Chicago EMBA Orientation:

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• Chicago EMBA Orientation
• Spring 2005

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Orientation session

• A lot of information. This presentation is on
  the BIC website to review at your leisure.
• Efficient information finding.
• You will not be experts please ask us for
  assistance when starting.

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Goals

• Orient to staff and service
• Getting connected and problem solving
• Professional Literature finding and searching
  in specific journals

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Mahaffey Business Information Center

• Partnership between Mendoza College of Business
  and University Libraries of Notre Dame.
• College supplies space
• University Libraries supplies staff, databases,
  resources, and workstations.

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Staff

• Stephen Hayes
• Christian Poehlmann
• Scott Gaglio
• Beata Frelas
• Andy Boze

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Who to call

• BIC Staff and services (574-631-9098)
• Professional Staff 800am to 500pm.
• Check http//bic.library.nd.edu/ for hours
• Stephen Hayes (574-631-5268) or Christian
  Poehlmann (574-631-9099)
• Advanced information research questions, data
  needs, search suggestions, staff and service
  problems, service requests, special needs.
• Scott Gaglio (574-631-9097) or Beata Frelas
  (574-631-7176)
• Technical Support Issues

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More Contact Suggestions

• I cant seem to get connected to
• 1st, your local technical support, especially if
  you are using your business PC
• I cant find anything on
• Chris, Steve, or faculty member, well help you
  formulate your search and select the best
  resource to search
• I keep being asked for a password
• Scott or Beata, you may have an firewall issue or
  timeout problem

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More Contact Suggestions

• Where would you look for.?
• Chris or Steve, well suggest the best place to
  look
• Can you .. for me?
• Chris, hell let you know if we can meet your
  special need
• When in doubt call
• Chris or MBA office, a proper referral will be
  made

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Contact Methods

• Telephone
• Christian Poehlmann 574-631-9099
• Stephen Hayes 574-631-5268
• General Number (BIC staff) 574-631-9098
• E-mail
• Bic.1_at_nd.edu

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Services

• Answers
• Advice
• Interlibrary Loan
• Fax machines
• Typewriter

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Career Materials and Services

• MBA career office provides materials BIC houses
  and maintains collection
• Libraries does not offer an extensive collection
  of career materials
• Print materials and directories
• Wetfeet press publications
• Directories (i.e. Executive recruiting,
  consulting firms)
• Job hunters guide to (Chicago Job Bank)
• Fax machine for career and job placement

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Electronic Resources

• The URL for the BIC
• http//bic.library.nd.edu/

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Printing

• Printers are part of the Pharos system.
• All students allocated 100 worth of printing
  credits.
• The charge for printing (10 cents a side) will be
  deducted from your allocation.
• When your allocation is exhausted, you may
  purchase more credits from the OIT.

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Data and collections
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Data and collections

• Academic information products
• differ from corporate products in price and
  content
• Ask for information by content not product name
  -- i.e. investment reports vs. First Call reports

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Data and collections

• Library provides databases and information
  resources
• Staff expertise in finding information
• Some information is still in paper and only in
  Hesburgh Library
• Directories (Manufacturing USA )
• Misc. (Valueline )

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ID Passwords

• To access library resources you must use your
  NetID and password.
• NOTE This is the same as your general
  university e-mail. This is distinct from your
  e-Project ID and password.

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Factiva

• Dow Jones Reuters joint venture
• 5 concurrent users campus wide
• Publicly traded companies
• Company vs. industry comparisons
• Factiva industry grouping information
• Historic market data
• Publication Library of 8000 full text titles
• By title, industry, and region
• Wall Street Journal full text

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Factiva

• http//trials.proquest.com/ptc?userid1058176
• Password welcome

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Business and Company Resource Center

• 5 concurrent users campus wide
• 19,031,863 articles
• many full text many back to 1980
• Investment reports and forecasts for more than
  11,000 US and international companies
  and for 53 industries
• prepared by Wall Street and international
  brokerage firms
• Profiles of more than 100,000 public and private
  companies
• Article Search allows limiting searches to
  Peer-reviewed journals and by journal name

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Business and Company Resource Center

