We’re transitioning to a new content management system. The old Subject Guides (linked on the right side of this page) will soon be replaced. We’ll have greater control over content and format with the new guides, they’ll have some Web 2.0 features, and we’ll be able to embed some media, all with the hopes of making your research easier.
You can take a look at the new guides that we’re building now (links below). The switch will happen with the start of Fall Semester.
We are putting together a LibGuide for an easy reference and source for all your Bloomberg questions. Whether it be how to create your own account, become certified, or create and maintain your stock profile.
You can check it out here: http://guides.lib.byu.edu/bloomberg
We have moved and are finally settled down in our new location, on the 1st floor in the offices 1210, 1211, and 1212 near the Social Sciences Reference Desk. The Bloomberg has also been moved to Room 1210 and is always available to use during normal library hours. Come on by with any questions you may have!
Today, June 22nd, is the day that the librarians and the service desk will move to their new location. The Bloomberg terminal will also be moving. See the previous post for details.
The Management, Economics, and Government Information (MEGI) section of BYU’s Harold B. Lee Library will be dissolved on June 22nd, 2009. The MEGI service desk on the 1st floor of the library will be closed, and removal of the MEGI reference collection is in process.
In its place we are pleased to announce the Business and Economics Library. The Business Librarians, Leticia Camacho and Andy Spackman, will be housed in new offices in the northern (new) portion of the library, rooms 1211 and 1212. We will retain student assistants who will continue to provide frontline research help both in person and online. These students, along with the library’s Bloomberg terminal, will be located in room 1210.
We hope this change will cause minimal inconvenience, and we believe that less dependence on a localized service desk will allow us and our student assistants to more effectively reach into the Marriott School of Management and the Department of Economics in order to offer library resources, services, and instruction at the point of need. Items in the reference collection will either be replaced with electronic versions, or placed on the regular shelves where they can be checked out without the current restrictions. In both cases these key titles will become more accessible to students and faculty.
Please contact us with any questions.
Richard Hacken, European Studies Librarian, was recently looking through some pamphlets and other rare items in BYU’s collections:
“I noticed some parallels between our own finances, banks, toxic real estate assets, and economic recovery plans and those of Austria in earlier years.”
Here are four of the titles he mentions, with translations:
1862: Die dringende Nothwendigkeit zur unverzüglichen Expropriation des Privilegiums der Bank zu Gunsten der gesammten Völker Oesterreichs…
1862: The Acute Need for Immediate Expropriation of Bank Privileges for the Benefit of the Entire Austrian People…
1912: Zur Lösung der Wohnungsfrage in Österreich…
1912: On Solving the Housing Problem in Austria…
1927: Bankenskandal: Eine Billion Steuergelder verschleudert!
1927: Bank Scandal: One Trillion (yes, trillion – false cognate) in Tax Money Down the Rat Hole!
1932: Wiederaufbau der Wirtschaft durch international organisierte Selbsthilfe…
1932: Economic Recovery through Internationally Organized Self-Help…
The library has upgraded its subscription to the EconLit database to include the full text of more than 480 journals, including American Economic Association journals with no embargo.
Coverage of key journals includes:
EconLit does not replace JSTOR, but it is probably the best place to begin your search. Try it here.
This database is a collection of marketing research case studies of local companies prepared by BYU graduate students. Click here to access.
Download the handout.
Download the handout.
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