Please Lock the Paper Cabinets

This morning we discovered one of the cabinets in the student printing room was unlocked. Please discourage theft and lock the cabinets after use.

If Prof. Neil Sullivan stops by the reference desk

Update: He called me and I have placed the metro card and some other research in an envelope and placed it in the box for pick-up at the reference desk. If he comes in, please call me as I would like to say hello, X3146. (He was my Admin Law professor in SPA.) Thanks, Rita

Please either call me or have him come to my office. He called yesterday about a Metro Card to go read a 1935 Supreme Court brief and oral argument. I told him I would leave the card at the desk but I am unsure of the source he is seeking. He said yesterday that he would stop in today. I have left a message at his office.

America's Most Shareholder Friendly Companies

The February 2006 issue of Institutional Investor magazine includes their first ever ranking of U.S. companies that treat their shareholders best. The rankings are based on a poll of bank analysts and portfolio managers who were asked to vote on the effectiveness of companies' governance and investor relations as part of their program to maximize shareholder value. The top 4 companies in 56 industry groups are listed. This cover story is titled: "The Fairest of Them All".

Problems with Gale Databases

The John Jay Library has been experiencing problems today accessing Opposing Viewpoints and other Gale databases. They have been in contact with Gale and Gale reports that the problems have been fixed in the last hour. Gale suggests that users still having problems, clear their cookies and cache and reboot.

CRSP Data Update

The CRSP database, part of our WRDS service from Wharton, has just completed their annual update with the addition of pricing data through 2005.
In addition, they have added historical data -daily pricing- for NYSE-traded stocks from 1925 through 1962. Historical pricing for AMEX and NASDAQ traded stocks remains unchanged. AMEX price history starts in July 1962 and NASDAQ prices begin in December 1972.

Freedom of Information Day Lecture at SIBL

SIBL is sponsoring a lecture and discussion by Corey Stoughton, a New York Civil Liberties Union staff attorney on the topic: "The Spy Files Project: Using the Freedom of Information Act to Uncover Government Surveillance of Political and Religious Groups." The program is free and open to the public and will be held on Thursday March 16 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Conference Room 018.

Chief Librarian's Office Closed Today

Due to illnesses, the Chief Librarian's office (4th floor) will be closed today, February 27th. Copy cards will be distributed from the reference desk.

Library website links to CUNY+ going to union catalog

I just put in a helpdesk request (#4365) asking for the CUNY+ links on our "Online Catalog" page to be updated. The links should be going to the Baruch catalog instead of the CUNY union catalog.

NYPL now subscribes to ARTstor

According to a posting today on the NYPL's feed of "Databases and Indexes Online- recent additions" (you can grab the feed as well as several others from this NYPL page), the research libraries now provide on-site access to ARTstor.

ARTstor offers more than 300,000 art and architecture images. You can read more about it on the NYPL page describing ARTstor or on the FAQs page on the ARTstor website. This is a great resource for students who need to find images that they can save and use in class presentations or research papers (details on ARTstor's downloading policy can be found on here on the FAQs).

Links to "Basic Business Research" tutorial

You can now find a number of new links to the "Basic Business Research" tutorial that Louise Klusek did with Kognito:

• "Business Sources" subject guide (this page is one of the library subject guides found on the "Information Resources" page)
• "Online Tutorials" page (a link to this page is found on the "Instruction" page)

In the redesigned library website that is being worked on right now, we'll have a more intuitive and less redundant placement of the link to this and other tutorials.

ACCESS SERVICES at the Newman Library Baruch College-CUNY

ACCESS SERVICES at the Newman Library Baruch College-CUNY

Gartner Research Available

We now have access to the Gartner research site through the CUNY portal. If you login to your portal account you will see "Gartner" in the SSO applications box. This link will automatically log you into the Gartner site. Gartner is an excellent source of research on IT issues from a business perspective. We are one of the few libraries in the country to offer this service. Unfortunately, at this time it is only available via the CUNY portal. Gartner access was requested by our graduate and undergraduate students, so we need to become familiar with it.

Title correction

An assignment from Blackboad, has students looking for Encyclopedia of American Migration. This title is wrong. The correct title is Encyclopedia of American Immigration, JV 6465.E53 2001, second floor reference.
Thanks to Rita for her assistance.


Yvette

Who can borrow from the Grad Center Library

Today I learned that Baruch staff can borrow materials from the Graduate Center Library. To capture this bit of info, I've created a new entry in the reference wiki for the "Graduate Center Library" that details which groups of users in the Baruch community have borrowing privileges.

This Week at the Newman Library

The ref desk copy of this listing is now being placed behind the ref desk schedule. A copy, as
always, is posted for the public to view.

Blackboard problems

Students are currently having problems accessing their class pages after logging into their Blackboard accounts. The HelpDesk is aware of the problem, and is working on a solution. Their suggestion is to have students try a different computer. (Some computers are directing students into the class pages, while others are not.) Perhaps you can send students to the BCTC computer labs until the problem is resolved, as the library terminals do not seem to be allowing access.

Business Source Premier and Harvard Business Review

When you use the full text journal link to get to HBR in Business Source Premier, the
old version of BSP comes up, not the enhanced. Mike has been notified.

URLs not displaying the holdings record

URLs for electronic resources are not displaying in the holdings record at this time. Please ask patrons to check the bibliographic record where the URL is visible and clickable.

SmartPros offers accounting and finance professional salary survey

Smartpros, an online accounting newsletter, offers their annual salary survey for CPAs and CFOs (respondents answered a survey between 10/31/ and 12/31/2005 so it isn't scientific). The survey indicates a !0% increase in beginning (unexperienced) accountants' salaries in 2005 from 2004.

No remote access to SpringerLink

Over the weekend, it was noted that remote access to SpringerLink is down. It may just require a quick update on our EZ Proxy settings for this database. A helpdesk request (#4338) was submitted this morning.

Update: As of Wednesday, Feb. 15, access has been restored.