Summer Session Hours Begin May 23

Summer Session I begins on Monday, May 23, 2011.  Our regular summer sessions hours are:

Sunday
1:00pm – 10:00pm

Monday – Thursday
8:00am – 10:00pm

Friday
8:00am – 4:00pm

Saturday
9:00am – 5:00pm

Please note: Hours are subject to change on holidays, holiday weekends and when classes are not being held.   To get the most up-to-date information about the library’s hours please view our online hours calendar.

Get Caught Listening! Audiobooks Are Now On Display.

Officially, June is Audiobook Month, but we’ve decided that our new audiobook display just couldn’t wait until then.  In preparation for next week’s 2011 Audie Awards, we’re highlighting the 2011 audiobook nominees that we have in our collection (listed below).  And with Memorial Day just around the corner, we thought this would be the perfect time to promote our most recent audio acquisitions.  Being stalled on the highway in long-weekend traffic is no fun, but a captivating audiobook can help make the time fly!  Stop by and take a look at our selections.  Keep checking back, new titles are being added as they are received!

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2011 Audie Award nominees available at the Bentley Library:

AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR

  • LIFE by Keith Richards / read by Keith Richards, Johnny Depp & Joe Hurley [check availability]

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR

  • ABIGAIL ADAMS: A LIFE  by Woody Holton / read by Cassandra Campbell [check availability]

BUSINESS/EDUCATIONAL

  • BUY-IN: SAVING YOUR GOOD IDEA FROM GETTING SHOT DOWN by John Kotter / read by Tim Wheeler [check availability]
  • DELIVERING HAPPINESS: A PATH TO PROFITS, PASSION AND PURPOSE by Tony Hsieh / read by Tony Hsieh   [check availability]
  • THE 4-HOUR WORK WEEK: ESCAPE 9-5, LIVE ANYWHERE, AND JOIN THE NEW RICH by Timothy Ferriss / read by  Ray Porter [check availability]

CLASSIC

FICTION:

HUMOR

  • EARTH (THE AUDIOBOOK): A VISITOR’S GUIDE TO THE HUMAN RACE by Jon Stewart / read by Jon Stewart, Samantha Bee, Wyatt Cenac, et al. [check availability]
  • SQUIRREL SEEKS CHIPMUNK: A MODEST BESTIARY by David Sedaris / read by David Sedaris, Elaine Stritch, Dylan Baker & Sian Phillips [check availability]

LITERARY FICTION

MULTI-VOICED PERFORMANCE

  • ROOM: A NOVEL by Emma Donoghue / read by Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer, Robert Petkoff & Suzanne Toren [check availability]

MYSTERY/SUSPENSE

NARRATION BY THE AUTHOR

  • A CHRISTMAS BLIZZARD by Garrison Keillor / read by Garrison Keillor [check availability]

NONFICTION

  • THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS by Rebecca Skloot / read by Cassandra Campbell & Bahni Turpin  [check availability]

SHORT STORIES/COLLECTIONS

SPOKEN NARRATION/ FEMALE

SPOKEN NARRATION/MALE

THRILLER/SUSPENSE

  • THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST by Stieg Larsson / read by Simon Vance  [check availability]

Database of the Month: Cabell’s Directories

Cabell’s Directories provides information on publishing opportunities to nearly 5,000 academic journals, including Accounting and Finance, Computing and Infomatics, Journal of Business Case Studies, Psychology of Sport & Exercise, Today’s CPA and Quarterly Review of Economics & Finance. Cabell’s guides faculty, graduate students, professionals and researchers to the right journal for publication.  It does this through detailed information on the publishing process, manuscript guidelines and advice on submission.Search the Cabell's Directories database

How the Directory Helps you Publish

The Directory specifies the type of review (blind, editorial, or peer) for each journal, what percentage of the articles are invited for review relative to the total number of articles, how to request a reviewer’s comments, the amount of time between submission and acceptance or rejection,  along with acceptance rates for a given journal.  The directory will also help you determine which journal will most likely accept your manuscript by providing:

  • Topics for articles
  • Aims and scope
  • Readership
  • Launch date
  • Prestige of journal
  • Where journal is indexed
  • Links to a journal’s detailed manuscript guidelines

Advice on submission of a manuscript – the Directory provides information on the journal’s:

  • aim and scope
  • style
  • format for references and footnotes
  • submission fees, if any
  • whether or not previously published manuscripts may be submitted
  • what to do if a manuscript is rejected

Cabell’s Subject Directories

We have online access to the following subject directories:

Accounting – indexes over 270 journals according to twenty-four different topic areas, such as: Accounting Education, Accounting Information Systems, Accounting Theory & Practice, and Tax Accounting

Economics & Finance – indexes 860 journals according to twenty-four different topic areas, such as: Econometrics, Financial Services, International Economics & Trade, and International Finance.

