Ford Library Blog

Now that exams have ended, a rising 2nd Year MBA student’s thoughts turn to vacations and their upcoming internships. This post will fill you in on what Library resources, both print and online, will be available to you during summer break.

Using Library Databases During An Internship

The key point to consider when using library databases is to avoid the transfer of entire reports, articles, or data content from academically licensed databases to your summer employer. Transferring database content to a summer employer breaches our license with the vendor; and could cost the breaching user, and all of Fuqua, their access to the database.

Using databases to prepare for your internship without the transfer of content may be permissible. Please review the examples of appropriate and inappropriate use described on our web site; and email us if you have any questions.

Carlton Brown, Associate Director & IT Services Manager

Print, Audiobook, and E-Reader Use During the Summer

Leaving North Carolina for all or most of the summer? Don’t forget to return library items before you leave town.

Why? If the book you borrowed is recalled for use by another patron, you’ll need to ship it back to Ford Library. If you aren’t able to ship it back, you should know that recall fines are $3/day.

If you are borrowing a Kindle, you do get a guaranteed 4 week loan, but they can’t be renewed after that. Audiobooks are just 2 week loans.

Thank you for returning library materials before you leave!

Amy Brennan – Collection Services Librarian

Through the years there are titles, ranging from Getting to Yes to Predictably Irrational to 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which our readers return to time and again.  Now with our new Kindle Project, we’ve made these titles available as a takeaway library.  These classics, available April 25th, are sure to be popular with our traveling patrons.  Make sure to check yours out now and enjoy the classics with the Ford Library.

• 48 Laws of Power
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Blink:  The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
• Drive:  The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
• Five Dysfunctions of a Team:  A Leadership Fable
• Freakonomics:  A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
• Getting Things Done:  The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
• Getting to Yes:  Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
• Goal, 20th anniversary edition
• Good to Great:  Why Some Companies Make the Leap–And Others Don’t
• Great by Choice:  Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck:  Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
• How to Win Friends and Influence People
• Influence:  The Psychology of Persuasion
• Intelligent Investor:  The Definitive Book on Value Investing
• Lean Startup:  How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
• Liar’s Poker
• Mindset:  The New Psychology of Success
• Outliers:  The Story of Success
• Predictably Irrational
• Steve Jobs
• Strengths Based Leadership:  Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow
• Think and Grow Rich
• Thinking Fast and Slow
• Tipping Point:  How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
• Total Money Makeover:  A Proven Plan

The Fuqua Book Exchange is taking place now through May 15^th. Donate your gently-used books to other students, staff, faculty and the library. Fiction is accepted for this event. It is bring a book, take a book. Free!

Drop off your book donations at the Ford Circulation Desk. Books for exchange will be housed in a special book shelf in the Career section at the back of the library.  Any unclaimed or leftover at the end of the event will be donated to Better World Books http://www.betterworldbooks.com (CFO, Paula Sansone, Fuqua Alumnus, 1992) or the Durham Public Library.

Our recent survey revealed that you are interested in reading popular business titles and career books on an e-reader. However, many of you mentioned that you also do not currently own an e-reader. We have the solution: Kindles can now be checked out from the Ford Library! We currently have two sets of Kindle titles available: Business Best Sellers and Career Books. A new category of Kindle titles, Business Classics, is coming soon.

To find out more information about this project, please visit our Kindle Project webpage. If you would like to see a particular title available on our Kindles, you can request it by following the “Suggest a Title” link on the webpage. Questions and feedback about the Kindle Project, as well as the Library in general, are welcome.

We hope you enjoy this terrific new addition to the Ford Library’s collection!

There will likely be construction noise due to maintenance work in Ford Library this weekend sometime  between 5pm, Friday, February 1st and Sunday evening, February 3rd.

We apologize for the short notice; and any noise or disruption this may cause your work and studying in the Library.  The maintenance is necessary to correct issues related to unforeseen water damage in the ceiling near our main service desk area.

Many thanks for your patience and understanding!

Ford Library will be CLOSING at 4PM TODAY, Friday, January 25, 2013 due to winter weather and potentially hazardous driving conditions.

