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EBSLG TRIP TO BOSTON: 16 to 25 August 2001OBJECTIVES:
PARTICIPANTS OF THE TRIP :
SCHEDULE FOR THE 17TH TO THE 25TH AUGUST:
I. ACTS OF THE CONFERENCEhttp://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla67/pprog-e.htm II. SIMILARITIES OF THE FIVE LIBRARIES VISITED:Working together in a Consortium.Networking and communal grouping are common in the united States. Our colleagues in Boston have re-grouped themselves to form a “consortium”: http://www.blc.org/, http://www.mmrls.org/about.htm, to enable their users, students and professors, to access a communal interface. Their resources are accessed at : http://www.webnetlib.org/ This type of Consortium, also allows its member libraries to negociate the best prices with its suppliers ( editors, subscription agencies, data distributors..) A dual administrative hierarchy of the library and the strong support from alumniThe libraries visited receive either part or all of their budget from the director of the Business School and they report to the libraries’ Director of the Campus. There is a close link between all of the libraries we visited and the management of the campus ( biblio-economics and personnel ). I.T and other forms of equipment are often financed by alumni. Close collaboration with the teachingThe libraries work in close collaboration with the teaching at their respective business school, for example, all the recommended class textbooks are available either online on the internet or in the paper version. Links leading to the full text versions of all recommended textbooks are also available. The majority of the libraries offer online ‘documentary guides’, which correspond to the themes and topics that are covered in the business school classes at the respective business school. For example, the heading “support course” at Bentley College http://fusion.babson.edu/html/library/pg.cfm?ID=47 or at Boston University http://www.bu.edu/library/management/ or at MIT http://libraries.mit.edu/dewey/ Training Workshops are becoming more available to students, for example, “ InfoByte Seminars” at Babson College http://fusion.babson.edu/html/library/pg.cfm?ID=54 Boston University http://www.bu.edu/library/management/or.html. Bentley College library has a “Library Training Center” which hosts around 125-130 training workshops a year for the students. This centre has 20 computers which are solely used for these library research training programmes. The integration of the “Trading Room” ( Babson) and of the Careers Department ( Harvard, Boston University) in the library are other signs of this close collaboration.‘Career Development’ and “Job Searching” training programmes are organised by the library at Harvard Business School http://www.library.hbs.edu/career/, and at Boston University http://www.bu.edu/library/research-guides/career/index.html From the Traditional to the Electronic Library:Electronic collections (journals and books) are apparent in all the libraries that we visited. All the libraries display their ‘e-resources’ on the homepage of their web site, which then provides links and access to all of their journals and data bases. http://www.bu.edu/library/eresources/ , http://ecampus.bentley.edu/dept/li.10.htm , http://www.library.hbs.edu/about_us/ , http://www.library.hbs.edu/article_research_db.html ……. In order to be able to offer their users a complete list of their electronic journals, the libraries have employed the services of companies such as, Serials solutions, http://www.serialsolutions.com/home.asp , who are in direct competition with Tdnet , http://www.tdnet.com , to manage their internet links and online lists of the available titles. Electronic versions of books and texts are also available in many of the American libraries visited, who via Netlibrary : http://www.netlibrary.com , offer their users several thousand different titles. Finally, the ‘Reference’ or ‘Advice’ facilities, often referred to as the ‘Ask us’ or ‘Ask a librarian’ services, are in the process of being developed and updated to create a ‘Virtual Reference desk’ service. The MIT library is in the process of testing the interactive software LSSI, http://www.lssi.com , which enables librarian to help, online, the professor or student with the research subject. This new ‘Virtual Reference Desk’ system, will also act as a knowledge database, which will be able to help answer frequently asked questions and problems. Services available to alumni:The final point in common between the libraries visited is the presence of services and facilities on offer to alumni. http://fusion.babson.edu/html/library/pg.cfm?ID=447 . Alumni are particularly important at Harvard Business school, http://www.library.hbs.edu/services/alumni_harvard.html III. CONTACTS & EXTRA INFORMATION
The “Charles L. Horn Library” was built in 1978 thanks to a donation by the President of the ‘Olin foundation of Minneapolis’. Contacts: Chris Kelly:
Manager of the “Cutler Center” ( The Trading Room) Website: Business
school: http://www3.babson.edu/ General facts of the library (For the use of 3500 students-undergraduate, graduate, MBA and 700 Professors)
