We’re pleased to announce a new online resource: The Chicago Manual of Style. Thanks to your feedback during our trial access to it, we have decided to start a subscription.
While many may be familiar with it as the source of definitive information on the Chicago style of citing sources, it also is an essential reference source for anyone writing a book or in need of guidance for language usage.
The library is closed today in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. We will reopen for our usual spring semester hours tomorrow at 7 AM. If you need assistance from a librarian today, please use the chat service in the Ask a Librarian box on the library home page; this service is available 24 hours a day.
Image: Gardner, Alexander, photographer. Abraham Lincoln. [Washington, D.C., 9 August] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/2015645458/.
The Subotnick Financial Services Center and the library are hosting in-person and online workshops on financial markets during spring 2025. The workshop schedule is posted below. Click on a workshop title for a description and registration link for the event. Members of the Baruch community may register online.
*Online workshops: registrants will receive a link to join the session on Zoom the day prior to the session. Registrants need a personal computer or laptop with access to a CUNY Zoom account.
We are excited to have everyone back after a quiet month between semesters. We will be open our usual hours seven days a week: 7 AM to 11 PM. Each of the service desks in the library has shorter hours than the actual library hours (details on the Hours page of the library website).
There are number of new things to announce:
A fully opened 4th floor! Both sides of the floor are now available for use, adding 102 open seats and 10 group study rooms that can be booked in advance.
New study cubicles on the 4th floor. On the west side of the floor, near the plaza are two rows of cozy cubicles for individual use. They feature lots of desk space and power outlets.
Redesigned signage detailing the noise policies for each floor.
Revamped docking stations on the 2nd floor. Located across from the reference desk, these docking stations now have seating and let you connect your laptop or iPad to a large external monitor.
If you’re new to Baruch, we’ve got pages details all the many services and resources you’ll want to know about:
Yes, the library is open! During the winter session (through January 23), the library is open from 9 AM to 10 PM seven days a week (except on January 20 when we’ll be closed for the holiday). As noted on the hours page on the library website, each of the service desks in the library have their own hours:
Circulation Desk: 9 AM – 5 PM (Mon-Fri), closed Saturday-Sunday
Tech Loan Desk: closed (all tech items loaned from the Circulation Desk instead)
Reference Desk: 10 AM – 5 PM (Mon-Fri), closed Saturday-Sunday
On Friday, January 24, the library will be essentially closed. Students who have materials checked out that they want to return can do so at the Circulation Desk between 9 AM and 5 PM that day but there are no other services available in the library (no use of computers, printers, scanners, study tables, or checking out items). Faculty, though, can enter the library and use our services as they prepare for the spring semester.
Speaking of spring, we’ll re-open fully on Saturday, January 25, and will have our usual hours of 7 AM to 11 PM seven days a week.
After the last day of the fall semester, the library hours and services will significantly change for the brief period before the January session begins. We will mostly be closed, and when we are open, will offer very limited services. We will only be open on the following days from 9 AM to 5 PM.
December 23 (Monday) December 26-27 (Thursday-Friday) December 30 (Monday)
On those days, services to students will be limited to dropping off items that have been borrowed and to clearing accounts (blocks, fines, etc.) No other on-site library services will be available to students (printing, borrowing, studying, using computers). The online Ask a Librarian service, though, where you can chat live with a librarian 24 hours a day, will continue to be available.
Baruch College faculty may borrow materials and use the library as needed during the selected hours detailed above.
On January 2, the library will reopen for the January intersession period. We’ll be open to all from 9 AM to 10 PM from Monday to Friday and from 9 AM to 5 PM on Saturdays and Sundays. Up-to-date and detailed library hours can always be found on the library home page and the Hours page of the library website.
Dec. 21 UPDATE: Remote access to library resources is now working again! Please ignore the workarounds detailed below from when this post was first published to the Library News blog.
Due to the network outage that began on Monday, December 16, library resources (such as ebooks, articles, videos) are not available through the usual routes and links (which includes the search boxes on the library home page and our e-reserves system). Please use the Backup Library Links page to connect to selected library databases and to use a CUNY-wide version of OneSearch.
As the semester ends and everyone is studying for finals and completing major research projects, we need everyone to respect the need for quiet on all floors of the library.
A simple conversation between friends at one table could be utterly distracting to someone nearby trying to manage their stress while they review for an exam. For many of our students, this is the only place that they can count on as quiet refuge for study in a noisy city. The more that students use the library as a hangout and socializing space, the more they diminish it as a space for study and research.
Public Safety will be assisting us as we try to ensure that the library remains a studious space on every floor. If you find others are distracting you, please call Public Safety at (646) 660-6000. Make sure you give them the correct floor number (remember, the main floor of the library where you entered and passed through the turnstiles is actually the 2nd floor and the top floor of the library is the 5th).
Prof. Joseph Hartnett will lead an online workshop on December 12 from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm that will introduce attendees to the Zotero software, a free open-source, bibliographic citation management tool that allows you to collect, store, and organize information as you research, and to rapidly generate citations and bibliographies with your word processor in a variety of styles as you write.
You will learn to install Zotero, capture items into your personal library, generate in-text citations and bibliographies, sync to the cloud, and utilize many of the software’s functions.
This workshop is open to all students and faculty at Baruch and at the CUNY School of Professional Studies.
The library will be closed Thursday, November 28, to Sunday, December 1. We will reopen our regular hours on Monday, December 2. Enjoy the break from classes!