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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Businesses rely on statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau supplies many of them, but business librarians also rely on them for all sorts of questions.
Posted in: Business, Census and Statistics
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Read about Herman Hollerith and his contribution to the Census.
Posted in: Business, Census and Statistics, Inventions
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The rather curious title of this post comes in part from a serial title, but doesn’t really do justice to what is actually in the publication. That job is left to the publication’s full title which does a better job of letting readers know what to expect. The full title is Ready Reference Book for …
Posted in: Business, Census and Statistics, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Wouldn’t it be great to have a feature on your website that could translate your online content into another language with the blink of an eye? Well, that wish has finally been granted. Earlier this month Science.gov released a Spanish version of its website – Ciencia.Science.gov. This initiative is truly amazing and inspiring. Government science …
Posted in: Census and Statistics
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This year we are commemorating the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. The Library recently debuted the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, and after spending time looking at those photographs, I thought it would be interesting to write a blog post featuring business-related resources that illuminate the lives of the people living in the …
Posted in: Business, Census and Statistics, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Yes, this is a picture of a chart and not of something pretty in the Adams Building; but since I love charts and thought this one was fun, I wanted to share it with the readers of Inside Adams. I found it at the same time I found the publication Mida’s Criterion featured in last …
Posted in: Business, Census and Statistics, Favorites From the Fifth Floor, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Guest blogger today is business reference librarian Ellen Terrell Many Americans may think Labor Day as the end of summer or a day of rest, parades, picnics, or store sales. Labor Day is so much more. The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882 at the behest of the Central Labor …
Posted in: Business, Census and Statistics, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, Labor
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Today’s post is from our new business blogger-Ellen Terrell. I will be publishing her posts until her account is set up. It’s “that time of year” again. The time of year that either delights or bums out kids all over the country–the beginning of the school year. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has …
Posted in: Business, Census and Statistics
Posted by: Donna Scanlon
Aileen M. J. Marshall, our summer intern here in Business Reference is our guest author today. There are a lot of questions that come to us through our Ask a Librarian service and last week I had the opportunity to work on a question where the patron needed information on whether men were performing …
Posted in: Business, Census and Statistics, Favorites From the Fifth Floor