Reference Services
- Address
- 595 Commonwealth Avenue, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02215
- pardstf@bu.edu
- Phone
- 617-353-4304
Reference and Instruction Services at the Pardee Library
Welcome to the Reference Services Desk at Pardee Library!
Reference Librarians and Reference Assistants are available to help students, faculty and staff with business research and to provide assistance with the BU Library Catalog, business databases, Bloomberg, business journals and other business sources available at Boston University and elsewhere.
Questions?
You are invited to drop by the Reference/Information Desk on the 3rd floor of Pardee. This desk is staffed by Reference Librarians and Reference Assistants who are available at a drop-in basis to help you with your research.
You may wish to make an appointment for in-depth assistance. Appointments may be scheduled by contacting the Reference team at pardstf@bu.edu. For general library inquiries, you can also submit a question to our online Ask-a-Librarian service.
Library Classes
The Reference Librarians conduct sessions on research for regularly scheduled Questrom School of Business classes throughout the year and orientations to Pardee Library resources at the beginning of each semester. If you are a faculty member who is interested in scheduling an instruction session with one of the Pardee Librarians, please contact Kathy Berger (Assistant Head of Information Services at Pardee) at bergerkm@bu.edu for more information.
Bloomberg
The Bloomberg terminal is located across from the Reference Desk. Please note that the Pardee Bloomberg Terminal is only available to current BU students, staff, and faculty. Please sign up for half hour use in the sign-up book located next to the Bloomberg terminal. To consult our online help guides to using Bloomberg, go to the series of Bloomberg Tutorials we have developed.
Pardee Library offers a Bloomberg for Education Certificates program. Students can choose between the Bloomberg Market Concepts, the Bloomberg Finance Fundamentals, and the Environmental Social Governance certificates. Participants can sign up for a one hour session each day. To learn about the duration and requirements of the programs, consult the Bloomberg for Education guide. For information about Bloomberg, please contact the Reference team at pardstf@bu.edu.
Guides and Tutorials
The Reference Librarians develop guides to business topics and tutorials on business subjects to support the Questrom curriculum. Consult the growing Guides and Tutorials page. Contact the Reference team at pardstf@bu.edu if you have any comments or questions.
Reference Collection
Our Reference Books are located on the 3rd floor of the library.