Call for Reviewers: Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship
Are you interested in authoring book reviews for future issues of the Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship? If so, please contact me directly by email (gxm22@psu.edu)
In your message, please indicate your areas of expertise or interest (such as finance, marketing, or specific industries, etc) and include your postal mailing address. As the new book review editor, I look forward to welcoming new reviewers and working with established JBFL reviewers.
Regards,
Glenn
About the Journal (from Haworth Press):
The Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship is an innovative quarterly journal that provides you with useful articles about the creation, organization, dissemination, retrieval, and use of business information. This refereed journal covers the business information needs of special libraries, academic libraries, and public libraries, as well as information services and centers outside of the traditional library setting. You'll find that the journal is international in scope, reflecting the multinational and international scope of the business community today.
The immediate focus of the journal is practice-oriented articles, but it also provides an outlet for new empirical studies on business librarianship and business information. Aside from articles, this journal offers valuable statistical and meeting reports, literature and media reviews, Web site reviews, and interviews.
Recent issues of the Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship have covered topics such as:
• political risk and country risk, some of the factors and methods used in foreign country risk analysis, and a variety of political risk sources
• the structure of the National Trade Data Bank, a comparison of the three versions of it currently on the market, and detailed descriptions of many of the database's most useful programs
• how and why intranets developed and how they can be used as strategic business tools that empower an organization to meet its corporate vision
• an analysis of the public rankings of in Canadian business periodicals and a retrieval tool for such information
• an effective and practical way to get business students familiar with various library resources
• a selective review of some of the business dictionaries in print
Special thematic issues of the journal have covered:
• Marketing Information
• The Core Business Web
• Distance Learning Librarianship
Product Details:
ISSN: 0896-3568 Electronic - ISSN: 1547-0644 SKU: J109v13
Current Volume:
Volume 13, No. 1¬Fall 2007.
Volume 14, No. 1¬Fall 2008. Quarterly (4 issues per volume).
Glenn S. McGuigan
Book Review Editor, Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship
Business & Public Administration Reference Librarian
Penn State Harrisburg Library
351 Olmsted Drive
Middletown, PA 17057-4850
Phone: 717-948-6078 / Email: gxm22@psu.edu / IM: GlennPSHLibrary
