Foster Business Library
Databases:
A search in this database, in market sector, for Banking and Finance produced forty reports. In particular, see the 2005 reports for Commercial Banking in the USA, Retail Banking in the USA, and Mortgage Finance in the USA.
See SIC 6035: Savings Institutions, Federally Chartered, in the Encyclopedia of American Industries.
See the company fact sheet for Washington Mutual,
Inc.,
and the longer Company
Overview, with links to Financials and to
the company's Competitive
Landscape.
See as well the industry fact sheet for Superregional Banks
industry and the industry overview for Banking.
A Company search for the ticker symbol WM retrieved over 1,000
reports.
Go to Business and then to SEC Filings and Reports to see the Securities and Exchange Commission
filings
for Washington Mutual (ticker symbol WM). LexisNexis has over 150 company 10-K
reports (or parts of
reports) going back to 1999. A search for Strategy in the latest 10-K report finds more than a dozen
references.
Washington Mutual is included in this database, with extensive information.
The company:
The industry:
Foster
Business
Library Reference Collection:
For Savings Institutions, see tables 1154 and 1155 on page 758; tables 1162, 1163, 1165, and 1169 on pages 761 to 764; and tables 1180 and 1182 on pages 768 and 769.
See Washington Mutual in the industry survey for Savings & Loans in volume three; Washington Mutual is not one of the major companies in the Comparative
Company Analysis at the end of the industry survey.
See Washington Mutual on page 98 in the Employers Name Index.
See Washington Mutual in tables on pages 24.37, 91, and 130.
See Banking and Insurance on pages 339 to 350 (with no mention, however, of Washington Mutual).
See Washington Mutual in volume 17, pages 528 to 531.
See references to Washington Mutual on page 666 (table 2981); page 668 (table 2990); page 677 (table 3038); page 679 (table 3057); page 684 (table 3069); page 692 (tables 3106 and 3107); pages 692 to 694 (tables 3109 to 3112 and table 3114).
See Washington Mutual in book II, on page 700.
See Washington Mutual on page 976, with annual advertising expenditures of $275 million.
See numerous listings for Washington Mutual on index pages 909 and 910.
Washington Mutual may be found in the Financial Services section, on pages 175 to 179, in the February—July 2006 issue.
To limit the results of your search just to materials in the Foster Business Library collection, use the Modify or Limit options at the top of the search results and change the library location to Foster Business Library.
Availablity is indicated on the right of each online catalog record. First, note in which collection, within Foster, your materials are in, since the library has ten different Collections, each in a different location and often with differing arrangements. "Available" indicates that the book should be on the shelves under that call number and available for you to check out. "Due" and a date indicates that the book is already checked out to someone and is due back on the date indicated; you can have the "Request/Place Hold" feature to recall the book for your use.
If the material you want is not in the collections of the University of Washington, you can use the "Search Summit" feature to repeat your search in the combined holdings of over thirty cooperating libraries in Washington and Oregon. Use the "Request This Item" feature in Summit to have books in those library sent here to Foster for you to check out.
The Foster general stacks collection is located south of the main part of the Foster Business Library, through the two pass-throughs into the basement of Balmer. The arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end) to Z (at the far west end).
A keyword search for Washington Mutual produced a list of just ten
records, with only the annual reports in the Foster Business Library.
See also:
A subject search in the online catalog for Savings Banks--United States, limited to the Foster
Business Library, retrieved a list of
17 records, with none of them very recent.
Foster Business
Library Corporate Annual Reports:
The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of several thousand
annual reports for hundreds of U.S. and foreign companies. These reports are
filed in lateral filing cabinets near the Foster Reference desk under the sign Corporate Annual Reports. Annual reports for companies in an industry can be a valuable source of information about the industry itself. For a list of all the companies in the collection, see the library's Corporate Annual Reports Collection.
For an index to corporate annual reports in the collection by industry sector, see the Annual Reports Industry Sector Index
. For an index to companies in the collection with headquarters outside the U.S., see Corporate Annual Reports Headquarters Index
.
The Corporate Annual Reports collection includes
Washington Mutual,
as well as many other financial institutions such as
Bank
of America,
Citigroup,
First Union,
Chase, and many
others in the Banking
Industry.
Foster Business Library Articles:
Library access to most ProQuest databases will terminate at the end of
spring quarter 2008, except for ProQuest NewsStand, ProQuest Dissertations
and Theses, Historical New York Times, and the Historical Wall Street
Journal. For more about this change, see UW Libraries Providing New
Databases. After this change, comprehensive article searches should be performed in EBSCO
Business Source Premier, Newsbank Infoweb, and ProQuest
NewsStand. Also, after this change, links to the articles below will be broken.
This database--actually, a family of over two dozen databases--offers full
text articles for over 10,000 publications, including scholarly journals,
magazines, trade and industry periodicals, newspapers, and reports on a
very wide range of topics. To find articles on specific topics, search by
word or phrase by keying your search phrase into the search box--or search
for your topic in the Topic Guide.
Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article.
A company search for CO(Washington Mutual Inc) produced a list of over 4,000 articles, including three articles in scholarly journals, over 35 articles in magazines, over 760 articles in trade publications, and over 2,300 articles in newspapers.
