Accounting & Tax w/ Standards

ProQuest Accounting & Tax with Standards database has recently integrated professional standards with academic journal content, creating the definitive database for research in accouting topics. Utilizing the familiar Proquest search engine, Accouting & Tax w/Standards includes abstracts and full-text articles from over 2,000 accounting titles from 1972 to present as well as full-text articles from leading tax publications.

Relevant standards are takenfrom the leading boards:

• FASB - Financial Accouting Standards Board
• GASB - Governmental Accounting Standards Board
• IASB - International Accounting Standards Board

Access on campus via the Proquest link or off-campus through the remote log-in.

What is globalization?

Everybody is talking about it, but what is it?

Search globalization in Google and you get 22,000,000+ hits. Though many reputable websites have pages about globalization, simply finding a definition can be tricky. The Merriam-Webster definition is actually a little confusing:

: the act or process of globalizing :

the state of being globalized.

What about all those websites -- interested in globalization from the banking perspective? Maybe the World Bank can help. Or the International Monetary Fund. Colleges and universities have entire departments dedicated to the study of globalization - such as the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. Or this one at Emory University.

And then there's always the wikis and think tanks. There are even sites that have collections of quotations from famous thinkers and educators about globalization.

The Library currently has a display of books from our collection on globalization. Titles of some of the newer materials include:

• Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water/ by Maude Barlow. 333.91 B258b


• Caught in the Middle: America’s Heartland in the Age of Globalism/ by Richard C. Longworth. 973.931 L859c


• Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World/ by John Ralston Saul. 303.482 S256c


• Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers Featuring Machines from the Computer History Museum/ by John Alderman, photographs by Mark Richards.
  004 R517c


• Global Risk: Business Success in Turbulent Times/ by Sean Cleary and Thierry Malleret. 303.482 C623g


• Global Trade and Poor Nations: The Poverty Impacts and Policy Implications of Liberalization/ by Bernard M. Hoekman and Marcelo Olarreaga. 303.482 G562g


• Globalization: The Key Concepts/ by Annabelle Mooney and Betsy Evans. 303.482 G562


• Unpacking Globalization: Markets, Gender, and Work/ by Linda E. Lucas, Ed.
  303.482 U58

A few new books--

New books processed this week in the Library. These are just a few items, if you'd like to see more new items OR need a particular title, stop by the Reference Desk and the staff will be happy to help you!

• Cigarette century: the rise, fall and deadly persistence of the product that defined America / Allan M. Brandt. 338.4 B821C
• Eat this, not that : thousands of simple food swaps that can save you 10, 20, 30 pounds--or more! / by David Zinczenko with Matt Goulding. R 613.2 A77e
• Economic facts and fallacies / Thomas Sowell. 330 S731e
• Engaging the disengaged : how schools can help struggling students succeed / Lois Brown Easton. 371.93 E138e
• Frontiers in higher education / edited by Linda W. Cooke. 378 F935
• Lessons in excellence from Charlie Trotter / by Paul Clarke. 641.5092 C599l
• Meatball sundae : is your marketing out of sync? / Seth Godin. 658.8 G585m
• New restaurant entrepreneur : an inside look at restaurant deal-making and other tales from the culinary trenches / by Kep Sweeney. 647.95 S974n
• Nobodies : modern American slave labor and the dark side of the new global economy / John Bowe. 331.11 B786n
• Silicon dragon / by Rebecca A. Fannin 338.0951 F213s

More information on each title can be found in the catalog.

4,700,000 Forms

That's the number of forms mailed to business across the U.S. to complete for the 2007 Economic Census. Different from the Decennial Census which counts people every 10 years, the U.S. Economic Census is conducted every 5 years on years ending in 2 and 7. Instead of counting facts about individuals, the Economic Census tabulates facts about the businesses and their expenditures and profits.

The 2007 Census marks the first time respondents will have a choice of completing a paper form or they can chose to complete an electronic form and submit data via the internet. Deadline for submission is February 12, 2008.

