(pic courtesy of Trader Daily)

Glenn Graham was named one of Trader Daily's "Top 30 Under 30", meaning the top young traders under the age of 30. Glenn graduated in finance and accounting from the College of Business in 2006, and he was a student assistant in BEL. He once said that BEL was one of the best jobs in his life because we had so many databases and publications he could peruse for his career search and projects he had to do for classes.

Indeed, he used Investment Dealer's Digest and Futures magazine to do an independent job search for a summer internship, and landed a spot at Allston Investment in Chicago. He performed so well that he was offered a permanent position at the end of his internship.

BEL's hours are for the fall:

8:30a-10:00p M-Thur
8:30a-5:00p Fri
1:00-5:00p Saturday
1:00-10:00p Sunday

Career workshops coming next month! Stay tuned.

Today the College of Business opened their new Business Instructional Facility for classes. The building is not completely finished, but classes have started in there. It is the first "green" building on campus. The building is fondly called "BIF".

Dean Larry DeBrock had a special welcome for faculty and staff to get a look around the building. BELlog was told the ceiling was made of teak as it was conducive for indoor and outdoor use.

Here's a link to the FAQs about the building.

The official opening celebration will be held in mid-October. Stay tuned.

Accounting
Finance
Insurance
Real Estate

Hats off to the College of Business!

Congratulations, Carissa!

Belloger Becky Smith will be on sabbatical from January 16-April 15th. Please direct reference inquiries to Yoo-Seong Song, Acting Head of BEL, or to Carissa Holler, Business & Finance Librarian.

As always, happy searching.

CNBC, the unit held by General Electric's NBC Universal, and The New York Times plan to share material on their Web sites, The New York Times reported. The Times will carry CNBC video and CNBC will use articles from The Times, the report said. The deal unites the main competitive targets of News Corp's Fox Business Network and The Wall Street Journal, the report added. MarketWatch, the publisher of this report, also is owned by News Corp.

Just in time for holiday searches: SimplyMap is here.

In Online Resource Research page, it is listed as one word: SimplyMap.

If you are a UIUC researcher, please e-mail bel@library.uiuc.edu with directions on how to set up your own account. It is not available outside of UIUC.

Also, it works best in IE.

Additionally for your searching pleasure:

International Directory of Company Histories, and Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries, both online, no seat restrictions on those.

BNA--the suite of employment, tax, and others, available via proxy server. Again, only for UIUC researchers.

I'm not certain if that works off campus, but certainly it does on campus.

Forthcoming: EconLitPlus text.

BEL will be closed next week and will reopen January 31st.

As always, happy searching!

Be safe in your journeys, wherever you may be going!

Virtual world Second Life's chief technology officer -- a colorful Navy veteran who delights in mocking creationism -- has resigned.

Cory Ondrejka, employee No. 4 at San Francisco-based Linden Lab, which owns Second Life, quit Tuesday and will depart at the end of the year.

Ondrejka helped write the computer code that underpins the popular virtual world. Second Life is a 3D Internet destination where users create, buy and sell fantastic islands inhabited by virtual characters, or avatars.

Read the rest here.

Richard F. Zannino, Dow Jones’s chief executive, will leave the company after staying for a time to help with the transition, Dow Jones announced yesterday.

People briefed on the matter said that both Mr. Zannino and L. Gordon Crovitz, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, would be succeeded by trusted lieutenants of Rupert Murdoch soon after the takeover was complete.

Executives at both companies say there will be a broader sweep of the upper echelon at Dow Jones in the next few weeks, both to eliminate duplication and to make way for Mr. Murdoch’s people.

Daniel L. Doctoroff was to have been the Robert Moses of the Bloomberg era, a bold visionary who would guide a sweeping revitalization of New York and put to rest the notion that the age of building big had ended.

But now, as Mr. Doctoroff ends his tenure as the longest-serving deputy mayor for economic development, much of his agenda remains unrealized, despite his many achievements.

Mr. Doctoroff, 49, announced yesterday that he would resign at the end of the year and become president of Bloomberg L.P. in February.

BEL will closed for the remainder of fall break, November 22-24. On November 25, we will open at regular Sunday hours, 1-10 pm.

On behalf of the BEL staff, Happy Thanksgiving and hope your holiday journeys, wherever they may be, are safe, restful, and joyful.

Microsoft says it has fired its chief information officer, Stuart Scott, for "violation of company policies", but declined to give details.

Mr Scott oversaw the use of computers, software and networks by the US software giant's 80,000 employees.

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