Jackson Library and the GSB Finance & Investment Club are happy to present Bloomday 2008 (pace, James Joyce). Bloomberg rep Penny Lane will be on deck in L-107 tomorrow, May 15, to present two hour-long sessions on the Bloomberg financial database. The first, from Noon to 1:00, will serve as an introduction to the system. The second, from 1:30 to 2:30, will address more advanced issues. Bloomberg, as you recall, is a fixture at Wall Street firms, offering complex current and historical data on equities, fixed income, commodities, mortgages, interest rates and more. Feel free to 'brown bag' it; cookies will be availble.
But space is limited. If you are a GSB student and wish to attend, go to the CMC registration system. Faculty, staff and others should RSVP to Helen Losch as soon as possible.
 We are saddened to report the passing of GSB Alumnus Claude Rosenberg (MBA '52), financier, philanthropist and friend of the Library. Mr Rosenberg and his wife Louise were well known nationally for their charitable donations. Among the beneficiaries of their benevolence was Jackson Library, whose Rosenberg Corporate Research Center, dedicated in 1992, was the real foundation stone for today's outstanding array of Jackson databases. The Rosenberg gift was the greatest single impetus in the growth of the electronic tools that have become an integral part of the Library. In addition, their bequest changed the look of the Library, making it a much more attractive place to study and collaborate. Jackson Library staff who remember Mr Rosenberg always found him engaged, interested and enthusiastic about the development of resources for future business students. For these and other reasons, we pay tribute to Mr Rosenberg's memory.
Want to learn about Bloomberg? Don't want to spend time doing it? We have a solution: Bloomberg Bullseyes. 'Bullseyes' are short sessions -- 30 minutes, max -- which give you an opportunity to pick up the basics on a subject when you've little time to spare. Bullseye sessions will be offered to GSB students May 7, 9 and 14 in the Jackson Library Trader's Pit. To save a space, sign up via the CMC registration system. Bloomberg is a vast collection of market information on currencies, commodities, fixed income, interest rates, equities and much more. A Bloomberg Bullseye can give you the simple compass you need to navigate this ocean of financial data. And that's no bull.
Last night Jackson Library celebrated its 75th Anniversary with a gala reception at the Library. In addition to faculty and staff of the GSB who attended, librarians from across campus and even "Jackson alumni" from the past were present to enjoy good food from Arguello caterers, good conversation with colleagues and good music with Celso Alberti and his band. Capping off the night were gracious speeches by Professor David Kreps, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (who brought greetings from Dean Joss, currently in India), Professor James Van Horne, long time friend of the Library, Karen Wilson, Associate Dean for Faculty Services and Operations and former Director of the Library, and Kathy Long, our current Director. Speakers paid tribute to the centrality of the Library in the past life of the School, as well as the promise of dynamic new ways of interaction and service in coming years. Also mentioned were the names of those Directors, some of whom were present, who guided the Library to prominence over the many years since its founding in 1933. Finally, honored guest Halle Spurr Heckler, a personal friend of Dean J. Hugh Jackson and his wife, was on hand to enjoy the festivities at the library named for her old friend. For more information, see our special anniversary page. Here's looking forward to our next 75 !
GuideStar Premium database became available at the Jackson Library's database website for the Stanford GSB community and visitors to the Library. It provides nonprofit organization information via two search methods: 1) Nonprofit & Donation Search and 2) People Search. The license provides 2 simultaneous users. This resource was funded by the Jackson Library and the GSB Corporate Governance Research Program.
We are pleased to announce that GSB Alum Alvaro Fernandez recently donated some copies of the new SharpBrains research report The State of the Brain Fitness Software Market 2008 to Jackson Library. Fernandez is co-founder of SharpBrains, a research and advisory firm devoted to helping individuals, companies, and others understand and participate in the emerging field of brain fitness. You can check out the press release for the report, and also read a review of this new field from Reuters.
New databases, new books, new journals, and a big birthday – this month’s JacksonLine has it all! Check it out.
Taken a look lately at our Business Web Sites ? These are sites our librarians discover on the public Web, and we're constantly adding to them. For example, some selections from our latest crop, with the subject section of the BWS where they may be found : Ecosystem Marketplace (in 'Environment'), about markets and payment schemes for ecosystem services, IRS Business Tax Statistics (in 'Accounting & Taxes') with data on tax returns, Kidon Media Link (in 'News') with links to thousands of newspaper sites, PayScale (in 'Human Resources') offering how to compare your job and skills with your peers, and Webopedia (in 'Reference'), an online dictionary of computer and Internet terms. There are lots more, and in coming days we'll be highlighting some of these. (This is the first in a series on the Business Web Sites.)
