Feeling a little stressed by finals? Need a smile break? Stop by the Library and meet Maggie!
Maggie is a therapy dog and she would love to meet you. She plans to be on campus (with her owner, Stacey Mitchell, ’91) today (Monday afternoon and evening), and Tuesday afternoon. She will be in the Library part of the time, and will also spend some time roaming campus. If you see her, be sure to say hello! 
Time to invest in coffee futures? Maybe! In keeping with tradition, the Library will once again be open 24 hours during final exams, beginning Friday, May 3.
The Library will open at 8:00 am that day and will stay open continuously until 5:00 pm on Wednesday, May 8th. Please note that a College ID card will be required for access from midnight to 7:30 am. Each night at midnight the doors will be locked, but students, faculty, and staff will be able to open the door with their ID cards using the card reader located outside the main entrance.
The Friends of the Library will be providing refreshments, including popcorn, coffee, hot chocolate, and cookies. In addition, Read Between the Grinds cafe will be open their normal hours so you can purchase specialty coffees, pastries and more.
Library Hours During Finals:
Friday, May 3rd —24 hour access begins at 8:00 am*
Saturday, May 4th — open 24 hours*
Sunday, May 5th — open 24 hours*
Monday, May 6th — open 24 hours*
Tuesday, May 7th — open 24 hours*
Wednesday, May 8th — Library closes at 5 pm
*College ID card required for access after midnight
We have limited hours over Easter weekend:
Mar 29 (Good Friday): 8am – 5pm
Mar 30 (Saturday): 1 – 5pm
Mar 31 (Easter Sunday): 6pm – 2am
Normal hours resume on Monday, April 1st (no fooling!).
Don’t miss our last Odd Topics Society Luncheon this academic year, presented by the Friends of the Albion College Library!
Speaker: Mr. Jeff Taylor, Director of the American Museum of Magic in Marshall, MI
Title: “Magic in Michigan”
Date: March 27, 2013
Time: Noon – 1pm
Place: Mary Sykes Room
Please join us for what is certain to be a magical experience (we couldn’t resist just one…). Please check back in the fall for next year’s schedule. We hope to see you in Mary Sykes!
The library collection is constantly changing…one could even say it is being “renewed.” Every year, through our purchases and donations, we add thousands of volumes to our holdings. At the same time, we try to properly manage our collection by removing materials that are outdated or no longer necessary or appropriate. Among the hundreds of books we receive through donations each year, some are not suitable for our collection or duplicate materials we already have. What to do with the books removed from the collection or donated books we don’t add to our holdings?
In the past, we’ve tried to sell these volumes through the annual Friends of the Library book sale, although this was a very labor-intensive task with little financial benefit, and which always left us with thousands of volumes to be recycled. We have recently found a better approach. We are now partnering with Better World Books, an online book seller which uses its profits to support global literacy efforts and libraries. In our case, the profits from the sale of our withdrawn books are shared with the National Center for Family Literacy and with the Albion College Library. According to their website (http://www.betterworldbooks.com/), Better World Books has provided $10.4 million in funding for literacy programs and libraries, has donated more than 5 million books to partner literacy and education programs, and has diverted more than 40,000 tons of books from landfills.
As the end of the school year approaches, if you have books you no longer need, please consider donating them to the Library. We will review them carefully for possible inclusion in our collection where they will enrich our holdings and support Albion College students, faculty and staff in research as well as recreational reading. The books we don’t add will be picked up by Better World Books and given a chance to find another home, while supporting libraries and literacy!
The Library will celebrate National Poetry Month by hosting its 14th annual Poetry Fest on Thursday, April 11, from 3 p.m. to approximately 4:30 p.m. in Stockwell Library’s Wendell Will Room. Audience members are welcome to read aloud an original or favorite poem. Appreciative listeners are also vital. The festivities include deluxe refreshments, prize drawings with a poetic twist, and a grand finale performed by a campus “celebrity couple.” Free and open to the public. Please join us!
