Library Hours May 12-June 6

The library will be open from 8:00 am until 5:00 pm Monday - Friday through Friday, June 6th.
CLOSED each Saturday and Sunday; CLOSED Monday, May 26th in observance of the Memorial Day Holiday.

Quotes from the Man Who Invented Management

Do you know whose quotes these are?

“In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. “

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. “

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. “

In 1971, he created the first MBA program in California.

The Peter Drucker Literary Trust has donated books about and by him in many different languages. Stop by to browse them and learn how his thoughts continue to influence the practice of management.

Reading for Learning!

The Walker Management Library has received several new books you may find to be of interest.  We have new business best sellers, some are in paper and others on CDs.  We’re regularly buying new best sellers and invite you to stop and check them out!

SDC outage over the weekend

The SDC database will be unavailable for most of the weekend. 

“On the weekend of January 19, 2008 Thomson Financial is planning electrical and cooling maintenance at our primary data center that hosts SDC Platinum.The power down will begin at approximately 4AM EST on Saturday, January 19th and will last until 4PM EST on Sunday, January 20th.SDC Platinum will be unavailable for the duration of the activity.”

Library Staff Honors

Three long-time library staff members are being recognized for their years of service this month.  Sylvia Grant has been with Walker Library for 20 years.  Elaine Hill (15 years) started her career at Vanderbilt with the Capital Campaign Office for Development and joined the library staff in 1995.   Laura Norris rounds out our group of honorees with five years of service at the library.  While Sylvia, Elaine and Laura have varied duties behind the scenes, all three of them are also part of the Access Services Team and provide excellent customer service for our library users on a daily basis.  Congratulations to these valued colleagues and friends!

Two New Databases!

The Walker Library is proud to announce the arrival of two new databases. Mintel Reports

and Frost & Sullivan are leaders in market research and industry reporting.

Walker Library Sponsoring Kegs and Open House!

Your friends at the Walker Management Library are sponsoring kegs tonight and invite you to join us for an open house. Leading up to the open house, stop by the library service desk and guess how many M&Ms are in the jar and you can win them all! Kegs begins at 5:30…….see you there!

MAcc Students

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.

Sylvia Grant celebrates 20 years at the Walker Library

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.

Accounting Research Manager

We have added a new library database. The Accounting Research Manager (ARM) is available to the Owen Community from the Walker Library website. The database can be accessed from anywhere inside Owen and will soon be accesible remotely. ARM is useful for financial reporting professionals. It includes analytical accounting, auditing, and SEC information with links to FASB, AICPA, SEC, EITF, IASB, PCAOB, OMB, and Sarbanes-Oxley. It is authoritative and provides proposal-stage literature, plus comment and advice from financial reporting experts. We expect MAcc students to find the databse extreemly useful.