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The Boss from Outer Space and other Aliens at Work: A Down-to-Earth Guide for Getting Along with Just About Anyone
by Patricia J. Addesso
AMACOM © 2007 (224 pages)
ISBN: 9780814474433

By identifying 11 traits that can make work relationships difficult, this fun, easy-to-read book offers realistic strategies to help anyone on the planet get along with even their most difficult coworker.

China’s Environment and the Challenge of Sustainable Development
by Kristen A. Day (ed)
M. E. Sharpe, Inc. © 2005 (320 pages)
ISBN: 9780765614711

Including contributions from scholars, government officials, business consultants, environmental science and technology experts, this book offers valuable insights for handling the emerging opportunities and challenges of doing business in China.

Conducting a Classroom Training Audit: Measurement & Evaluation
by Deborah Spring Laurel
ASTD © 2007 (16 pages)
ISBN: 9781562864903

Giving you the step-by-step road map to conduct a training audit, this book presents methodology for assessing whether classroom training will have the desired outcome and whether there will be a high probability of learning.

Conflict Management
by Baden Eunson
John Wiley & Sons © 2007 (136 pages)
ISBN: 9780731406517

Exploring the best ways to manage conflict situations in the workplace, this book shows that while conflict can be a very destructive force, it can also prove to be a creative and positive one if managed correctly.

Control That Email!: Business Skills
by Justin Brusino
ASTD © 2007 (16 pages)
ISBN: 9781562864910

Email is the language of business today. Let this concise booklet show you how to quickly learn about email “business”; etiquette, increase your email efficiency, deal with email interruptions, and how to avoid legal woes that stem from email.

Customer Data Integration: Reaching a Single Version of the Truth
by Jill Dyché and Evan Levy
John Wiley & Sons © 2006 (320 pages)
ISBN: 9780471916970

Whatever business you’re in, you’re ultimately in the customer business. This authoritative book shows companies how to deliver an accurate, holistic, and long-term understanding of their customers through CDI.

The Hidden Profit Center: A Tale of Profits Lost and Found Through Communication
by Helen Wilkie
Electronic & Database Publishing, Inc. © 2003 (113 pages)
ISBN: 9780968462614

Written for busy people, this cutting-edge business fable tells the story of a beleaguered CEO who pumps up profits using lessons from an unlikely source. If you thought good communication was just “nice to have”, this book will challenge your thinking.

Internalization, International Diversification and the Multinational Enterprise: Essays in Honour of Alan M. Rugman
by Alain Verbeke (ed)
Elsevier Science and Technology Books, Inc. © 2005 (275 pages)
ISBN: 9780762312207

Including a synthesis of recent advances in the theory of the multinational enterprise, with a focus on internalization and international diversification issues, this text proposes important extensions of multinational enterprise theory.

Lean Administration: Case Studies in Leadership and Improvement
by Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME)
Productivity Press © 2007 (144 pages)
ISBN: 9781563273667

To satisfy the growing interest in applying lean to non-manufacturing operations, this practical volume responds to reader desire for real-world lean administrative and office applications.

Managing Without Leadership: Towards a Theory of Organizational Functioning
by Gabriele Lakomski
Elsevier Science and Technology Books, Inc. © 2005 (175 pages)
ISBN: 9780080433523

A critical examination of leadership theories past and present, this book argues that leadership as traditionally understood does not explain organizational functioning.

Mastering Marketing: A Comprehensive Introduction to the Skills of Developing and Defending Your Company’s Revenue, Second Edition
by Ian Ruskin-Brown
Thorogood © 2006 (346 pages)
ISBN: 9781854183231

Providing a clearly-written explanation of the core skills and concepts needed to market your business profitably, this invaluable book offers techniques for building and maintaining a long-term profitable market position.

Meeting with Success: Tips and Techniques for Great Meetings, Second Edition
by Ida Shessel
Multi-Media Publications Inc. © 2007 (80 pages)
ISBN: 9781897326152

With practical tips and techniques to help you improve your meetings, this fool-proof guide will show you how to turn ordinary discussions into focused, energetic sessions that produce positive results.

