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Replacing the old FAQ is a new and vastly-expanded Business & Economics FAQ service (with over seven hundred frequently-asked questions and growing), now available at:
Here is the news announcement, sent out to the Business School community September 27, 2006, by Foster Business Library head, Gordon Aamot (as well as an announcement in the Libraries' Weekly Online News, September 18, 2006):
Business libraries currently participating in this collaborative
project include Penn, Columbia, Dartmouth, Michigan, MIT, Stanford,
Wisconsin, NYU, Duke, Boston U, Michigan State, Tulane, Princeton,
Purdue, Yale, and, Washington. It's still a work in progress but we
think people will find it useful. If you have comments or suggestions,
please send them to me or balib@u.washington.edu.
At the beginning of autumn quarter 2006, the Foster Business Library's old FAQ site, with over one hundred frequently-asked questions, was archived. It is still available (but no longer updated) at:
Several years ago, business librarians and IT staff at the University of Pennsylvania developed a searchable "Frequently Asked Questions" database
for common business queries. It was a very successful project and they
offerred to share their work with other major academic business libraries.
This summer, Foster staff worked with librarians at Penn to adapt a version
of the database for UW users. You can search by keyword or browse through
the topic categories - for example, "Company & Industry" or "Finance."