Sophie Bury, Head & Business Librarian, Peter F. Bronfman Business Library & Xuemei Li, Finance Librarian
Published Friday September 13, 2013
BBL now serves the finance and business research needs of students and faculty better than ever before with vastly improved access to Bloomberg terminals. Not only do we now have four of these available at the library, a 300% increase from our former single terminal, but we’re offering you the swanky kind shown here. All four terminals feature dual-screen flat-panel monitors giving you huge flexibility to expand your view of Bloomberg’s myriad, and, frankly mind-boggling, data sources to suit your needs.
All York faculty and registered students can avail of the Bloomberg terminal for academic research needs. For your convenience we have an online booking system (Passport York Login requested) for the terminals which are bookable for up to two hours a day, seven or less days in advance.
And just when you thought the news possibly couldn’t get any better, think again! To assist you with Bloomberg’s many commands and functions, we’ve transitioned our print help manual online to an easy-to-navigate Libguide format. This guide created by June Hill, Reference Assistant, and this post’s co-author, Xuemei Li, the finance librarian, steps you through everything from navigating the Bloomberg keyboard, to doing research on a wide range of topics such as equities, bonds, industries, indices etc., to using Bloomberg’s Excel API, to enrolling for the Bloomberg Essentials qualification.
