The faculty book ordering process is changing!
Book orders
Choice Review cards are being discontinued by the company. But fear not! There are other ways to learn about and request new books. One of the best sources of information is Choice Reviews, which offers timely reviews on scholarly titles. We will announce more details on a new ordering process shortly, but in the meantime the library continues to accept orders in the form of lists from Books in Print, links to records in Amazon or a publisher catalog, or simple email requests. Keep sending them in!
Book budgets
We are also simplifying budget allocations. The library will no longer designate a specific budget amount to each department. Simply make your requests without worrying about the math.
Faculty book orders are a key component to building the Buhl Library collection. Thank you for continuing to identify key titles for purchase!
Got a great idea for a product or service? Will the next great invention be yours? Unfortunately, even the best ideas can be a flop if there aren’t enough customers who need your solution. Market research can help. Using available data sources, you can learn more about:
Where can I start learning about my potential customers?
Buhl Library has access to lots of great resources, but one of the best for learning about your customers is Passport GMID. This versatile tool provides access to timely information about megatrends, consumer values, and consumer behavior. Wonder if your customers want free shipping? Need to know how much they use technology? Passport GMID can help.
To gather data on your consumers’ preferences, how many potential customers you have, and the competition, you can’t beat Statista. Offering millions of statistics on behaviors, attitudes, markets, companies, brands, and products, Statista provides access to quality data on topics ranging from autonomous vehicles to Ziplocs.
Who is my competition?
While both Passport GMID and Statista offer insight into the competition, you may also want to check out Business Source Premier and Mergent Intellect. Each of these databases provides reports detailing individual companies and whole industries to help you gauge who the competition is and the information that you need to know to compete.
Want to see that math in action? Check out this infographic on estimating statistics!
Statista is an amazing source for all kinds of statistical information! This site brings together data from over 22,500 sources across many topics and makes it easily usable. You can:
Getting started in Statista is easy! You can search by keyword and then browse results or utilize filters to focus on statistics, reports, or insights. You can also use the tabs at the top of the screen to jump right into different categories and options. For more information on using Statista, check out our video.
Fun with Statista!
Here are some fun seasonal statistics mined from Statista.
Thanksgiving is the most popular holiday in the US, beating out both Christmas and Memorial Day by the slimmest of margins.
The debate is perhaps resolved. Statista reports that real trees have lower greenhouse gas emissions than fake trees.
The Mayan calendar predicted that the world would end on December 21, 2012. Amazingly, in a survey earlier that year 12% of Americans believed this would be true.
Only 13% of Americans make music or sing together on Christmas Day. 19% play board games and 50% watch some TV.
1% of Americans hang their Christmas lights in September. Almost half do so before the beginning of December. How many lights are up in your neighborhood?
Home Alone is the most-watched Christmas film in the US, with 87% of people surveyed having seen it. How the Grinch Stole Christmas came in 2nd.
Good luck, Parker!
Buhl Library bids a fond farewell to Parker Miller, a student worker since spring 2022, who is graduating this month. If you are a library night owl, you know Parker! He spends many late hours in the library either working the desk or studying, and he is also one of the library’s top book borrowers. After graduation Parker will be attending CROSS CON and then beginning a journalism internship at the Washington Examiner in DC, with graduate studies in Japanese history likely further down the road. Best of luck, Parker!
Here are some of your favorite holiday classics among the Buhl books and DVDs. And be sure to check out the seasonal displays coming in the next few weeks in the library!
This month's poll!
Will you be the next Thomas Edison or Steve Jobs? Keep reading to learn how library resources can help your invention find a market!
Don't forget! There is still time to contribute before the December 6th deadline.
Buhl Library is once again coordinating a Stockings for Veterans event on campus, in partnership with GCC Mortar Board and the local Rose and Black Funeral Home. Stockings filled with personal care items will be distributed to homeless veterans at area shelters at the holidays.
Please participate! You or your campus group can sign up to fill a whole stocking, or you can contribute travel-size toiletries and other items by bringing them to the library or to the bookstore (you can purchase items there too!).
Visit the event website for more details, including recommended items. December 6th is coming up fast!
"Few things are more important to students’ education than the need to think independently, critically, and evaluatively. For it is not what you know, but how you gained the information and your ability to evaluate it."
from Hamme, Richard. The myth of education in America : students should be taught how to think, not what to think. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. Buhl Library LB1590.3 .H363 2022
Staff Updates
Kim Marks, Assistant Director of Library Services, will be serving as one of the co-chairs of the College’s next Middle States reaccreditation process. Related to this role, next week she will be attending the MSCHE Annual Conference in Philadelphia. This year’s theme is Setting the Standard: Transformation through Accreditation.
What's New?
Here is a sampling of new resources in Buhl Library. Be sure to also check out the new book display in the library lobby.
Hover over a book's title to view a summary.
The Good Life by 
Elon Musk by 
Earthquake Science and Engineering by 
Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies by 
Getting Started with Middle School Chorus by 
American Presidents in Diplomacy and War by 
Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1 by 
The Second World War by 
The Oxford Handbook of W. B. Yeats by 
Hogarth's Britons by 
Political Expression in Sport : Transnational Challenges, Moral Defences by 
Research, Writing, and Creative Process in Open and Distance Education : Tales From the Field by 
Trauma-Responsive Schooling by 
The Next Education Workforce by 
Teaching Readers (Not Reading) by 
Ethics in Higher Education by 
Dyslexia in Higher Education by 
Secret Lives of Children in the Digital Age by 
Equality or Equity by 
Talking with Children by 
The Human Rights Imperative in Teacher Education by 
English Learners at Home and at School by 
Leviticus by 
Joshua 13-24 by 
Ezra by 
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs by 
The Book of Lamentations by 
Daniel : God's kingdom will endure by 
Jonah by 
Philippians by
According to last month's newsletter poll, 62% of readers have used an eBook in the past 6 months. That's great! eBooks offer conveniences and an enormous selection of titles. Keep them in mind if you are looking for a read over break!
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