A chance for free books and a free lunch can be found in the February issue of JacksonLine. You can get details on our new source for analyst reports and learn about a new Lehman Brothers offering that we are testing.
The Jackson Library provides access to Thomson Investext database effective February 1, 2008 for the GSB community. It provides investment research reports written by analysts at investment banks and consulting firms. To access Investext reports, please look under "Company Analysis > Research" in the database (via WebApps for GSB students/faculty/staff off-campus). About 30 MBA students and staff participated in trials of analyst report databases. Library staff appreciated their feedback and hope this new service is useful. Please stop by at the Library's Info Desk or call 650-723-2163 if you have any questions.
This is the final blog of the year for Jackson Library. Our Library is now closed for the Winter Break, and will reopen January 3, 2008. We wish you all a pleasant holiday season, however you choose to spend it, and a prosperous and healthy new year.
Want to catch up on your reading this weekend? Currently on the Popular Books rack in Jackson Library: The Only Three Questions That Count: Investing by Knowing What Other's Don't by Ken Fisher; New Ideas from Dead CEOs: Lasting Lessons from the Corner Office by Todd G. Bucholz; Milton Friedman: A Biography by Lanny Ebenstein; The Assault on Reason by Al Gore; and Way of the Turtle: The Secret Methods That Turned Ordinary People into Legendary Traders, by Curtis M. Faith. This is just a smattering -- there are many more, including bios on Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon and Alan Greenspan, and words of wisdom from legendary coach John Wooden and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Come on in, grab a book, and spend some relaxing down-time over the weekend.
Are you trying to access Jackson Library Databases away from the GSB or Schwab? With WebApps down you will only be able to access those databases with campus wide access (those with an  icon) via Proxy Server. Please use Ask A Librarian if you need further assistance.
For information on how to update your FastJack toolbar, how to get access to Jupiter Research, the secrets to business success, and much more, check out the October JacksonLine.
There is a new Jackson Library "hot topics" page called "Going Green". Companies and industries in the United States are attempting to be more sustainable to protect our natural resources. Are some companies adding "green" options just to attract more consumers or are they trying to be more environmentally responsible?
Like Mark Twain, the reported death of libraries has been exaggerated. Libraries once purported to be dead or dying, classified by Dewey Decimals and filled with musty old books and dustier old librarians, are now hot, hot, hot. Libraries are young, hip and cool. Patrons are lining up 200 - 300 strong, according to an August 12th 2007 article in the San Francisco Chronicle, to get inside the San Francisco Main. Why are libraries suddenly the New Cool? Libraries are great places to log on to the Internet, browse new books and magazines, research just about anything, or just hang out. If you need help you can always ask a librarian in person -- and they too are hot -- or go online. Library websites offer research help, homework help as well as traditional information such as catalog searching, library hours and book requests. So if you haven’t checked out your local library (including Jackson Library) it's time to get down with the star of the 21st Century. Drop on by !
Corporate Dealmaker is a new addition to the Library’s Periodicals Collection. The journal is a publication of Deal company, popular with our students for its The Deal magazine and also TheDeal.com website. Corporate Dealmaker focuses on the practical issues, highlighting real-life cases, best practices, new trends, and providing metrics in the world of corporate dealmaking.
The July-August issue features the topic: private equity. The Thinkery section includes an article called "The World is Even Flatter" which looks at the concept of ‘around sourcing’ introduced by Thomas Friedman. You can browse the section of recommended books and check out the new worthy titles on M&A. If you look at the classical titles on the same topic, you will find that Good to Great by Jim Collins (former GSB professor) is one of the five recognized classics on the list. Read more in Corporate Dealmaker located in the periodicals display area.
Do you know your business preference profile? Check out our new database – Country Navigator – and fine out whether you are better suited to doing business in China or in Russia. This month’s JacksonLine will tell you this and much more.
As always, your feedback is welcome.
Where can you find data on the Healthcare marketplace, data on socially responsible companies, and a place to find any other data you are seeking? In the April JacksonLine, of course! Check it out!
I read an article today about "The National Library Service for
the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), Library of Congress, produced its last analog cassette book machine on February 17, 2007, signaling the advent of Digital Talking Books." Read more about it!
Find Bar lore, Blogs, and Gold (IPO’s and the hard stuff) and much more in this month’s JacksonLine!