Negotiating For Dummies, 2nd Edition
by Michael C. Donaldson
John Wiley & Sons © 2007 (386 pages)
ISBN: 9780470045220

Featuring new information on re-negotiating, as well as online, phone, and international negotiations, this book will help you enter any negotiation with confidence and come out feeling like a winner.

Nolo’s Quick LLC , 4th edition
by Anthony Mancuso
Nolo © 2007 (232 pages)
ISBN: 9781413305654

Providing the latest facts, figures and tax data, this book offers essential information for business owners in every state and explains, in plain English, the advantages and drawbacks of forming an LLC.

Patent It Yourself, 12th Edition
by David Pressman
Nolo © 2006 (600 pages)
ISBN: 9781413305166

Providing the latest U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rules and forms, this guidebook will help you to patent and commercially exploit your invention by yourself so you will save on attorney fees and be personally involved with every step of the process.

The Progressive Discipline Handbook: Smart Strategies for Coaching Employees, 1st Edition
by Margie Mader-Clark and Lisa Guerin
Nolo © 2007 (512 pages)
ISBN: 9781413305616 (CD Content Available)

In today’s litigious world, managers and supervisors must ensure that when they discipline their employees, they do so fairly. In this complete how-to guide, employers will learn effective approaches to coaching and disciplining employees.

Public Relations For Dummies, 2nd Edition
by Eric Yaverbaum, Robert Bly and Ilise Benun
John Wiley & Sons © 2006 (386 pages)
ISBN: 9780471772729

Combining the best practical tools with insight and flair, this friendly guide provides guidance on every aspect of PR, so you can launch a full-throttle campaign that’ll generate buzz and build your bottom line.

Search Marketing Strategies: A Marketer’s Guide to Objective-Driven Success from Search Engines
by James Colborn
Butterworth-Heinemann © 2006 (234 pages)
ISBN: 9780750666183

Focusing on how to make the most from the search engine industry, this toolguide demonstrates how to adapt the tactical techniques, such as paid search, site side optimization and analytics packages, into search strategies to achieve marketing objectives.

Use Public Tools for Career Success: Career Planning & Talent Management
by Kermit Kaleba
ASTD © 2007 (16 pages)
ISBN: 9781562864897

Including tips on how to find and obtain money-saving grants as well as how to use tax-relief methods for professional development opportunities, this issue unlocks the keys to finding and accessing public sector tools and grants.

The Wizard and the Warrior: Leading with Passion and Power
by Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal
Jossey-Bass © 2006 (256 pages)
ISBN: 9780787974138

Presenting defining moments of exemplary leaders such as Carly Fiorina, Thomas Keller, Mary Kay Ash, Warren Buffet and others, this book gives leaders the insight and courage to take risks on behalf of values they cherish and the people they guide.

World Class Applications of Six Sigma: Real World Examples of Success
by Jiju Antony, Ricardo Bañuelas and Ashok Kumar (eds)
Butterworth-Heinemann © 2006 (268 pages)
ISBN: 9780750664592

With examples from well-known manufacturing and service companies around the world, this book shows what real organizations have done to implement Six Sigma, the methodology used, and the results delivered.

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Alternative Validation Strategies: Developing New and Leveraging Existing Validity Evidence
by S. Morton McPhail (ed)
Jossey-Bass © 2007 (482 pages)
ISBN: 9780787982423Written by leading experts in the field, this book is a groundbreaking compendium of the current research and practical guidelines for time- and cost-saving alternatives to the traditional test validation strategies associated with selection processes.

Attitude, Intentions, and Focus
by Ken Wright
Acanthus Publishing © 2007 (20 pages)
ISBN: 9781933631851

Packed with gems that will show you how to become a successful, authentic leader, and consistently create a win/win scenario for your business and the people you lead, this book proves how leading from the heart is where growth and profit come from.

Beyond E-Learning: Approaches and Technologies to Enhance Organizational Knowledge, Learning, and Performance
by Marc J. Rosenberg
Pfeiffer © 2006 (400 pages)
ISBN: 9780787977573

Providing a clear path for helping to integrate learning–including e-learning–knowledge management, and performance support, this book explains the most current thinking on how organizations learn and apply what they know to be successful.

