What kinds of workshops would you like to see offered by the library? Take our quick and easy survey, and tell us what you want to learn about!
The survey is open to all members of the Bentley community, and will be open until Friday, February 18.
Thank you for your feedback!
After shoveling that heavy snow this morning you deserve a little break! Please join us at the Caturano and Company Art Gallery later today for a reception for artist Ty Paulhus. The reception runs from 4:30pm – 6:30pm and light refreshments will be served.
Ty Paulhus
Conversations With No One
on exhibit until February 24, 2011
Located on the main floor of the Bentley Library, the Caturano and Company Art Gallery is free and open to the public. Check the online hours calendar for information about the Library’s hours.
Due to the snowstorm, Bentley University and the Bentley Library will be opening at 11:00am today. Bentley’s official emergency information can be found at the Bentley University Storm Emergency web site and the Storm Emergency line at 781.891.2020.
The Bentley Library has taken the plunge and joined the social media universe. Many of us in the library are avid followers of social media, getting our news from Twitter and keeping up with friends on Facebook, just as you do. Knowing where we’re all gathering on the web, we decided that the library should have a presence on the networks we’re frequenting already.
You can now find the Bentley Library on Twitter (@BentleyLibrary) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/bentleylibrary). Through these channels, we will bring you news and information about all kinds of happenings at the library, from classes you can take to new books and movies you can check out. We’ll also provide interesting links about Bentley, libraries in general, and information we think you might find helpful or interesting. If this experiment takes off, we hope to build a Bentley Library presence 
on other social media channels that you’re using so we can continue to connect with patrons—faculty, staff, students, and community members alike—in your corners of the internet.
We can’t do this without help from our friends and followers, though. If you’re following us on Twitter or you like us on Facebook, let us know how we’re doing. We want to hear about what you like and what you don’t like, what you want to hear more about and less about, and any fun ideas or news tips you might have. Librarians Katy Aronoff and Lisa Curtin are in charge of our social media accounts, and you can contact them through Facebook and Twitter or regular old email.
We’re kicking off the start of the spring semester with a new exhibit at the Caturano and Company Art Gallery. Open until February 24, 2011, the exhibit features works by artist Ty Paulhus in an installment entitled “Conversations With No One”. All are invited to an opening reception for the artist on Thursday, January 27, from 4:30pm to 6:30pm.
Located on the main floor of the Bentley Library, the Caturano and Company Art Gallery is free and open to the public. Check the online hours calendar for information about the Library’s hours.
Welcome back to campus! The library’s hours for the upcoming week will be:
Monday, January 24 through Thursday, January 27
8:00am – midnight
Friday, January 28
8:00am – 6:00pm
Saturday, January 29
9:00am – 7:00pm
Sunday, January 30
10:00am – 2:00am
For more information about the library or cafe hours please view our online hours calendar.
Due to the snowstorm, Bentley University and the Bentley Library will be closed on Friday, January 21, 2011. Weather permitting, the Bentley Library will reopen on Saturday, January 22, at 9:00am. For the most current information please check the Bentley University Storm Emergency web site, or call the Storm Emergency line at 781.891.2020.
If you are looking for information about consumer markets, products, and brands, Mintel Oxygen should be the first database you visit. 
Covering the US, UK, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Spain, Mintel’s research reports are one-stop shopping for consumer market intelligence, data, analysis and news.
Whether you are researching fast food or footwear, mobile phones or online shopping, green marketing or green living, Mintel has it covered. Mintel publishes over 600 market research and consumer lifestyle reports each year in the following categories:
| ♦ Beauty & Personal Care | ♦ Drink | ♦ Finance |
| ♦ Food | ♦ Foodservice | ♦ Health & Wellbeing |
| ♦ Household | ♦ Lifestyles | ♦ Retailing & Apparel |
| ♦ Technology | ♦ Travel | |
Each report provides primary consumer research – unraveling key trends, behavior, and attitudes. Researchers looking for demographic and psychographic information will strike gold with Mintel. Reports also include valuable market data such as market size and forecast, market drivers, segment performance, brand share, and retail channel data. To top it all off, you’ll find information on new products, product innovations and marketing strategies.
To use the Mintel Oxygen database you must register for an account using a Bentley email address. At the Mintel Oxygen log-in page, first-time users should click on [Create a Personal Profile]. Complete the registration form using your Bentley email address.
Please visit Mintel Oxygen to explore this valuable database further. For help, check out Mintel’s Quick Start Guide. Visit our Databases page to view a complete list of our resources.
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Database of the Month provides a very brief introduction to an important research database, highlighting key features of the database that you should know about. If you would like more information about this database (or any of the library’s databases) please contact the Reference Desk. If you would like a demonstration of this database for a class, please contact our Coordinator of User Education, Elizabeth Galoozis.
