ON DISPLAY: The Department of Business Administration

"A lot of problems in today’s economy are due to the Christian community disengaging itself from business or seeing business as secular, not a ministry. The reality is that we are ambassadors and servants for Christ. The workplace is our mission field..."
--Drs. Lay and Boyce

The latest in the library's Bring Your World Into Our World series features the Department of Business Administration. Come peruse recommended readings and descriptions of major areas taught,
as well as a few stand-out student products (be sure to listen to the commercials!). 

Also on display are items related to Sigma Beta Delta, the international honor society for students of Business, Management, and Administration; and SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise), an international organization that encourages students to be involved in community-building efforts. 

Coming soon to the display: play a game of Monopoly!

Just The Order of Things: 
New Item Ordering Procedure

Due to the recent upswing in requests for new materials for the library, and in order to foster better communication between the library and the faculty, we have instituted a new ordering procedure:

To order materials for the library, please send your requests via e-mail to:
Vonnie Johnson (johnsovo@bryan.edu)
and copy Polly Revis (revispo@bryan.edu).

You will receive an e-mail confirmation from Vonnie when your requests are approved for collection, at which point they will be placed in the ordering queue. Please help us prioritize our ordering process by indicating at least one of the following:

• you will be using them for a class,
• they should be considered RUSH priority,* or 
• you are simply requesting that they be added to our collection

If you wish to be notified when the materials are available for checkout, be sure to specify that in your e-mail. Please be advised that the ordering/ processing turnaround time may take up to several weeks.

*To ensure that the requested item is ready by a particular date, we need to have the order at least six (6) weeks in advance.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Day of Prayer, February 18: The library will be closed until 1pm.

Director’s ALA Midwinter Trip
Director of Library Services, Dr. Gary Fitsimmons attended the American Library Association’s Midwinter meeting in Boston, MA Jan. 15-18. The first event was a reception sponsored by Lyrasis, our regional library support network collaborative at the Boston Athenaeum library, which features the personal library of George Washington as well as other rare books. Saturday’s sessions included vendors unveiling new products, committee meetings, and time spent in the exhibit hall visiting with literally hundreds of vendors and learning about their products and services. Sunday brought the opportunity of hearing more about libraries as publishers, more vendor updates and time in the exhibition hall, and diner with other CCCU librarians. Monday was spent waiting in the airport for a delayed flight and making a mad dash to a connecting flight in Chicago.

All things considered, the meeting was a productive time of networking, discussing, and learning  with a little history and adventure thrown in just for fun.