Comments Off on Irwin Library closing on Wednesday @ 3 PM

By bmatthie, February 5, 2007 8:29 am

Irwin Library will close on
Wednesday, Feb. 7 at 3 p.m. in preparation for the Celebration of Scholarship
and Creative Activity.

The Science Library will remain open
for those needing a place to study.

Comments Off on Finding Industry Information

By bmatthie, November 27, 2006 12:44 pm

To find basic industry information about the industry in which your company operates in please follow these steps:

1. Go to our subject-based
   list: http://www.butler.edu/library/index.aspx?pg=287
2. Click on “business”
3. Review the “info.
   icons”

   because the business-related ones are “value
   added.”  Pay particular attention to
   what areas of the business environment each database deals with. For
   example, Business Source Complete can be used to gather information for
   the following business environments: Economic Environment, Industry/Competitive
   Environment, Market Customer Analysis, & Global Environment.

Two
databases with industry information are Business Source
Complete and Market Insight.

Using
Microsoft as an example…

Business Source Complete:

1. Type “Microsoft” (or your company’s name) in the find
   window
2. Click on the blue “Industry
   Profile” link
3. You should see several reports
   

Market Insight:

1. Click on the “Company” tab
2. Click “lookup”
3. Type “Microsoft” (or the name of your company) in the “Name”
   window and click search
4. Select Microsoft in the list
   and click on the Go! button.
5. Close the search box by
   clicking on the X.  At this point the
   interface should have changed to “Microsoft” (upper left corner)
6. Under “Related Links” click on “Systems
   Software” (will be different for each company)
7. Top middle of screen should say
   “Industry Research” which indicates you are in the Industry Portion of
   this database
8. Look for bottom left under “S&P
   Industry Surveys” and you will see a report titled “Computers: Software”
   in .pdf format. (not all companies will have an industry report; usually
   90% do)
9. Clicking on the report will
   open it at which point students can print, save, or e-mail.

Business
Source has shorter reports while Market Insight’s are more thorough. Please review both if they are available.  

Questions? Contact one of the business liaisons or the Reference Department.

Thanks,

-Brad

Comments Off on Wall Street Journal: Eastern Ed. vs. Western Ed.

By bmatthie, November 16, 2006 5:37 pm

Irwin Library subscribes to
the Wall Street Journal Eastern Edition. Current issues are in print format
while older issues are in microfilm format.

If you have any questions please contact the Subject Liaisons for Business or Ask a Librarian.

Thanks,

-Brad

Comments Off on EZ Proxy Issues

By bmatthie, November 13, 2006 11:31 am

After Teresa’s
instruction session I did a walk through CBA and had two professors inform me
that several of their students stated that they could not log into our
databases from off-campus this past weekend.

Unfortunately
the students did not pay attention to the nature of the error so I have no
information there. However, at least one has been able to log on from home in
the past but could not this time.

Anyhow, I
wanted to alert Scott to a potential problem and also flag those who work at our
service points in case they starts to get calls. Perhaps this was just a
hiccup?

Brad

Comments Off on MG101 Resources

By bmatthie, November 1, 2006 1:06 pm

Reference Librarians:

Please refer them here; especially to the last section if they have writing/citing questions.

All remaining classes will receive a handout with this URL.

Brad