Since I'll be out of the Library for the foreseeable future on maternity leave, there will be no new posts to this site for awhile. As always, you can still contact the Library with any requests you have for new materials or any other questions. Take a look at the options available on the "For Faculty" page on the Library's web site or feel free to use the Ask A Librarian service anytime.
Happy springtime to all!
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Monday, March 03, 2008
"Floored" documentary will highlight the end of the trading floor
From today's Chicago Tribune: The trading floors at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange close for good in the middle of May, marking the end of an era, and the end of a movie for filmmaker James Allen Smith.
In a feature-length documentary set for release later this year, Smith aims to chronicle the vanishing life and times of the open-outcry futures trader, highlighting the clash between technology and humanity, and the personal toll of progress.
If the film comes across as Smith intends, " Floored " will capture the incendiary thrill of trading hand to hand and profile the regular guys who became some of the business world's least-likely tycoons. These blustery masters of the free markets proved vulnerable when computers finally penetrated their sheltered club, and only a relative handful remain in the pits today.
Smith feels their pain.
Read the whole article HERE (stable link).
Link to the Tribune's site HERE (with some video clips from the documentary)
In a feature-length documentary set for release later this year, Smith aims to chronicle the vanishing life and times of the open-outcry futures trader, highlighting the clash between technology and humanity, and the personal toll of progress.
If the film comes across as Smith intends, " Floored " will capture the incendiary thrill of trading hand to hand and profile the regular guys who became some of the business world's least-likely tycoons. These blustery masters of the free markets proved vulnerable when computers finally penetrated their sheltered club, and only a relative handful remain in the pits today.
Smith feels their pain.
Read the whole article HERE (stable link).
Link to the Tribune's site HERE (with some video clips from the documentary)
Friday, February 01, 2008
Spring Semester reminder from the Library
Dear AEMM Faculty—
Spring Semester 2008 is here! Please remember that the Library is here to help. A few things you might want to consider implementing into your courses:
Course Reserves
Place books or articles on reserve in the Library (or on the Library’s web site) so that they are available to your students. You can put required textbooks on reserve or optional reading. Just use the Course Reserves link located on the For Faculty page. If we don’t own a copy or you don’t have an extra personal copy, we’ll purchase one.
Embed the Library in your Oasis or other online course page!
Want to point your students directly to our proprietary business databases and other resources? I can send you a tailored widget that will showcase the resources you’d like your students to make use of for their assignments.
Link directly to articles from your Oasis or other online course page!
Avoid issues related to copyright and make your reading assignments seamless for your students by linking them directly to articles from newspapers, trade publications and popular and scholarly journals. Follow the instructions on this page or feel free to email me the citations and I will build the links for you.
Library instruction for your class
Have an in-depth assignment that you’d like the students to go “beyond Google” to complete? Consider scheduling an instruction session or contact me to discuss ways in which the Library can help. From company profiles to industry research to consumer demographics and beyond, we can help your students develop critical thinking and competitive intelligence research skills.
Assignment consultation
Don’t want to spend a whole class session in the Library but know that there are tools and resources that your students should be using for certain assignments? Contact me to discuss the assignment and how we can integrate some database and research instruction into it.
There are many more ways that the Library can help support you and your students, so if you have questions please don’t hesitate to contact me. As the Library’s liaison to the AEMM department I am here to help connect you to the wealth of information available to you and your students through our books, videos, journals, research databases and other resources.
Good luck as we head into Spring ’08! I look forward to working with you—Celia
PS Please feel free to forward this post to adjunct or other interested AEMM faculty who may not have seen this. If you know of colleagues who should be added to the mailing list, just let me know.
Spring Semester 2008 is here! Please remember that the Library is here to help. A few things you might want to consider implementing into your courses:
Course Reserves
Place books or articles on reserve in the Library (or on the Library’s web site) so that they are available to your students. You can put required textbooks on reserve or optional reading. Just use the Course Reserves link located on the For Faculty page. If we don’t own a copy or you don’t have an extra personal copy, we’ll purchase one.
Embed the Library in your Oasis or other online course page!