Extra Information The Institution : One year ago, Babson Interactive was launched enabling the Business School to make profits and develop its teaching programs with the help of Cenquest. Babson interactive started by launching an eMBA (INTEL) The library Services offered for distance learners : loans of documents, access to the electronic resources, reference services and training). http://fusion.babson.edu/HTML/library/pg.cfm?ID=448 List of electronic resources available to the public: Among the databases there is : Abi-Inform, Ebscohost, Gale Business Resources, Emerald intelligence. Data Bases about companies: Bloomberg, Global Access and SDC Platinum de Thomson Financial, Edgar, Hoovers Online, Datastream, RDS, Bizsuite which has been a huge success, Investext, Market research.com, EIU.com, Reuters Business Insight….. Using SerialsSolutions for managing electronic access to magazines: http://fusion.babson.edu/html/library/pg.cfm?ID=39
1917: The library was created by Harry C. Bentley 1968: The construction of the library was financed by former pupil, Solomon R. Baker 1974: The Graduate Business School is created. 2000: The openig of the Smith Academic Technology Center http://www.bentley.edu/tech_learning/index.cfm?CFID=916400&CFTOKEN=8417245 Contacts: Tjalda Nauta
: Director of the Library Website: Business School: http://www.bentley.edu/ Solomon Baker Library: http://ecampus.bentley.edu/dept/li Library Catalog: http://ecampus.bentley.edu/dept/li/04.htm General Facts of the Library: ( For the use of 42000 Undergraduate students, 1600 Graduates, 3000 Executives)
Library Collection
The institution: Recently equipped with all the new educational and communication equipment. Including: Resource Center, equipped with 90 PCs and is open 100 hours per week. Academic Technology Center: This center has the aim of helping the teachers and researchers to integrate the NTE into the relative domaine of their research and lessons. The equipment in this center cost $20 million in 2000. 12 people work there. Five High Tech laboratories have been created and financed by former students:
Electronic books are also available to the libraries users via Netlibrary: http://www.netlibrary.com/ (7000 titles are available), and for electronic books: http://www.books24X7.com/ Todays library was opened in 1984 and takes the name of former student, ‘Thomas O.Neill Library’. Contacts Barbara Mento,
Director of the Library. Robert A.
taggart, dean for Graduate Programs Website Business School: http://www.bc.edu/ O’Neill Library: http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/ulib/circ/Oneill.html Catalogue: http://library.bc.edu:4545/ALEPH General Facts of the Library :
Extra Information Library
1861 : MIT
created. Contacts : Catherine
Friedman, Director of the Library Website : Sloan school of Management: http://mitsloan.mit.edu Dewey Library: http://libraries.mit.edu/dewey Catalogue: http://libraries.mit.edu/services/barton.html General Facts of the Library
Special Features “Digital & Interactive Reference Service” available, (questions and answers) This service users a software program ( Egain/LSSI) which allows the librarian/documentalist, to interactively communicate with the professor or student when they have either asked a question or need help with research. This software also stores all research made in order to form a knowledge data base that can be reused whenever the same questione are asked. It is also able to deal with statistical questions. VERA: Virtual Electronic Resource Access (http://libraries.mit.edu/vera) Data base is organised in alphabetical and subject order, inlcluded are the 230 MIT data bases and the 3104 electronic magazines. An search engine enables research to be carried using key words. A tight collaboration between the library and the Sloan Trading Room means that the following can be offered to its users: http://mitsloan.mit.edu/trader – Reuters, Bridge, Bloomberg. Historical data of CRSP and Compustat are accessed via the WRDS platform ( Wharton Research Database Services) I/B/E/S via WRDS Jupiter Communications, Yankee Group & Zacks university Analyst Watch “The Boston Library Consortium” allows all students and professors, who have a special members card, access and use of all facilities of all of the other libraries in the ‘Consortium’. It allows them to borrow books from one library and return them to another. Services available to alumni :
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Contact: Arlyne Jackson
/ Tel: 617-353-4310 Website:Business School : http://www.bu.edu Frederick S. Pardee Library: http://www.bu.edu/library/management Catalogue: General Facts of the Library :( School of Management: 1725 Undergraduates, 580 graduates, 578 Part-Time Graduates, 104 Teachers/Professors)
Special Features A close partnership with the ‘Careers and Guidance’ department – classes have been created by the library that provide students with information and help with searching for jobs, companies and industries. Research and help guides are available online to help with the training sessions and classes provided by the library and careers department. Subjects covered include: job searching, company addresses, annual reports, information on different sectors of activity;. Research training programmes that are specifically designed for professors and lecturers are available A ‘Reference’ service is available, its aim is to reply and respond to professors and students within 24 hours maximum
Contact: Tom Michalak Website: Harvard Business School: http://www.hbs.edu Baker Library: http://library.hbs.edu Catalogue: http://voyager.library.hbs.edu Cases & Teaching Materials: http://www.hbs.edu then click on HBS Publishing, then on ‘Our Products’. General Facts of the Library :
Special Features:
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