Management, Economics, and Government Information

Bloomberg Clinic

October 8th, 2008

You can see the full clinic schedule here.

Upcoming Clinic: Academic Literature

September 25th, 2008

Download the handout.  You can see the full clinic schedule here.

Fall Semester Clinic Schedule

September 22nd, 2008

Business Research Clinics

Clinics are held in room TNRB 240.
Each lasts one hour.
Wednesday clinics begin at 5:00 pm,
and are repeated Thursday at 11:00 am.

Fall 2008 Schedule

September

  • 10th & 11th: Free Market Research (handout)
  • 17th & 18th: Who’s the competition? (handout)
  • 24th & 25th: Career Research (handout)

October

  • 2nd only (11am): Academic Literature (handout)
  • 15th & 16th: Bloomberg
  • 22nd & 23rd: Accounting Tax & Standards
  • 29th & 30th: Industry Research

November

  • 5th & 6th: eBusiness

New Books

September 22nd, 2008

Wouldn’t you like to know just what to say to the people who make life difficult? Mark Ruskin’s Speaking Up shows you how to hold your own with all kinds of difficult people.
From getting a raise to getting your VCR fixed to extracting a refund for a faulty piece of merchandise, and from buying time to buying a new car. The principles it lays down work against even that most formidable of adversaries: the IRS auditor! HF 5548.83 .R87

World Poverty by Sylvia Whitman, explores the definition of true poverty, while analyzing its causes and the toll it has taken. Detailed case studies
examine the situation in the United States, India, Syria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guatemala and Ukraine and evaluate the various strategies national governments have adopted to fight poverty. HC 79 .P6 W47 2008.

WSJ Video Demonstrations

August 29th, 2008

We’re experimenting with video tutorials.  Here are a couple that demonstrate how to access The Wall Street Journal:

Historic Wall Street Journal (1889-1991):
http://screencast.com/t/5QSL6ll8zVp

Current Wall Street Journal (1985-today):
http://screencast.com/t/CM9o07l26

Historical Wall Street Journal

August 1st, 2008

The ProQuest historical archive of The Wall Street Journal begins with the first issue, July 8, 1889, and runs until December 30, 1991.  Every page of every issue is available as a PDF scan and the full text is searchable.

To access this archive, click here.  Other newspaper archives available in ProQuest include:

More recent issues of The Wall Street Journal can be accessed from either ProQuest or Factiva.

Global Road Warrior

July 17th, 2008

Global Road Warrior is the ultimate business travel guide, providing overviews of the culture and society of 175 nations.  Topics include:

• Gift Giving • Holidays • Religion • Punctuality • Greetings • Etiquette • Business Ethics • Attire • Women in Business • Communication • Transportation • Immunization • Security • Maps • Currency •

GRW is an excellent source for practical travel information and intercultural communication.  The BYU Library is pleased to announce this new resource.  Try it here.

New CPA Exam Preparation Books available at MEGI!

July 8th, 2008

These new comprehensive study guides for the Certified Public Accountants Exam written by O. Ray Whittington & Patrick R. Delany contain detailed outlines, study guides, practice problems, and solutions. These books help candidates concentrate their efforts on topics that need the most preparation.

Our MEGI Site Wins National Competition!

June 24th, 2008

Our Business Library Website (MEGI), won the Best of Show Award in a competition sponsored by ALA’s Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) with over 360 entries, MEGI’s was chosen as the one which best reflected expertise in public relations and marketing. A team of experts in librarianship, public relations and marketing judged the promotional materials. Winning entries were displayed, and Leticia Camacho and Andy Spackman, Business Librarians were recognized during the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference Swap and Shop program’s “Hot Ideas for Cool PR” in Anaheim, California. Our sincere thanks to Tom DeForest, designer and programmer.

Encyclopedia of Business Ethics & Society now available online!

June 9th, 2008

encyclopedia2.jpg Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and SocietyRobert W. Kolb, ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Inc., 2008.  2437 pp.  All 5 volumes available online.