Business Resources
Discovery Exercise:
In your blog, post your findings and observations regarding the following:
1. Do a search for available information on FM radio. Pay attention to the types of sources found.
2. Look for the visual search option and try it. Does it make searching easier or harder?
EconLit contains economic literature including accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, and urban economics.
Found articles on devices for FM Radio waves- actually this is what first appeared:
Note: Your initial search query did not yield any results. However, using SmartText Searching, results were found based on your keywords.
I don't know what these articles are trying to do- sell something? To Whom? I would not find this helpful, but maybe some one who wanted to know more about FM Radio would. Who am I looking this up for? Some one who has a radio program? Who wants to? I don't understand the assignment. I don't think I would refer anyone to this site, because right now I don't understand it. When I tried a visual search, no results were found. So, I decided to try a search for something near and dear to my heart- I tried chocolate, and the visual search gave me lots of options. I tried truffles, and found articles about businesses that were making truffles. I could see how this could be helpful, although I still feel that I would be more at ease just Googling these articles.
Discovery Exercise:
In your blog post your findings and observations regarding the following:
1. Complete a search to find resources for small business owners.
2. Complete a search for items that pertain to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and small businesses.
3.Complete a search for items that pertain to tax policy and small businesses.
I used the visual search for this and found a lot of articles, some were letters to the editor, some were policies. Seems like a lot of work to sort through, and not an efficient way to do it.
Regional Business News is a collection of news information from all over the world. Information provided by these sources covers business, political, economic and other diverse, international news events. This resource contains the most recent 30 days of information from each of these wire sources. Several hundred articles are added to the Regional Business News database each day.
Discovery Exercise:
In your blog, post your findings and observations regarding the following:
1. Pick a nationally known company. Search under the company’s name and look at the results.
I picked PetMeds and found articles about their earnings.
2. Narrow the regional search to something more appropriate for this area of the country.
Looked at articles about LLBean.3. Choose a Maine company to see what information is available about either the company or its industry.
I found nothing on Moo Milk, Tide Mill Farm, Monica's Chocolates or Helen's Restaurant. I guess my downeast businesses aren't very news making.
There are two Value Line formats available through MARVEL. Value Line Investment Survey for public libraries provides independent investment information, analyzing over 1,700 stocks. The Rating & Reports section details the history, current status, and projected performance of individual stocks. It covers the current three months, updated weekly on Friday afternoons. (Note: Many of Value Line’s products are listed on their site, but not accessible under this license. They are indicated by a gray lock.) The number of users at a time is 6 for the entire state so you may have to try several times to access this resource. If you have no luck after a couple of attempts, just indicated that in your blog.
Unless you have a good background in business or stocks, much of the information contained in Value Line may look like Greek to you. The goal of this exercise is not to understand the information contained in the reports, but to be able to navigate through the database to help a patron find the information they are looking for.
Value Line Research Center for academic libraries covers stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks. This is available only to academic libraries and is also restricted to 6 concurrent users.
Discovery Exercise:
In your blog, post your findings and observations regarding the following:
1. Look at the current issue of Value Line. Explore the various links for the “Investment Survey,” which is the primary tool available to public library users. Start with “Description,” which gives a good description of the site.
OK, did that.2. Look at the various reports offered: Ratings and Reports, Selection and Opinion, Summary and Index, etc. Familiarize yourself with the information contained in each report and how they differ.
OK Check.3. Pick a well-known stock such as Starbucks, General Motors, Apple, etc., and do a company search using either the general search box at the top of the page or “company look up.” Familiarize yourself with the type of information provided by linking to the various tabs at the top of the report. Also look to see if there is a “full research report” available for the company.
Amazon has the Ticker code (AMZN). Well, their graph looks like they are doing great.
Wall Street Journal provides indexing to and full text coverage of the nation’s leading business daily from 1984.
Discovery Exercise:
In your blog, post your findings and observations regarding the following:
1. Using the advance search feature, look for articles on small business and health care.
Found 3534 results.
2. Look at how the results are returned and the suggested limiters offered by the site. What might a small business person be interested in?
I tried Health insurance and small business.3. Familiarize yourself with the options available to follow up on your search, such as creating alerts.
If I created a My Reasearch Account I could get alerts about articles as they appear.
This was the hardest and least enjoyable assignment.
