Shhh! I am studying!

As we draw near the end of spring semester, I want to remind everyone that during mid-term and final exam time, we try to keep the library especially quiet.  Otherwise, I am delighted to have the library as a common meeting place for students and faculty to meet and chat, work on projects, use the computer lab or group study rooms. However, I always try to keep the front desk and my staff quiet and considerate at all times.  Because of this, I have a five-minute chat limit at the front desk unless you require reference assistance and more time is needed.

Please remember I am opening the library on Saturday, May 7th, from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. for an extra day of study time.  Otherwise, our hours remain the same and are posted on our website and the outside directory board.

Organizational Behavior (MGT 340) Course Guide

I have published an online course guide for Organizational Behavior (MGT 340) designed to assist students in writing their required term paper.  The course guide will contain all the resources available in the library from understanding the difference between academic and peer-reviewed articles to those journals that are acceptable for the research.  Please review the guide via this link and bookmark for future use:  http://libguides.southalabama.edu/mgt340

International Marketing (MKT 336) Course Guide

For those of you who are taking or see "International Marketing (MKT 336) in your future, I have created a course guide online that will show you all the resources available in the library to achieve success in this course.  Please review and note the URL for future reference:  http://libguides.southalabama.edu/content.php?pid=207697

Books, Books and More Books!

If you haven't noticed lately, our collection of books is growing by leaps and bounds!  We have created a book review binder at the front desk so you can review the titles by discipline that has been ordered this year and more is on the way!  We have titles of business interest, interesting business people (including Jay-Z) as well as books that will support your efforts in course assignments.  While you don't have to read a whole book, you should review the book's table of contents and the index at the back of the book.  We call this 'gutting a book' - review what you do need - one or two small facts or ideas pulled from a book just might make that project be an "A" versus a "B"! 

To quote Jay-Z, he is not a businessman but rather "business, man".  Enjoy.

Consumer or Buyer Behavior Resource

Did you know the Wall Street Journal carries a section on consumer behavior?  It just might be worth checking out for those working on marketing and business plans:

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/consumer_behavior/index.html?

Wall Street Journal, April 25th

Today's Wall Street Journal (Monday, April 25, 2011) has an excellent Special Report on IT with topics such as social networking, cloud computing, smart phones and a brief reading lists for CIOs. Come by the library to review.

Easter Sunday

A reminder that the MCOB Library will be closed in observance of Easter Sunday, April 24th.

Did you know?

This is National Library Week and perhaps you did not know some very famous people were either librarians or worked in libraries.  Such notables are FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Casanova, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, former first lady Laura Bush and China's Mao Zedong.

At a time where anyone can Google just about anything, librarians don't just find information, they find the correct and authorative information -- and fast. The American Library Association reports reference librarians in the nation's public and academic libraries answered nearly 5.7 million questions each week in 2010.

A character in "The Callahan Touch", one of science fiction writer Spider Robinson's books, said, "Librarians are the secret masters of the universe. They control information. Never tick [he uses a stronger verb] one off."  Good advice.

Update on hours during spring final exam and summer Sundays

Please note we will close for Easter Sunday on April 24th.  However, we will open the library on Saturday, May 7th, from 10:00 a.m. - 4 p.m. for those students who wish to have special study time in the library in addition to our normal hours on Sunday, May 8th, from 1 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. 

Please note that (as always) we will close the computer lab 15 minutes prior to closing the library.

Summer is almost here and we will have different hours on Sundays beginning June 5th when we will open from 2 p.m. - 7 p.m. on Sundays but all other hours remain the same.

I hope each of you have a strong finish to this semester!