Dates: June 2-27, 2014
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Price: $175
The purpose of this course is to familiarize academic librarians who
work with both Business faculty and students – including, but not
limited to, Accounting, Administration/Management, Economics, Finance,
Marketing, & Sports Management – with best practices for the process
of finding, retrieving, organizing, evaluating, using, and distributing
information both in print and electronic formats. They will learn to
identify and locate major and trusted sources for business reference and
information. Course participants will also learn how to assist users
in conducting business research effectively using a variety of
resources, depending on their institutional access, from open access and
public web sources to highly specialized databases.
This course will span four weeks, organized by module, and cover the
evolving role of business reference, examine monographs, content
aggregators, databases, and periodicals in business fields, evaluate
specialized databases that can be useful for business research, and
introduce participants to intellectual property and competitive
intelligence topics.