Discovery Exercise:
In your blog, post your findings and observations regarding the following:
1. Do a search for available information on FM radio. Pay attention to the types of sources found.
2. Look for the visual search option and try it. Does it make searching easier or harder?
EconLit contains economic literature including accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, and urban economics.
Found articles on devices for FM Radio waves- actually this is what first appeared:
Note: Your initial search query did not yield any results. However, using SmartText Searching, results were found based on your keywords.
I don't know what these articles are trying to do- sell something? To Whom? I would not find this helpful, but maybe some one who wanted to know more about FM Radio would. Who am I looking this up for? Some one who has a radio program? Who wants to? I don't understand the assignment. I don't think I would refer anyone to this site, because right now I don't understand it. When I tried a visual search, no results were found. So, I decided to try a search for something near and dear to my heart- I tried chocolate, and the visual search gave me lots of options. I tried truffles, and found articles about businesses that were making truffles. I could see how this could be helpful, although I still feel that I would be more at ease just Googling these articles.
Discovery Exercise:
In your blog post your findings and observations regarding the following:
1. Complete a search to find resources for small business owners.
2. Complete a search for items that pertain to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and small businesses.
3.Complete a search for items that pertain to tax policy and small businesses.
I used the visual search for this and found a lot of articles, some were letters to the editor, some were policies. Seems like a lot of work to sort through, and not an efficient way to do it.
Regional Business News is a collection of news information from all over the world. Information provided by these sources covers business, political, economic and other diverse, international news events. This resource contains the most recent 30 days of information from each of these wire sources. Several hundred articles are added to the Regional Business News database each day.
Discovery Exercise:
In your blog, post your findings and observations regarding the following:
1. Pick a nationally known company. Search under the company’s name and look at the results.
I picked PetMeds and found articles about their earnings.
2. Narrow the regional search to something more appropriate for this area of the country.
Looked at articles about LLBean.3. Choose a Maine company to see what information is available about either the company or its industry.
I found nothing on Moo Milk, Tide Mill Farm, Monica's Chocolates or Helen's Restaurant. I guess my downeast businesses aren't very news making.
There are two Value Line formats available through MARVEL. Value Line Investment Survey for public libraries provides independent investment information, analyzing over 1,700 stocks. The Rating & Reports section details the history, current status, and projected performance of individual stocks. It covers the current three months, updated weekly on Friday afternoons. (Note: Many of Value Line’s products are listed on their site, but not accessible under this license. They are indicated by a gray lock.) The number of users at a time is 6 for the entire state so you may have to try several times to access this resource. If you have no luck after a couple of attempts, just indicated that in your blog.
Unless you have a good background in business or stocks, much of the information contained in Value Line may look like Greek to you. The goal of this exercise is not to understand the information contained in the reports, but to be able to navigate through the database to help a patron find the information they are looking for.
Value Line Research Center for academic libraries covers stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks. This is available only to academic libraries and is also restricted to 6 concurrent users.
Discovery Exercise:
In your blog, post your findings and observations regarding the following:
1. Look at the current issue of Value Line. Explore the various links for the “Investment Survey,” which is the primary tool available to public library users. Start with “Description,” which gives a good description of the site.
OK, did that.2. Look at the various reports offered: Ratings and Reports, Selection and Opinion, Summary and Index, etc. Familiarize yourself with the information contained in each report and how they differ.
OK Check.3. Pick a well-known stock such as Starbucks, General Motors, Apple, etc., and do a company search using either the general search box at the top of the page or “company look up.” Familiarize yourself with the type of information provided by linking to the various tabs at the top of the report. Also look to see if there is a “full research report” available for the company.
Amazon has the Ticker code (AMZN). Well, their graph looks like they are doing great.
Wall Street Journal provides indexing to and full text coverage of the nation’s leading business daily from 1984.
Discovery Exercise:
In your blog, post your findings and observations regarding the following:
1. Using the advance search feature, look for articles on small business and health care.
Found 3534 results.
2. Look at how the results are returned and the suggested limiters offered by the site. What might a small business person be interested in?
I tried Health insurance and small business.3. Familiarize yourself with the options available to follow up on your search, such as creating alerts.
If I created a My Reasearch Account I could get alerts about articles as they appear.
This was the hardest and least enjoyable assignment.
