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Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · 11d

The next Getting Started with Bloomberg class is tomorrow. There are spaces left if anyone has been thinking of registering…

Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · 22d

The first Getting Started with Bloomberg class of the year was held earlier this week in the Financial Resources Suite at @brunellibrary.bsky.social. This was fully booked, with a waiting list. Book a space now for the next class, coming up on Wednesday 22nd October.

Getting started with Bloomberg

Bloomberg is a global financial markets database providing economic, company and industry data, and reports. It includes business news, analytics and real time pricing for over 5...

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Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · 23d

I (Alice, the business librarian) am on call today, Thursday 9th October, 1-2pm. If you come to the Library Helpdesk at this time my lovely Customer Services colleagues will help you, and call me to come out from my office for more complex queries. If not I will be working away on teaching prep!

Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · 25d

As I do every year at this time, I’ve been admiring the autumn leaves on the trees in the John Crank Gardens.

Big trees, leaves in differing shades of green and orange, against a blue sky.

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Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · 29d

The first @brunellibrary.bsky.social Getting Started with Bloomberg class this year will be running next Monday (6th October 12-1pm). There are currently four spaces left, available to all Brunel students, staff and researchers.

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Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 26

Introduction sessions for new students across the Brunel Business School College. It was lovely to see people, and to hone my ideas for what I will be talking about in information literacy classes over the coming semester (a work in progress!)

PowerPoint slides. Title slide: Library Introduction: Evidence based information for Learning and Research. Alice Cann, Academic Liaison Librarian for Business. Illustrated with a stone pie chart. Second slide is headed The Library is for… and has a word cloud. The biggest words are journals, books and help.

A PowerPoint slide titled: Business resources to know about. Colourful sections on Library search, Journal databases and collections, Newspaper sources, E-book providers, Market research databases, Case studies, Data sources and Audiovisual

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Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 26

And oh so many emails, on sorting out reading lists and book orders and planning and information literacy classes for the next few months. I have a mammoth spreadsheet!

Also multiple items in the to do list that I haven’t got to yet. There’s always Monday!

Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 26

Meetings with library colleagues, academics and students. Working on finding data, making plans for the coming year, and some dreams.

(Wish I’d taken a photo of my coffee cup from today’s meeting to put here!)

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Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 26

Finalising the new signage for our Bloomberg computers.

I’ve also started scheduling in some upcoming Bloomberg classes. libguides.brunel.ac.uk/data/bloomberg

Laminated A4 paper, stuck to a desk. Titled Bloomberg 01, with information on booking a Bloomberg computer and guidance on using the database.

Upcoming Bloomberg events. Getting Started with Bloomberg. An introduction to the financial markets database, covering: what’s available, booking a terminal and setting up an account, finding your way around, getting help. Including Equities (GP, FA, SPLC, EQS); Equity Indices (WEI); Industries (BI); Economics (ECST, BECO). Three dates for booking in October and November. And a link to a recording.

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Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 26

Introduction sessions for new students across the Brunel Business School College. It was lovely to see people, and to hone my ideas for what I will be talking about in information literacy classes over the coming semester (a work in progress!)

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Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 26

It’s been a busy Welcome Week for this business librarian:
Staffing the @brunellibrary.bsky.social stall at the Welcome Village several times (along with colleagues). We saw hundreds of new students.

Glad to be doing this as a team, and collaborating on setting up and take down.

A table with blue tablecloth, containing leaflets, freebies and Lego. A woman in a blue cardigan sitting behind. A blue display board with photos.

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Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · May 1

I often recommend creating an account when using EBSCO databases, such as Business Source Premier. It's useful for saving searches to come back to, eg for Systematic Literature Reviews, or searching in selected journals. We've had issues lately with access to EBSCO accounts - here's a workaround.

How can I access my EBSCOhost account for saving searches and results, and accessing things I've saved in the past? - LibAnswers

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Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · Apr 1

A new FAQ, with links to video sections libanswers.brunel.ac.uk/faq/280350

Is there training and demonstrations for business students on how to use the market research databases? - LibAnswers

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Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · Jan 21

Did you know? In addition to all our wonderful Brunel resources, as a member of the University of London (which we are part of), you also have access to lots of online journals, books and databases via Senate House Library. See the recently created FAQ for more details, including how to sign up

How do I join Senate House Library? - LibAnswers

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Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · Jan 6

The next Systematic Literature Review workshops, for social sciences researchers, are now open for booking. There are 3 parts, on 24th & 25th February:
1 Structure & Planning
2 Scoping, Searching & Search Results
3 Screening, Following up, Reporting & Later stages
(Links to parts 2 & 3 in part 1)

Introduction to Systematic Literature Review: Part 1. Structure and Planning

Systematic Reviews are a type of literature review which are comprehensive and replicable, ensuring that all relevant research is considered for inclusion. This research method,...

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Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · Oct 10

Business students and researchers can learn about effectively searching for books, journal articles, market research and secondary data in this new video on Business Specific Resources brunel.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

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Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 24

All ready to meet with the new Brunel Business School undergraduate students!

Library display with posters, laptop (with Bloomberg) and leaflets

Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 23

A second video on Business Specific Resources is coming soon! (Have had a few problems with getting access to the recording in order to edit it...)

Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 23

New business students & researchers can learn about the Library through the newly updated Library Basics & Getting Help video.
Includes:
Finding & borrowing books
Basic searching for journals & articles
Reading Lists
Subject Guides
Getting Help (FAQs, workshops, appointments, training
Referencing

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Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 9

I'm working on slides for an updated library intro for new students - this one a Library basics, another to come later on Business specific resources. I'm aiming to have this recorded and edited and ready for Welcome week, coming up soon!

Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm preparing for the new academic year, and have updated the LibAnswer FAQ on Systematic Literature Reviews. This now has links to the edited recordings of the two classes I ran on this topic in June, 1. SLR Structure and Planning, 2. SLR Searching, Screening & Reporting. Links to sub-sections too!

I am a business/social sciences student/researcher and want to use the Systematic Literature Review research method. How can I learn about this? - LibAnswers

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Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · Jun 10

I've set up some appointments for tomorrow (Tuesday) & Wednesday this week, & a bit for next week (I hope to add more for next week too libcalendar.brunel.ac.uk/appointment/... Available to help with literature searching, systematic reviews, secondary data collection, market research, referencing...

Make an Appointment - LibCal - Brunel Library

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Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · Jun 8

As well as all our academic books & journal articles, we have popular reading-good for inspiration & general interest. I'll post highlighting these every so often. 1st an ebook, access for 3 simultaneous users, Hysterical: Exploding the Myth of Gendered Emotions, by Pragya Agarwal #PopularReading

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Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · Jun 7

For further ways of assessing the authenticity of a journal, I recommend this FAQ from my colleague-written for people submitting articles for publication, but also of use for assessing as a reader. I particularly like to make use of the ThinkCheckSumbit website.
libanswers.brunel.ac.uk/faq/52606

How do I know whether a publisher or journal is genuine when publishing my work? - LibAnswers

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Brunel Business School Librarian @bbslibrarian.bsky.social · Jun 7

Business researchers often want to focus on high ranking journals. I recommend searching across many journals, assessing with multiple criteria, but it can be useful to do a search within 3 & 4 star journals in your field. This can help avoid missing key articles libanswers.brunel.ac.uk/faq/245924

I need to search within journals rated 3 or 4 stars by the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) - LibAnswers

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