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TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY'S SPECIAL SERVICES FOR GGU FACULTYThe University Library can place items on reserve for your classes. In some cases we can even place items on Electronic Reserves so your students can access them from off campus.In addition, the Library can place the first chapter of the course textbook on Reserve for your students who may still be attempting to obtain the required textbook. If you happen to have an extra copy of the textbook, we ask that you please consider donating it to the Library. We will place it on a 2- hour closed reserve so your students can use it in the building.Here are some of the more frequently asked questions regarding reserves, copyright and database access issues you may find helpful to know: How do I request an item be placed on Reserve? You request this from the Circulation Department. Presently, the easiest way is to e-mail the Access Services Librarian, Gilles Poitras gpoitras@ggu.edu. Please include as much information as possible. Do not use abbreviations as these can delay processing of your reserve. What are Electronic Reserves? Instead of a paper copy on reserve, an electronic copy can be made available via the Library Catalog for your students. Are there any restrictions on Electronic Reserves? We cannot put a substantial portion of a book on electronic reserve without written permission from the copyright holder. However, we can put a chapter from a book, an essay or a magazine article on reserve. How does the Library obtain the items? If the item is in the collection, in our databases, or on the web we will process it quickly. For items not here we will request a copy on Interlibrary Loan. How long does it take to get an item on Reserve? We prefer requests be submitted at least two weeks in advance. We can usually process the request in a few days. It may take longer if we need to obtain copies via Interlibrary Loan. How do my students / I access these documents? Go to the Library Catalog. At the bottom of the left column of this page, there are links for Course Reserves. If the item is on Electronic Reserve it can be downloaded; if it is a paper copy one has to come into the Library to use it. Can I directly link to Electronic Reserves from my web page? Yes. We advise adding one link to the page at: http://www.ggu.edu/goldpac. Why can the GGU University Library not link directly to HBR articles? The Harvard Business Review now prohibits linking assigned course material in electronic reserve lists or on course web pages. To quote from Harvard Business School Publishing's statement on this:"Harvard Business Review and Harvard Business School Publishing content on EBSCOhost is licensed for the individual use of authorized EBSCOhost patrons at this institution and is not intended for use as assigned course material. Harvard Business School Publishing is pleased to grant permission to make this work available through "electronic reserves" or other means of digital access or transmission to students enrolled in a course. For rates and authorization regarding such course usage, contact permissions@hbsp.harvard.edu."Students can still access articles on their own by searching the EBSCO database, which has a full run of the Harvard Business Review from the first issue: http://0-search.epnet.com.library.ggu.edu/.For more information on all the services we offer our faculty, please refer to our Library Services:Faculty page.Information regarding the Electronic Reserves may be obtained from our Electronic Reserves page.Information regarding the GGU Copyright Policy may be obtained from GGU Copyright Policy page.We invite you to take advantage of our other services, including: Course Development, Subscription Databases, Reserves, including Electronic Reserves, Research Instruction Sessions and Research Guides.Details on all of the above services and how you can best utilize them are found in our Library Services:Faculty section.Should you have other questions regarding this article, please contact Access Services Librarian, Gilles Poitras gpoitras@ggu.edu or e-mail our Reference Staff at askalibrarian@ggu.edu.
