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Please help the library evaluate the Reference USA Database, located on the Library's trial databases page.
Until April 28th, Seattle U has access to the directory database Reference USA. Try it out! Let us know!
Access to this source is both available on campus and remotely through the library's proxy server.
All feedback is most welcome.
Brief Description of Reference USA:
Reference USA offers several modules with directory information. The
primary database is US Businesses, which includes the name of the
business, address, telephone number, headquarters, branch and
subsidiaries identification, SIC codes, yellow pages headings, ticker
symbol, credit rating, number of employees, and estimated sales volume
for over 13 million US businesses. New features include brands and
products, as well as listing nearby businesses. Use the Custom Search
feature for more advanced searching. Other directory modules include
Health Care, CorpTech, Canadian Businesses and International
Buisnesses. This latter database, also known as One Source, delivers
in-depth business information on nearly 100,000 companies globally as
well as Canadian and U.S. businesses. OneSource has content from over
30 diverse providers representing 2,000 separate information sources
including Reuters, CorpTech, Investext, RMA Industry Ratios, StatUSA.
For any questions about this trial, please contact the business &
economics library liaison, Karen Gilles (kgilles@seattleu.edu)
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Please help the library evaluate the Mint Global Database! Until April 30th, the library has access to the specialized financial database Mint Global. Try it out! Let us know! Access to this source is both available on campus and remotely through the library's proxy server. The database does require you to enable pop-ups in your internet browser. All feedback is most welcome. We are especially interested in any comments on how this database compares to Mergent Online, a similar product which is up for renewal at the end of this month. Both databases are comparable in price; we would like to subscribe to the financial database of most use to students and faculty. Mint Global can be found on the library's trial databases page, while Mergent Online is easily found on the library's Business & Economics database page. Brief Description of Mint Global: Containing information from over 50,000 public companies, 45 million private companies and 25,000 banks in 225 countries, this global product contains detailed financial data, original filings, ownership and subsidiary information, and Datamonitor industry profiles. The Mint Global interface is one of two interfaces offered with a single subscription to Bureau van Dijk's Academic Business Package. Geared towards ease-of-use, Mint Global allows for filtering by industry, geography and upwards of 100 criteria. Arranged in 4 modules: 1) companies, 2) news, 3) original documents and 4) market research, a good starting point for most searches is the module for Companies. (Be sure to click on other search criteria for more advanced searching). Although not part of the trial, Orbis is the more sophisticated of the two interfaces and is typically used by researchers who require additional granularity. The data that sits behind the Mint Global and Orbis interface is the same and all can be accessed via WRDS. If you are a faculty researcher and during this period would like to trial either the Orbis interface or data through WRDS, please contact Annile Alexander at BVDEP. His contact information is annile.alexander@bddep.com (T:415-773-1865; F:415-773-1269). For any questions about this trial, please contact the business & economics library liaison, Karen Gilles (kgilles@seattleu.edu).
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The Writing Fridays initiative jointly organized by CETL and Lemieux Library continues for those of you who are available on Friday afternoons, any time between 1:00 and 4:00 p.m. These three-hour sessions provide an opportunity for faculty to focus on writing in a quiet, yet collegial space while remaining on campus. From 1:00-2:00 p.m., a consultant from CETL will be available to help you brainstorm, provide feedback, or make more concrete suggestions on research related to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).
Dates: Fridays, April 4 - June 6, 2008
Time: 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Wilson Broderick Room (third floor), Lemieux Library
Light snacks will be provided and laptops are available to check out from the circulation desk (second floor) in the Library. All faculty are welcome to take part in this new initiative.
For more information, please contact cetl@seattleu.edu or (206) 296-2144.
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We've doubled the number of laptops available to check out at the library - now sixteen laptops are available!
The wireless laptops are for use in the library. You can check them out for three hours at a time using a Seattle U ID card at the Circulation Desk (near the entrance/exit of the library).
Have you used our laptops? Do you have any comments on our laptop service? Please share your thoughts!
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We want your opinion about what to do if the Lemieux Library building is closed for renovation and expansion, which will probably begin as soon as June 2009.
The construction will last about 14 months and will impact the services and collections provided by the library as well as the building itself. We are considering a scenario in which we would close and move out of the current library building during the
construction. Therefore, we're identifying our essential services and planning how to provide them elsewhere (on or near campus), with a goal of minimizing disruptions during this transition time.
To help us, please tell us: What are the most important services that the library provides? To you, what is "essential"
about the library?