Management – 1,180 journals according to twenty-eight different topic areas, such as: Business Education, Global Business, Public Administration, and Strategic Management Policy.

Marketing – 350 journals according to twenty-eight different topic areas, such as: Advertising & Promotion Management, Direct Marketing, Marketing Research, and Sales/Selling.

Educational Curriculum & Methods – 490 journals according to twenty-eight different topic areas, such as: Curriculum Studies, Elementary/Early Childhood, Reading, and Special Education

Educational Psychology & Administration – 390 journals according to twenty-eight different topic areas, such as: Counseling & Personnel Services, Educational Management/Administration, Educational Psychology, and Higher Education.

Psychology & Psychiatry – 620 journals according to forty-one different topic areas, such as: Abnormal Psychology, Child Psychology, Psychopathology, and Social Psychology.

Computer Science and Business Information Systems – 200 journals according to twenty-two different topic areas, such as: Artificial Intelligence, Management Information Systems, Robotics, and Web Design.

Educational Technology & Library Science – 220 journals according to forty-two different topic areas, such as: Academic Librarianship, Distance Learning, Library Management/Administration, and Telecommunications.

Connect to this database:

Please visit the Cabell’s Directories database to explore this valuable resource further, or 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.

Special Library Hours: May 12 – May 22

Special library hours are in effect from Thursday, May 12 (last day of final exams) until Sunday, May 22. This includes the week of Intensive Classes.

Thursday, May 12
library closes at 9:00pm
cafe closes at 6:00pm, remains closed for the summer*

Friday, May 13
7:30am – 6:00pm

Saturday, May 14 & Sunday, May 15
CLOSED

Monday, May 16 – Thursday May 19
8:00am – 9:00pm

Friday, May 20
8:00am – 6:00pm

Saturday, May 21 & Sunday, May 22
CLOSED

Undergraduate Summer Session I begins Monday, May 23.  We will be posting our Summer Session hours shortly.  You may also check our online hours calendar for more information about the library’s hours.

* Please note that the Deloitte Cafe/Einstein Bros. Bagels closes at 6:00pm on Thursday, May 12, and will remain closed for the duration of the summer.

Congrats to Our Graduating Student Assistants! We Dedicate These Books & Films to You…

Commencement is just around the corner, making it time for the library staff to bid farewell to our graduating student assistants – Megan Callahan, Nicholas Chitopoulos, Mark DiMaggio, Matthew Gillen, Julia Guilger, Michael Johnson, Ryan Miranda, Lauren Paglierani, Kelly Peterson, Anika Sutty, Kimberly Waldbillig and Steven Zhen. Congratulations and best wishes for a happy and successful future!

It’s a Bentley Library tradition to dedicate a book to each of our graduating student employees in appreciation for their service.  This year, the students were invited to choose either a book or a film to be dedicated on their behalf.   We enjoyed seeing the diversity of their picks, which range from Ayn Rand to Cormac McCarthy to Harry Potter! We will be displaying all of their individual selections in the New Books area for the next few weeks – stop by and take a look.

Thanks goes out to all of our student employees for their hard work and commitment throughout the past year! Have a wonderful summer break, and we look forward to your return next year.

Our Top 10 Most Circulated Books, DVDs & Audiobooks!

Once again, it’s time to announce the Bentley Library Top 10!  Each May we query our database to find out which books, audiobooks and DVDs have circulated the most times during the academic year (excluding any items placed on reserve for a class).

So, what were this year’s trends? In non-fiction, books about the financial crisis and negotiating proved to be very popular. Financial journalist Michael Lewis scored two slots in the top 10 with books that took a revealing look at Wall Street – his 1989 bestseller Liar’s Poker and its 2010 sequel The Big Short. Over on the fiction side, two trilogies were huge hits – The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins and the Millennium series (Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, et al.) by Stieg Larsson. Not surprisingly, both series are bound for the big screen.  Maybe next year we’ll see them on our Top 10 DVDs list?!

