Our super assistants who are graduating are as follows:

Erin Johnson
Brock Booton
Brian Eckstein
Sarah Smyth
Samatha Mueller

Our graduate assistants who will be obtaining their hoods in addition to diplomas are Brock Peoples and Sarah Fancher.

BEL appreciates all of the many hours they put in to keep our doors open and to answer the many questions our customers asked.

Congratulations, class of 2010!

This afternoon, Dean Larry DeBrock announced this exciting news to the College via e-mail:

It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the U.S. Green Building Council has made its decision on the LEED rating for BIF. We earned their highest rating - Platinum!

This recognition of our commitment to sustainability and the environment puts us in a very exclusive class. We are the first college of business at any public university to receive a platinum rating. BIF is among only a dozen platinum certified projects at any university in the world, and is the first at any university or college in Illinois, where only 14 other buildings have been certified platinum.

Indeed, this is a great achievement. BEL salutes the forward thinking of the College on energy conservation and environmental sustainability for the 21st century, especially as BIF is also a very aesthetically pleasing building.

To read more, go here.

The Accounting Research Toolbox is number one amongst all of the University Library's 421 guides. It has 10,045 views, which means accounting information is crucial to our scholars at Illinois.

Here's the link to the guide.

Also, do visit BEL's FiRST Guide (finance) and SMaRT guide (business administration) too!

Accountancy
Insurance
Management
Real Estate

Overall, the College is ranked number 13.

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Try it!

As always, happy searching.

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

See you next year!

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.

• 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.

Here's the link to the first part of the Interview, where BEL is mentioned.

The second part is here.

Thank you Glenn Graham for remembering your roots and for your service to BEL and the University Libraries.