The details again:
Poetry Fest
Thursday, April 11th
3 – 4:30pm
Wendell Will Room
Stockwell-Mudd Library
ProQuest is offering free access to the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text database through the end of February. To take advantage of this offer, connect through this link:
http://0-search.proquest.com.library.albion.edu/pqdtft/advanced?accountid=8252
If you are unable to connect to this database or have questions, please email mvanhouten@albion.edu.
Publisher’s database description:
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world’s most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. PQDT — Full Text includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.
More than 70,000 new full text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide and collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations through UMI’s Digital Archiving and Access Program. Full Text dissertations are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be native PDF, some PDF image.
Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master’s theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDT — Full Text provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses.
The Library is currently doing a trial of a new online market research resource called Passport. If you would like to see what this database has to offer, click on this link:
http://www.portal.euromonitor.com/Portal/Default.aspx
The trial will be active until February 18th.
Database Description:
Passport is an award-winning market research database used by the world’s top academic institutions and Fortune 500 companies to understand the global business environment in a time of rapid change and increased globalization.
Passport features millions of statistics and in-depth reports on 27 industries with demographic, macro and socioeconomic data and analysis on consumers and economies in 210 countries worldwide.
Passport Features:
We are pleased to announce that the Library is now subscribing to the complete SAGE Premier collection of journals.
SAGE Premier provides online access to 648 peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including high-impact research titles published on behalf of more than 245 scholarly and professional societies. Journals in Psychology, Communication, Sociology, Business, Education, Political Science and many other disciplines are part of the collection – coverage for most titles is from 1999 to the present. A list of the journals included is attached as an Excel spreadsheet.
Links to these titles can be found through the Library’s Journal Finder service – click on the “Journals” button on our home page, or go directly to the service through this link:
http://wm6sn7rt5y.search.serialssolutions.com/
Please share this information with your students, and let us know if you have questions about this new collection.
We had a fabulous set of entries for the Literary Character Halloween Costume Contest this year, and we’re hoping to make it our first annual. We hope if you didn’t get a chance you’ll join us next year!
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| Benjamin Orjada as Titus Andronicus – Seventh Place Winner | Lisa Lewis as Snow White’s Stepmother – Sixth Place Winner | Alysandra Ganem as Harry Potter – Fifth Place Winner |
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| Guy Cox as Robur the Conqueror – Fourth Place Winner | Carson Garety as Rosie the Riveter – Third Place Winner | The Kinesi OZ ogy department – Second Place Winners |
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| Cara Delaney as Rainbow Fish – FIRST PLACE WINNER | Allison Navarra as Eeyore | Andy Boyan as Merlin |
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| Danielle Crittenden as Hester Prynne | Ethan Brock as the 11th Doctor | Ian MacInnes as Charles Dickens |
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| Katie Oldenburg as Hanna Abbot | Melissa Wright as Jing-Mei Woo | Shelby Fox-Purrier as Private Angelo Maggio |
Welcome back, everyone! With the Fall semester underway, we have some exciting new services in the Library we’d like to let you know about.
First, we now have eReaders. You can now check out from the library, for three weeks, a Kindle, Kindle Fire, or Nook Tablet. Books are preloaded on the readers! Please come check one out, and let us know what you think of this service.
We also have iPads which can be checked out for three weeks. In addition to all the other things an iPad can do, you can read books through the iBookstore, through the Kindle and eBrary apps, and more! We hope you will try them out with your own iTunes account, and again, let us know what you think of them.
We are also pleased to recommend both the eBrary and the Albion College Library apps for your personal mobile devices. We currently have access to over 75,000 ebooks through eBrary – using the mobile app in conjunction with BlueFire reader or Adobe Digital Editions, you can download and read all of these books on many mobile devices. The Library app offers basic information about the library and also allows you to search the catalog, and is available through the Apple App Store. Check our Apps page for download links and more information.
Finally, we have a new Text-A-Librarian service. If you have a question for a librarian, and you’re away from your computer or across campus, you can text us during reference hours at 856-2LIBREF (856-254-2733). For more details, check out our Ask-A-Librarian page.
We’re pleased and honored to announce that the Albion College Library Website is this month’s Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) College Library Website of the Month!
Congratulations go to Megan O’Neill for designing and developing the site and for her continued work to make sure the website meets the needs of students, faculty and staff. She has worked tirelessly on this, and we are excited that her work has resulted in national recognition and is being showcased as a model website for other college libraries!
