Welcome MAcc students! The Library has more than just reserve books and study rooms. We have recently added the ARM: Accounting Research Manager database, to our already existing Accounting & Tax databases. You may also want to take a look at our Accounting & Auditing Research Guide.
Congratulations to Sylvia Grant who has dedicated the past 20 years to working in the Walker Management Library. Sylvia processes the print materials that come into the library and does a number of other behind-the-scene activities that support the library. She has both her B.S. and M.Ed. from Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. Prior to coming to the Walker Library, she taught at various elementary grade levels for 18 years in Nashville and Chattanooga, Tennessee, Cocoa Beach, Florida, and Salt Lake City, Utah. She also worked in a public library in Utah for 4 years.
If you know Sylvia then you’ll know that she is an avid Vandy sports fan and regularly gets season tickets to the football, basketball, and baseball games. However, she doesn’t just root on the Commodores - she also gardens, dabbles in poetry, loves to eat lobster, and is usually seen at lunch reading a good mystery.
Google recently announced it would make two new services available to the higher education research community under the title University Research Programs. Basically, Google has built an elaborate set of systems for collecting, organizing, and analyzing information about the web.
The University Research Programs will give researchers access to Web search and machine translations. Here is more info:
The program for Google Search, as described on the Google site, “is designed to give university faculty and their research teams high-volume programmatic access to Google Search, whose huge repository of data constitutes a valuable resource for understanding the structure and contents of the web.”
The program for Google Translate “provides researchers, in the field of automatic machine translation, tools to help compare and contrast with, and build on top of, Google’s statistical machine translation system. Participation in the program will allow researchers programmatic access to Google’s translation service.”
Are you interested in where the future of virtual business is headed? Are you familiar with Second Life? If so, then go to Info Island I at the Open Air Auditorium for “Meet Me in My Avatar’s Office: Doing Business In Second Life” on Friday August 10 @ 5 pm sl. The speaker is Doug Mandelbrot (Doug McDavid in real life) and the executive consultant with IBM’s Global Business Services and the Almaden Research Lab. Doug is a firm believer that the 3D Internet, as exemplified by Second Life, is the future environment for all forms of remote collaboration within and among teams of people. He will discuss a convergence of historical economic and technological trends that make a move into the virtual world simply inevitable. He will introduce the audience to the range of virtual world activities that IBM is currently involved in, including their relationship with the New Media Consortium.
In Doug’s work he specializes in bridging the gap between business people and technologists. In Second Life he is exploring the potential for rehearsing services techniques in virtual environments. He has led and worked on numerous successful engagements with clients in insurance, utilities, telecommunications, manufacturing, travel, aerospace, and defense. He has numerous patents, publications and conference talks to his credit. In 2000 he was elected to the prestigious IBM Academy of Technology, and he is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the New Media Consortium (NMC) in the role of Visionary Director.
We are conducting a trial of the database, Mintel Reports. We would love your feedback on the resource.
Database Summary
Mintel provides business to consumer market research for lifestyles, food, drink, finance, travel, clothing/fashion, health/medical, beauty/personal, household products, personal services, automotive, electronics, and more. Reports provide market size, drivers, and trends, segmentation, supply structure, advertising and promotion, retail distribution, consumer characteristics, and forecasts. The majority of reports cover US and UK, there are also some other western European nations represented. Simmons National Consumer Survey (NCS) data is incorporated into many reports.
Trial Dates
Wednesday August 1st - Wednesday August 8th
Access
To take a look at the database point your browser to: http://oxygenacademic.mintel.com/ (the trial is only available on campus). Next you will see “Academic Login Successful” followed by the standard terms and conditions. Click on “I Agree” to the standard academic terms and conditions.
During the trial period, we will not be able to download any information from the website. If we do decide to subscribe to Mintel Reports, we would have the ability to download reports, section by section, as well as the graphs and tables. We would also have remote/off-campus access. In addition, if we do purchase the product our subscription would stipulate that every user set up a “profile” and log into their profile each time they access the database.
Please provide feedback about the database.
Please also feel free to contact asklibrarians@owen.vanderbilt.edu if you have any questions or issues.
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