Library opens Faculty Publications display

trevor.kenney — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:58:29 +0000

The library is excited to announce a new Faculty Publications display.

This permanent display was created to highlight books authored by ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge faculty members. The ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge Library purchases and circulates publications by ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ faculty and is proud to have a collection that reflects the scholarship of faculty members.

Located on the wall beside the Reference Collection (level 10 East), the selection of faculty-authored publications will rotate as books are checked out and replaced. In the library catalog, books included in the display will have the location status field of Faculty Publications to help users identify where to find these items.

We invite you to visit the library to explore the books currently on display and check out items if desired.

The Faculty Authored Publications within the library collections are primarily based on submissions to the annual book awards event that honours faculty members' monographic publishing and editing accomplishments each year. The library draws materials for the display from a list containing approximately 200 books. You may find this list at www.uleth.ca/lib by selecting Collection Highlights under About Us in the footer of the library's homepage. One of the collections highlighted is the U of Lethbridge Faculty Authored Publications.

Because we know that the list is not necessarily comprehensive, the library is asking faculty members for help in building this list and the collection itself. If there is a book that you or your colleague has written that is in the library and not included in the list of Faculty Authored Publications, please send a message to the library using the Comment and Replies link found under Quick Links on the library's homepage. Library staff will then be able to include the book in the list of other faculty-authored publications.

The library also encourages faculty members to alert their liaison librarian about upcoming publications to ensure that these materials are included within the library's collection. Among the authors whose books are currently on display are Dr. Hilary Rodrigues, John Peter Oleson, Dr. Ian McAdam and Dr. Alan Siaroff.

New library databases speak to financial interests

trevor.kenney — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:13:10 +0000

With all the financial turmoil in the news these days, there is heightened interest in the stock market; even those of us less financially-inclined can't help but pay attention to the dire speculations on the news every day.

To that end, two databases the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge Library has recently acquired might be of interest to the wider ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ community.

The Canadian Financial Markets Research Centre (CFMRC) Summary Information database includes historical Toronto Stock Exchange trading information such as daily and monthly prices and indices, and information on price adjustments such as dividends, stock splits, recapitalizations, etc. up to December 2007.

The database is easy to search by company name or ticker symbol and you can compare more than one company at a time. You might be pleasantly surprised at just how user-friendly it is. It is interesting to see how stocks have performed
historically – perhaps even to console yourself that markets have indeed rebounded in the past, and give some hope for the future.

The Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) database works in much the same way, but provides access to the big American exchanges such as NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq. Here you can find daily and monthly security prices and other historical data related to over 25,000 companies traded on these markets – again, up to December 2007.

To access these databases, go to the library home page (http://www.uleth.ca/lib) and click on Databases by Title in the centre of the screen – you'll see an alphabetical listing of all of the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ's databases, with both of these listed in the 'C's. You will have to log in with your student/staff ID before being allowed in to these databases.

Note that these databases have licenses which stipulate they be used for academic purposes only – but it is an interesting exercise to see the historical data on these companies.

The databases were purchased by the Faculty of Management (everybody now: THANK YOU!) and the library has provided access through the user-friendly CHASS interface from the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Toronto.

So while you won't be able to check how your stocks are doing today, you might be interested in how the market has performed in the past.

Nicole Eva is the management liaison librarian for the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge Library

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