Want to point your students directly to our proprietary business databases and other resources? I can send you a tailored widget that will showcase the resources you’d like your students to make use of for their assignments.
Link directly to articles from your Oasis or other online course page!
Avoid issues related to copyright and make your reading assignments seamless for your students by linking them directly to articles from newspapers, trade publications and popular and scholarly journals. Follow the instructions on this page or feel free to email me the citations and I will build the links for you.
Library instruction for your class
Have an in-depth assignment that you’d like the students to go “beyond Google” to complete? Consider scheduling an instruction session or contact me to discuss ways in which the Library can help. From company profiles to industry research to consumer demographics and beyond, we can help your students develop critical thinking and competitive intelligence research skills.
Assignment consultation
Don’t want to spend a whole class session in the Library but know that there are tools and resources that your students should be using for certain assignments? Contact me to discuss the assignment and how we can integrate some database and research instruction into it.
Questions about any of the above? Just 
!!!
There are many more ways that the Library can help support you and your students, so if you have questions please don’t hesitate to contact me. As the Library’s liaison to the AEMM department I am here to help connect you to the wealth of information available to you and your students through our books, videos, journals, research databases and other resources.
Good luck as we head into Spring ’08! I look forward to working with you—Celia
PS Please feel free to forward this post to adjunct or other interested AEMM faculty who may not have seen this. If you know of colleagues who should be added to the mailing list, just let me know.
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
The Soap Opera Saga Behind Burt's Bees
From Sunday's New York Times' Business section. An interesting behind-the-scenes look at a once-small green brand that has now been bought by Clorox:
IN the summer of 1984, Burt Shavitz, a beekeeper in Maine, picked up Roxanne Quimby, a 33-year-old single mother down on her luck, as she hitchhiked to the post office in Dexter, Me. More than a dozen years Ms. Quimby's senior, the guy locals called "the bee -man" sold honey in pickle jars from the back of his pickup truck. To Ms. Quimby, he seemed to be living an idyllic life in the wilderness (including making his home inside a small turkey coop).
She offered to help Mr. Shavitz tend to his beehives. The two became lovers and eventually birthed Burt's Bees , a niche company famous for beeswax lip balm, lotions, soaps and shampoos, as well as for its homespun packaging and feel-good, eco-friendly marketing. The bearded man whose image is used to peddle the products is modeled after Mr. Shavitz. Today, the couple's quirky enterprise is owned by the Clorox Company, a consumer products giant best known for making bleach, which bought it for $913 million in November. Clorox plans to turn Burt's Bees into a mainstream American brand sold in big-box stores like Wal-Mart. Along the way, Clorox executives say, they plan to learn from unusual business practices at Burt's Bees -- many centered on environmental sustainability. Clorox, the company promises, is going green.
But not even Clorox can sanitize the details of a fallout between Mr. Shavitz and Ms. Quimby that began in the late 1990s...
Read the whole article HERE
IN the summer of 1984, Burt Shavitz, a beekeeper in Maine, picked up Roxanne Quimby, a 33-year-old single mother down on her luck, as she hitchhiked to the post office in Dexter, Me. More than a dozen years Ms. Quimby's senior, the guy locals called "the bee -man" sold honey in pickle jars from the back of his pickup truck. To Ms. Quimby, he seemed to be living an idyllic life in the wilderness (including making his home inside a small turkey coop).
She offered to help Mr. Shavitz tend to his beehives. The two became lovers and eventually birthed Burt's Bees , a niche company famous for beeswax lip balm, lotions, soaps and shampoos, as well as for its homespun packaging and feel-good, eco-friendly marketing. The bearded man whose image is used to peddle the products is modeled after Mr. Shavitz. Today, the couple's quirky enterprise is owned by the Clorox Company, a consumer products giant best known for making bleach, which bought it for $913 million in November. Clorox plans to turn Burt's Bees into a mainstream American brand sold in big-box stores like Wal-Mart. Along the way, Clorox executives say, they plan to learn from unusual business practices at Burt's Bees -- many centered on environmental sustainability. Clorox, the company promises, is going green.
