Changes to Pardee Library Hours

Effective Tuesday, January 3, 2023, Pardee Library will be open the following hours:

Monday – Thursday: 9am – 9pm
Friday: 9am-5pm
Saturday: 10am-6pm
Sunday: 10am-6pm

For information regarding holidays or exceptions to these hours, please visit our hours page.

If you have any questions, please contact us at pardstf@bu.edu.

Dawn E. Gross named BU’s Associate University Librarian for Planning & Operations

Boston University Libraries are excited to announce the appointment of Dawn E. Gross to the position of Associate University Librarian for Planning & Operations. Gross begins her appointment January 1, 2023.

Reporting to University Librarian ad interim Mark Newton, Gross will direct the library’s core administrative and operational programs, providing strategic leadership and oversight in the areas of financial and business services, staff development, assessment, project management, and library facilities. Gross will work collaboratively with library staff and campus partners to develop, resource, and implement new initiatives that meet and anticipate the needs of BU library users and support an inclusive library environment that enriches BU’s vibrant residential academic experience.

Gross brings a wealth of business, operations, library, and leadership experience to this position. In her current role as Interim Dean at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s Claire T. Carney Library, Gross serves as a member of the Chancellor’s management council and works collaboratively with vice chancellors and college deans to implement new services, policies, and workflows that support the research and curricular needs of the campus. Gross not only led her organization through the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the necessary changes to resources and services that followed, she also initiated and executed facilities improvements and capital projects and led her library’s pilot of a new digital scholarship hub that opened at UMass this fall.

“Dawn’s acumen for inclusive and comprehensive library service planning will add immeasurably to our commitment to connect BU’s students and disciplinary communities with spaces and specialists that unlock their potential,” says Newton. “Given Dawn’s extensive experience in library leadership, it is clear she will make an immediate impact for all visitors to our libraries, both in person and online. We couldn’t be more pleased to welcome her aboard.”

“Under Mark Newton’s leadership, the Boston University Libraries are actively reimagining the library’s role in supporting the scholarly enterprise,” says Gross. “I look forward to joining with BU Libraries colleagues who are deeply engaged in constructing a vibrant library of the future. Newly conceived approaches to library services, spaces, and specialists will not only support emerging trends in interdisciplinary scholarship but will, in fact, further this groundbreaking work by connecting researchers to library resources in, as yet, unmapped ways.”

Currently, Gross serves on the Boston Library Consortium’s board of directors, finance committee (chair), and heads of resource sharing committee (board liaison) as well as the treasurer of the BLC’s executive committee. Gross has also served on the Department of Higher Education’s Open Educational Resources Advisory Council.

Prior to her work at UMass Dartmouth, Gross served first as the Head Cataloger and later as the Assistant Head Librarian for New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, where she oversaw the Institute’s initial cataloging effort and helped to design, implement, and manage its operations, public services, and digital projects. Before her career in libraries, Gross also worked for nearly 20 years managing retail bookstores.

Gross earned an undergraduate degree in fine arts from New York University and a master of library and information science degree from Long Island University.

Featured Tutorial: Citing Business Sources

If you need help citing sources for your research projects or class assignments, Pardee librarians have created a Citing Business Sources tutorial with sample Chicago Style, MLA Style and APA Style citations. The Chicago Manual of Style is also available online.

If you have any questions, please contact us at pardstf@bu.edu.

Featured Resource: Policy Map

Policy Map is a wonderful database for Education data available through the BU Libraries. An easy-to-use online mapping and visualization tool, the database provides downloadable U.S. demographic, economic and social data by city, state, zip code, county, or census tract. Look for the Education menu option near the top of the screen to see the various data available in this topic, including;

• School Performance (data from GreatSchools.org);
• School District Performance;
• Student Loan Debt;
• Educational Attainment;
• and many other variables.

Other top menu options include crime, housing, health, and occupations. The data currently includes more than 37,000 indicators and has been derived from public and proprietary sources.