This company search term is associated with 14 narrowing terms, such as:
Examples of articles, from the searches above, include:
For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.
Need help with writing or revising the written part of your assignment?
The Business Writing
Center, in Lewis Hall 304, provides consultations on business class
writing assignments (as well as cover letters, and resumes) with an
advanced business student trained in critiquing drafts and coaching
writers. Need help citing sources? Try our guide to Citing
Sources.
The Foster Business Library offers an extensive collection of over fifty databases on its homepage; see under Databases. For a complete list of Foster databases, see the
List of All Business Databases. Access to these databases
from off campus requires that you first go to the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. These resources
may not be accessed from off campus except by those with a valid UW Net ID and password. For more
information on Foster business databases, click Databases,
A-Z. For information on which Foster business databases to use, see the Database Index.
For information on accessing Foster databases from off campus, see Database Access.
For guidelines on responsible database usage, see Database Usage.
Unlike library databases, Web resources are available wherever
you have web access; they do not require that you access them via the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. When using web resources, be sure to evaluate the credibility of these resources. For a subject index to web resources, see Business Resources on the Web on the Foster Business Library homepage.
Public company homepages are often (but not always) an excellent source for information
about the company, with links to annual reports, company news, product details, information
about corporate
goals and culture, company financial information, Securities and Exchange Commission
filings, and company history. Look for the Investor
Relations and About Us areas on the company homepage for company information.
See About
WaMu in the left margin for
information about the company, rather than its products and services. See
the company's History
and Values
and Mission. Go to Investor
Relations for financials,
annual reports back to 1998, press releases, etc.
The Foster Business Library Reference Collection consists of business handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other quick reference tools. It is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster, arranged by call number. Reference materials cannot be checked out; they may only be used in the library.
Foster Business Library
Books:
Information about many industries as well as demographic information;
check index for references to tables. The sources for each table are
often a valuable source of additional information.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HA202 .U56 2006.
This three-volume set provides 30-page profiles on 52 industries
with a focus
on the current economic environment, trends, regulation and outlook for
each industry.
Major companies in each industry are profiled, with references to sources
of additional industry information.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC106.6 .S74
Published by the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, this unique reference work to companies in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties covers almost 1,900 major employers in the region (employers with more than 100 employees), pinpointing them by map location and providing company addresses, number of employees,
telephone numbers, principal products or services, and four names of contact persons. There is also an SIC code index.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC 107 .W22 .P864 2001/2003.
This annual publication is an invaluable source of information about public and
private companies in the
Puget Sound area, culled from lists that appeared weekly in the
Puget Sound Business Journal. Besides
lists of the largest and fastest growing public and private companies in the area, this
reference work
includes commercial real estate deals, banks and securities firms, contractors, education and
employment,
health care, title companies, marketing firms, nonprofits, professional services, executive
compensation,
real estate, retailers, software developers, biotech and travel and recreation. There is an
index to
companies and topics in the back of this volume.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC108 .S77 .P83 2005.
Twelve-page descriptions of 125 global industries, with background and
development
information, current conditions, industry leaders and further reading.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD2324 .E53 2003.
Studying the history of leading companies in an industry is a good
way to learn more about the history of an industry. This
set of more than thirty volumes covers over 4,700 company histories worldwide, with each
history running just two to four pages; check the company index in the latest volume
to locate a specific company history or update as well as any other
references to that company in other company histories. There is also
an index by industry.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD2721 .I57
Two-volume annual compilation of market share data on U.S. and international companies, products and
services, arranged by SIC code and with indexes by product, company and
topic.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5410 .M35 2004.
This two-volume work reports paid advertising expenditures in major media
categories for companies and
brands in America.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5801 .A18 January-December 2001.
This annual two-volume publication is the most comprehensive source for information on
the advertising practices of 24,000 U.S. and Canadian companies spending a minimum of
$200,000 on national and regional advertising.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5805 .S7 2006.
This annual volume provides 5,000 rankings of companies, products, services and business activities, with data culled from thousands of sources.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4050 .B88 2004.
Statistical data on 8,000 companies in 137 industries, with ranking, key
financial information, operating data and ratios.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4961 .M68
The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of over 70,000 books on
all business topics. To search for materials on all three campuses of the University of Washington, go to the UW Libraries Catalog, in the upper left corner of the Foster Business Library homepage. Search by keyword, title, author, series, etc.
Articles in academic journals, magazines, trade periodicals, and
newspapers are one of the best sources for any kind of research. While the
Foster Business Library offers a large periodicals print collection,
comprising over 800 titles, articles are most easily accessed online,
24/7, in such fulltext article databases as EBSCO
Business Source Premier, Factiva,
LexisNexis Academic, Newsbank Infoweb, and ProQuest
Databases. These article databases are available in the library or
from off-campus, and provide access to over 10,000 periodicals and
millions of articles.
The Foster Business Library Reference Desk is staffed nearly all of the hours that the library is open. The
staff at the desk will be happy to help you find business research tools and resources, exploit business databases to the fullest or advise on research strategies.
For e-mail questions, direct your query to balib@u.washington.edu. For
assistance by telephone, dial (206) 543-8012 during library hours.