Thanks also to Melinda Kraft, Katherine Hibbs, David Lawrence and John Perney for their great support and assistance.
Here’s a link to the College Library of the Month page
The library has new trials of two Business databases: PrivCo and Gale Business Insights: Global.
PrivCo
“PrivCo is the premiere source for business and financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, priate equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies. The PrivCo team is obsessed with sourcing accurate, complete, and timely private company research and we take pride in finding the ‘hard-to-find’.”
The trial of this database ends June 22nd, 2012.
Gale Business Insights: Global
Gale Business Insights: Global trial
(click “Access Trial” button)
“Gale Business Insights: Global combines and international perspective and sophisticated research tools with convenient access to a range of comprehensive learning materials. Designed to move researchers quickly to higher levels of understanding and application, Gale Business Insights: Global uses case studies, statistical data sources, news articles, academic journals and topical reference materials organized by country, company and industry to quickly engage users in the global business environment.”
Content includes:
The trial of this database ends June 26, 2012.
The Library is currently running a free trail of the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text database. The database will be available to Albion College faculty, students, and staff until June 5, 2012.
On-campus users can access the database through this link: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text On-Campus.
If you’d like to use the database from off-campus, please use the link below (your browser will probably ask you to add a security exception before connecting to the database): ProQuest Database Trial Off-Campus
Please send comments or questions to mvanhouten@albion.edu
Database Description
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world’s most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. PQDT — Full Text includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.
More than 70,000 new full text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide and collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations through UMI’s Digital Archiving and Access Program. Full Text dissertations are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be native PDF, some PDF image.
Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master’s theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDT — Full Text provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses.
If you’re looking to put some quality time in at the library this summer, we’re here for you! See our new Summer Hours schedule here, or check the link on the home page to find out when we’re open during the summer. Come cool off and catch up on your reading, your email, and more.
Time to invest in caffeine futures? Maybe, because in keeping with tradition, the Library will once again be open 24 hours during final exams, beginning Friday, April 27. The Library will open at 8:00 am that day and will stay open continuously until 5:00 pm on Wednesday, May 2. Both buildings will be open, but please note that a College ID card will be required for access from midnight to 7:30 am. Each night at midnight the doors will be locked, but students, faculty, and staff will be able to open the door with their ID cards using the card reader located outside the main entrance.
The Friends of the Library will be providing refreshments, including popcorn, coffee, hot chocolate, and cookies. In addition, Read Between the Grinds cafe will be open their normal hours so you can purchase specialty coffees, pastries and more.
Library Hours During Finals:
Friday, April 27 —24 hour access begins at 8:00 am*
Saturday, April 28 — open 24 hours*
Sunday, April 29 — open 24 hours*
Monday, April 30 — open 24 hours*
Tuesday, May 1 — open 24 hours*
Wednesday, May 2 — Library closes at 5 pm
*College ID card required for access after midnight
On Wednesday, April 11th, our very rare First Edition of the King James Bible will be part of a lecture at Olivet College. The lecture marks the 400th Anniversary of its printing.
Albion College Library Director Emeritus John Kondelik will give the presentation, detailing the history of the King James Bible – why it was created, how it has changed throughout history, and more. The goal is to raise awareness about the King James Bible in general, and also to help raise money toward the $7,000 necessary to restore the book. We received it as a gift in the ’30s from alum William Longstreet.
Dr. Kondelik was recently featured in an article in the Battle Creek Enquirer that gives more information about the King James Bible and also about the presentation on Wednesday.
Come hear Dr. Kondelik discuss this fascinating book! His talk will be at 1:30pm, in Room 110 of the Mott Academic Center at Olivet College, on East Street in Olivet, MI. If you’d like to donate to help us restore our King James Bible, please visit the Save-A-Book page.
All Albion College seniors have been invited (the link is in your email inbox) to participate in the Spring 2012 HEDS Research Practices Survey.
The survey was developed by liberal arts colleges to assess college-level research skills and measure library experiences and attitudes. The survey data will be used to help us fine-tune our library instruction program and help us in planning the second phase of library renovations.
