Ford Library

Ford Library is pleased to announce the addition of Guidestar Premium to its suite of database resources available to all current Duke University students, faculty, & staff.

GuideStar is a leading source of financial, contact, and leadership information for U.S. nonprofit organizations. The database covers 1.8 million IRS-recognized organizations and enables users to find a charity, benchmark a nonprofit’s performance, research a particular nonprofit sector, and more.

Duke users can connect to Guidestar Premium directly, or via its link on our database page.

NOTE: After connecting to the site using one of the links above, you can start using the Guidestar site search box right away. You do not need to register or login after you connect to the Guidestar site.

Your comments and questions are welcome!

Investment company analysts’ research reports for companies and industries have been added to our Thomson ONE Banker subscription.

Ford Library has replaced the research report content lost when our subscription to Reuters Research On Demand expired by adding the Investext collection to Thomson ONE.

Duke users can now access these reports by taking the following steps:

1. Connect to Thomson ONE Banker.
2. Enter a company ticker in the top left search box, and click Go.
3. Click the “Research” link in the left-hand menu to view the most recent reports.
4. Click the “Conduct a search ..” link for more detailed searches.

Click the image at the top of this post or HERE for screenshot of this search strategy.

Just in time for the holiday weekend–

The Wrestler
X-Men, v. 1 and 2
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Bride Wars
Death Race
Freaks and Geeks, the Complete Series
In the Electric Mist
I’ve Loved You So Long
Must Love Dogs
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

From Monday, May 18 until Wednesday, May 20, there will be periods of considerable noise in the Library.

During the first 3 days of this week (Mon.-Wed.), drilling and hammering for construction on the floor beneath the Library will make parts of the Library very noisy.

On Tuesday, May 19, new shelving will also be installed in the Library, further increasing the noise levels.

We welcome patrons and readers; but you may want to bring earplugs if you visit us this week!

Thanks for your patience during this necessary summer construction & renovation.

Broughton, Philip Delves. Ahead of the curve : two years at Harvard Business School. Penguin Press, 2008.

In 2004, Philip Delves Broughton left his position as Paris bureau chief of the London Daily Telegraph and enrolled in Harvard Business School. In 2006, he graduated with an MBA. This book recounts the details of those two years HBS, providing details on classmates, faculty members, and the day-to-day workings at HBS.

Delves Broughton is an ambivalent MBA. He applied to Harvard because print newspapers were dying and he wanted to change careers. He immersed himself into a new world, learning about valuation, negotiation and trading. He learned how to speak like an MBA, analyzing a case and making points quickly. He heard speakers like Warren Buffett and Hank Paulson. Yet in the end, he was haunted by the imagined life of a corporate drone, giving up his life to “airports and sales meetings and a paunch.” He is the only person in his section who does not have a job offer by graduation.

Throughout the book, Delves Broughton describes his struggle to reconcile two things he wants: The financial security that comes with a career like consulting or banking. And a life outside of work. He is at his best when describing this struggle and the choices he makes.

© Reviewer: Meg Trauner & Ford Library – Fuqua School of Business.
All rights reserved.

All rising Second Year Daytime MBAs (MBA 2010) who have been accepted for a summer internship are encouraged to check their email for an important message regarding the use of Library databases.

The message concerns the use of Library databases while you are employed in an internship this summer.

If you did not receive this email from us, please contact us to request a copy.

Thanks for your attention, and have a great summer!

Mason, Matt. The pirate’s dilemma : how youth culture is reinventing capitalism.. Free Press, 2008.

We are living in a time when music and art can be infinitely reproduced and instantaneously distributed all over the planet without cost. This book is about a new set of market conditions that are emerging, where piracy is just another business model and where remixing is a tool used to create change. Boundaries are coming down. Technology has removed old restrictions on new ideas. The Pirates Dilemma is essentially about sharing and using information in new ways.

Author Matt Mason is unconcerned with file sharing and downloading. File sharing sites make an abundance of music available from aspiring musicians and niche artists. He cites a study that shows downloading has boosted CD sales, and claims that file sharing has attracted a new type of music fan. And iTunes made the music industry more democratic.

This book is an interesting read, but it should not be attempted by readers who don’t know P. Diddy from 50-Cent, or Sex Pistols from the Ramones. Author Matt Mason makes his points through dozens of stories involving cultural icons, most of them from the music industry.

© Reviewer: Meg Trauner & Ford Library – Fuqua School of Business.
All rights reserved.

Having problems renewing your items from your online library account because you are graduating? Please call the Ford Library (660-7875) or email the Ford Library Circulation Manager and we can renew them for you.

Knowing that there are students graduating who are still seeking permanent positions. If you are one of them, we’d like to remind you that the Ford Library can offer one-on-one assistance as well as a online tutorial.

For more information, contact the reference staff at reference-librarians@fuqua.duke.edu, or call 919-660-7874.

Our newest movies include:

Blindness
Bolt
Doubt
Edge of Heaven
Encounters at the End of the World
Jodhaa Akbar
Marley & Me
Milk
Pinocchio
Planet B-Boy
Rachel Getting Married
Seven Pounds
Slumdog Millionaire
Smart People
Stephen King’s The Langoliers ; The Stand ; Golden Years
Twilight
Up the Yangtze