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Global Café Tues 10/19

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Barbara

The Center for Global Education‘s monthly Global Café series will kick off Tues., Oct. 19th, from 5-6pm in Andersen Library’s big-screen TV area (near the Food for Thought café). Topics on Oct 19 will be financial aid/scholarships for study abroad, … Continue reading →

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Economic Data for Free? Yes, Please.

Posted on April 22, 2010 by kyle

I confess. I’m a sucker for free stuff. More specifically, I like finding credible, well-respected information freely available online. So when the World Bank announced that they were opening up their statistical resources for free, you can imagine that I’m … Continue reading →

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Global Café

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Barbara

Did you know? There’s a monthly Global Café Series @Jitters (1st floor Wells). Today, March 9th, at 7pm the topic is Ireland. Andersen Library has resources on cross-cultural communication and travel. Search HALCat, the online catalog, for books or videos, … Continue reading →

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New Stuff Tuesday – January 26

Posted on January 26, 2010 by kyle

This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff HB3722 .R45 2009 New Book Island, 2nd floor The financial crisis that we are experiencing: it’s unlike every other economic crash that we’ve ever known, … Continue reading →

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The Global Struggle

Posted on June 10, 2009 by kyle

I feel like the majority of what I blog about is the economy and trying to come up with synonyms for recession. I guess that as the business librarian, it is expected of me. America is not alone in the … Continue reading →

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State Dept.’s State magazine

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Barbara

State, the U.S. State Dept.’s glossy monthly magazine, is aimed at Dept. employees at home or abroad, but it’s available online to everyone, including prospective employees wanting to know more about the Dept. There’s a lot of news that’s not … Continue reading →

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Doing business in India

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Barbara

Swethaa Ballakrishnen, a research fellow at the Harvard Law School and an expert on international law, will speak on opportunities and pitfalls of doing business in India on Thursday, March 5th, at noon in the University Center, room 69. If … Continue reading →

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New Stuff Tuesday – October 28

Posted on October 28, 2008 by kyle

Culture and Customs series: Greenwood Press New Book Island, 2nd floor and Main Collection, 3rd floor One of the recurring themes for research projects every year is to write about a country. As nice as it would be to just … Continue reading →

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Thinking about study abroad?

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Barbara

If you are looking into study abroad, there are resources in your University Library that can help, providing information about travel, customs and etiquette, social conditions, etc., in other countries. For example, search the Library Catalog for books. A “keyword” … Continue reading →

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