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Lemieux Library will initiate a short-term project to de-accession and remove from its physical collection a portion of printed journal titles that are available in full-text digital format from the Journal Storage Program (JSTOR) and from the American Chemical Society (ACS). This opportunity is made possible by two related developments. First, both JSTOR and ACS have established themselves as secure and reliable providers of digital content. Working with these vendors, we enable access to hundreds of electronic journals through effective and familiar interfaces from computers within the library, elsewhere on campus via the campus network, and from remote off-campus sites by means of the library’s proxy server. Second, Lemieux Library is participating in the Orbis Cascade Alliance’s Distributed Print Repository Program. The 35 member institutions of this regional academic consortium will share responsibility to ensure that two print copies of each of the journals in the ACS collection and in JSTOR Arts and Sciences 1 & 2 are retained permanently in the region and that the content of these titles can be made available to the members and their students and faculty in the unlikely event that access to the digital versions is compromised. Lemieux Library is assuming the responsibility to retain permanently 26 journal titles, but will discard its other print journal holdings so that space can be re-assigned to other collections or services. Alliance members are finalizing the Memorandum of Understanding that will govern the Distributed Print Repository Program. Lemieux Library staff will soon begin the de-accessioning and we anticipate completing the project during spring 2008. At its conclusion, the library will apply this experience to the de-accessioning of other portions of its print journal collection, both general multi-disciplinary collections like JSTOR Arts and Sciences 3 & 4 and specialized journal collections in individual disciplines. We anticipate that Lemieux’s Liaison Librarians will work with their Faculty Library Representatives to identify print titles that can be de-accessioned because of the reliable availability of their digital counterpart. If you have questions or comments on these plans for the evolution of Lemieux Library’s print and digital collections, please contact Mary Linden Sepulveda, Coordinator of Collection Development, at 206-296-6209 or mlinden@seattleu.edu. John Popko, University Librarian
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The Center for Excellence in
Teaching and Learning (CETL) and the Lemieux Library are pleased to announce
the introduction of Writing Fridays
– time and space dedicated to supporting faculty scholarship.
These three-hour sessions provide an opportunity for faculty to focus on
writing in a quiet, yet collegial space while remaining on campus. From
1:00-2:00 p.m., a consultant from CETL will be available to help you
brainstorm, provide feedback, or make more concrete suggestions if your
research relates to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). All
faculty are welcome to take part in this new initiative.
When? Every Friday of Winter and Spring
Quarter 2008, starting Friday, February 15
What time? 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Where? Wilson Broderick Room, third
floor, Lemieux Library
Light refreshments will be provided. Laptops are available for checking out
from the circulation desk (second floor) in the Library.
Writing suggestion: Research
shows that faculty are more productive if they schedule time for scholarship
like other commitments (Boice, 1990), so sessions are offered at the same time
every Friday to support a regular writing practice.
For more information, please contact CETL at cetl@seattleu.edu, or (206) 296-2144.
Information can also be found on the CETL website at:
www.seattleu.edu/cetl/writingfridays.html
We hope to see you there.
Therese Huston | Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and
Learning
David Green | Associate Director, Center for
Excellence in Teaching and Learning
John Popko | University Librarian, A. A. Lemieux
Library
Judy Solberg | Director of Instructional and Public
Services, A. A. Lemieux Library
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Are you interested in borrowing a laptop to work on an individual or group project in Lemieux Library?
If so, stop by the Circulation Desk, where you can check out one of eight laptops! The Dell Latitude D620 laptops are equipped with wireless internet, fast dual-core processors, lots of RAM, 15" screens, CD/DVD burners, and Microsoft Office software.
Laptops are to be used in the library only and can be checked out for three hours at a time using a Seattle U ID card.
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Finals are coming! Do you need a few extra hours to study? Lemieux Library will be extending hours the weekend of December 7-9 to give you some extra time to finish up projects and prepare for finals. We’ll be open: Friday Dec. 7 - Open 8 am to 9 pm Saturday Dec. 8 - Open 10 am to 9 pm Sunday Dec. 9 - Open 11 am to Midnight We hope to see you in the Library and best wishes for a successful completion of Fall Quarter.
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Taken from the campus calendar...
Seattle University’s Department of Theology and Religious Studies
invites you to a celebration, reading, reception and book signing for
Professor Gary Chamberlain’s new book, Troubled Waters: Religion,
Ethics, and the Global Water Crisis. The event will take place from
noon to 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday Nov. 27 in Hunthausen 100. Refreshments
will be served. RSVP to suhs@seattleu.edu.
Author Dia Calhoun will speak at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 27 at Wyckoff
Auditorium. Calhoun writes youth fiction, and her novels include White
Midnight and Firegold. She is currently the English department’s
writer-in-residence and is teaching Writing for Children. Her
appearance is part of the Writers Reading Series, which is being
co-sponsored by the English department and the creative writing program.
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Need help writing a research paper, but the library is closed? Looking for a journal article at 3am? The next time you're pulling an all-nighter, try Chat with a Librarian 24/7, a service from Lemieux Library.
We are partnering with about twenty other Jesuit colleges & universities to provide real-time, chat-based research assistance online, at any time of the day or night (except for a few holidays; more details about the hours and the service here).
Seattle University librarians are online at least six hours a week -- during all other times, you'll chat with another librarian from one of our partner schools (or a librarian hired to cover evening and holiday hours). We want to continue helping you with research and library questions in person, over email, or on the phone... but when you need immediate help, and none of us here at SU are available, give Chat with a Librarian 24/7 a try.
(Have you already tried it? Let us know what you think by leaving a comment!)
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Lemieux Library is offering a drop-in Learning Strategy Workshop at two different times this week.
What:
Library Research Made Easy: how to find essential information using the best databases for your topic When:
Wednesday October 31, 2-3pm
or
Thursday November 1, 12:15–1:15pm
Where:
Wilson-Broderick Room (instruction room on the third floor of the library)
Details:
No need to sign up... just show up!
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The Writing Center has moved into Lemieux Library! It is now in Lemieux 204, in the southeast corner of the second floor of the library. From the perspective of someone entering the library near the circulation desk, this is in the “back right corner” of the the building. The Writing Center's fall quarter hours are 9am-8:30pm on Mondays-Thursdays and 9am-3:30pm on Fridays. To schedule an appointment, students can call 296-6239 or visit the Writing Center in person.
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