Bloomberg’s New Essentials Training Program
As of October 1st, Bloomberg has rolled out a new shorter and updated training program that allows Cornell University Library users to quickly learn the most essential functions of Bloomberg. This new training program will fully replace the old certification program on November 1st, 2009. If you were in the middle of the old training program, you are advised to finish it before November 1st.
Here are the details of the new Bloomberg Essential Program (BESS)
Sign up to use the machine located at Mann Library. The sign up sheet is next to the machine.
Create your own personal login: You need your personal account to ensure you receive credit. To create your own account, at the login screen, hit <GO> and follow the on-screen instructions. Use your own personal login to complete the training program.
Type the words Bloomberg Essentials or BESS <GO>. Bloomberg permits all academic users to gain essential training on-line and there is no fee for this training program.
A total of 8 modules are available through the BESS menu.
Core Videos consist of Getting Started, Bloomberg News, Market Monitors & Launchpad and API (Excel)
Market Sector Videos consist of introduction to Equity, Fixed Income, FX and Commodity
You can test your knowledge by taking the core exam (covers all 4 videos) along with any of the market sector exams
You need to complete with a 75% grade or better to earn the Acknowledgement of Completion
Re-takes of tests are not provided, so you get only one chance to pass the test.
The certification can be completed at your own pace. You would watch video tutorials and practice as much as needed.
You are strongly encouraged to take the time you need to explore the system and practice before taking the test.
When you are ready, just click on Exams Enablement and contact the Help Desk. You can also hit the green help key twice to access a Bloomberg representative.
You should budget for at least 6-8 hours to complete the entire essentials program.
When you are ready to take the test, hit the HELP key TWICE to chat with a Bloomberg representative. Ask the representative to provide you the test. The test will be made available through the Certification menu under “Exams.”
Need more information?
Baseema Krkoska, your business librarian is happy to give you a personalized tour of the Bloomberg system. Email the Mann library Information & Research Help Desk with questions or email Baseema directly at bb75 at cornell dot edu.
Bloomberg Information Sessions at Mann Library
What do at least 250,000 investment professionals around the world have in common with each other? Bloomberg, the investment tool for finance professionals. Attend this demonstration to learn what employers expect from students seeking finance and investment banking careers. The instructor will demonstrate how to conduct equity, fixed income and portfolio management research using Bloomberg and how to gain a competitive advantage by completing the Bloomberg Essentials training program. Please plan to attend on time. If you have questions or are unable to attend the full session, please contact Baseema Banoo at bb75@cornell.edu to schedule a separate consultation.
Register Now!
Register: Thursday, October 1 2009 at 4:00 p.m. in Stone Lab, Mann Library
Register: Monday, October 5 2009 at 4:00 p.m. in Stone Lab, Mann Library
Business Source Completely Expanded
We are pleased to announce that avid users of Business Source Premier have access to expanded content using the same interface. Search for Business Source Complete on the library website. The expanded content in Business Source Complete includes:
- Over 500 additional full text peer reviewed journals
- 744 full text books and monographs compared to 178 in Premier
- Over 17,000 full text industry reports compared to 5,000 in Premier
- Over 2,000 market research reports compared to 94 in Premier
- Working papers from 20 sources are also available
In a nutshell, Business Source Complete offering powerful capabilities to conduct industry and market research along with access to over 500 additional full text peer reviewed journals. Your industry research is practically incomplete if you are not using this expanded database.
Mann’s Business Cluster
Did you know that finance students can find financial markets data and acquire valuable workplace skills right here at Mann Library? For today’s business student on the job market, information skills are no longer a nicety but a necessity. That’s why early mornings or late evenings at Mann, you will find students at the Bloomberg terminal, taking on-line exams to become Bloomberg certified.
A leading financial information system, Bloomberg is used by thousands of investment professionals in their daily work life. Here at Cornell, seventeen students of AEM 4620 (Technology & Financial Markets) earned their certification last year using the Bloomberg machine at Mann Library. Students looking for historical commodity, fixed income, equities or macro-economic data need not look further than Thomson Datastream Advance, the latest addition to the Mann Library’s business resource center. Using this dedicated terminal, you can access over 100 million data series for nearly two million instruments, including commodities, fixed income securities, equities and futures.