Business Buyout Agreements: A Step-by-Step Guide for Co-Owners, 4th Edition
by Anthony Mancuso and Bethany K. Laurence
Nolo © 2007 (358 pages)
ISBN: 9781413306484 (CD Content Available)

Providing the necessary legal and tax information, this book offers a step-by-step process for creating a buyout agreement that makes sense for your business, and will help you relax and make your business a success.

Can I Change Your Mind?: The Craft And Art Of Persuasive Writing
by Lindsay Camp
A & C Black © 2007 (256 pages)
ISBN: 9780713678499

Whether you’re writing a glossy magazine ad, a new business proposal, a page for the company website, or just a hasty email to your boss, this engaging and entertaining book will change the way you think about the words you use forever.

Commonsense Direct & Digital Marketing, 5th Edition
by Drayton Bird
Kogan Page © 2007 (448 pages)
ISBN: 9780749447601

For anyone involved in direct marketing, from junior marketer to senior manager, this no-nonsense book gives the marketer the tools, techniques and structure needed to produce effective and profitable marketing across the direct marketing spectrum.

Developing and Measuring Training the Six Sigma Way: A Business Approach to Training and Development
by Kaliym A. Islam
Pfeiffer © 2006 (254 pages)
ISBN: 9780787985332

Offering a clear understanding of the shortcomings of current popular training development models, this book introduces training professionals to a new development methodology that combines the best of both Six Sigma and instructional system design.

Doing Business Anywhere: The Essential Guide to Going Global
by Tom Travis
John Wiley & Sons © 2007 (224 pages)
ISBN: 9780471973171

Written by an international trade and customs expert, this book uses real examples and real industries to explain global commerce, and shares the keys to business success on the global stage.

The Employer’s Legal Handbook, 8th Edition
by Fred S. Steingold
Nolo © 2007 (392 pages)
ISBN: 9781413304565

With easy-to-use legal charts to provide your state’s current employment laws, this guide shows you how to comply with the most recent workplace laws and regulations, run a safe and fair workplace and avoid lawsuits.

Everything You Ever Needed to Know about Training, 4th Edition
by Kaye Thorne and David Mackey
Kogan Page © 2007 (242 pages)
ISBN: 9780749450083

Complete with checklists, surveys, and forms, this guide highlights the main stages of identifying, designing and delivering learning and development, and provides key points to assimilate the concepts quickly to create individual pathways to learning.

Executive’s Portfolio of Model Speeches for All Occasions
by Dianna Booher
Booher Consultants, Inc. © 1991 (330 pages)
ISBN: 9780132933179

Offering word-for-word scripts for over 65 different business situations, from anniversaries and dedications to motivation and quality control, this instant source will help you add spice, impact, humor, and clarity to your next speech or presentation.

Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, Second Edition
by Sam Kaner
Jossey-Bass © 2007 (368 pages)
ISBN: 9780787982669

For those wanting to understand group dynamics and improve their skill at making groups work effectively, this guide offers tools and insights to enable effective, participatory action and the potential to achieve results and positive social change.

Fit In, Stand Out: Mastering the FISO FACTOR: The Key to Leadership Effectiveness in Business and Life
by Blythe J. McGarvie
McGraw-Hill © 2006 (240 pages)
ISBN: 9780071460798

Presenting a breakthrough program that will help you become a more effective leader, this book provides the keys to mastering the six agents of FISO and the attitudes, behaviors, and characteristics you need to wield them.

Global Account Management: A Complete Action Kit of Tools and Techniques for Managing Big Customers in a Shrinking World
by Peter Cheverton
Kogan Page © 2006 (242 pages)
ISBN: 9780749445386

Highlighting the significant challenges of Global Account Management, this guide brings the reader through the process of the decisions and actions required to make it a success.

Harvard Business Review on Decision Making
by Harvard Business School Publishing
Harvard Business School Publishing © 2001 (210 pages)
ISBN: 9781578515578

Examining topics such as traps in decision making, problem analysis, the effective decision, and humble decision making, this book will help people at all levels understand the fundamental theories and practices of effective decision making.

Heart & Mind Selling, Part 1
by Sam Allman
Acanthus Publishing © 2007 (31 pages)
ISBN: 9781933631776

Acting as a guide and gospel for sales professionals who want to make their mark by focusing on customer retention, this book will show you how to unlock the secrets to your sales success and change your bottom line forever.

