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
• 17th & 18th:  Who’s the competition?
• 24th & 25th:  Career Research

October

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

November

• 5th & 6th:  eBusiness

From December 21st to January 6th the south portion of the library will be closed due to required updates to the electrical infrastructure.  This includes the MEGI area.  Our Reference Desk will be closed, and our Meebo IM service will be down. 

The Business Librarians, Andy Spackman (andy_spackman@byu.edu) and Leticia Camacho (leticia_camacho@byu.edu), will periodically check their email, and that will be the best way to receive research assistance during this period.

Here is the library’s page detailing the closure and the services that will still be available.

BYU has been ranked for ten years running as the nation’s number one stone-cold sober school by the Princeton Review, a survey of student opinions.  But BYU also consistently places in the top five for Best College Library, and this year we’ve come in third, after Harvard and Princeton.

MEGI is happy to announce a new instant messaging service.  On the left side of the MEGI site is an image of our Meebo IM tool.  Click on it to chat with MEGI employees and get assistance with your research.

We’ll be testing it for the next few days, so feel free to try it, even if you just want to say hi.

You may have noticed a new additon to the MEGI site.  MEGI Quick Start allows you to search across several of our most popular databases simultaneously, including:

• The Library’s catalog of books and DVDs
• ABI/Inform (ProQuest)
• Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
• Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
• Econlit (EBSCO)
• JSTOR
• LexisNexis Academic - News
• Gale Virtual Reference Library

MEGI Quick Start is a great way to start your research if you’re not sure where to begin.  But it only searches a handful of our resources, and doesn’t allow for sophisticated searching the way each of these databases’ native interfaces do.  When you’re ready to get serious we recommend using one of the Subject Pages to access a specific database.

Woman’s Day magazine is collecting the stories of women entrepreneurs who have used library resources to help them launch their business.  Four essays will be selected for publication and will be seen by the over four million subscribers to Woman’s Day.

The deadline for submission is May 10.  Find more information here.

Welcome to the new Management, Economics & Government Information department website. We are in the beginnings of development, but feel free to comment and offer feedback.