By helping us out and taking this survey, you can help us make the library experience better for current and future students! Remember Class of 2012 – it is better to give than receive 
Please take the time to complete the survey; we appreciate your feedback!
If the stress of impending finals is starting to get to you, fear not! We have new Goodreads books available in the Cutler Commons, across from the Cafe!
These books are recommended by faculty, staff, and librarians. Come over to the library for books we think you’ll love, and then join us online to discuss them with us. Better yet, recommend some books to us for the next round!
Have you used the library’s new search box?
Our OneSearch feature, the searchbox on the library’s home page, searches all the library’s content from one place, and gives you one list with all your results – full-text journal articles, books and ebooks, newspaper articles, and more!
If you are confused about how it works, if you feel you could be getting better results, or if you’d like to learn more about the advanced search options, there’s help! We are offering drop-in tutorials on our new discovery service, OneSearch, this week in the Cutler Commons:
Tuesday 3/20: noon – 12:45pm
Wednesday 3/21: 10 – 10:45am & 3 – 3:45pm
Thursday 3/22: 10 – 10:45am & 1 – 1:45pm
If none of those times are convenient, there’s still hope! We will have an instructional video demonstrating how OneSearch works on the library website by the end of the week (to check for it, and to see more information about library services, visit http://campus.albion.edu/library).
If you’d like a one-on-one walk-through of OneSearch, please contact library@albion.edu to schedule a session with a librarian.
The Library’s 13th annual Poetry Fest is just one month away! Join us on Tuesday, April 10, from 3-4:30 p.m. in the Wendell Will Room to celebrate National Poetry Month. Audience members may read from their own or a favorite writer’s poetry, or simply enjoy listening, ambrosial refreshments, and intermission prize drawings.
The Friends of the Albion College Library present The Odd Topics Society Luncheon. Looking for some light-hearted lunchtime entertainment? Look no further than the Odd Topics Society – a monthly luncheon group that provides members of the Albion Community with a way to share their unusual interests by giving lectures on all kinds of odd topics.
The next Odd Topics Society Lunch will be Wednesday, Mar. 28th!
Speaker: Ralph H. Houghton, Senior Instructional Technologist
Title: “Coconut Grove Florida: The Alternate Greenwich Village Folk Scene”
Date: March 28, 2012
Time: Noon – 1pm
Place: Mary Sykes Room
About: The influences Vince Martin had on performers coming and going in the folk venues of south Florida from about 1962 through the mid 1970s.
The most recent Odd Topics Society Lunch was Wednesday, Feb. 22nd from noon to 1:00pm in the Mary Sykes Room. Our featured speaker was Nicole Garrett, Albion College Archivist. The title of her presentation was “Tappin’ Through Time.”
If you would like to be a speaker for an Odd Topics luncheon or have any questions, please contact Cheryl Blackwell at 517.629.0447
Have you used the library’s new search box?
Our OneSearch feature, the searchbox on the library’s home page, searches all the library’s content from one place, and gives you one list with all your results – full-text journal articles, books and ebooks, newspaper articles, and more!
If you are confused about how it works, if you feel you could be getting better results, or if you’d like to learn more about the advanced search options, there’s help! We are offering drop-in tutorials on our new discovery service, OneSearch, this week in the Cutler Commons:
Wednesday (TODAY): 10 – 10:45am & 3 – 3:45pm
Thursday 3/15: 10 – 10:45am & 1 – 1:45pm
If none of those times are convenient, there’s still hope! We will have an instructional video demonstrating how OneSearch works on the library website by the end of the week (to check for it, and to see more information about library services, visit http://campus.albion.edu/library).
If you’d like a one-on-one walk-through of OneSearch, please contact library@albion.edu to schedule a session with a librarian.
Have you heard the rumor that Stockwell has its very own Moaning Myrtle-esque ghost? Check out this week’s Pleiad to find out the truth! See the article here.
Albion College’s Archivist, Nicole Garrett, has a featured article in Seeking Michigan, a blog dedicated to the cultural heritage of Michigan.
