Louisiana fact Book- 2009 is now online

Louisiana fact Book- 2009
from the Council for a Better Louisiana.

LSU Libraries- New Databases

Here is a list of the latest LSU Libraries database subscriptions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Oxford Scholarship Online
Oxford Scholarship Online is a vast and rapidly expanding cross-searchable library, which now offers quick and easy access to the full text of 2,257 Oxford books.
Ulrich’s Periodical Directory
Ulrichsweb.com is the authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types — academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world. And, it’s easy to use!
The Food Institute
Contains access to…
• The weekly Food Institute Report
• The industry’s most comprehensive website
• Seminars and webinars on the hottest topics and the latest trends
• A wide variety of highly respected reports and studies
• The most respected Daily Update emails in the industry to over 110,000 key decision makers
• A staff of industry analysts to answer member inquiries and fulfill information requests
Modernist Journal Online
The MJP is a multi-faceted project, which is intended to become a major resource for the study of the rise of modernism in the English-speaking world, with periodical literature at the center of this study. Read More…
E-Resources Management Handbook
The ERMH is an open access publication on e-resource management (ISBN: 0-9552448-0-3; 13-digit version: 978-0-9552448-0-3). It forms a valuable and comprehensive guide for the entire information industry, and will continue to grow as new chapters are commissioned to address hot topics as they arise.
Biographical Memoirs
Published since 1877, Biographical Memoirs are brief biographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members, written by those who knew them or their work. Read More…

The layman's Finance Crisis Glossary - from the BBC

"Here is a guide to many of the business terms currently cropping up regularly, as well as some of the more exotic words coined to describe some of the social effects of the credit crunch.'

Librarian in Patrick Taylor on Wednesday afternoons

I will be in Patrick Taylor 2145 every Wednesday from 1-4 pm for the remainder of the fall 2008 semester.
My goal is to be available to the Business School community. Please let your students know that I welcome them to come by for any type of help that they may need from the library. Of course I would be delighted to have faculty members stop by as well, either with questions about our resources, suggestions for the library, or just to say hello. Feel free to bring me a cookie.
As always, I welcome your comments and suggestions as I strive to provide the best possible library services to the Business College.

The State of Food and Agriculture Report 2008

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

BIOFUELS: prospects, risks and opportunities

LSU Libraries new resource- Mergent Online now includes private companies

LSU Libraries’ subscription to MergentOnline now includes private company information, provided by Dun and Bradstreet.

Having private and public companies in the same database should make company searches much simpler.

This is a description from the Mergent website-

Mergent offers an integrated solution for private and public company information, provided by insight from Dun and Bradstreet® -Subscription is needed to view this new and powerful module

•Up to 4 years of key financial information on over 400,000 Global Private Companies •Integrated screening and searching for Public and Private Companies•Full company reports in printable .PDF file format •Ability to view competitors on both Private and Public companies

SEC Announces Successor to EDGAR Database

From the SEC Website:

“IDEA” Will Make Company and Fund Information Interactive

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2008-179

Washington, D.C., Aug. 19, 2008 — Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox today unveiled the successor to the agency’s 1980s-era EDGAR database, which will give investors far faster and easier access to key financial information about public companies and mutual funds.

The new system is called IDEA, short for Interactive Data Electronic Applications. Based on a completely new architecture being built from the ground up, it will at first supplement and then eventually replace the EDGAR system. The decision to replace EDGAR marks the SEC’s transition from collecting forms and documents to making the information itself freely available to investors to give them better and more up-to-date financial disclosure in a form they can readily use.

Read the rest of the release here

New Demographic Resources

Check out the new demographic resources page for a comprehensive list.

LSU Libraries- New Historical Resources

Illustrated Civil War Newspaper and Magazines
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/civilwarnewspapers.html
“Important and Rare Periodicals from Confederate, Union, Abolitionist, and British Presses database contains 65,000 pages drawn from 49 periodicals, including 15 campaign newspapers, most of them illustrated 3,720 issues published from 1860 to 1865.”

American Civil War Online
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/americancivilwar.html
“The collection presents 75,000 images drawn from archives around the country, documenting the camp and battle experiences of Union and Confederate soldiers of all ranks, time spent in hospitals and in prisons, civilian life in cities and towns close to and far from the front lines of war, and the demeanor of the politicians whose decisions could bring the nation together or tear it apart.”

Historical Chicago Defender
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/chicagodefender.html
“The Chicago Defender offers primary source material essential to the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. Covering the years 1909-1975, the Chicago Defender includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images in easily downloadable PDF format.”

British Periodicals I and II
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/britishperiodicals.html
“This digital archive will consist of almost 500 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s, comprising six million keyword-searchable pages and forming an unrivalled record of more than two centuries of British history and culture.”

C19: Nineteenth Century Index
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/databases/descriptions/c19.html“The Nineteenth Century Index is a growing, all-inclusive bibliographic spine for 19th-century research. C19 is a one-stop finding tool covering multiple content types, providing records for millions of documents ranging from books and newspapers to government documents and periodicals at the article level.”

New resource on the news link page- Newseum

Check out newseum- 664 news paper front pages from 64 countries.
it's in the list of links on the news links page, or click here:
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

2008 International Financial Reporting Standards Survey from Deloitte- read about what companies are doing about reporting standards in this newly released survey

http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/us_assurance_IFRS_2008%20IFRS%20Survey.pdf

Fun site of the day!

It's back- check out
How things work for info-tainment!

World Development Report 2008

The World Development Report 2008 calls for greater investment in agriculture in developing countries and warns that the sector must be placed at the center of the development agenda if the goals of halving extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 are to be realized. With the theme Agriculture for Development, the report noted that while 75 percent of the world’s poor live in rural areas, a mere 4 percent of official development assistance goes to agriculture in developing countries. Visit the web site to download the full report, view the slide show and read about the Three Worlds of Agriculture.

Wall Street journal online access and searching

The Wall Street Journal is available through LSU Libraries a s part of our subscription to Factiva. (There are many other publications available with this subscription as well so please explore.)

Here are the instructions for selecting and searching Wall Street Journal.

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/bus/WSJonline_instructions.htm

How "walkable" is your home?

Walk the line: A new Web site provides the walkability of homes and apartments, by looking at the distance to nearby grocery stores, schools, churches, movie theaters and other attractions. WalkScore.com calculates the proximity and assigns a score for the address, based on a scale of 0 to 100. The site notes that living in a walkable neighborhood is good for your health and the environment. (from the Baton Rouge Business report online 1/25/08

Library Instruction support for Business Students

Please remember that I am available to come to your classes and speak with your students about library resources. I can take as little as 10-15 minutes to introduce myself and cover library basics, or as much as an entire class session to give in-depth instruction. Please let me know how I can help you to help your students.

I will also be visiting Patrick Taylor on a regular basis. If your students want to meet with me there please have them contact me for an appointment.

(I am still working out the perfect meeting place {any room with a computer would do} and I’m open to suggestions.)

Finally, your students may be interested in a brief Business Resources page that I put together specifically for students.

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/bus/Electronic_Bus_Resources_for_Business_Students.htm

I hope that this page, along with the business resources website below and updated information on my blog ( http://lsulibrariesbus.blogspot.com/ ) will give them the tools that they need to succeed in their research.