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JacksonLine - November 2007

 

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What can you find at the Front Desk?

 

Course Reserves: Text books and additional material for your classes

Study Rooms: Check out keys to study rooms. Study rooms are available to GSB students on a first-come, first serve basis.  You can reserve a room in advance for your study group

CMC Materials: Mock interviews, resumes, books and videos

Multimedia Equipment: Check out Digital Cameras, Video Cameras, LCD Projectors, Conference Phones, eBeam (electronic whiteboard) and Webcam.

Syllabi: Copies of current and past syllabi

Information: find out about the library, and checking out books and magazines

Staff: friendly and helpful

The Front Desk is located to your left as you come into the library.

 

Country Navigator travel

Traveling during the winter break for business or pleasure?  Country Navigator™ can help you get a better understanding of the culture, characteristics the society and people.  You will find a brief history of the country and its belief systems, economic and political conditions as well as travel and survival tips. Country Navigator allows you to pick and choose the components most important to your travels.   

Lexis Nexis Academic

Lexis Nexis Academic has been redesigned to make searching easier. New to the database is Company Dossier. Company Dossier has easy-to-read profiles of nearly 35 million companies worldwide and information on 1,000 industries. View comprehensive company information at a glance, company profiles include company news, management, financial information, patents, trademarks, SEC filings and company information from Hoover’s, Standard & Poor’s and Dun & Bradstreet.

 

Job Search Secrets Workshop - December 6th at noon

Jackson Library and the Career Management Center (CMC) are
presenting Job Search Workshops to help you maximize use of the resources at Jackson Library for your job search. Former students have found the information in the workshop invaluable in preparing for interviews.

This interactive workshop takes real-timesearch queries from the audience. The class is limited to 15 participants per session, please sign-up via the bid system. For further inquires email Helen Losch.

 

Top 5 books borrowed this month

Have you read them?

1. 100 great businesses and the minds behind them by Emily Ross HF5386 .R665 2005

2. Changing minds : the art and science of changing our own and other people’s minds by Howard Gardner
BF637.C4 G37 2006

3. Small is the new big : and 183 other riffs, rants, and remarkable business ideas by Seth Godin
HF5386 .G553 2006

4. Hedge Hogging by Baron Biggs
HG4530 .B516 2006

5. The girl’s guide to being a boss (without being a bitch): valuable lessons, smart suggestions, and true stories for succeeding as the chick-in-charge by Caitlin Friedman and
Kimberly Yorio
HF5549.12 .F76 2006

 

Popular Books 

New to the Popular Book shelves.

alice waters Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution by Thomas McNamee

Alice Waters is said to have transformed American dining. A champion of locally-grown and fresh ingredients, she has been credited with creating and developing California Cuisine. Thomas McNamee takes you on the 35 year journey that is Chez Panisse. If you love food and what is now known as California Cuisine, you will be fascinated by this book. There are also many lessons to be learned in the financial struggles that plagued this restaurant venture.

 

Book: Dead CEOS New Ideas from Dead CEOs: Lasting Lessons from the Corner Office by Todd G. Buchholz

Learn about the challenges and failures of the Greatest CEOs' in the 19th and 20th Century. Find insight into how successful CEOs persevered through adversity to become successful. Todd Buchholz not only lets you look into their personal and professional lives but also shows you how to apply their hard won knowledge to your own work life.

 

New additions to Business Web Sites

Each month we review business web sites and add the best to our Business Web sites. This month's additions are:

Basic Bizminer will give you easily accessible free business statistics. The site provides business financial calculators and industry benchmarking tools without charge. (Industries > Industry Data)

Beta Pipes is a free online service that lets you remix popular feed types and create data mashups using a visual editor. (News > US News)

Bizjournals allows users to search for company profiles of more than 800,000 public and private firms in the 41 cities covered by the various business journals. (News > US News)

Google Finance - (Finance & Investment > Stocks)

Intelways - (Internet Search Engines> Metasearch)

ResourceShelf Blog - source for locating a wide range of substantive business documents, sites, and new sources on the web (Intranet)

SEC Fast Answers provides answers to common questions regarding investing, securities, and the functions of the SEC (Reference > Associations and Organizations)


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Jack's Favorite Quote of the Month

“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .”

~Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) ~

 

 

Send your comments, questions, suggestions to Jan Driscoll.