Her article chronicles Malcolm X’s Michigan roots – although he was born in 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska, he spent a significant portion of his childhood in the Lansing area! Malcolm X lived in and around Lansing from 1928 to 1940.
To find out more, see the article in Seeking Michigan. Congratulations, Nicole!
Come out to and hear Randi Davenport read from her essay collection, THE BOY WHO LOVED TORNADOES, on Thursday, February 16, at 5:00 in the Wendell Will Room! There will be a reception and book signing immediately after the reading.
Davenport studied history and creative writing at William Smith College; she later earned both an MA in Creative Writing/Fiction and a PhD in literature at Syracuse University. She has been a Summer Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Public Fellow at the Institute for Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has taught literature and writing at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, among others. She is currently the Executive Director of the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Visit her online at http://www.randidavenport.com/
Sponsored by the English Department and the Stockwell-Mudd Library.
Starting today, we have a new search tool available on the Library homepage (http://campus.albion.edu/library). It’s a search box (it works a lot like Google) that lets you search the Library’s collection of books, journal articles, newspapers, DVDs, government documents, music scores, maps, and more. Instead of doing separate searches in the library catalog, and then again in article databases (JSTOR, Academic OneFile, Web of Science, etc.), OneSearch brings you information from thousands of sources with a single search.
When you search OneSearch, you’ll get a list of results ranked by relevancy, with the option to narrow your results in many ways. For example, you can limit your search to full-text online articles, to books or ebooks, to scholarly, peer-reviewed resources, or by date, language, subject area, etc.
OneSearch searches nearly all of the library’s resources, and the OneSearch database is growing rapidly as new content is added every week. For in-depth research, OneSearch provides advanced search functions, including the option to greatly expand your search to materials outside the Albion College Library collection. The library also continues to subscribe to numerous specialized databases for exhaustive research needs.
Give OneSearch a try! We think you’ll find it easy to use and very effective in delivering access to a wide variety of information sources. OneSearch and the Library homepage are under development, so expect some changes in appearance in the near future. Please contact Megan O’Neill (moneill@albion.edu or ext. 0270) to let us know what you think of this new service, or if you have any questions or problems.
It’s time again for the Odd Topics Lecture! Shuffle on over the Mary Sykes room Wednesday, February 22nd to learn about the history of tap dancing! We will learn the basics of tap and watch videos of the masters through the ages. No tap shoes required.
Time: Noon – 1pm
Date: Wednesday, February 22nd
Presenter: Nicole Garrett, College Archivist
Topic: Tappin’ Through Time
Location: The Mary Sykes Room
Can’t get enough time in the Library? We’re here for you (literally)!
In keeping with recent tradition, the Library will once again be open 24 hours during final exams, beginning Sunday, December 4. The Library will open at 10:00 AM that day and will stay open continuously until 5:00 PM on Thursday, December 8. Both buildings will be open, but please note that a College ID card will be required for access from midnight to 7:30 am. Each night at midnight the doors will be locked, but students, faculty, and staff will be able to open the door with their ID cards using the card reader located outside the main entrance.
The Friends of the Library will be providing refreshments, including popcorn, coffee, hot chocolate, and cookies. In addition, the Read Between the Grinds cafe will have extended hours (see their schedule below) so you can purchase specialty coffees, pastries and more.
Library Hours During Finals:
Friday, Dec. 2 —7:30 am – midnight
Saturday, Dec 3 — 9 am – midnight
Sunday, Dec. 4 —24 hour access begins at 10 am*
Monday, Dec. 5 — open 24 hours*
Tuesday, Dec. 6 — open 24 hours*
Wednesday, Dec. 7 — open 24 hours*
Thursday, Dec. 8 — Library closes at 5pm
Friday, Dec. 9 — 8am-5pm
*College ID card required for access after midnight
Read Between the Grinds Hours:
Sunday — 7pm-11pm
Monday-Wednesday — 7am-2pm, 4:30pm-midnight
Thursday — 7am-1:30pm
The Library will open at 7:30am this Friday, December 2nd, and close at midnight.
On Saturday, we’ll open at 9am and close at midnight.
On Sunday, December 4th, we will open at 10am and be open 24 hours until 5pm on Friday, December 9th.
