New Reference Desk

If you have been in the Schwob Library recently, you probably noticed our new reference desk! Designed by Shirley Hinckley, CSU Libraries' Stacks Maintenance Supervisor, the new desk will allow us to provide you with more interactive and collaborative reference services.

Please stop by and check our new reference desk out!

Database of the Month: Hoover's Company Capsules and Profiles

CSU Libraries has many useful business resources.

In GALIEO, there's ABI Inform, which has articles from numerous business publications, and Business Source Complete, which has many articles, as well as financial reports.

Hoovers Company Capsules & Profiles, however, is a database that specializes in companies--over 40,000 of them. Users can search for the company by name or stock ticker symbol or they can browse them in the A-Z list. With the advanced search, users can search for an executive by name or do a location search to find companies headquartered in a specific city.

Each company has a fact sheet listing especially important information, such as the address, CEO's, top competitors, and key financial data. There is also a side-menu allowing the user to look at more detailed information about the company including: a general overview, history, people, products and operations, competitors and financial information. If the user wants to do a comparison of different companies in an industry, they need only find one, and then click on the links to go to the fact sheets for competitors.

The people section gives not only top CEO's in the company, but also names of executives lower in the chain. In some cases, it also lists ages and salaries.

The financial section can be a one-stop-shop for financial information on a company. It contains detailed financial information regarding the balance sheet, income, liability and shareholder's equity, and cash flow that can be viewed annually or quarterly.

Hoovers can be found by going to GALILEO and clicking on the Databases A-Z tab. It's listed under H. It's also reachable by going to Company and Industry Information under the Browse by Subject tab.

Explore GALILEO today and see what it can offer you.

By LuMarie Guth, Government Documents Coordinator

A Successful Banned Books Read-Out

September 28th's Banned Books Read-Out was a huge success. Several people from around campus read passages from their favorite "banned books". An interesting discussion about the Constitutional ramifications of banning books ensued as participants enjoyed lunch-time snacks and drinks.

Banned books are defined as books that have been banned and/or challenged, sometimes through court action, by individuals and/or groups who want them removed from library shelves or from reading lists. Books that have been on a banned books list at one time or another include such classics as:

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Scarlet Letter
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• Isabel Allende’s House of the Spirits
• Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
  

For more information on BBW and a list of frequently challenged books, please visit the ALA web site.

Puzzle Watch: Old-Timey Coffee Shop is Completed!

Wow! The fall coffee shop puzzle was completed in a week. Kudos to all of the puzzle workers out there.

The next puzzle will be the sailboats puzzle that came in as first runner up in the Puzzle Vote. Its debut will be on Monday. As the fall semester speeds up, the thought of being on a boat sailing over the waters can be a much needed mental break. So, when you come into the Schwob Library to study for midterms, take a moment to help with the progress going on at the puzzle table.

Banned Books Read-Out

The week of September 25 - October 2, 2010 is Banned Books Week (BBW).

To celebrate this event, CSU Libraries will hold a "Banned Book Read-Out" on the main library veranda. We will serve light refreshments at the event.

The Read-Out will take place on Tuesday, September 28 from 12:30 - 1:30 and will feature CSU faculty and staff reading from their favorite banned books.

Banned books are defined as books that have been banned and/or challenged, sometimes through court action, by individuals and/or groups who want them removed from library shelves or from reading lists. Books that have been on a banned books list at one time or another include such classics as:

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Scarlet Letter
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• Isabel Allende’s House of the Spirits
• Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
  

For more information on BBW and a list of frequently challenged books, please visit the ALA web site.

By participating in the Read-Out, you will be speaking out against censorship and showing students that the members of the CSU faculty and staff support their right to read. On a higher level, we are letting our students know that CSU is a university that supports intellectual and cultural diversity through the free exchange of ideas.

Please join us!

A Successful Constitution Day

On September 16th, CSU Libraries celebrated Constitution Day by hosting talks by faculty members from the English, History & Geography and Political Science departments. It was an exciting hour full of insightful discussion about the Georgia signers of the Constitution, free speech and the affects that the Constitution has on elections.

Dr. Greg Domin (Political Science), Dr. John Ellisor (History and Geography), Dr. Nancy Moore (English), Dr. Alice Pate (History and Geography) and Ms. Rachel Williams (English) lead the presentations.

New JSTOR Collections are Available

CSU Libraries are proud to announce that we now have access to two new JSTOR collections!

The JSTOR Arts and Sciences IV collection has a strong focus in business, education, and law. It also includes titles in psychology, public policy and administration. This collection contains 112 titles in 20 disciplines.

The journal title list for the JSTOR Arts and Sciences IV collection is available online at: www.jstor.org/action/showJournals?browseType=collectionInfoPage&selectCollection=asiv

The JSTOR Arts and Sciences V collection contains literary reviews and state historical journals. It also includes disciplines in the arts and humanities, such as philosophy, history, classics, religion, art history and literature. This collection contains 120 titles in 22 disciplines.

The journal title list for the JSTOR Arts and Sciences V collection is available online at: www.jstor.org/action/showJournals?browseType=collectionInfoPage&selectCollection=asv.

The JSTOR Arts and Sciences IV and V collections are funded through the Student Technology Fee.