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Bartley 2008

Bartley Business Information Center

Archive for August, 2007

Welcome Back

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Office hours at Bartley Hall begin on Tuesday, August 28 and will be in full swing by Sept. 4th. Check the appointment scheduler for available times. Walk-ins are welcome as well. If the door is open, we are available.

Hot off the Presses

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Document retention policies and procedures in an electronic environment present special challenges for the corporate information officer.  VSB Professors J.C. Sipior and B.T. Ward together with co-author L. Volonino discuss a new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and how it affects electronically stored information for compliance with  record keeping requirements imposed by tax, employment, health and safety, immigration and financial and commercial law.  To get the details read Managing the lifecycle of electronically stored information   in the Summer 2007 issue of Information Systems Management.

Do university research and development budgets trickle out to their surrounding communities in the form of new firm formation and attendant growth in employment?  VSB Professor S. L. Newbert along with co-authors B. Kirchhoff, I. Hasan and C. Armington found that geography does matter.  Their article The Influence of University R & D Expenditures on New Business Formations and Employment Growth describes how they used Census data and National Science Foundation data to test the hypotheses that new firm births are correlated with university R &D and that employment growth is linked to new firm formation.