Invest in your financial future @ Money Smart Week
If you are getting ready to graduate, then move into that first job and have not thought about planning for retirement, this is your wake-up call. Similarly, if you are graduating and have considered how to start planning for retirement, this is your opportunity. Wondering how to start a personal budget – no problem! We have answers for you. During the week of April 23-30, the libraries will be celebrating Money Smart Week. What is Money Smart Week you ask? Money Smart Week was started by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and continued as a partnership with the...
Discovering Archives
Recently a family discovered not one, but seven rare baseball trading cards of Ty Cobb in their grandfather’s attic. The cards are more than a century old and may be worth a million dollars. Wow, if all discoveries were this financially rewarding. Not as financially rewarding, but still generating amazement were the discoveries of Dr. Beth Barr’s HIS 1307 students as they examined the archives of the archaeologist Dame Kathleen Kenyon. Dame Kenyon was instrumental in excavations in the Holy Land and her work excavating the mound in Jericho resulted in a book which “largely rewrote the history of ancient...
Finding demographics — It’s easier than you think!
Having to search for demographics can cause some people to have a meltdown and just totally avoid the task all together. But it can be easier than you think if you know the right tools to use. Knowing how to navigate the Census Bureau can be a life saver whether you are a student looking for information for a business plan or the average business person and knowing the right places to look can make this easier than you think. One super easy way to go is to use the American FactFinder. This can be found a couple of...
Score with sports info using SBRnet
So, how many people watched an NFL game during the year? How does this compare to baseball? What is the gender breakdown for NFL or MLB fans? Median age for these folks? Sounds like interesting or challenging questions to answer? The library has a resource that can help you should sports related questions come your way. SBRnet is the leading source for sports market analytics. Whether you are looking for information on major league sports or the lesser known sports such as Lacrosse, inline skating, billiards or skateboarding, SBRnet contains statistics, news items and special features on professional, college...