Heart & Mind Selling, Part 2
by Sam Allman
Acanthus Publishing © 2007 (63 pages)
ISBN: 9781933631820

For professionals who want to make their mark by focusing on customer retention, this book will help you unlock the secrets to your sales success and change your bottom line forever.

Heavy Hitter Selling: How Successful Salespeople Use Language and Intuition to Persuade Customers to Buy
by Steve W. Martin
John Wiley & Sons © 2006 (384 pages)
ISBN: 9780471787006

Using real-world case studies, examples, and exercises, this guide provides the psychological, physical, and language-based tactics you need to turn yourself into a Heavy Hitter.

Hire With Your Head: Using Performance-Based Hiring to Build Great Teams, Third Edition
by Lou Adler
John Wiley & Sons © 2007 (320 pages)
ISBN: 9780470128350

Packed with fresh case studies from leading companies, invaluable tips, helpful exercises, useful checklists and revealing benchmarks, this guide presents a proven system for hiring superior people, individually or in groups, with consistency and success.

How to Understand Business Finance
by Robert Cinnamon and Brian Helweg-Larsen
Kogan Page © 2006 (148 pages)
ISBN: 9780749446680

Written for non-financial managers who need to understand financial and accounting processes, this book provides a course from the perspective of the pursuit of business growth, and describes a proceeding from set-up through its first year of trading.

I Win, You Win: The Essential Guide To Principled Negotiation
by Carl Lyons
A & C Black © 2007 (224 pages)
ISBN: 9780713677058

Full of useful exercises, case studies, and accessible advice, this practical book will help readers achieve their goals by showing them how to prepare effectively, build rapport, communicate openly, and enhance trust in their business.

The Innovative Leader: How to Inspire Your Team and Drive Creativity
by Paul Sloane
Kogan Page © 2007 (208 pages)
ISBN: 9780749450014

Stressing the importance of innovation and creativity in modern business to help organizations secure competitive advantage, this book shows how to apply methods of innovation and creativity to the individual, to business peers, and to the organization.

Interview Others: How to Spot the Perfect Candidate
by Lorenza Clifford
A & C Black © 2006 (96 pages)
ISBN: 9780713675214

If you are new to interviewing and need to learn some essential skills, this advice-packed book will show you how to get the best from others and from yourself in any interview situation.

Introduction to Relationship Selling: Reaching the Top One Percent of Your Field
by Jim Cathcart
Acanthus Publishing © 2007 (28 pages)
ISBN: 9781933631738

Discussing how making connections with people will get you not only the business from today, but also from tomorrow, this book explains that cultivating meaningful bonds with customers will make them feel like something more than just a sales target.

Lean Six Sigma for Supply Chain Management: The 10-Step Solution Process
by James W. Martin
McGraw-Hill © 2007 (430 pages)
ISBN: 9780071479424

Designed to help Six Sigma professionals and frontline managers achieve higher levels of competitiveness, this book provides the guidelines, tools, and techniques required to eliminate supply chain problems and boost company performance.

Making Marketing Happen: How Great Companies Make Strategic Marketing Planning Work for Them
by Brian D. Smith
Butterworth-Heinemann © 2005 (397 pages)
ISBN: 9780750662482

Designed for practicing managers, this book explains that strategic marketing planning must be seen as one component of a hybrid marketing-strategy making process that also incorporates leadership and incremental development.

Manage Meetings Positively: How to Take Charge and Come Up with Results
by A & C Black Publishers
A & C Black © 2006 (96 pages)
ISBN: 9780713675238

Packed with tips, step-by-step guidance and action points, this book identifies common mistakes and offers practical solutions to help you keep the meeting on schedule, make sure decisions are reached, and deal with conflict if tempers rise.

Manage Your Career: How to Develop Your Career in the Right Direction
by A & C Black Publishers
A & C Black © 2006 (96 pages)
ISBN: 9780713675221

Packed with invaluable advice and practical help, this concise guide will help you make the most of your talents and potential, and enable your dreams to become a reality.

