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.
During this week of wintersession classes the library has extended hours:
Tuesday, January 18 – Thursday, January 20
8:00am – 9:00pm
Friday, January 21
8:00am – 6:00pm
Saturday, January 22
9:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday, January 23
CLOSED
Regular semester hours begin on the first day of spring semester classes – Monday, January 24. For more information about our hours please view our online hours calendar.
Due to the inclement weather, Bentley University and the Bentley Library will be closing at 1:00pm today, Tuesday, January 18. Weather permitting, the Bentley Library will reopen on Wednesday, January 19, at 8:00am. Please check the Bentley University Storm Emergency web site, or call the Storm Emergency line at 781.891.2020, for the most current information.
Happy New Year! Once again it’s time for our annual “best books” display. This year we have combed through 17 best books lists from a wide range of sources (Amazon.com, The New York Times, The Economist and Publishers Weekly, just to name a few) to bring you our Best Books of 2010 display. 
Featuring fiction and non-fiction titles in both print and audiobook format, this display includes many books that were credited on multiple best-of lists – books like Parrot in Olivier in America, The Invisible Bridge, More Money than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite, The Coral Thief, and Country Driving: A Journey Through China From Farm to Factory. You will also find quite a few books that may not have received much publicity when they were released, but which shouldn’t be overlooked.
We’re certain that this display contains something for everyone, but if you don’t see anything of interest at first glance keep checking back. We are adding to the display daily as new acquisitions arrive and currently checked-out books are returned. Please stop by and browse, or view the entire listing online.
The library will be closed for the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend – Saturday January 15 through Monday, January 17. We will reopen on Tuesday, January 18, at 8:00am.
Next week the library will have extended wintersession hours! We will be open until 9:00pm Tuesday through Thursday, until 6:00pm on Friday, and from 9:00am to 5:0pm on Saturday. For more information about the library’s hours please view our online hours calendar.
We are still digging out! In order to give the crews a little more time to clear the campus, Bentley University and the Bentley Library will be opening at 10:00am on Thursday, January 13.
