We have trial access to the online edition of the Chicago Manual of Style through January 15, 2025. Now in its 18th edition, this guide to style is an essential reference work. If you think we need to subscribe to it for the benefit of our students and faculty, please let us know why in this form.
A link to it can be found on our A-Z databases page or directly from this link.
Our print copies of this same book, which was just published this August, should be available soon in the library.
Please do not bring any food or drinks in the library (other than bottles of water). If you do, you will be asked to leave the library.
As noted on the library’s Food and Drink Policy page, there are other places on campus where you may eat. The most convenient place is in the Information and Technology Building (that’s the name of the building where the library is located on the 2nd-5th floors), where you’ll find a lounge on the ground floor of the building. When you come through the revolving doors from the sidewalk and into the building lobby, walk to the turnstiles straight ahead (instead of coming up the stairs to the 2nd floor). Once past the turnstiles, turn to your left, where you’ll find area with tables and chairs, vending machines, and a microwave.
Even though there are no classes this Friday and Saturday (October 11-12), the library will be open its regular hours (7am-11pm). We are, though, closed on Monday, October 14 for Indigenous Persons Day.
Although there are no classes the library remains open. For a complete schedule of library hours and the days we are actually closed, please visit the Hours page on the library website.
We hope you’re as excited about the fall semester as we are. There are so many services and resources we want to share with you. Here is a very brief overview of them, but feel free to come into the library and ask for more details, as there is a lot more to explore.
Things to borrow from us:
Things to access online:
Things to do in the library:
We’re open seven days a week from 7 AM to 11 PM (with a few holiday exceptions). Hope to see you in person or online!
Today, we are launching a new library policy around the issue of noise to ensure that one of the library’s key functions as a study space is maintained. Last year, in a survey with over 600 responses, we found that two-thirds of students indicated that their efforts to study in the library were interrupted at some point by noise. The more the library is allowed to become a space for socializing, the less it can be a space for study; a better balance must be struck. This new policy is designed so that the library is as much a place for group work and study as it is for individual work and study.
As you move around the library, you will see signs letting you know which of the two zones you might be in depending on the floor you’re on: a “quiet group zone” or a “quiet zone.” You may have noticed that both zones are labeled as “quiet.” If you take a look at the Noise Policy page on our website, you’ll see that the quiet expected in the “quiet group zone” allows for talking in low voices so you and your group can interact but not so loudly as to disturb others. The quiet in the “quiet zone” aims for an even more serene environment that allows individuals to maintain focus on their work or reading.
This new policy is aligned with the Baruch College Code of Student Conduct. If you feel that others on your floor in the library are making too much noise, you can:
If you have any comments or suggestions about the new noise policy, we’d love to hear from you.
During the brief period between the end of the summer session and the start of the fall semester, the library is operating under “restricted services.” This means that the library is closed to all students except if those students are returning items that they have borrowed or they are taking care of fines. For this limited service, the circulation desk is open from 9 am – 5 pm on weekdays only. There are no other on-campus library services offered during this period (studying, printing, borrowing materials, etc.)
Baruch College faculty who need to borrow items or use our spaces can do so from 9 am – 5 pm during weekdays during this period.
All online library services, though, will still be available: ask a librarian (chat or email research assistance, interlibrary loan requests, database access, etc.)
We will reopen fully on the first day of the fall semester: August 28. Library hours will be their usual 7 am – 11 pm, seven days a week schedule.