cite Now feature in CQ Researcher Online offers this message when you try to display a citation in MLA style:
The MLA citation style is currently unavailable while we revise the format to reflect the new MLA standards.
This past spring, I looked at the new MLA rules for citing sources and wrote a post on my Digital Reference blog about the more notable changes. One thing that occurred to me as I wrote that post was a concern over the lag time between the publication of those new guidelines in the new seventh edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers and when various databases that offer to automatically cite materials for you will incorporate these new rules. This concern can also be extended to when citation management software (from Zotero, EndWorks, RefWorks, etc.) and faculty themselves will take note of the changes.
What I am worried about specifically is a student using the new guidelines and finding other sources of authority (database citation tools, citation management toosl, and faculty) offering a different (and older) set of rules.
Envelope for Hirsch or Hyungsik Yoon
I am leaving an envelope addressed to Marjorie Hirsch or her student, Hyungsik Yoon, at the Reference Desk. One of them will stop by to pick it up. Thanks. -Linda
SEC issues warning relating to investing in companies that file for bankruptcy
The SEC and FINRA have issued a warning to consumers about investing in bankrupt companies. The warning explains the situation at General Motors specifically.
Here’s the link to the warning: http://www.finra.org/Investors/ProtectYourself/InvestorAlerts/TradingSecurities/P119359
Rita
More on the projector in Room 135
Last Thursday night, for a SLA-NY meeting that was held in room 135, Milwood Hughes made some adjustments to the settings for the projector in the room. There were no problems during the meeting which lasted 2.30 hours. (Milwood had been contacted about bringing a mike for the speaker and we set up at 5 p.m.)
Rita
CCH Intelliconnect–a new way to search CCH
Starting this week, the Newman Library’s access to the CCH databases CCH Business & Finance, Capital Changes, and CCH Tax Research may be made through their new CCH Intelliconnect. (CCH’s Accounting Research Manager is not yet included in Intelliconnect.)
When you select any of the CCH databases listed on the Newman Library homepage, you will be promoted to sign up for Intelliconnect. I would suggest using your Baruch email address. Your password is your own choice.
Intelliconnect allows you to search everything we subscribe to from CCH. You can narrow your search to start with by going to Practice Areas. To eliminate areas to search, deselect them. For example, if you want only to search CCH Capital Changes, it is listed under CCH at Wall Street. Deselect everything but Capital Changes to run your search.
CCH has put together some quick two minute tutorials on searching that are to be recommended.
Basically, you can run a search and then filter your results through filters that appear in the left column.
I’m going to talk with Mike about how to best describe the new IntelliConnect on the Newman Library homepage and we’ll keep you posted.
QuestionPoint Chat Still Having Problems
The issue I reported a few weeks ago with chat sessions freezing up and a “Connect lost. Please wait.” error message coming up still has not been fixed by QuestionPoint yet. While chatting yesterday, I got four of those messages in four separate chat sessions. Each time, I was reconnected to the session after waiting anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes. If it happens to you, just wait for the error message to go away and the chat monitor to return you to where you left off (in other words, don’t click anything until the system sorts itself out).
I reported each of the incidents to QuestionPoint support yesterday and emailed my fellow board members of the Question 24/7 Reference Advisory Board to see if they were seeing similar problems (they were). No word yet from QuestionPoint about when this problem will be fixed.