• http//trials.galegroup.com/pubacd/
• Username new
• Password beginings

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Web Resources - Airlines

• International Air Transport Association (IATA)
• IATA is the trade association of the world's
  international airline industry.
• http//www.iata.org
• Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
• BTS is a statistical agency engaged in data
  collection and analysis and a national source for
  transportation data.
• http//www.bts.gov/
• Air Transport Association (ATA)
• The ATA is an organization that focuses on
  supporting and assisting US airlines by promoting
  the air transport industry and the safety, cost
  effectiveness, and technological advancement of
  its operations.
• http//www.airlines.org
• Travel Industry Association of America (TIA)
• TIA represents all components of the US travel
  industry promoting US travel and tourism. It is
  also the source for travel industry research,
  analysis and forecasts.
• http//www.tia.org

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Web Resources - Continued

• Statistics Canada
• Statistics Canada, the country's national
  statistics agency, is the officialsource for
  Canadian social and economic statistics, and
  products.
• http//www.statcan.ca
• Air Transport Association of Canada (ATAC)
• The ATA promotes safe and reliable air
  transportation of people and goods to the benefit
  of Canada.
• http//www.atac.ca
• Association of European Airlines (AEA)
• The AEA is an umbrella organization for the major
  air carriers of Europe, representing member
  airline interests at the international and
  European level.
• http//www.aea.be

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Web Resources - Continued

• European Low Fares Airline Association (ELFFA)
• ELFAA is a non-profit making organization that
  represents and protects the needs of low-fare
  airlines and their customers.
• http//www.elfaa.com
• European Regions Airline Association (ERAA)
• ERAA is an association of more than 230
  companies, representing the entire industry,
  including 70 airlines and over 160 associate and
  affiliate members comprising aircraft and engine
  manufacturers, international and regional
  airports and avionic suppliers and service
  providers.
• http//www.eraa.org

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Library Resources http//bic.library.nd.edu/

• Market insight (Standard Poors Industry
  Surverys)
• Browseable and searchable interface to a variety
  of finance-related information, including
  profiles of companies, industries and nations.
  Includes information from EDGAR, CIA World
  FactBook, and DRI/WEFA.
• Mergent online (Industry Reports)
• Successor to FIS online, provides access to fully
  searchable data on more than 10,000 companies on
  the NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq exchanges, including
  SEC filings and annual reports. Replaces print
  products from Moody's (Mergent) Bank and Finance
  Manual, Transportation Manual, International
  Manual, Public Utility Manual, OTC Unlisted
  Manual, OTC manual. Access info You must be
  using a PC and Internet Explorer or Netscape 6 or
  greater to use FIS/Mergent Online.

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Library Resources http//bic.library.nd.edu/

• Business source premier (EBSCO)      
   Comprehensive business database of scholarly
  journals and business periodicals. Indexes and
  abstracts more than 4,500 business titles with
  coverage from 1965 of these, 3,600 with full
  text.
• Datamonitor Company Industry Reports

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Questions

• ?

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FAQ 1

• Why is there only 1 Bloomberg?
• COST, MONEY, DOLLARS.
• The Bloomberg stations cost 612/month for ONE
  workstation
• SEE But Bloomberg won't budge on pricing (THE
  BLOOMBERG MACHINE If he runs for mayor of New
  York, what happens to his empire?, Tom Lowry,
  04/23/2001, Business Week p.76
• Why cant I download from Bloomberg?
• Because Mike discourages it.
• It would cost us 1700 per month, per workstation.

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FAQ 2

• How come the Libraries doesnt have a
  subscription to the electronic version of (insert
  favorite journals name here)?
• Usually no individual subscriptions to electronic
  business journals.

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FAQ 2 - continued

• Rely on electronic full text aggregators
• Factiva (8000 titles)
• Business and Company Resource Center (19 million
  articles)
• ABI Inform/Global (1616 publications)
• Business Newsbank (500 newspapers, newswires and
  business journals )
• Business Source Premier (2,140 scholarly business
  journals)
• Lexis/Nexis Academic (5,000 publications)

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FAQ 3

• How do I know which aggregator has the journals I
  want?
• Electronic Resources Gateway web page
• Electronic Journals (e-Journal Locator)

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FAQ 4

• What is the password for Factiva?
• No individual passwords
• Logging onto the campus network validates as
  authorized user
• Prompted for a password?
• Go back to the Libraries Electronic Resource Web
  page and re-launch the product.

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FAQ 5

• Can I get these databases and resources from off
  campus, in my office, or elsewhere?

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FAQ 5 - continued

• Yes!
• Computer cluster or branch library logon is like
  the BIC
• Campus housing has a direct connection to the
  campus network
• Off-campus and dialing into the OIT modem pool
  connects directly to the network.

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