University Library: CoB Newsletter

The University Library is here to support you and your students. Because we are an e-preferred library, we have a variety of virtual services and resources available. This includes e-resource collections, chat services, research guides, and online tutorials. As we move through this semester with you, we offer a mix of onsite and online service hours. The general operating hours for the University Library is below. Additional service hours are available during midterms and finals.

Onsite:

Monday – Thursday: 9 AM – 9 PM

Friday & Saturday: 9 AM – 6 PM

Sunday: 1 PM - 9PM

Below are updates concerning resources selected to support the College of Business:

SAGE Business Cases 2021 (SAGE) This database is a collection of global business cases from a variety of industries. Topics include Marketing, Operations Management, Small Business and Entrepreneurship, International Business, Human Resource Management and more. Also, here are some documents that you may find useful including a title list, and information on data embeds from Data Planet. SAGE will customize any session based on the level of familiarity of the resource, so please let me know if you are interested.

Access World News (NewsBank) 2021 Edition Delivers research diverse perspectives, topics and trends that align with curricular areas such as Political Science, English, Sociology, Humanities, Business, International Studies and more. Features reliable, credible information from a wide variety of international, national and local news sources.

Healthcare Administration Database (ProQuest) Designed to meet the needs of researchers studying the field of health administration. This high-demand healthcare management content provides the most reliable and relevant information on a wide range of topics, including:

Insurance

Law

Statistics

Business management

Personnel management

Ethics

Health economics

Public health administration

Edward Elgar Business Handbooks

Elgaronline includes research handbooks on Marketing, and Organizational Behavior, and Human Resource Management.

Checkpoint Edge

Thomson Reuters recently changed their platform to Checkpoint Edge. It blends technology, editorial insight, productivity tools, online learning, and news updates for tax and accounting researchers to understand complex information, make informed decisions, and use knowledge efficiently. Our sales representative encourages us to get the most out of our subscription. Check out the free on-demand training resources including interactive webinars and short video tutorials.

Training is available by following these 3 steps:

• Step 1 - Please enter, reset or create your login credentials on our Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting Professionals Learning Center.
• Step 2 - Upon entering the Learning Center, scroll down to the “Enter Your Subscription Code Here” section and enter ‘edge’.
• Step 3 - Then click the following course link to begin the training course Checkpoint Edge for Universities.

I maintain several research guides to showcase the resources that specifically support the College of Business. Over this past summer, I designed two new guides and added a tab on the management guide. I hope you are able to review the guides, and I welcome feedback on how to improve.

I created Start Here! to help College of Business students become familiar with what the University Library has to offer. It goes into detail regarding our outreach incentives, collection, tutorials, and amenities.

The guide titled Business Research FAQs branches out from the Library FAQ guide to address the needs of our business students. When designing this guide, I kept in mind specific questions from students, and their assignments I have learned about. The guide serves as a pathfinder to direct students to the variety of resources that are available.

The Management: Library Research Guide now has the tab labeled, Healthcare Service Administration. It includes several databases and books to help students in this area of study.

Another service I provide are library presentations. I design these presentations based on a student research project where I introduce the resources that will help in completing their assignment. I am happy to visit with your class or create on online tutorial. Just let me know how I can help.

The CoB library research guides are designed to serve as a pathfinder for your students to gather resources while working through assignments. Over this past Spring and Summer 2021 semesters they had a total of 6,718 visits. The break down is below:

Business: Library Research Guide 1,889

Information Systems and Knowledge Management 829

BCOM 3304: Library Research Guide 1,020

Marketing: Library Research Guide 1,501

Fire & Emergency Services: Library Research Guide 643

Management: Library Research Guide 148

Accounting: Library Research Guide 131

Be Money Smart 173

Finance and Economics: Library Research Guide 88

Business Writing Guide 139

Entrepreneurship: Library Research Guide 296

The Socionomic 34

Yearly, I purchase books for the CoB. Below are the amounts that was spent on each subject area. Please reach out and request a book purchase.

Business $6,700

Economics $4,800

Computer Information Systems $5,500

Management $5,000

Marketing $3,300

Encourage your students to take a bite out of data with Director of Quantitative Reasoning, Dr. Kathryn Appenzeller Knowles, as she shares with them secrets on how to reason and analyze numerical information. Connecting the dots between numbers and decision making, individuals exhibit skills beneficial for various organizations, professions, and functions. They will learn how to evaluate and find better information to take the YIKES out of decisions.

In-person, Lunch & Learn workshops are co-sponsored with your University Library. Your students may join Is this reasonable?, Storytelling with Numbers, or both. The University Library will generate more details on our events page, social media, JagSync, campus televisions, and flyers. Tell your students to keep an eye out!

Join us this fall for a series of workshops introducing key data tools including data.census.gov, PolicyMap, and Social Explorer. Learn about the classroom resources, data training, and all the datasets that are available to you for free. With data on economics, political science, demographics, education, public health and so much more, there is something data here for you. All workshops will be an hour long and held online via Zoom. These events are co-sponsored by the Director of Quantitative Reasoning, the Sociology Program, and the University Library. Those interested in attending should register through the links below and please feel free to share with your students.

· U.S. Census: Data.Census.gov & additional Census Data Tools

o Sept. 15th, noon, Student focused workshop, Register Here

o Sept. 29th, noon, Faculty focused workshop, Register Here

· PolicyMap:

o Oct. 13th, Student focused workshop, Register Here

o Nov. 3rd, Faculty focused workshop, Register Here

· Social Explorer:

o Oct. 27th, Faculty focused workshop, Register Here

Nov. 10th, Student focused workshop, Register Here

This past year the library has been busy creating a self-service tool, Library FAQ Guide, to help students walk through some of the most commonly asked research and library questions. We know some students may not ask for help for a variety of reasons, so we wanted to create a tool to enable all of our students to be successful in their research. The content in Library FAQ is designed to be task-focused and allow students to drill down to just the piece of information they need.

Students can access the Library FAQ Guide through the library’s website on the main page. To get started, students select the box that most closely aligns with their needs on the Library FAQ home page. Let us know what you think about our Beta Library FAQ page and help us spread the word!

Marina Narvaez

Business Librarian

Email: marina.narvaez@tamusa.edu
Website: https://libguides.tamusa.edu/prf.php?account_id=103694
Location: Central Academic Building, Room 202
Phone: (210)784-1510
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tamusalibrary/