Accounting students should recognize the name Ernst & Young (E&Y) as soon as they hear it. Ernst & Young– a leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services–has made a generous gift of exclusive access to their accounting library, which will be available soon in Mann’s business resource cluster. Just as Bloomberg is the bread and butter for investment professionals, Ernst & Young online is the primary source of information for E&Y employees and their clients.
All these resources in the business cluster are tools that provide a competitive edge to businesses, and thanks to the generous support of alumni, we are able to provide them at Mann. But you will need to come to the library to use them–as much as we would love to provide unlimited access, we have to abide by the contractual arrangements of these resources and thus cannot provide unlimited access through the web.
Our alumni are sending a message to CALS and CHE business students: learn these tools so that you are better prepared for your careers. You have the opportunity to get familiar with these tools while in college, so why wait? Visit the business resources cluster to learn more or contact the business librarian, Baseema Krkoska at bb75@cornell.edu
~ Contributed by Eveline Ferretti
Text a Librarian Beta Service
Cornell University Library is rolling out a new reference service in Beta. Between the hours of 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. (Monday – Friday), send a text message beginning with the keyword culib to 66746. Save us in your phone as CULIB and don’t forget to use the keyword at the beginning of each message.
* SMS to 66746
* Type Keyword CULIB (use keyword to begin all messages – new and replies!)
* Type your message
Example Messages:
culib what time does olin library close tonight?
culib is there a north campus drop box?
Text us anytime and get a response Monday-Friday before 5:00 p.m. Save us in your phone as CULIB
New Business Titles at Mann – February 2009
Careers in specialized consulting
Careers in specialized consulting : health care, human resources, and information technology. — San Francisco, Calif. : WetFeet, 2007. — 176 p. ; 23 cm.
Career planning HD69.C6 C372 2007 — Mann Library
Two billion cars : driving toward sustainability / Daniel Sperling, Deborah Gordon. — Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. — xiii, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
HE5611 .S67 2009 — Mann Library
Great jobs for business majors
Great jobs for business majors / Stephen Lambert. — New York : McGraw-Hill, c2009. — xvii, 222 p. ; 23 cm.
Career Planning HF5382.7 .L347 2009 — Mann Library
The brand called you : create a personal brand that wins attention and grows your business / Peter Montoya ; with Tim Vandehey. — New York : McGraw-Hill, c2009. — xii, 275 p. ; 23 cm.
Career Planning HF5386 .M746 2009 — Mann Library
Industry Research Made Easy with IBIS World
Yes, I know. One more name to remember and one more place to go. I wish there was a single stop for all company, finance and industry research. But IBIS World is definitely worth a look. The trends of any North American Industry are often time consuming to locate or if you do find the trends, often they are outdated. Now with IBIS World, you can quickly locate 5 year estimates for over 700 industries classified according to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
Upcoming Bloomberg workshop on February 24th, 2009
What do at least 250,000 investment professionals around the world have in common with each other? Bloomberg, the investment tool for finance professionals. Attend this 90 minute demonstration to learn what employers expect from students seeking finance and investment banking careers. The instructor will demonstrate how to conduct equity, fixed income and portfolio management research using Bloomberg and how to gain a competitive advantage by earning Bloomberg certification. Please plan to attend on time. If you have questions or are unable to attend the full session, please contact Baseema Banoo at bb75@cornell.edu to schedule a separate consultation.
Tuesday Feb. 24, 10:00 – 11:30 am
Register
New Career Planning Shelf at Mann
Looking for some sound advice? You can find it in a good book, even in the digital age. When you are in Mann Library, you can take a break from your intense computer session and browse through the latest career planning shelf. This collection is located in the Business Resources section at Mann Library.
Settle down in a comfy chair, flip through a book, and pick up a tip or two on how to harness web 2.0, make a better presentation or get started in the renewable energy industry. A print book is still not out of fashion. It makes for great study breaks, especially when the books are easy to browse, accessible next to computers at Mann with a comfy chair to relax.
If you like the book, you can also check it out at circulation and take it home.