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| Union Street Festival | 31st annual street festival | June 2 & 3, 10 am | Union Street, San Francisco |
| Golden Gate Park Band Concerts | Sunday Afternoon Concert Series | June 3, 10, 17, 24, 1 pm | Golden Gate Park, Fulton Street to Lincoln Way,San Francisco |
| Free Dragon Boat Lessons | Free boat lessons | June 4 & 11, 10:30 am - 12 pm | Foster City Boat Park, 899 Bounty Drive, San Mateo |
| Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Gallery | Free First Tuesdays | June 5 | YBCA Galleries, 701 Mission Street @ Third Street, San Francisco |
| Exploratorium | Free First Wednesdays | June 6, all day | 3601 Lyon Street, San Francisco |
| California Academy of Sciences | Free First Wednesdays | June 6 10 am | 875 Howard Street, San Francisco |
| San Francisco Zoo | Free First Wednesdays | June 6 10 am | 1 Zoo Road, San Francisco |
| YBG Thursday Lunchtime Concert Series | Bring bag lunch | June 7, 14, 21 and 28, 12:30-1:30 | Yerba Buena Gardens Esplanade, Mission between 3rd & 4th Sts, SF |
| Live Oak Park Fair | Original arts & crafts, entertainment, food | June 9 & 10, 10 am | Live Oak Park, 1301 Shattuck Ave, North Berkeley FREE shuttle from North Berkeley BART Station |
| San Francisco Folk Festival | Festival of folk music, dance and song | June 16 & 17, noon - 10 pm | City College of San Francisco, North Gym, 50 Phelan Ave, SF |
| Stern Grove Festival | 70th Season Admission-Free Concerts | June 17 - Aug 19 2 pm | Stern Grove 19th Ave & Sloat Blvd SF |
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FOOD for THOUGHT
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---Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft
The Update is a regular feature of the University Library's website. If you wish to be added to our mailing list, please contact The Update Editor. Suggestions and questions regarding the newsletter may also be directed to this address.Consultant: Janice Carter | 415-442-7248
Editor: Alice Dietrich | 415-442-7259
Site of the Month: Larry Burg | 415- 442-7250
Books of Interest: L. Burg
Food for Thought: A. Dietrich
Free Cultural Events Calendar: A. Dietrich
Photos of the library: A. Dietrich
Other contributors to this issue: L. Burg, J. Carter, A. Dietrich, C. Goff, G. Poitras
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AND THE WINNER IS ...
University Library Survey Winner(s)
For all of you waiting with bated breath for the winner of the $50 Amazon Gift Certificate (see last month's The Update) … the winner is (drum roll, please): PHILLIPS YEE! Congratulations!In a sense all of us are winners, because responses to the University Library survey help library staff tailor resources and services to better meet the needs of the Golden Gate University community. Here are a few examples. In response to student requests, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel will soon be available on all public use computers in the University Library. Students and others can now drink coffee and other beverages in the University Library - as long as the beverages are in securely-covered containers. And soon, library users will be able to scan documents in the library - thanks to students both for requesting facilities to scan documents and for providing one of the scanners! (See article below.)
SGA DONATES SCANNER TO UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Left to right: The generous donor, the GGU Student Government Association, represented here by officers: Nicolas Hantzsch, VP of Finance; Mukesh C. Punjabi, VP of Administration; and Barkwende Frank Sawadogo, President.
The GGU University Library is the happy recipient of a generous gift from the GGU Student Government. This is a document feed scanner that can take a stack of loose printed sheets, very quickly scan them in, and produce an editable text or PDF file. The Library is also in the process of purchasing a flatbed scanner.Both scanners will be attached to a networked PC which will be used as a dedicated scanning station. With this configuration students, faculty and staff will be able to scan either loose sheets of paper or pages in books and magazines. As the scanner will be networked, library users shall have the option of emailing the resulting files.The scanning station will be set up close to the Reference Desk so staff will be available to assist should questions arise.Thank you, SGA, for such a generous and useful gift!
