Library Corner
Vault Online Career Library Now Available
JIU students now have access to a cutting-edge career resource: the Vault Online Career Library.
Available through Jones e-global library®, the Vault Online Career Library is the union of Vault’s in-depth print book content and Vault.com, which was recently referred to by Fortune magazine as “the best place on the Web to prepare for a job search.”
The Vault library contains unique resources that include:
- Downloadable, full-length career guides - Vault's award-winning career guides, including interview strategies, job-search tips, insider information on careers in specific industries and more. Industry Career Guides feature areas such as Marketing & Brand Management, Investment Banking, Venture Capital, Starting Your Own Business and Top 50 Consulting Firms.
- Over 3,000 insider company snapshots - Vault's full-length profiles of companies and leading industries.
- Industry overviews - Industry overviews bring you inside top industries, from investment management to manufacturing. Find out details on career paths, salary ranges, industry outlooks and more.
- Occupational profiles - The career outlook for top career paths, as well as input from current professionals.
- Over 2,000,000 message postings - Open forums for networking and discussing career issues and related concerns on our Electronic Watercooler™.
- Over 1,100 Vault career advice articles - Organized into categories like résumés, interviews, internships and more.
To explore this amazing new resource, look on the left-side navigation bar within e-global library.
Electronic Books
Did you know we have a sizable collection of electronic books? The ebrary Academic Complete Collection found within e-global library contains more than 30,000 full-text books covering multiple subject areas.
This collection of electronic books can be helpful to you not only in your studies, but in your personal and professional lives. The entire collection is searchable by keyword, full-text, publisher or author. It is, of course, available to you 24/7, and saves you the trouble of checking out and returning books. In fact, you can create your own Personal Bookshelf to automatically save highlights, notes and bookmarks as you conduct research.
Here’s a sample of just a few of the titles in the collection:
Business, Marketing and Economics
Managing Successful IT Outsourcing Relationships, Petter Gottschalk (IRM Press, 2005)
A Concise Introduction to Econometrics: An Intuitive Guide, Philip Hans Franses (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Advances in Electronic Marketing, Irvine Clarke III and Theresa B. Flaherty (Idea Group, Inc., 2005)
Strategies That Win Sales: Best Practices of the World’s Leading Organizations, Mark Marone (Dearborn Trade, 2005)
Education
Creating an Inclusive School, 2nd Edition, edited by Richard A. Villa and Jacqueline A. Thousand (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), 2005)
The Foundation Stage Teacher in Action: Teaching 3, 4, and 5-Year-Olds, 3rd Edition, Margaret Edgington (Paul Chapman Publishing, 2005)
How Students Learn: Mathematics in the Classroom, Suzanne M. Donovan, et al. (National Academy Press, 2005)
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1967, 3rd Edition, William B. Quandt (Brookings Institution Press, 2005)
Counseling and the Life Course, Leonie Sugarman (Sage Publications, 2004)
Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics: Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data, 8th Edition, edited by Eva E. (Bernan Press, 2005)
Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas, Gananath Obeyesekere (University of California Press, 2005)
To access this wonderful collection of books, enter e-global library and click on “Electronic Books.” You will need to download the ebrary Reader in order to read the books.
