Library

Here are some titles added to the CSUMB library collection during the spring 2019 semester.

There are two new library Subject Research Guides related to business. They are:

• Entrepreneurship & Small Business
  
• International Business
  
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You can access them by clicking on the link Subject Research Guides listed on the library's homepage under the heading Start Your Research. Here's a direct link: https://csumb.edu/library/business-research-guide-0

Also, please be aware that the library's Subject Research Guides and Course Guides will shifting to a different platform over the summer. The library will be using a product called LibGuides from Springshare to create revised guides. Content will remain the same, but the look of guides will change.

To help CSUMB business students, I plan to develop a collection of informal YouTube how-to videos focused on different aspects of business research. These will start appearing on different library Business Subject Research Guides. Here's the first:

Finding and Comparing Company Financial Ratios (listed on the library's Companies Subject Research Guide)

Located on the third floor of the library, the CSUMB Makerspace is a collaborative project between the College of Education, the College of Science, and the library.

During the summer, the Makerspace will host a few class-scheduled activities with open lab hours resuming in the fall.

Resources include:

The library now has a growing collection of popular reading books in print. It's intended for students, but faculty and staff can also checkout items.

Checkout is for three weeks—no holds or renewals. The Recreational Reading Collection area is located on the library's second floor adjacent to the central staircase. New books are ordered each month.

The three most popular titles so far (based on checkouts) are:

A more complete list is available here < https://bit.ly/2VaZ38t >. Recreational Reading Collection policies are:

This is a summary of recent library instruction sessions for the College of Business. There were twenty-two sessions during the spring 2019 term. Feel free to contact me, Stephen Fadel, to schedule an instruction session.

Feel free to cut and paste my contact information for your syllabus or other materials.