Library Resources for Career Development

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Thursday, May 22, 2008

10:00-10:15am
Welcome and Tour of the Academic Commons, Julie Weir

10:15-11:00am
Database Demonstrations

Business & Industry Sources, Cynthia Comer

• Business Source Complete
  Provides indexing and selected full text of business magazines and trade publications. Business is broadly defined to include marketing, management, and finance. Non-journal content includes financial data, case studies, market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses.
• Business Dateline
  Indexes business magazines and trade publications. Emphasizes regional business activities and trends and local firms.
• Vocational & Career Collection
  Provides indexing and selected full text for trade and industry related periodicals. Examples of industries/areas covered include aerospace, manufacturing, apparel, automotive, food/culinary arts, childcare, social work, computers, communication, merchandising, and hospitality.
• Marquis Who’s Who
  Brief profiles on over 1.3 million accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor.

Factiva, Eugene Owens
Provides access to more than 14,000 sources (such as newspapers, journals, magazines, news and radio transcripts, etc) from 159 countries in 22 languages, including more than 400 continuously updated newswires. A major focus of Factiva is providing detailed company background and financial information, including company/industry comparison reports for more than to 32,000 public and private companies.

LexisNexis Academic, Megan Mitchell
A full text database with access to over 6,000 news, business, and legal sources.

• Business Information (Including Hoover's publications, Standard & Poor's, Investext, SEC filings)
• Company Dossier
• Analysis of Industries & Markets
• Law Directories
• Martindale Hubbell Law School Directory
• Martindale Hubbell Law Directory - Practice Profiles

Learning Express Library, Julie Weir
An interactive database of practice tests and skills building courses in which individuals create accounts in order to track their own progress. Skills building courses include TOEFL preparation, basic math, writing, grammar, reading, vocabulary and spelling. Practice exams for specific fields (e.g. nursing, military, civil service) are also included.

• Graduate School Exams
• GMAT
• LSAT
• MCAT
• Job Search and Success Skills
• Resume and Interviewing Success Skills

11:00-11:30am
Discussion and Brainstorming about the Future

Use of Academic Commons or other library spaces/facilities for Career Services programs

• drop-in hours for resume consultations
• tabling set-up for visiting recruiters
• promotion of academic programs
• other?

Possible collaboration (Business Scholar, Legal Scholar, Entrepreneurship, and other programs)

• link to library resources from Career Services web site (and vice versa)
• librarian-led sessions for students on conducting research
• referrals to information desk and research appointment service
• other?