20% Special Today at the UConn Co-op!

All UConn Co-op locations, including the Husky Shop II in Hartford, are taking 20% off any UConn clothing or gifts today Wednesday December 22, 2004. This is part of our on-going game day specials when the men’s or women’s basketball teams have home games during the month of December.

The sale is during store hours at each location. Please call if you’re not sure of store hours. (Sorry, Torrington closed today due to construction on campus.) Sale limited to in-stock items and doesn’t include special orders. Free gift wrapping and gift boxes available with purchase.

This will be the last sale before the Christmas Holiday. Most locations will be closed December 24 or have shortened hours.

After Christmas we will have game day specials as well, Monday – Thursday December 27-30.

UConn Co-op Stamford Campus, 203-251-8544

UConn’s Online Events Calendar down for Maintenance

The University of Connecticut’s on-line events calendar (events.uconn.edu) will be off-line and unavailable December 20 – 27, 2004 for maintenance and upgrading.

All University events entered prior to December 19 will be saved and appear on the new version of the UConn Events Calendar when it is back on-line and operational December 28. The UConn Events Calendar is a comprehensive listing of all University events taking place both on our campuses and at off-campus locations. UConn students, alumni, faculty and staff are invited to submit University related events to the calendar. The public is also encouraged to use the events.uconn.edu site to find out about the dynamic activities taking place at UConn.

For details and information about UConn events, please call the UConn Lodewick Visitors Center at (860) 486- 4900

UConn Events Calendar

New Library Database: TableBase

TableBase is a database comprised of tabular information of a strategic nature. Many of the table records also have textual content which supports the data in the tables.

The tables provide information such as: market share, market size, capacity, production, imports, exports, sales, product and brand rankings, forecasts, healthcare statistics and demographics.

Tables are drawn from the more than 1000 sources that go into the Business & Industry database and from statistical annuals, brokerage reports, trade associations reports, and governmental reports. The contents of the table is indexed– not the text that may accompany the table.

Search by keyword at the top of the search screen or use categories from menus, or both. Categories include about 100 industry terms; marketing terms, such as “loyalty” and “brand equity;” concept terms; SIC and geographic regions.

UCONN DATABASE: TableBase

AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive down

The libraries database access to AP is down at the moment; it is prompting users for a username and password. The vendor has been contacted and we hope the problem will be resolved shortly.

The AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive is an electronic library containing the Associated Press’s current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library.

UConn Databases