Curious what kind of numbers are generated by an Economic Census? Take a look at the Facts for Features list. A few examples:

• Amount of revenue brought in per employee for gas stations with convenience stores.
• Average annual salary per employee at movie theaters (excluding drive-ins).
• Number of people employed in professional and semiprofessional baseball.
• Average receipts per capita for dentists nationwide.

New books this week:

New books processed this week in the Library. These are just a few items, if you'd like to see more new items OR need a particular title, stop by the Reference Desk and the staff will be happy to help you!

• Business of food : encyclopedia of the food and drink industries / edited by Gary Allen and Ken Albala. R 338.4 B979
• Guided inquiry : learning in the 21st century school / Carol C. Kuhlthau, Ann K. Caspari, and Leslie K. Maniotes. 371.39 K96g
• Hammond world atlas. R 912 H226 5th ed.
• In defense of food : an eater's manifesto / Michael Pollan. 641.013 P771i
• Madison Avenue and the color line : African Americans in the advertising industry / Jason Chambers. 659.1 C444m
• Power of positive profit : how you can improve any bottom line in sales, marketing, and management / Graham Foster. 658.15 F754p
• Problems in legal ethics / by Mortimer D. Schwartz. R 340 S410p
• Slee's health care terms / Debora A. Slee, Vergil N. Slee, H. Joachim Schmidt. R 610.3 S632s
• Successful direct marketing methods / Bob Stone, Ron Jacobs. 658.0872 S877s
• Unmarketable : brandalism, copyfighting, mocketing, and the erosion of integrity / Anne Elizabeth Moore. 658.802 M821u

More information on each title can be found in the catalog.

Newbery & Caldecott Medal Winners

The American Library Association announced the winners of their annual prizes for achievement in childrens and young adult literature.

The John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature: “Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village,” written by Laura Amy Schlitz.

Three Newbery Honor Books were named:

“Elijah of Buxton,” by Christopher Paul Curtis

“The Wednesday Wars,” by Gary D. Schmidt

“Feathers,” by Jacqueline Woodson

Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children: “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” illustrated by Brian Selznick.

Four Caldecott Honor Books were named:

“Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad,” illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Ellen Levine.

“First the Egg,” illustrated and written by Laura Vaccaro Seeger.

“The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain,” illustrated and written by Peter Sís.

“Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity,” illustrated and written by Mo Willems.

A full list of other winners can be viewed on the ALA website.

Database of the week- -

CINAHL or Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature®.

CINAHL "provides indexing for over 2,931 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses’ Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines."

CINAHL is available for Sullivan students via the EBSCO databases. To use off campus use this login.

Tutoring Schedule, Winter 2008

What if you need assistance in a subject that is not listed? Please see your instructor, the department chair, or other full-time instructor in the department during their office hours or during Plus Friday. Office hours and Plus Friday hours are posted on the bulletin board in the faculty office suit near Rm. 146.

Plus Friday Room Assignments, Winter 2008

Library Hours for Winter Quarter 2008

New books this week:

New books processed this week in the Library. These are just a few items, if you'd like to see more new items OR need a particular title, stop by the Reference Desk and the staff will be happy to help you!

• Business ethics in focus / Laura A. Parrish (editor). 174.4 B979
• Celebration of fools : an inside look at the rise and fall of JCPenney / Bill Hare. 381.141 H275c
• Easy daily plans : over 250 plans for preschool teachers / Sue Fleischmann ; illustrations by Marie Ferrante-Doyle. 372.13 F596e
• In spite of the gods : the strange rise of modern India / Edward Luce. 954.053 L935i
• Knife skills illustrated : a user's manual / Peter Hertzmann ; original art by Alan Witschonke. 642.6 H576k
• Marco Polo : from Venice to Xanadu / by Laurence Bergreen. 910.4 B499m
• Reaching the goal : how managers improve a services business using Goldratt's theory of constraints / John Arthur Ricketts. 658.812 R539r
• Service included : four-star secrets of an eavesdropping waiter / Phoebe Damrosch. 647.95 D166s
• Subprime mortgages : America's latest boom and bust / Edward M. Gramlich. 332.722 G745s
• To cork or not to cork : tradition, romance, science, and the battle for the wine bottle / Goerge M. Taber. 641.22 T113t

More information on each title can be found in the catalog.

