June 10, 2009

BEL Salutes Michael Halperin, Director, Lippincott Library at UPenn

Today marks a new type of salute: saluting other peers at the Top 50 B-School Libraries.

BELlog has learned Michael Halperin, Director of the Lippincott Library (affectionately known as the Wharton Library) at the University of Pennsylvania, is receiving Gale Cengage Learning Award for Excellence in Business Librarianship, an honor sponsored by Gale Cengage Learning and administered by ALA's Reference and User Services Association (RUSA).

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May 27, 2009

BEL Salutes Carissa Holler, Business and Finance Librarian

BEL's own Carissa Holler will be bestowed the 2009 SLA-BF's Achievement in Academic Business Librarianship award next month at the 100th Anniversary of the Special Libraries Association in Washington, DC. The criteria were judged on scholarship, teaching or presentations, and other contributions to her institution as well as the profession. This honor is given to academic business librarians who have been in the profession for 3-7 years.

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May 12, 2009

BEL Salutes Our Grad Assistants and Super Assistants

BEL wishes to congratulate the graduating grad assistants and "Super" (Student) Assistants who worked in our library:

Grad Assistants
Katie Bruce
Makiko ishizawa

Super Assistants
Patrick Bode
Caroline Bobrecki
Ayanna Coleman
Nicole Dvorak
Elisabeth Frisby
Alisa Modica
Meera Patel
Emily Treptow
Jackie Wincek

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April 29, 2009

BEL Salutes Paula Kaufman, Dean of Illinois' University Library

Today is a happy day at the University Library. Paula T. Kaufman, dean and professor of Library Administration, will be invested this afternoon. She is the first dean on campus to receive a chair this decade.

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April 8, 2009

BEL Salutes Larry DeBrock, the New Dean of the College of Business

From the College of Business website:

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Lawrence DeBrock, a noted economist and longtime University of Illinois professor and administrator, has been named dean of the university’s College of Business, pending approval by the U. of I. Board of Trustees at its May 21 meeting in Chicago.

DeBrock has served as interim dean of the nationally ranked business school since 2008, when former dean Avijit Ghosh was named vice president for technology and economic development.

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February 20, 2009

College of Business Maintains Top 25 Scholarship Ranking

The University of Texas at Dallas has a ranked list of business schools' scholarship based on 24 top tier journals. Last week, the list was updated, and while the Wharton School retained its number one ranking, Illinois' College of Business was steady at number 20 for the North American schools. Worldwide, Illinois is number 22.

Our business faculty work hard to keep up their research. Hats off to our scholars!

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January 14, 2009

IBISWorld Market Research Reports

IBISWorld USA market research reports are now available to the Urbana campus. This database provides access to over 700 United States industries – everything from Shoes Stores to Gold Ore Mining and all industries in between.

Try it!

As always, happy searching.

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December 23, 2008

Happy Holidays to All

BEL will be closed December 24-January 4th. Please go to our web pages for your research convenience.

On behalf of the BEL faculty and staff, we wish you happy holidays and safe travels.

See you next year!

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November 26, 2008

BEL is Closed November 27-29

BEL is closed for the remainder of the Fall Break until November 30, when it reopens at 1:00pm.

Those who need some quick answers to frequently asked topics, try our Fast Answers database or go to one of our subject/class guides.

Happy fall break to all. C-ya next week.

Upcoming: session for BADM 504 on December 2nd.

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October 14, 2008

GMID has Changed Its Name to Passport Reference and Markets

Global Market Information Database has changed to "Passports" whereby the older country monitor reports are gone, and more datasets have been added. Among the datasets:

• Average number of children per household at Jan 1st
• Cable TV households per color TV households
• Current account balance as % of GDP
• Dependency ratio
• Digital satellite Pay-TV subscribers per color TV households
• Energy intensity
• FDI intensity
• Index of ageing
• Mobile telephone calls per mobile telephone user
• Old-age dependency ratio
• Satellite TV households per color TV households
• Tax and social security contributions as % of Gross income
• Youth dependency ratio

Happy Searching, as always.

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