From Business Week Online

The Library: Next Best Thing to an MBA: Across the country, public libraries are giving would-be entrepreneurs a helping hand with resources and expert guidance.

Market Research Library

From the Resource Shelf blog "Source: U.S. Foreign and Commercial Service and U.S. Department of State. Every year the U.S. Foreign and Commercial Service and the U.S. Department of State publish Country Commercial Guides (CCG) about doing business in a specific nation (from a U.S. perspective, of course). These reports contain info on the basic business situation in that country, investment climate, import issues, business travel and much more.

Enhancing the Use of Library Group Study Rooms.

Enhancing the Use of Library Group Study Rooms.

The Library has purchased projectors, laptops, and interactive whiteboard software for use in library group study rooms. The software allows users to digitally capture information written on the white boards and manipulate the data. After patrons have signed up for a group study room they can check out an equipment cart at the circulation desk for use in the group study room. For information contact Reference at 3878 or Circulation at 3876

Academic Use of Digital Resources

From Stephens Lighthouse comes the following :

"Darlene Fichter has a good post summarizing some of the results in "An Indepth Look at the Actual Academic Use of Digital Resources in the Social Sciences and Humanities"

The final report of the University of California at Berkeley's study on the Use and Users of Digital Resources: A Focus on Undergraduate Education in the Humanities and Social Science by Diane Harley et all was released April 5, 2006."

HT Stephen Abram

Best Places For Business And Careers

From Forbes magazine comes an article about the best places for business and careers.

New Archives Collection

The Joseph F. Smith Library Archives and Special Collections is now the official repository for the records of Malama Ohana Ko'olauloa Community Association. Malama Ohana is a community advocacy group representing the interests of Ko'olauloa communities from Ka'a'awa to Waimea, and has been active in bringing a wide range of community development programs to the families of windward O'ahu and the North Shore. The Archives is pleased to have been selected as a repository for these records. Our partnership with Malama Ohana furthers our institutional goal of preserving the history of the Ko'olauloa moku.

Archives hours

The Archives will be changing hours during Spring and Summer terms: our new hours are M-F, 8:30am-4:30pm, closed Saturdays and Sundays. We will go back to incorporating evening hours for Fall 2006.