Starbucks

Interested in how Starbucks went from one store to the world's most ubiquitous coffee shop?

Take a look at these recently received books in the library about the phenomenon:

1. Grande expectations : a year in the life of Starbucks' stock / Karen Blumenthal. 332.63 B658g. USA Today review.
2. Pour your heart into it : how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time / Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang. 647.4573092 S387p
3. Starbucked : a double tall tale of caffeine, commerce, and culture / Taylor Clark. 338 C595s. NYTimes review by P.J. O'Rourke
4. Starbucks experience : 5 principles for turning ordinary into extraordinary / Joseph Michelli. 658 M623s

Still curious? Check out the Starbucksgossip blog, which claims to have no connection to the company and chronicles the trials & tribulations of being a barista in the chain.

And on the lighter side: 171 Startbucks is the account of a filmmaker who visited all 171 Starbucks coffee shops in Manhattan in one day and made a purchase in each one. According to the website, that is one store for every 7 minutes for 24 hours.

New books- -

New books processed this week in the Library. These are just a few items, if you'd like to see more new items OR need a particular title, stop by the Reference Desk and the staff will be happy to help you!

• Art of innovation : lessons in creativity from IDEO, America's leading design firm / Tom Kelley, with Jonathan Littman. 658.4 K29a
• Design and layout of foodservice facilities / John C. Birchfield. 647.95 B617d
• Design of future things / Donald A. Norman. 745.2 N842d
• Direct from Dell : strategies that revolutionized an industry / Michael Dell with Catherine Fredman. 338.7 D357d
• Judgment : how winning leaders make great calls / Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis. 658.4 T555j
• Something really new : three simple steps to creating truly innovative products / Denis J. Hauptly. 658.575 H374s
• SPSS demystified : a step-by-step guide to successful data analysis / Ronald D. Yockey. 300.285 Y54s
• Vineyard in Tuscany : a wine lover's dream : [memoir] / Ferenc Máté. 641.22 M425v
• Weekly curriculum : 52 complete preschool themes / Barbara Backer ; illustrations by Joan Waites. 372.19 B126w
• Year of eating dangerously : a global adventure in search of culinary extremes / Tom Parker Bowles. 641 P238y

More information on each title can be found in the catalog.

Google Zeitgeist

How many times a day do you use a Google website? The just-released Google Zeitgeist ranks searches done during the 2007, classifying the most popular topics and people. In their words:

To get a glimpse of what's been on our collective consciousness, we mined billions of search queries to discover what sorts of things rose to the top. We encourage you to check out our findings to see if you, too, reflect the zeitgeist — the spirit of the times.

Webster's Open Dictionary

Have you seen any robotainment lately? Met anyone that calls themselves a concoctionist?

Are these really words? Yep. According to a new Merriam-Webster online dictionary anyway.

In addition to their online dictionary and thesaurus - the Merriam-Webster web page also contains a dictionary that classifies unusual words created from popular usage, colloquialisms and current slang. Terms found in the Open Dictionary are submitted by readers and are REALLY different from typical entries in the regular dictionary. Some recently submitted definitions include:

• Gastronaut (noun) : An out of this world chef. Derived from latin 'Gastro-' meaning stomach, belly. Usage: Such a meal could only be cooked by the finest Gastronaut in the galaxy.


• Informatia (noun) : a collection of individuals or groups that form a collective online or electronic-based identity. Usage: Informatias are beginning to serve as the foundation of online interaction.


• polkadotical (adjective) : Having a lot of polka-dots. Usage: The shirt Caroline was wearing was very polkadotical.


• Starbuckian (noun) : The lingo used by Starbucks employees to converse with each other. Can also be altered to refer to other coffee shops and their lingo. Usage: She isn't fluent enough in Starbuckian to understand what was said.