Kara Gust is the newest member of the Business Library team, filling Sue Shultz's previous position. She will be overseeing collections in and providing instruction for Advertising, Marketing & Supply Chain Management, and Management. Kara is new to the Business Library, but not to the MSU Libraries. For the past three years, she has worked in the Main Library as Assistant Instruction Coordinator, providing instruction to numerous WRAC classes and a variety of orientations and resource fairs. She earned her BS in English, with a minor in Business, from Central Michigan University and her MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Please don't hesitate to contact her with any questions at 432-4182 or gustk@msu.edu

We now have trials of three databases through Euromonitor. Trials end June 23, 2006. We strongly encourage your feedback on these databases by posting to the blog or contacting the Business Library.

Country Insight: provides in-depth analysis of the economic, political, social and demographic trends for over 70 countries and regions. Contains articles, graphs, charts, and country profiles with background economic and political data and analysis.

Global Consumer Trend Monitoring: provides articles and strategy briefings on emerging trends in 37 national markets. Tracks trends shaping consumer attitudes, opinions, activities, and spending habits. Also tracks trends by age (including infants, kids, tweenagers, and teens), lifestyle, gender, and income/economic groups.

Packaging Database: provides global and national statistical data and reports on packaging trends analyzed by industry (food, beverage, non-food) and by pack type. Also includes market performance and influences, forecasts, and profiles of the largest and fastest growing packaging companies.

Click here for trial information and access.

For further details, please contact the Business Library.

Among the treasures of the environmental information domain are the crown “jewels” of the EPA National Library Network. This national collection of regional, research, and operational libraries in the Environmental Protection Agency was created in 1971 and set into being in 1972. Since then the EPA Library Network has grown and evolved and serves as the information hub of the agency whose mission is “to protect human health and the environment”. This unique library network maintains special collections of reports, journals, monographs, government documents, and other resources. Professional staff provide a myriad of reference and referral services, database instruction, data and information searching, and outreach services for EPA employees engaged in research, policy, enforcement, and outreach programs. These same services are also provided for the public at-large. The thread running among these entities is their common need for access to critical environmental data and information that is provided efficiently, effectively, economically, and equitably.

For the full editorial, see Fred Stoss, Protecting Public Access to Environmental Information and Saving the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Libraries, Electronic Green Journal, Issue 23, Spring 2003.

For a related article, see EPA Closing Its Midwest Library

Selected web sites of interest to government documents librarians or government information specialists gathered during May 2006 for Red Tape. Enjoy!

1. After-School Programs and Activities: 2005
2. Americans with Disabilities: 2002
3. Americas Families and Living Arrangements: 2005
4. Biosecurity for the Birds
5. Congresspedia
6. Detention and Removal of Illegal Aliens
7. Digest of Education Statistics, 2004
8. Global Legal Monitor
9. Government Access to Phone Calling Activity and Related Records: Legal Authorities
10. Immigration Enforcement Within the United States
11. Immigration Statistics on the Web
12. In Focus : IAEA and Iran
13. Investigation of Gasoline Price Manipulation and Post-Katrina Gasoline Price Increases
14. Library of Michigan : Library Development & Data Services (LDDS) Division
15. Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq
16. Michigan Department of Transportation Daily Lane Closure Reports
17. Military Power of the Peoples Republic of China : 2006 Annual Report to Congress
18. NAEP Science 2005 State Snapshot Reports, plus link to Michigan State Report
19. National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza : Implementation Plan
20. Read Government Documents
21. Report of the Special Examination of Fannie Mae
22. Student Financing of Graduate and First-Professional Education: 2003-04
23. Visible Proofs : Forensic Views of the Body
24. 2006 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic

The United Nations released the 2006 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic on May 30th. This annual report examines the spread of AIDS globally, reporting on AIDS prevalence, treatment, and funding for UN member states. For a quick overview of this 500-page report, take a look at the press release. For country profiles retrieve the report and scroll down to Annex 1 and choose the letter of the country you are interested in. Source: University of Colorado Boulder Government Publications Blog, May 30, 2006.