Below you’ll find the BENTLEY LIBRARY TOP 10 lists for academic year 2010-2011 in the categories of POPULAR READING, STACKS (regular book collection), AUDIOBOOKS and POPULAR DVDs. Drumroll, please…

Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Popular Reading Collection

  1. OUTLIERS: THE STORY OF SUCCESS by Malcom Gladwell [check availability]
  2. THE BIG SHORT: INSIDE THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE by Michael Lewis [check availability]
  3. FREEDOM: A NOVEL by Jonathan Franzen [check availability]
  4. CATCHING FIRE by Suzanne Collins [check availability]
  5. EAT, PRAY, LOVE by Elizabeth Gilbert [check availability]
  6. THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett [check availability]
  7. INNOCENT by Scott Turow [check availability]
  8. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST by Stieg Larsson [check availability]
  9. THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE by Stieg Larsson [check availability]
  10. PRIVATE by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro [check availability]

Top 10 Most Circulated Books from the Stacks (regular book collection)

  1. LIAR’S POKER: RISING THROUGH THE WRECKAGE ON WALL STREET by Michael Lewis [check availability]
  2. PRINCIPLES OF CORPORATE FINANCE by R. A. Brealey, S. C. Myers & F. Allen [check availability]
  3. THE BIG SHORT: INSIDE THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE by Michael Lewis [check availability]
  4. PEOPLE SKILLS: HOW TO ASSERT YOURSELF, LISTEN TO OTHERS AND RESOLVE CONFLICTS  by Robert Bolton [check availability]
  5. THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins [check availability]
  6. THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE by Stephen Covey [check availability]
  7. BARGAINING FOR ADVANTAGE: NEGOTIATION STRATEGIES FOR REASONABLE PEOPLE by G. Richard Shell [check availability]
  8. THE SNOWBALL: WARREN BUFFET AND THE BUSINESS OF LIFE by Alice Schroeder [check availability]
  9. BLINK: THE POWER OF THINKING WITHOUT THINKING by Malcolm Gladwell [check availability]
  10. GETTING TO YES: NEGOTIATING AGREEMENT WITHOUT GIVING IN by Roger Fisher [check availability]

Top 10 Most Circulated Audiobooks

  1. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS by Sara Gruen [check availability]
  2. EARTH (THE AUDIOBOOK) by Jon Stewart [check availability]
  3. FREAKONOMICS: A ROGUE ECONOMIST EXPLORES THE HIDDEN SIDE OF EVERYTHING by Steven Levitt [check availability]
  4. NUDGE: IMPROVING DECISIONS ABOUT HEALTH, WEALTH AND HAPPINESS by Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein [check availability]
  5. THE 4-HOUR WORKWEEK: ESCAPE 9-5, LIVE ANYWHERE, AND JOIN THE NEW RICH by Timothy Ferriss [check availability]
  6. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST by Stieg Larsson [check availability]
  7. ROOM: A NOVEL by Emma Donoghue [check availability]
  8. BLACK HILLS by Nora Roberts [check availability]
  9. SUPERFREAKONOMICS by Steven Levitt [check availability]
  10. THE BIG SHORT: INSIDE THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE by Michael Lewis [check availability]

Top 10 Most Circulated Popular DVDs

  1. THE HURT LOCKER [check availability]
  2. SHUTTER ISLAND [check availability]
  3. SHERLOCK HOLMES [check availability]
  4. THE BLIND SIDE [check availability]
  5. ALICE IN WONDERLAND [check availability]
  6. V FOR VENDETTA [check availability]
  7. (500) DAYS OF SUMMER [check availability]
  8. UP [check availability]
  9. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS [check availability]
  10. THE HANGOVER [check availability]

Preliminary Findings from our Research Journals Project

This semester, the library asked 15 students to keep journals for a week (February 24 – March 2, 2011), recording every time they engaged in an information-seeking activity related to their academic lives. We also interviewed the students afterward to ask them about their research habits. We learned a lot from this window on students’ real-life research – this is just the tip of the iceberg! We’ll share more information in the fall.

Our student participants included:

  • 6 grad students and 9 undergrads (1 freshman, 4 sophomores, 2 juniors, and 2 seniors)
  • a range of majors, including 4 LSM students

The most frequent tasks students engaged in were:

  • searching for information on a topic, like “college students’ behaviors” or “freedom of speech” (31 searches)
  • searching for a known item, like a particular book, article, or video (27 searches)

The most frequent methods students used to complete their tasks were:

  • searching Google (42 searches)
  • searching a specific library database (17 searches)

The most popular databases students used were ProQuest, Academic Search Premier, and CCH IntelliConnect. The most popular websites they searched were Wikipedia and specific companies’ home pages.

Students most often did research during the afternoon (12:00 to 5:00), and most often in their dorm room (if they lived on campus). The students in our study generally said that the part of research they find the most difficult is coming up with the right search terms – both in online search engines and library databases – to get “the right information the first time.”

Stay tuned later this fall for more of what we learned about how students use information, the library, and other campus resources. We have a lot of data to analyze!