An experiment

This blog for me is more of my personal sandbox to try different things out. I don't see this as my soapbox where I can flex some imagined journalistic skills. Nor do I see this as my private journal that's open to everyone. I think those are the two main reasons people blog and I'm not really here for either of those reasons. I'm hear to see what you can post on this platform and how difficult/ time-consuming it is to post different things in this format.

The purpose of this post is to see how well a post on new titles works on a blog. Listed below are the new titles that our School of Management ordered for the Fall semester. On Monday I'll be downloading the bibliographic records from OCLC, updating OCLC to say our library has these books (you know for ILL and general searches in Worldcat), and setting up orders for the book. Before I do that I also wanted to take the list and post it in a blog format to see:

1. how much work it would take to write this post
2. how useful it is to have the information gathered in one place
3. if this would work as some form of marketing that collection services could provide to the selectors
4. the benefits of having this list in electronic form with links for others to purchase
5. to see if I'm missing any other benefits of putting this kind of information online for anyone to find

If this isn't too much work and seems to have value I might start posting more lists of new titles that I am ordering for our library.

So here's the list of titles that you will be able to borrow from the Simmons School of Management Library at the beginning of the Fall 2008 semester.

• Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff


• A Global Summary of Common Body of Knowledge 2006 from the IIA Research Foundation


• Gender and Diversity in Management: A Concise Introduction by Caroline Gatrell and Elaine Swan


• Women in Management and Life Cycle: Aspects that Limit or Promote Getting to the Top by Alicia Kaufmann


• Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People into Extraordinary Performers by Erika Andersen


• The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas by Robert Frank


• Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Economic Development by Benjamin Powell


• Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are by Rob Walker


• Science Lessons: What the Business of Biotech Taught Me About Management by Gordon Binder and Philip Bashe


• Culturally Sensitive Models of Family Businesses Worldwide by Vipin Gupta, Nancy Levenburg, Lynda Moore, Jaideep Motwani, and Thomas Schwartz


• Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman


• Brand Engagement by Ian Buckingham


• The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crash of 2008 and What It Means by George Soros


• Queen of the Oil Club: The Intrepid Wanda Jablonski and the Power of Information by Anna Rubino


• Fundraising Analytics: Using Data to Guide Strategy by Joshua M. Birkholz


• What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management by Jeffrey Pfeffer


• Your Attention Please : How to Appeal to Today's Distracted, Disinterested, Disengaged, Disenchanted, and Busy Consumer by Paul B. Brown and Alison Davis


• Bet You Didn't Know by Cheryl Russell


• A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World by William J. Bernstein


• Keep Your Donors: The Guide to Better Communications & Stronger Relationships by Tom Ahern and Simone Joyaux


• The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company by David A. Price


• Why Women Mean Business: Understanding the Emergence of our next Economic Revolution by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox and Alison Maitland


• Megacommunities : How Leaders of Government, Business and Non-Profits Can Tackle Today's Global Challenges Together by Reginald Van Lee, Mark Gerencser, Fernando Napolitano, and Christopher Kelly


• Billions of Entrepreneurs : How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures--and Yours byTarun Khanna


• Small Loans, Big Dreams : How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World by Alex Counts


• A Mother's Work : How Feminism, the Market, and Policy Shape Family Life by Neil Gilbert


• Keys to Reading an Annual Report by Ralph E. Welton Ph. D., G. Thomas Friedlob, and George T. Friedlob Ph. D.


• An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata by Christopher Baum


• Data Analysis Using Stata by Ulrich Kohlerand Frauke Kreuter


• The Coming China Wars : Where They Will Be Fought and how They Can Be Won by Peter Navarro


• A Class with Drucker : The Lost Lessons of the World's Greatest Management Teacher by William Cohen


• Tupperware Unsealed by Bob Keeling


• High Performance with High Integrity by Ben W. Heineman, Jr.


• Good Guys and Bad Guys : Behind the Scenes with the Saints and Scoundrels of American Business (and Everything in Between) by Joe Nocera


• When Markets Collide : Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change by Mohamed El-Erian


• Latino Talent: Effective Strategies to Recruit, Retain and Develop Hispanic Professionals by Robert Rodriguez

Reference Titles

• American Attitudes : What Americans Think about the Issues That Shape Their Lives


• Demographics of the United States by Cheryl Russell


• Who's Buying Apparel


• Who's Buying Alcoholic and Nonalcoholic Beverages


• Who's Buying Household Furnishings, Services and Supplies


• Who's Buying Information


• American Incomes


• Household Spending


• Millennials: Americans Born 1977 to 1994


• Generation X: Americans Born 1965 to 1976


• Baby Boom: Americans Born 1946 to 1964


• Older Americans:A Changing Market