Both buildings will be open, but please note that you’ll need your Albion 1Card to get in from midnight to 8am.
Photo used through Creative Common license – see the original from Flickr user hodgers.
At the Odd Topics Society meeting on Wednesday, November 16th, Library Director Emeritus Dr. John P. Kondelik discussed the history of the King James Version of the Bible. In particular, he spoke about Albion College’s edition, which is from the original 1611 printing.
The event was extremely well attended, and was also covered by the Jackson Citizen Patriot! To see their article, visit this link: bit.ly/vtE2MM
We were so excited to hear John’s presentation on Wednesday. He noted, among other things, that our King James Bible is unfortunately not in the best condition due to water damage, torn pages, a damaged binding, and more. We have a detailed list of interesting features and repairs needed on our Save-A-Book page, where you can also donate money toward helping us restore this book!
NetLibrary has changed its name to eBook Collection (EBSCOHost). It still has lots of great titles, and you can find the link here to browse the collection. Or, use the link on the databases page!
Come to the Library to hear poet Nick Lantz read from his debut poetry collections on Thursday, November 3rd in the Wendell Will Room (5:00 p.m.)! There will be a book-signing and reception following the reading.
This event is free and open to the public!
Nick Lantz is the author of We Don’t Know We Don’t Know, selected by Linda Gregerson for the Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize, and The Lightning That Strikes The Neighbors’ House, selected by Robert Pinksy for the Felix Pollak Prize. His work has also appeared in journals such as Mid-American Review, Southern Review, Gulf Coast, FIELD, Indiana Review, and Prairie Schooner.
He received a BA in Religious Studies from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The recipient of fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Nick Lantz was the 2010-2011 Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College. He has also taught at the University of Wisconsin, Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop, and Queens University’s Low-Residency MFA Program.
Born in Berkeley, California, Lantz currently teaches at Franklin & Marshall College. Visit him online at http://www.nick-lantz.com
We are excited to announce that we added several new ProQuest business databases, in subjects such as Accounting and Tax, Banking Information, Entrepreneurship, and Asian Business. The databases are:
Accounting and Tax Database
Includes national and international sources on accounting policies and standards, state and national tax legislation, corporate financial management, corporate and individual taxation, and more. Profiles of accounting firms, CPAs, and management consulting firms. 1905 – present.
Banking Information Source
Full-text articles on market trends and the financial services market. 1971 – present.
Entrepreneurship
Scholarly articles and a full toolkit of practical guides, templates, forms, sample business plans, and tips from successful entrepreneurs. Over 11,000 video clips! This is a really fantastic resource.
ProQuest Asian Business and Reference
Full-text articles on companies, economies, markets, and overall business conditions throughout the Eastern Hemisphere. 1972 – present.
You can also search all these databases at once by using the ProQuest Business Collection link. These databases can be found by clicking the Databases tab in the top bar of this website. Questions? Email us at library@albion.edu.
In conjunction with pianist Edmund Battersby’s piano performance on Friday, October 21, there will be a reception at the library that same day at 3pm in the Wendell Will Room. Refreshments will be served and examples from the collection will be on display for viewing.
The collection contains various musical scores and books that were owned by pianist Barbara Holmquest Gotz. Battersby, who studied under her (and who taught Albion College’s Dr. Lia Jensen-Abbott), donated the collection to the College with Holmquest’s son.
The piano performance will be in Goodrich Chapel at 7:30pm. It is free and open to the public.
Great news for students and faculty! The Library has joined a group of Michigan academic libraries in purchasing an online journal package from Springer publications, allowing us to add more than 1,700 full text journals to our collection. The package provides access to journals in a variety of subjects, including:
-Biological and Environmental Sciences
-Business and Economics
-Chemistry and Biochemistry
-Computer Sciences
-Engineering
-Geological Sciences
-Humanities
-Medicine and Health
-Physics and Astronomy
-Psychological Sciences
-Social Sciences
Links to full-text articles can be found through most Library databases, under the “Databases” tab in the top bar of the library website. The journals in the collection can also be browsed here (look for the green or green-and-white access indicators with each title). Questions? Please email us at library@albion.edu or call 0382.
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