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Year: 2009
Gauging employment prospects in NYC 2009
Late Friday I received a request from a member of the college’s administration for the top industries by employment in NYC. I found the information in Gauging Employment Prospects in New York City 2009, published by the New York City Labor Market Information Service, which was formed by the New York City Workforce Investment Board, CUNY and the Center for Urban Research.
Four sources for helping answer agriculturally related questions
Sometimes students ask questions that are agriculturally related. I would like to suggest the following as sources to be considered:
National Agricultural Library has a well known database called Agricola and has an Ask a Librarian Service.
Cornell University is New York’s land grant university and its agricultural programs and research are known around the world. Its extension service offers assistance.
New York State’s Agricultural and Marketing Department offers much information about NY State.
The Horticultural Society of New York City offers some assistance to all New Yorkers and has a catalog that can be searched remotely, and a beautiful library.
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WSJ student discount
Sometimes students ask about subscriptions to the WSJ at a discounted rate.
The WSJ does offer student discounts as detailed on it website. Of course, I show the students the access on Factiva and ABI Inform Global but sometimes they want their own subscriptions.
How to Change Your Blog Password
If you want to change the password to log into the blog, just follow the instructions in this video.
QuestionPoint Mailing List
A few people have asked me lately how they could subscribe to the QuestionPoint mailing list. Postings to this list are pretty light; its main use is for up to the minute status updates on the stability of the service and news about restarts of the software when it is acting up (which has been too frequent lately).
Quoting from the QuestionPoint-L web page on the OCLC site, here’s how to subscribe:
All QuestionPoint users associated with an active QuestionPoint account are welcome to subscribe to this list.
This list is only for QuestionPoint members so please do not submit a subscription request unless you have a QuestionPoint ID number.
To request a subscription, send an e-mail message to David Leslie at [email protected] with the subject of “QuestionPoint list request”.
In the body of your message, include:
- Your name
- E-mail address
- Library name
- Your QuestionPoint logon ID number
Once we activate your subscription, you receive two e-mail messages:
- A confirmation of your subscription, with information about sending a message to the list, options for receiving a message, and removing yourself from the list. Save this cofirmation so you can refer to it later if needed.
- Usage guidelines for the list.
The list archives can be found on the Subscriber’s Corner page.
Factiva Settings
Please note that the settings in Factiva can be changed by any user after connecting. If the default page in Factiva is set to “News Pages” instead of “Search Builder,” you can change the default back to “Search Builder” by following these steps:
- On the top of the Factiva page in the gray bar, click on “Tools” and select “Preferences.”
- In the Preferences page, click on “General” (This will give you a list of general settings.)
- In the General Settings page, under the section called “Default Views,” the option for “Set your initial page to display on login:” should be set to “Search Builder”
- Click on the Save button on the bottom of the page
NY Metro Area ACS Geodatabase
We are now offering a value-added GIS census product through the Baruch Geoportal. The NY Metro ACS Geodatabase (NYMAG) contains geographic features and 2005-2007 American Community Survey data tables for the entire New York Metropolitan Area. Users will be able to download this geodatabase and use it with ArcGIS software to create thematic maps of census data at the public use microdata area (PUMA) geographic level. PUMAs are geographic areas that are useful surrogates for the city’s community districts or neighborhoods. Outside the city, PUMAs are subdivisions of counties.
The geodatabase, complete with user documentation and an example map, is available for download from the Baruch Geoportal at: http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/geoportal/data/nymag/.
Intermediate to advanced GIS users are the intended audience for this database. Hopefully we can roll out a simplified Google Maps interface for novices and non-GIS users sometime in the future. There are no access restrictions – anyone can download it, but will need access to GIS software in order to use it. The geodatabase is in Microsoft Access format which means that anyone with Microsoft Office can work with the data tables, but they won’t be able to use the geographic features without GIS software.
Many thanks to Clint Newsom who worked this summer as a GIS intern on this project – he is largely responsible for making it all happen. Clint is now back at the Information School at the University of Michigan, wrapping up his Info Studies degree.
Trials to various Art databases from Wilson
We have a trial sponsored by ERAC to 3 Wilson art databases:
Art Full Text
Art Museum Image Gallery
Cinema Image Gallery
We will be discussing them at our October 1 meeting so if you have comments please do share them.
Feel free to pass these trials along to faculty and students as well – the only caveat is that they are only available on campus.
Wireless Printing from Baruch Laptops Working Again
Saad Abulhab mentioned today that as of last Friday, the wireless network was permitting print jobs to be sent from Baruch laptops again (although there are some older laptops that haven’t had the Pharos printer connection set up yet). Just a reminder that patrons cannot send print jobs from their personal laptops, just the Baruch ones.