http://blog.library.villanova.edu/business Just another Falvey Memorial Library Blog weblog Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:27:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The office will open in the afternoon. If you need assistance, call Falvey 610-519-4270 or Linda Hauck 484-685-6759. Dennis Lambert will be in in the afteroonShare This http://blog.library.villanova.edu/business/2009/11/17/wed-nov-18th-am-office-closed/ Due to staff illnesses, Bartley Business Info Center is closed today. Assistance is available at Falvey Memorial Library or by calling Linda Hauck 484-685-6759.Share This http://blog.library.villanova.edu/business/2009/11/16/bartley-business-info-closed-1116/ Due to a fortuitous offer from Proquest, the library has been able to add several new Proquest business databases to our collection at no cost.  Our access to industry specific trade news will be greatly enhanced by the addition of Banking Information Source, Pharmaceutical News Index, Proquest Telecommunications and Proquest ... http://blog.library.villanova.edu/business/2009/11/12/windfall-proquest-profits-all/ All those marketing majors working on campaigns that include word of mouth marketing facets need to be aware that the rules of the game have changed.  Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission issued a final regulation requiring bloggers to disclose their ties to advertisers or suppliers of products endorsed.  The full ... http://blog.library.villanova.edu/business/2009/10/07/viral-marketers-beware/ Read a report authored by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Amartya Sen and Jean-Paul Fitoussi for the French Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress for a critique of the use of GDP as a barometer of economic health. http://www.stiglitz-sen-fitoussi.fr/en/index.htmShare This http://blog.library.villanova.edu/business/2009/09/23/how-good-is-gdp-at-measuring-economic-health/ Falvey Memorial Library is having an Open House Tues Sept 15th and 16th. Check it out and get free stuff and snacks. Bartley Bus Info Center is closed to help staff the Open House.Share This http://blog.library.villanova.edu/business/2009/09/15/falvey-open-house-bartley-bus-info-center-closed/ Access has been restored!Share This http://blog.library.villanova.edu/business/2009/08/30/referenceusa-online-again/ ReferenceUSA is temporarily inaccessable to off campus researchers. The links found on the library home page may also give on campus users problems.  Until we can resolve this problem, from on campus you can use ReferenceUSA by opening the following URL in your browser www.referenceusa.com.  You will not be promted ... http://blog.library.villanova.edu/business/2009/08/26/referenceusa-off-campus-access-interrupted/ The Bartley Business Info Center has a Kindle for loan!  If you're not sure that you want to take the plunge and buy one for yourself or want to read a popular business book not in our collection NOW, checking out our Kindle may be just the thing.  I'll load ... http://blog.library.villanova.edu/business/2009/08/24/check-out-the-kindle/ We had a couple hundred volumes of International Monetary Fund Statistics at the library.  They were shelved in various and sundry places because of Library of Congress classification conventions and space limitations at Falvey .  Even for librarians and researchers who routinely used IMF, BOP or DOT, or IFS or ... http://blog.library.villanova.edu/business/2009/07/27/imf-statistics-online/