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How to Borrow a Graphing Calculator for the Spring 2012 Semester

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:26:37 +0000

A limited number of TI-89 graphing calculators can be checked out by Baruch College students for the entire semester.  Students who are interested in borrowing a calculator must enter their name and Baruch e-mail address on a waiting list through an online form.  Students will be selected at random from the list during the first week of classes and notified by e-mail to come to the circulation desk to pick up the calculator.  Students who are selected from the waiting list will have one week from the sending of the e-mail message to pick up the calculator.  Calculators that are not picked up within the week will be distributed at the laptop loan desk on a first-come, first-served basis.   Each student may only submit one entry to the waiting list.  Multiple entries will result in disqualification from the calculator loan process.  Entries must be submitted by 7:00 a.m. on January 30, 2012.

The form is available here.

 

Library Catalog Unavailable January 20 – 22

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:32:25 +0000

On Friday, January 20, 2012 at 7:00 A.M. The CUNY CIS Department will be migrating CUNY’s library systems to newer, more powerful hardware.  For the duration of this maintenance the library catalog, Aleph client services, CUNY+, and all centrally hosted EZproxy instances will be unavailable.  Service will be restored by 12:00 P.M. on Sunday, January 22, 2012 at the latest.

Borrow from Columbia, NYU, and NYPL via MaRLI

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:16:37 +0000

The New York Public Library, Columbia University, and New York University are piloting a lending program for faculty and graduate students. Cardholders from each institution, including CUNY faculty and graduate students, are invited to apply for borrowing privileges from all three research libraries through June 2012. CUNY applicants for MaRLI must:

  1. Obtain a current NYPL library card
  2. Apply for MaRLI specifying research interests (or an NYPL librarian consultant) to ensure eligibility and identify collections can meet specified needs
  3. Receive MaRLI approval by e-mail within 5 business days
  4. Validate a NYPL card with a MaRLI sticker by presenting
    • the approval email (in print or electronic form)
    • a NYPL card, and
    • another accepted form of ID at one of these NYPL locations:

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Rose Main Reading Room (Bill Blass Reference Desk Room 315)
Science, Industry & Business Library (Lower Level Delivery Desk)
Library for the Performing Arts (Third Floor Print Delivery Desk)
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Lower Level Delivery Desk)

5. Pick up additional MaRLI cards at NYU Bobst and Columbia Butler privileges offices

Search Databases from your iPhone, Blackberry, Android or other Smartphone

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:51:04 +0000

 

The Newman Library has a web page that provides links to databases that are optimized to work on mobile devices.  In addition to a full alphabetical list, the links are also organized by subject area.  Simply bookmark the following link on your mobile device

http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/mobiledatabases

and go to the page.  After you select a database you will be prompted to enter your Baruch username and password– the same log in process that you use when you search Newman Library databases from off campus.  As soon as you log in, you will be able to enter your search and view the results.

 

 

Newman Library Joins The Center for Research Libraries

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:19:26 +0000

The Newman Library has joined the prestigious Center for Research Libraries (CRL), a consortium of 240-plus university, college, and independent research libraries that acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources from a global network of sources.

Most of the materials acquired are from outside of the United States, and many are from the emerging regions of the world: Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Latin America. CRL is based in Chicago and governed by a Board of Directors drawn entirely from the higher education community.  Membership provides Baruch College students and faculty with access to the Center’s approximately five million publications, archives, and collections and one million digital resources.  These research materials in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, housed at the CRL facility in Chicago, are available through interlibrary loan.

The benefits of a CRL membership include: unlimited access to CRL collections, automatic 90-day loan periods with 90-day renewals, third-day delivery on the vast majority of interlibrary loans, and an array of cooperative acquisition programs and user services designed to facilitate scholarly research and support collection-development activities.

CRL members have unlimited access to a collection of materials selected over five decades by subject specialists from North America’s foremost universities and colleges.

Collection highlights include:

  1. Largest collection of circulating newspapers in North America
    • 6,500 international newspapers
    • 2,500 U.S. newspapers, many dating to the colonial era
    • 2,000 ethnic titles indexed by language, state, culture, etc.
  2. More than 38,000 international journals rarely held in U.S. libraries
  3. More than 800,000  doctoral dissertations
  4. Area Studies: Major collections from Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Southeast Asia, and in subjects such as human rights.