Entrepreneurship takes center stage at Marymount Library

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." 

- Peter Drucker

This month Marymount Library is emphasizing all things entrepreneurial. This includes showcasing library resources for entrepreneurs available both electronically and in print.  Here are a few of the resources we have on this exciting topic:

 Books:  We have several entrepreneur books, including: Bill Gates Business @ the Speed of Thought, The Search for Social Entrepreneurship, and The Entrepreneur Next Door. These titles represent just a small sample of the more than hundreds  available resources on this subject in our catalog.

eBooks:  We have several about entrepreneurship that are available electronically through the library. Titles include: In The Name of Entrepreneurship, Linking Entrepreneurship Education to Graduate Education, and Making Ecopreneurs: Developing Sustainable Entrepreneurship. The library has access to over 1,200 eBooks related to entrepreneurship available through ebrary.

We also have access to over 300 audio/visual items on the subject of entrepreneurship available through streaming via Films on Demand. Film titles like Eco-preneurs: business goes green, Capitalize on your Investment: Veterans in Business, still serving America, and Collaborative Entrepreneurship, represent just a few to choose from. All of these great resources can be found via the library catalog.

e-Resources:  You have access to multiple databases for finding business related information, including company profiles (e.g. Hoover's, First Research, Lexis Nexis); industry data and statistics; (e.g. Statistica, Statistical Insight); and databases for business reference and news (e.g. Business Source Elite, Credo Reference, ProQuest Library: Business).                    

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This library's recognition of Entrepreneurship also coincides with Marymount California's partnership with the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce in bringing you the Munch & Learn lecture: Five Qualities of Successful Entrepreneurs. This lecture is on Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 11:45 am to 1:00 pm. Information on the event can be found at here.

Marymount Library Adds Over 3,800 New E-Books

Marymount Library has recently added over 3,8000 scholarly titles to its growing collection of e-books.  The new titles are available on the ebrary platform and are from over 150 publishers including University of Oxford University Press, North Carolina Press, De Grutyer, University of Pennsylvania Press, and many more.

With the recent addition, Marymount Library now provides access to over 85,000 e-books available to students, faculty and staff 24/7.  In addition to round the clock, anywhere access, this growing collection of e-books enables the Library to provide access to far more titles than is possible with physical books.  If the newly added e-books were acquired as physical books, the Library would need at least another 110 shelves to house them all.


Some of the new titles include:

  
Lessons from the Identity Trail, by Ian Kerr, Carole Lucock, and Valerie Steeves (Oxford UP, 2009).

http://site.ebrary.com/lib/marymountpv/docDetail.action?docID=10476908







America's Four Gods, by Paul Froese and Christopher Bader (Oxford UP, 2010).

http://site.ebrary.com/lib/marymountpv/docDetail.action?docID=10416912

The American West at Risk, by Howard G. Wilson, Jane E. Nielson, Richard W. Hazlett (Oxford UP, 2008).

http://site.ebrary.com/lib/marymountpv/docDetail.action?docID=10229917

Dude, where's my ebook?

If you use the Library's catalog to discover and access ebooks, please be advised that some ebooks from one of the Library's ebook collections may temporarily not be discoverable in the Library catalog.  However, this collection (called ebrary) and the 80,000+ ebooks in it are still accessible to all students, faculty and staff by using the ebrary search engine.

Access to this collection via the Library catalog is expected to be restored by the end of the year.  Ebooks from other platforms, including Ebook Library Catalogue, Credo Reference, and EBSCO, are not affected and remain discoverable via the catalog.  If you have any questions about finding or using any ebooks in the Library, please ask a librarian.