Managing Knowledge Security: Strategies for Protecting Your Company’s Intellectual Assets
by Kevin C. Desouza
Kogan Page © 2007 (224 pages)
ISBN: 9780749449612

Citing international examples such as Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Google, Boeing, and Amazon, this comprehensive reference guide details how to secure both the physical and intangible assets owned by a business.

Measure What Matters to Customers: Using Key Predictive Indicators
by Ronald J. Baker
John Wiley & Sons © 2006 (208 pages)
ISBN: 9780471752943

Seismic in the strategies it presents, this exciting book reveals how to regain a competitive advantage in the marketplace and allow your company to develop the measures that matter to your customers.

New Payment World: A Manager’s Guide To Creating An Efficient Payment Process
by Mary S. Schaeffer
John Wiley & Sons © 2007 (206 pages)
ISBN: 9780470120545

A revolutionary guide to creating a successful electronic payments process, this authoritative guide presents a practical approach to the payment alternatives and provides an abundance of best practice ideas for accounting managers, auditors, and CFOs.

Play Your Best Hand: How to Manage the Four Types of Knowledge Workers — And Stack the Odds For Maximum Success
by Faith Ralston
Adams Media © 2007 (224 pages)
ISBN: 9781593376857

Using practical exercises and assessments, this innovative guide shows you how to align knowledge worker’s talents with strategic business goals to keep workers motivated and productive.

The Relationship Edge: The Key To Strategic Influence and Selling Success, Second Edition
by Jerry Acuff and Wally Wood
John Wiley & Sons © 2007 (256 pages)
ISBN: 9780470068335

With real case studies and step-by-step guidance, this straightforward book offers the tools and advice you need to develop strong, rewarding relationships with customers, coworkers, and managers.

Risk Intelligence: Learning to Manage What We Don’t Know
by David Apgar
Harvard Business School Publishing © 2006 (224 pages)
ISBN: 9781591399544

Containing a Risk Intelligence Audit and a Risk Scorecard, this innovative book explains how to raise the quality of your risk analysis, thus enhancing your risk IQ by applying four simple rules.

Service Management and Marketing: Customer Management in Service Competition, 3rd Edition
by Christian Grönroos
John Wiley & Sons © 2007 (496 pages)
ISBN: 9780470028629

Using current academic research and business practice to make organizations more successful, this book explains how to manage any organization as a service business, showing how to move closer to current and future customers.

Setting Priorities: Personal Values, Organizational Results
by Talula Cartwright
Center for Creative Leadership © 2007 (34 pages)
ISBN: 9781882197989

Successful leaders get results, and to get results you need to set priorities. This book will help you do a better job of setting priorities and recognize the personal values that motivate your decision making.

Speak with Confidence: Powerful Presentations That Inform, Inspire, and Persuade
by Dianna Booher
Booher Consultants, Inc. © 2003 (254 pages)
ISBN: 9780071408059

Written for sweaty-palmed beginners and seasoned execs alike, this systematic guide delivers powerful, battle-tested strategies and tips guaranteed to transform even the most fainthearted presenter into a masterful communicator.

The Ten-Minute Trainer: Ways to Teach It Quick and Make It Stick!
by Sharon L. Bowman
Pfeiffer © 2005 (300 pages)
ISBN: 9780787974428

Featuring a variety of exercises that are quick, topic-related, and fun, this book provides useful answers that will help you reduce delivery time, increase retention and improve knowledge and skill transfer.

The Think Factory: Managing Today’s Most Precious Resource, People!
by Susan D. Conway
John Wiley & Sons © 2007 (240 pages)
ISBN: 9780470055199

Written by renowned KM expert Susan Conway, this inventive guide provides a proven framework for measuring both short- and long-term direct and indirect gains from procedure, training, and technology improvements in a Lean Six Sigma-compliant manner.

Unstoppable: Finding Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Profitable Growth
by Chris Zook
Harvard Business School Publishing © 2007 (208 pages)
ISBN: 9781422103661

Drawing on more than 30 interviews with CEOs from various companies, this book shows readers how to recognize when the core needs reinvention and how to deploy the hidden assets that can be the basis for tomorrow’s growth.

Why Not?: How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small
by Barry Nalebuff and Ian Ayres
Harvard Business School Publishing © 2006 (256 pages)
ISBN: 9781422104347

Illustrated with examples from every aspect of life, this book is a primer for fresh business thinking, for problem solving with a purpose, and for bringing the world a few steps closer to the way it should be.