Business Research Guides

As you work on your final projects for the semester, we wanted to remind you that Pardee Library has several Research Guides, Tutorials and Course Guides available to assist with your research. For example, if you need help researching a business topic such as entrepreneurship, take a look at the Entrepreneurship and New Ventures guide. For helpful instructions on how and where to find financial information, check out the Financial Databases Overview tutorial or the Ratios tutorial. As for course guides, we currently have several, including SM323 Library Portal, SM131: Business, Ethics, and the Creation of Value, SM275: Management Communications, and Online MBA.

If you have any questions, or need help with your research, please contact us at pardstf@bu.edu.

How to Find Harvard Business Review Articles

If you are looking for Harvard Business Review articles, a good way to locate them is through the eJournals search tool of BU Libraries Search.

In a few steps, you can determine if we have access to the Harvard Business Review article that you need:

1. Search for "Harvard Business Review"in eJournals.
2. Click “Online Access Available”on the Harvard Business Review listing.
3. Select “Business Source Complete.”
4. Browse issues by the publication date or use "search within this publication" to locate items by article title, author name, keyword, etc.

BU Libraries currently has access to Harvard Business Review, an online version of the monthly print publication, as well as Harvard Business Review Digital Articles, a selection of articles published on the HBR website, but not included in the monthly journal. By the way, Harvard Business School Case Studies is a separate publication from Harvard Business Review and HBS cases are not available through BU Libraries.

Through the library's PressReader subscription, we also have access to recent issues of Harvard Business Review (China).

If you have trouble finding a particular Harvard Business Review article, it is possible that it is not part of our collection. If you need assistance, please contact us at pardstf@bu.edu.

New eBook: Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers

Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers
Edited by Conra D. Gist and Travis J. Bristol

This major new release has more than 70 chapters and 1000 pages. Several opening and closing chapters accompany these 11 sections:

• Recruitment
• Program Design
• Minority-Serving Institutions
• Human Resource Development and Induction
• Mentorship
• Professional Development
• Intersectionality
• Educational Impact
• Pedagogical and Leadership Practices
• Retention
• Policy

This book is now featured on the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies research guide.  For more helpful online resources, please consult the complete list of Education Research Guides.

If you need help with your research, please feel free to contact us via our Ask a Librarian service, where you can also browse and search Frequently Asked Questions.

Featured Resource: Mintel Academic

Mintel Academic contains hundreds of consumer market reports in a broad range of industry sectors and provides analysis of consumer characteristics, market size, supply chain, and trends. Our subscription primarily covers products and markets in the United States. Each report combines data and analysis of the competitive landscape and consumer profiles. To create graphs with Mintel data, check out our Mintel Graphing Tutorial.

For additional industry reports, use our Industry Survey Locator. This tool can help you find many reports, including IBISWorld, Marketline, and many others.

If you need help with your research, please contact us at pardstf@bu.edu.

Featured Resource: CB Insights

CB Insights tracks global venture capital, angel investment, private equity, M&A, and IPO activity related to private companies. The database may be found through the Pardee Library Business Databases: A-Z list. Access to CB Insights requires that you create an individual account using your BU email address. Remote access requires using the VPN.

If you need help creating your account or searching this database, please contact us at pardstf@bu.edu.

Featured eBook: Mobile Media Learning

Featured Resource

Mobile Media Learning: Amazing Uses of Mobile Devices for Learning
Seann Dikkers, John Martin, Bob Coulter et al.

This free eBook contains chapters that highlight "innovative uses of mobile technology for learning".  Most of the chapters include a description of an educational implementation of a game or app.  There are games about biology, history, language learning, and ethnography.  Another two chapters make up a section entitled "Build Your Own", which describe tools or methods for beginning such a project.

For more resources on this topic try keywords such as educational technology, mobile or cell phones, and learning in BU Libraries Search.