Web 2.0 : a strategy guide / Amy Shuen. — Beijing ; Cambridge : O’Reilly, c2008. — xxii, 243 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Career Planning HD30.2 .S58 2008 — Mann Library
The nonprofit career guide : how to land a job that makes a difference / Shelly Cryer. — Staint Paul, Minn : Fieldstone Alliance, c2008. — xii, 284 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Career Planning HD2769.15 .C79 2008 — Mann Library
Careers in renewable energy : get a green energy job / Gregory McNamee. — Masonville, CO : PixyJack Press, 2008. — 190 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
HD9502.5.C542 M35 2008 Career Planning — Mann Library
Clean money : picking winners in the green-tech boom / John Rubino. — Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2009. — xi, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Career Planning HD9502.5.C542 R83 2009 — Mann Library
Finding the best business school for you : looking past the rankings / Everette E. Dennis and Sharon P. Smith. — Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006. — x, 207 p. ; 25 cm.
Career Planning HF1131 .D46 2006 — Mann Library
Where do all the paperclips go– and 127 other business and career conundrums / by Steve Coomber & Marc Woods. — Chichester : Hoboken, N.J. : Capstone Pub., 2007. — ix, 206 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
HF5381 .C6874 2007 Career Planning — Mann Library
Great jobs for economics majors / Blythe Camenson. — New York : McGraw-Hill, c2007. — ix, 194 p. ; 23 cm.
HF5382.5.U5 C25196 2007 Career Planning — Mann Library
The Vault MBA career bible / Vault editors. — New York : Vault Inc., c2008. — xiv, 330 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
HF5382.5.U5 V38 2008 Career Planning — Mann Library
Guerrilla marketing for job-hunters : 400 unconventional tips, tricks and tactics to land your dream job / Jay Conrad Levinson, David E. Perry. — Hoboken, N.J. : J, Wiley, c2005. — xv, 270 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
HF5382.7 .L465 2005 Career Planning — Mann Library
Resumes for dummies / by Joyce Lain Kennedy. — New York : Wiley Pub., c2007. — xxiv, 355 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
HF5383 .K424 2007 Career Planning — Mann Library
Business etiquette for dummies / by Sue Fox. — Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley ; Chichester : John Wiley [distributor], c2008. — xviii, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
HF5389 .F696 2008 Career Planning — Mann Library
Global business etiquette : a guide to international communication and customs / Jeanette S. Martin and Lillian H. Chaney. — Westport, CT : Praeger, 2008. — 178 p. ; 24 cm.
Career Planning HF5389 .M375 2008 — Mann Library
The bare bones introduction to integrated marketing communication / Robyn Blakeman. — Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009. — vi, 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
HF5415.123 .B5568 2009 — Mann Library
Job interviews for dummies / by Joyce Lain Kennedy. — Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2008. — xvi, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Career Planning HF5549.5.I6 K393 2008 — Mann Library
Negotiating your salary & perks / WetFeet ; by Duncan Haberly & Robert A. Fish. — San Francisco, CA : WetFeet, c2004. — 160 p. ; 23 cm.
HF5549.5.I6 W54 2004a Career Planning — Mann Library
Persuasive presentations for business / Robert W. Bly. — [Irvine, CA] : Entrepreneur Press, c2008. — xiv, 250 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Career Planning HF5718.22 .B59 2008 — Mann Library
ProductScan is now Product Launch Analytics
Datamonitor’s new version of ProductScan is now called ProductLaunch. What’s in a name? Well, if you try to connect to the database through the library catalog, you will need to know its name correctly. But more significantly, Datamonitor claims the resource to be “the world’s most comprehensive source of information for new product launches.” Trying to find a list of soda drinks launched in Angola or France? Search a database filled with product information and refine according to criteria such as product category, country, ingredients and even innovation ratings.
This database is highly recommended for entrepreneurs who are serious about packaged consumer products. So, are vanilla flavored soft drinks sold in China? What are the brand names, retail prices and innovative features? Locate this information easily and download it into your presentation. Some of the highlights of using Product Launch are:
- Download product entries directly into PowerPoint – the templates are attractive and you have to do very little additional formatting
- Data is available for the last 5 years to academic subscribers
- Contact Information of manufacturers is also available
- Full analysis of products including nutritional information about food products
Just two caveats
- The interface does not instantly recognize us as academic library users. On the splash page, click on
to connect to the database. - The database currently works only on campus. We are working on getting the resource to become accessible off-campus