The Ticker, the official newspaper of Baruch College, is celebrating its 80^th anniversary this year. As is often the case with school publications, the Ticker began humbly, but has risen over the years to a well-respected, award winning newspaper.

This on-line exhibit uses pictures, advertisements and testimonials to provide a glimpse into each decade up to the present. Preserving the memories of the college and serving as a unifying force to a dispersed college campus, the Ticker has become a source of pride to the entire Baruch College community.

Ticker staff
Lexicon, 2008 (Baruch College Archives)

First Known Photo of Ticker staff
Microcosm 1934 (Courtesy of C.C.N.Y. Archives)

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

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.