Please follow the Library’s Twitter feed for the latest changes in our hours of operation due to weather conditions.

Tweets showing changes in Library hours should also appear on our Hours & Directions web page, although it may not be updated as quickly as our Twitter feed itself.

Please drive safely, and remember to check the links above to make sure we’re open before traveling into campus to visit Ford Library.

From time to time we welcome other librarians to Ford.  Usually our visitors include fellow business or university librarians from the States with an occasional visitor from Europe or East Asia.  However, last week we hosted three librarians from Nazarbayev University located in Kazakhstan’s capitol, Astana.

Their long trip began last year when the Fuqua School announced it would assist Nazarbayev in creating a business school, an essential institution for a country with a growing market economy.  So with that announcement, many Fuqua departments, including the Ford Library, began mapping out the resources needed by a top business school.  For our guests, however, it meant seeing how we operate at Ford as well as other Duke libraries including Perkins, Rubenstein, Lilly, and the Goodson Law Library.  In addition to Duke, they also visited UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus libraries and their School of Information and Library Science.  Between visits we made sure to take them to some of the area’s popular sites such as the Nasher Museum, the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, and even a shopping trip to a local mall.

During their visit, we showed them how we order from our vendors such as YBP, and how incoming books were processed.  They also had the chance to meet the Slavic acquisitions specialist at Perkins, plus see how librarianship is taught at UNC.

From our visitors, we learned the challenges of starting a new library in a post-Soviet economy.  For example, ordering books required knowing which books you planned to purchase over the next year, quite difficult when the books haven’t been published.  Plus the books had to be ordered from government approved vendors who may or may not be able to ship the titles when needed.  Even with these hurdles, they maintained their enthusiasm for their developing library, university, and country.  But throughout, they were excited to be involved, excited to learn new library workflows, and excited to meet the  staff.

As we move forward, we look forward to our continued mentoring relationship with our colleagues at Nazarbayev University.

Dan Ariely, B. Duke Professor of Psychology & Behavioral Economics at Duke University, spoke to members of the Librarians Assembly at an event sponsored by the Professional Affairs Committee on Thursday, October 11, 2012. He holds appointments at the Fuqua School of Business, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, the Department of Economics, and the School of Medicine.

If you haven’t met Dan Ariely or read his books, you might not notice that his name pops up everywhere. For example:

• He is interviewed regularly on public radio on shows like Marketplace and All Things Considered.
• He writes a popular and active blog.
• He produces a weekly podcast on Duke’s iTunes U called Arming the Donkeys.
• He has a regular column in the Weekend Edition of the Wall Street Journal, Ask Ariely.
• His recent book the The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty has been reviewed by the New York Times, Washington Post, and even the Ford Library blog.
• He has written two prior New York Times bestsellers, Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality.
• Finally,  Dan guest-edited a new book entitled The Best American Science and Nature Writing which was just published October 2nd.

*Though his talk was titled “Free Beer,” no beer was served at this event. How very dishonest of you, Dan!

Ford Library will be open for our normal Semester / Term Hours on Labor Day, Monday, September 3rd.

All Library services and resources as provided by our circulation desk attendants will be available except for research assistance.

Our professional staff, and expert reference librarians will return on Tuesday, September 4th to help guide you toward success in your MBA.

Good Luck in Fall Term 1!

Datamonitor 360 has changed its name to MarketLine Advantage. MarketLine Advantage and Datamonitor 360 will both remain available to users until July 31. After July 31, links to Datamonitor 360 will be removed from Duke Libraries catalog systems and web pages.

A change in database content is also pending. After August 31, 2012, Business Insights industry report content on MarketLine Advantage will no longer be available to academic customers.

For an end user, the design and functionality of the MarketLine Advantage web site is almost identical to that of Datamonitor 360.  But we encourage users to begin conducting their research now on the MarketLine Advantage site, linked from our Ford Library Databases page.

Links to MarketLine Advantage will also be available in Duke Libraries catalog system and other web pages during the 2nd week of July 2012.