Archive for the ‘New Resources’ Category

New Movies for April

Thursday, April 19th, 2018

Enjoy the latest additions to our DVD collection:

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Call Me by Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Father Figures
Ferdinand
I, Tonya
Insidious: the Last Key
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
The Last Movie Star
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Shape of Water
Star Wars: Episode VIII, The Last Jedi
Thelma
Thor: Ragnarok
Wonder Wheel

You may browse the entire DVD collection via the library catalog.

New DVDs for March

Friday, March 16th, 2018

Here are the latest additions to our DVD collection. Look for The Handmaid’s Tale, season 1 later this month.

Darkest Hour
Just Getting Started
Murder on the Orient Express
Only the Brave
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Wonder
The Ballad of Lefty Brown
Coco
The Florida Project
LBJ
Captain Underpants

You may browse the entire DVD collection via the library catalog.

New Movies for February

Tuesday, February 20th, 2018

Here are the latest additions to our DVD collection:

Blade Runner 2049
Crooked House
The Foreigner
God’s Own Country
Goodbye Christopher Robin
Happy Death Day
Hollow in the Land
It
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Last Flag Flying
Marshall
Mark Felt : The Man Who Brought Down the White House
Passengers
Thank You for Your Service

You may browse the entire DVD collection via the library catalog.

New Movies for January

Tuesday, January 16th, 2018

Here are the newest additions to our DVD collection:

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Detroit
Dunkirk
Battle of the Sexes
Despicable Me 3
Home Again
The King’s Choice
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Mayhem
The Mountain Between Us
Stronger
Victoria & Abdul

You may browse the entire DVD collection via the library catalog.

New Research Resources From Bureau van Dijk

Monday, January 15th, 2018

Ford Library is pleased to announce the availability of five new business and finance research resources from Bureau van Dijk, an information provider with a truly global scope and focus.  These resources offer key business and financial data via standalone web sites (ORBIS and ZEPHYR), and via the Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) data portal.

Each resource is described briefly below with a link for access available to all Duke students, faculty, and staff.

AMADEUS via WRDS
Amadeus contains comprehensive information on around 21 million companies across Europe, with a focus on private companies. Data includes company financials, financial strength indicators, ownership data, detailed corporate structures, and stock prices.

ORBIS Bank Focus via WRDS
Information on public and private banks worldwide. This searchable database includes bank ratings reports, country risk ratings reports, news, and detailed ownership information and bank structures.

OSIRIS via WRDS
A comprehensive database of listed corporates, banks and insurance companies around the world. In addition to the income statement, balance sheet, cash flow and ratios it contains news, ownership, ratings, earnings estimates and stock data. Contains data on approximately 80,000 companies.

ORBIS
ORBIS covers over 200 million companies worldwide, with an emphasis on private company information, integrating information held across BvDEP’s company information product range. ORBIS provides global standard report formats as well as descriptive information and company financials, along with news, market research, ratings and country reports, scanned reports, ownership and M&A data.

Zephyr
Zephyr contains M&A, IPO and venture capital deal data with links to detailed company financial information. It has information on approximately 1.6 million transactions with over 100,000 being added annually.

Ford Library will offer two one-hour training classes on February 7th and February 8th for Fuqua students, faculty, and staff in support of these new resources.  Please follow us on Facebook and Twitter for coming details on times and locations for the classes.

COMING SOON: For advanced users interested in directly querying and manipulating data in the statistical analysis software of their choice, or via other programming languages, we will provide access to a collection of ORBIS source data files in SQL and TXT formats. These source data files, “ORBIS Historical”, will focus on financial and historical ownership information from the ORBIS database.

New Movies for December

Thursday, December 14th, 2017

Here are the December additions to our DVD collection:

Atomic Blonde
Cars 3
The Glass Castle
The Hitman’s Bodyguard
Jungle
Leap!
The Limehouse Golem
Logan Lucky
The Secret Scripture
Unlocked
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
The Villainess
Wind River
Your Name

You may browse the entire DVD collection via the library catalog.

New Movies for November

Wednesday, November 15th, 2017

Here are the latest additions to our DVD collection:

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The Beguiled
The Dark Tower
Girls Trip
An Inconvenient Sequel : Truth to Power
Kidnap
Maudie
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
A Very Sordid Wedding
War for the Planet of the Apes
American Gods, season one
The Emoji Movie
Spider-Man: Homecoming

You may browse the entire DVD collection via the library catalog.

New Movies for October

Thursday, October 19th, 2017

Here are the latest additions to our DVD collection:

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Queen of the Desert
Transformers: The Last Knight
Wonder Woman
All Eyez on Me
The Big Sick
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
The Hero
Lowriders
Megan Leavey
The Mummy
Paris Can Wait

You may browse the entire DVD collection via the library catalog.

New Movies for September

Monday, September 18th, 2017

Here are the latest additions to our DVD collection:

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Blind
The Circle
Colossal
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
Don’t Knock Twice
The Exception
King Arthur : Legend of the Sword
My Cousin Rachel
Opening Night
Shin Godzilla
Snatched
Baywatch
Everything, Everything
A Family Man
Going in Style
Guardians of the Galaxy. Vol. 2
The Lovers
Sleight

You may browse the entire DVD collection via the library catalog.

Notable Business Books via library Kindles

Monday, August 21st, 2017

Now available from Ford Library, Notable Business Books on Kindles. Each Notable Business Books Kindle is preloaded with e-books, such as:

  • The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business by Erin Meyer
  • Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
  • The Exceptional Presenter: A Proven Formula to Open Up and Own the Room by Timothy J Koegel
  • Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink
  • The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M Goldratt
  • The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite by Duff McDonald
  • The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone—Especially Ourselves by Dan Ariely
  • The Industries of the Future by Alec Ross
  • The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over by Jack Schafer
  • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
  • Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg
  • Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds by Carmine Gallo

You may borrow a Kindle from the Ford Library circulation desk using your Duke ID. Learn more about our Kindles here: https://library.fuqua.duke.edu/resources/kindles.htm