But not even Clorox can sanitize the details of a fallout between Mr. Shavitz and Ms. Quimby that began in the late 1990s...
Read the whole article HERE
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Start the new year off with info on the music biz
Here's an excellent article on the music business. It appears in last month's Wired magazine and is written by David Byrne (who knows a thing or two about music and the business of music).
Friday, December 14, 2007
Novelty gag gift industry
Here's a neat article on fake vomit--it actually contains quite a bit of industry data. The Chicago Tribune covered a local company who is a leader in this gag gift market:
"The building holds a secret.
A vile and totally eeeewwwww secret, one that brings together 12-year-olds and 12-year-olds at heart.
From the outside, it is another two-story brick warehouse on Chicago's West Side. Step inside, and visitors return to a certain back-of-the-comic-books kind of American childhood.
The secret is this: It's the world capital of fake vomit, where it's still made the old-fashioned American way, ladle by ladle, formed and coagulated for the next generation of pranksters and troublemakers.
Helping put the ick in America since 1941, Fun Inc. is a repository of practical jokes, magic tricks and gag items -- from chattering teeth to hot pepper gum, oversize sunglasses to oversize toothbrushes to oversize anything. The building, near Grand and Major Avenues in the industrial Hansen Park neighborhood, is where springs were once manufactured and, later, Cracker Jack prizes.
Guests walking into the office of Fun Inc. President Graham Putnam might expect to be greeted by a joy-buzzer handshake or a whoopee cushion planted beneath a chair seat. But it is surprisingly bare bones, a room he shares with his wife, Kathryn, the company's corporate secretary and a clutter of paperwork and faux wood paneling. Fake vomit, it turns out, is serious business..."
Read the whole article HERE
"The building holds a secret.
A vile and totally eeeewwwww secret, one that brings together 12-year-olds and 12-year-olds at heart.
From the outside, it is another two-story brick warehouse on Chicago's West Side. Step inside, and visitors return to a certain back-of-the-comic-books kind of American childhood.
The secret is this: It's the world capital of fake vomit, where it's still made the old-fashioned American way, ladle by ladle, formed and coagulated for the next generation of pranksters and troublemakers.
Helping put the ick in America since 1941, Fun Inc. is a repository of practical jokes, magic tricks and gag items -- from chattering teeth to hot pepper gum, oversize sunglasses to oversize toothbrushes to oversize anything. The building, near Grand and Major Avenues in the industrial Hansen Park neighborhood, is where springs were once manufactured and, later, Cracker Jack prizes.
Guests walking into the office of Fun Inc. President Graham Putnam might expect to be greeted by a joy-buzzer handshake or a whoopee cushion planted beneath a chair seat. But it is surprisingly bare bones, a room he shares with his wife, Kathryn, the company's corporate secretary and a clutter of paperwork and faux wood paneling. Fake vomit, it turns out, is serious business..."
Read the whole article HERE
Friday, November 30, 2007
Empty Bottle is looking for interns
Looking for a cool internship? The Empty Bottle, a hip nightspot and band showcase located on the West Side, is looking for a few good people. Check it out:
Interns
The Empty Bottle is looking for you… especially if you are looking for an internship. We would like to bring two interns on board to work with us here in the Bottle office. Internships run 5-20 hours per week, and cover a wide array of tasks and responsibilities. That said, we do need responsible and industrious folks who are interested in learning more about the concert industry. Internships are unpaid, but man alive, you want to talk about perks? Free shows are just the tip of the iceberg. School credit is preferred, but certainly not necessary. If you are interested, please send a resume to morgan@emptybottle.com or fax it to 773.276.3607.
Interns
The Empty Bottle is looking for you… especially if you are looking for an internship. We would like to bring two interns on board to work with us here in the Bottle office. Internships run 5-20 hours per week, and cover a wide array of tasks and responsibilities. That said, we do need responsible and industrious folks who are interested in learning more about the concert industry. Internships are unpaid, but man alive, you want to talk about perks? Free shows are just the tip of the iceberg. School credit is preferred, but certainly not necessary. If you are interested, please send a resume to morgan@emptybottle.com or fax it to 773.276.3607.
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