Central State University News May 19, 2012 State-of-the-art Stock Trading room opens Central State University's Department of Business will house an actual trading room environment that functions both as a classroom and laboratory. The new stock trading room has the potential to serve 450 business, accounting, finance, and marketing students. The stock trading room, featuring state-of-the-art financial reporting systems, 20 work stations, and a professor station, will equip students with the ability to operate within market fluctuations driven by corporate earnings reports, as well as man-made and natural disasters that impact commodities. The total construction cost is $400,000 SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-520-0593 Skype:sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (Lyrasis) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children. Register now http://www.hbculibraries.org/html/2012meeting-form.html for the October 21-23, 2012 HBCU Library Alliance 5th Membership Meeting and the Photographic Preservation Pre-Conference in New Orleans, LA. The Pre-Conference and Membership meeting are open to directors and other librarians.