New books are located on the tall book shelves in the corridors behind the information desk. This list is ordered by call number.

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IT risk : turning business threats into competitive advantage /
by Westerman, George.
Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c2007.
Table of contents:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0711/2007006516.html
HD30.2 .W464 2007

Strategy as practice : research directions and resources /
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
HD30.28 .S755 2007

Quick tips for your small business : your handy business consultant /
by Parrott, Terri.
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. : Urban Artifacts, c2005.
HD62.7 .P38 2005

Corporate governance of sustainability : a co-evolutionary view on resource management /
Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2007.
Table of contents:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip077/2006101922.html
HD2741 .C77656 2007

Contesting the corporation : struggle, power and resistance in organizations /
by Fleming, P. (Peter).
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Table of contents:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip079/2007002290.html
Contributor biographical information:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0729/2007002290-b.html
HD2741 .F56 2007

Investor engagement : investors and management practice under shareholder value /
by Martin, Roderick.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
HD2744 .M377 2007

Myths and realities of executive pay /
by Kay, Ira T.
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Table of contents:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip078/2007000721.html
HD4965.5.U6 K389 2007

Professional identities : policy and practice in business and bureaucracy /
New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
Table of contents:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0720/2007023969.html
HD8038.A1 P73 2007

Hard times in the lands of plenty : oil politics in Iran and Indonesia /
by Smith, Benjamin B.
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
Table of contents:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0713/2007010665.html
HD9576.I62 S65 2007

Leaders on ethics : real-world perspectives on today’s business challenges /
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007.
Table of contents:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0718/2007020613.html
HF5387 .L425 2007

The ultimate guide to search engine marketing : pay per click advertising secrets revealed /
by Brown, Bruce C.
Ocala, Fla. : Atlantic Pub. Group, c2007.
Table of contents:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0710/2007005629.html
HF5415.1265 .B768 2007

The behavioral economics of brand choice /
Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
HF5415.32 .B44 2007

The DNA of customer experience : how emotions drive value /
by Shaw, Colin.
Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
HF5415.5 .S53 2007

Once upon a time : using story-based activities to develop breakthrough communication skills /
by Gargiulo, Terrence L.
San Francisco : Pfeiffer, c2007.
Table of contents:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0711/2007007220.html
Publisher description:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0739/2007007220-d.html
Software 9078, CD-ROM (at the information desk)
HF5718 .G3675 2007

Report of the High Powered Expert Committee on making Mumbai an international financial centre /
New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2007.
Table of contents:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0713/2007010077.html
HG187.I42 B666 2007

A path to the next generation of U.S. banknotes : keeping them real /
Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2007.
Read online:
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11874
HG336.U52 P37 2007

Forecasting expected returns in the financial markets /
London ; Burlington, MA : Elsevier/AP, 2007.
HG4637 .F67 2007

As you know the world of information is changing at an ever-increasing pace and the way that we at the UI Libraries provide you access to information resources is also changing.  Many of our resources are available to you right on your desktop, because we have invested in electronic access. However, finding the right information in that haystack isn’t always easy.  So UI Libraries staff has recently invested in a smarter searching tool that will help you and your students locate the information resources you need. 

The new and improved Smart Search on the UI Libraries websites provide a single search box that searches the InfoHawk catalog, The Iowa Digital Library, e-resources, e-books, e-journals, and even journal articles.  The Find Resources search allows you to search the Libraries online catalog - InfoHawk; the Libraries rich collection of e-journals, e-books, databases and the Iowa Digital Library. When you search Find Articles, you can find journal articles from several online publications for a variety of subject areas with one search. If you choose the Business category then you are searching Business Source Complete, ABI/Inform, EconLit, Factiva, and others all at once. 

During this early release period, we want to hear about your experiences using Smart Search (Http://smartsearch.uiowa.edu).  There is also a link now on the Business Library home page. We will compile these responses to continue improving functionality for our library users.Please give this new Smart Search tool a try and let us know what you think.  If you have any question, please feel free to contact me or anyone else in the Business Library. 

Dave Martin

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