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SITE OF THE MONTH
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BOOKS of INTEREST
Green to gold : how smart companies use environmental strategy to innovate, create value, and build competitive advantage / Daniel C. Esty and Andrew S. Winston. New Haven,: Yale University Press, 2006. HD30.255 .E88 2006 Turning silver into gold : business and investment opportunities in the boomer marketplace / Furlong, Mary S.. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Wharton School Pub., 2006. HF5415.127 .F87 2006 Handbook of alternative assets / Mark J.P. Anson. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, c2006. HG4530 .A57 2006 Business fairy tales / by Cecil W. Jackson. Mason, Ohio : South-Western OH Thomson Learning, 2006. HF5686.C7 J26 2006 Appetite for change : how the counterculture took on the food industry/ Warren J. Belasco. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007. HD9005 .B44 2007 Global airlines : competition in a transnational industry / Pat Hanlon. Amsterdam ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007. HE9776 .H36 2007 Nonprofit essentials : managing technology / Jeannette Woodward. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2006. HF5548.2 .W648 2006 The cinema of globalization : a guide to films about the new economic order / Tom Zaniello. Ithaca : ILR Press, 2007. PN1995.9.G59 Z36 2007 Entrepreneurship/ Alan L. Carsrud and Malin E. Brännback. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007. HB615 .C295 2007 Understanding emerging markets : China and India / Peter Enderwick. New York : Routledge, c2007. HC427.95 .E53 2007 The power of survey design : a user's guide for managing surveys, interpreting results, and influencing respondents / Giuseppe Iarossi. Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2006. HM538 .I37 2006
When I checked the suggestion box today there was a simple short plea: "Provide better staplers, please." Done!We have ordered another of the grip staplers that we presently have at the printers in Room 131 and the Mission Street Room. These two staplers have held up for years of steady use without problems, unlike the more conventional office staplers we have on the Circulation Desk counter. We shall still keep one of the conventional staplers on the counter alongside the newer grip stapler as some may prefer the older design.Do you have a suggestion? Please drop it in the box.---Gilles Poitras, Access Services Librarian gpoitras@ggu.
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OFFERING SPECIAL WORKSHOPS JUNE 4 AND 11
This month, the University Library will be offering special workshops on finding company and industry ratios using the ORBIS database, and, analyzing ratios using SAS.The library staff are teaming up with Dr. Miro Costa, Information Technology Management Department, the Ageno School of Business, and the GGU Finance Club to present a special "hands on" workshop on using the ORBIS database to find ratios for companies in an industry. Library staff will show participants how to obtain ratio data for companies and industries from the ORBIS database. Dr. Costa will then show participants how to use SAS to do regression analysis on 5 years of ratio data.
CALENDAR of WORKSHOPS and EVENTS
June 2007
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| June 4 | Data for Decisions: Finding Company and Industry Ratios using the ORBIS Database, and Analyzing Ratios Using SASo | 5:30 to 6:30 pm |
| June 6 | Learn to Research Like a Pro! | 5:30 to 6:30 pm |
| June 9 | Learn to Research Like a Pro! | 11 am to 12 pm |
| June 10 | Learn to Research Like a Pro! | 2 to 3 pm |
| June 11 | Data for Decisions: Finding Company and Industry Ratios using the ORBIS Database, and Analyzing Ratios Using SASo | 5:30 to 6:30 pm |
| June 12 | Finding Articles in the University Library | 5:30 to 6:30 pm |
| June 13 | Finding Articles in the University Library | 5:30 to 6:30 pm |
| June 16 | Finding Articles in the University Library | 11 am to 12 pm |
| June 17 | Finding Articles in the University Library | 2 to 3 pm |
| June 18 | Database Spotlight: Faulkner Technology | 5:30 to 6:30 pm |
| June 21 | Database Spotlight: Faulkner Technology | 5:30 to 6:30 pm |
| June 23 | Database Spotlight: Faulkner Technology | 11 am to 12 pm |
| June 24 | Database Spotlight: Faulkner Technology | 2 to 3 pm |
oNote: Data for Decisions: Finding Company and Industry Ratios using the ORBIS Database, and Analyzing Ratios Using SAS will be held in Lab 4225, 536 Mission Street, San Francisco Location: Unless stated otherwise, all of the above workshops begin at the Reference Desk, University Library, 536 Mission Street, San Francisco.All University Library workshops are free and open to the faculty, students, alumni, and staff of GGU. We encourage you to register in advance for the workshop you wish to attend. You can do so in person at the Reference Desk; by calling 415-442-7244; or via e-mail askalibrarian@ggu.edu.For additional information about these workshops or any of our databases, please contact Reference Desk at 415-442-7244 or visit the our Workshops and Events page.
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June 2007 volume 2, no. 6
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