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!

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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.

Try BEL's new service, BEL Fast Answers! It has answers to most frequently asked questions in academic business libraries. You can plug in keywords in the search box, or peruse a list of questions by category, such as company and industry, marketing, taxation, etc. Chances are one of those questions is the same one as yours!

Click for Fast Answers here.

(pic courtesy of Trader Daily)

Glenn Graham was named one of Trader Daily's "Top 30 Under 30", meaning the top young traders under the age of 30. Glenn last attended classes in finance and accounting from the College of Business in 2006, and he was a student assistant in BEL. He once said that BEL was one of the best jobs in his life because we had so many databases and publications he could peruse for his career search and projects he had to do for classes.

Indeed, he used Investment Dealer's Digest and Futures magazine to do an independent job search for a summer internship, and landed a spot at Allston Investment in Chicago. He performed so well that he was offered a permanent position at the end of his internship.