Say Hello to the Journal of Performance Measurement, a new addition to the library's periodicals collection. Along with academic articles pertinent to the industry, each issue features an interview with an authoritative member of the business community, such as an interview with Barton Biggs in summer 2006 issue. Barton Biggs, the author of Hedgehogging and a managing partner at Traxis Partners, shares his views on hedge fund industry. Library’s holdings start with summer 2006 issue.
Say Good Bye to Electronic Business. With Dec. 2006 issue this magazine wrapped its publication cycle. The last issue features the article about Eli Harari, founder, chairman, and CEO of SanDisk, who is named the "CEO of the Year" by the editors of Electronic Business.
Bloomberg news, audio books, podcasts, Blink, and chocolate! All of this and more in the February JacksonLine.
Jackson Library has recently added two new resources - Freedonia Focus and Economist.com.
Freedonia Focus has a collection of over 250 industry market research reports covering 18 industry sectors.
Economist.com allows access to full-text articles of the Economist magazine at its Website.
Both resources are accessible from the library toolbar FastJack (version 5.5). Freedonia is available only on the Business School network; Economist.com is accessible campus-side. GSB users can access both resources off-campus via WebApps.
Scrooge and donations -- check out this odd couple in the December issue of JacksonLine.
What do wallpaper past, perfume, and modeling clay have in common? Check out this month's JacksonLine to find out.
You will also find out how to IM the library, become a star on Wall Street, and get a job in Private Equity.
Are you a poet at heart, but need some quick business knowledge? There's a new book in the library called The Wall Street MBA: Your personal crash course in Corporate Finance by Reuben Advani. It is currently shelved in Jackson Library's Career Corner: Finance/Investment Banking section.
School is on. You're hip-deep in course reading and assignments. But for that scanty leisure time you do have, enrich yourself by checking out some of the Popular Books just inside the entrance to Jackson Library.
To sample just a few:
Discover the energy and excitement of sports that begins before the first inning or first kickoff in The Business of Sports, by our own George Foster, Bill Walsh, and HBS Professor Stephen A. Greyser.
Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard, brings us Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People's Minds.
Jack Welch and the 4E's of Leadership, by Jeffrey A. Krames, examines the model the legendary leader employed to identify and cultivate performance-based leaders.
Len Lewis' The Trader Joe's Adventure tracks the rise of an iconoclastic chain that generates sales per square foot twice the industry average.
iCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business -- perhaps the title says it all. This new book by Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon provides a new perspective on Jobs and his now-famous 'comeback'.
Harry S. Dent, Jr. crystal-gazes with his The Next Great Bubble Boom, where he predicts a third and final 'bubble' taking the Dow to 40,000 by 2010.
Finally, Hershey, by Michael D'Antonio, a biography of entrepreneur Milton S. Hershey and the trade name he built into an enduring American institution.
Check the first JacksonLine issue of the new term and find out how to get a free lunch and a free cookie. Not to mention a fun fact about a woman and money.
GSB students: We understand that renewing study room keys every two hours can be kind of annoying. The library is going to let you keep your study room key for 3 hours during the autumn quarter. Let's see how it works out.
 Jackson Library has been awarded the Center of Excellence Award for Service for 2006, presented by the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Business and Finance Division. The award for service was given in recognition of Jackson's development of quality practices and services, saying it "successfully executed its strategic initiatives with a distinct breadth and depth." The judges were especially impressed with the library's approach to tracking goals directly to customers' needs, encouraging staff at all levels, and soliciting continuous feedback to evaluate its services and identify areas for change or improvement.
The Center of Excellence Awards recognize customer-driven quality and leadership within the framework of an organization dedicated to the gathering, analysis, and dissemination of information within the business community. The awards serve to recognize the best of "best practices" in three categories: service, management, and technology. The awards take their inspiration from the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards, which are given annually to U.S. organizations to recognize and promote quality as a critical component of innovation and competitiveness. • more details
While you're in the entrance area of the Library you might want to visit our display case, where we have created a tribute to the career of Professor Jim Van Horne, an outstanding teacher at the GSB for the past 40 years.
In the case you'll also find a commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (CES).
New students: Want a 15 minute overview of Jackson Library? Jackson Library has lots of hidden corners. What is the Trader's Pit? Where can I fax? I'm interviewing for a job, where can I do research? Why not come for a snack and a tour of the library and get some answers.
During the first week of class, drop by the entrance area of the Library for snacks and a quickie tour, each day at 3:00 p.m. If you can't make it at 3 p.m., ask for a personalized tour at the Information Desk.
Gain fast familiarity with the GSB's library, containing one of the largest business collections in the world. Its resources are waiting for you to use. Remember, they're very expensive out in the corporate world, so take advantage now -- or you may regret you didn't, after you graduate.
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