I'm one of the four business librarians in the Foster Business Library, serving over 100 Business School faculty and lecturers and over 3,500 graduate and undergraduate students, in day, evening, and executive programs. In your hands is a handout:
- Page one: Foster Business Library homepage
- Library homepage URL: http://www.lib.washington.edu/business/
- Off-Campus access button; if asked for login and password, usually it means you did not use this button
- "About Foster" menu bar tab: Hours, especially around holidays
- Search the UW Libraries Catalog (Books)
- Limit results of searches to Foster Business Library
- 70,000 business books, with new books added monthly
- Use Request/Place Hold feature
- Repeat search in Summit feature (over 30 academic libraries in WA and OR)
- Search ProQuest Databases (100 million articles, thousands of new articles daily, in scholarly journals, magazines, trade publications, newspapers)
- Databases, including List of All Databases and Database Index
- Databases on homepage are most used 25 databases
- List of all databases is about 62 databases, at present
- Index is best approach to databases
- Page two: Business Research Guides: over ninety of them, more guides than all the other 24 UW libraries combined
- Basic organization of guides: Foster databases; web resources; reference books; books; articles.
- Most used guides are for:
- Page three: Business & Economics FAQ: over 900 of them, more than any other business library on earth
- Page four: Team Librarian Consultations
- Note the variety of those listed for the current or past quarters
- Note, at the bottom, the link to the Archive of Team Consultation Web Pages
- Before requesting a team consultation, be sure to check this archive, since 50% of all requests for a consultation are for a company, industry, product, or topic already in the archive.
- Page five: Archive of Team Consultation Web Pages (over 200 of them, none older than 2004)
- Page six: Student Toolkit (with links to answers to the most commonly asked questions from students at the Foster reference desk)
Questions? If you think of any, later, see my mail address, on page one of your handout.