The 1st floor entrance doors recently received a much needed upgrade. The old, noisy door hardware was replaced with new “panic bars” and outside handles that operate in a smooth and significantly quieter manner. The doors were also repainted inside and out to additionally enhance the library entrance.
The Walker Library has added a new data resource to our offerings. Euromonitor’s Global Market Information Database (GMID) contains 1M+ demographic, economic and marketing statistics for 205 countries. The historic and forecast data enable you to analyze trends from 1977-2016 with 6 years of historical data and 5 year forecasts. Unique country rankings help you to gauge one country’s position in the world relative to another. For each country, GMID covers economic data, and, lifestyle indicators such as disposable income, consumer trends, eating and drinking habits, home ownership statistics and health data. It also includes 4,500 market research reports on industries, consumer lifestyles and retailing for 71 countries.
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!
This week Walker Management Library welcomes our newest staff member, Jeff Carrillo. Jeff will be filling the position of Weekend Supervisor and will work a Wednesday through Sunday schedule. Jeff has just recently moved to Nashville from Chicago where he worked in the Circulation Department of the Ryerson & Burnham Library of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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.
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!
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.
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