Friday, January 30, 2009

Bloomberg Room 100S

Bloomberg will be in heavy use this semester, as a professor assigned it to her class. Please remind the patrons that they get it for only the two hours that they have it signed-up for. If they are more than 15 minutes late, we can give the room to someone else. I will make a sign for the desk.
(e-mail from Betty)

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Bloomberg Terminal Upgrade

With the new upgrade to the Bloomberg terminal in the library and with the help of the LTS staff, the Bloomberg terminal now allows users to create an interactive spreadsheet in Excel. Bloomberg offers a variety of functions that let you pull data directly into the spreadsheet. In addition, you can also print the Bloomberg screens to a PDF file, or email the screens to your email account. Please note that because much of the Bloomberg data is proprietary, you cannot export the spreadsheets to another computer; when there are functions in the spreadsheet that pull the data out of the Bloomberg system, they will only work while you are logged into the Bloomberg terminal.
(e-mail sent from Gene)

Monday, January 26, 2009

Online Access to Advertising Age

I've set up an online account for the link to Advertising Age, listed in the Advertising Industry category in our Research Guides by Topic section. The online version provides access to all articles in the print edition plus other information students might find useful.
The user name is "business library" and the password is "buffaloes" (no quotes). The circ desk will also have a folder that students can check out.