News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
Through October 11 November 9, all of CUNY has trial access to Accessible Archives. This database offers digitized newspapers and books published in America in the late 1800s and early 1900s. A link to this database can be found on the Trials tab of the main databases page.
Please share this with faculty that might be interested. Feedback should be provided via the form on the Trials tab of the main databases page.
Our access to Edgar Online has been terminated. The Accounting Dept. is trying to work with Edgar for access to Edgar Pro but it still has to go through licensing and procurement. We will remove it from the list of databases.
We have access to SEC filings on the SEC website (last four years may be searched for keywords), Mergent, Thomson One, Lexis-Nexis Academic, Westlaw Campus, and the company’s website.
You may find questions coming from SPS students again about the topic of “interpersonal spacing.” A few quick tips:
UPDATE 09/12/2014: This problem is now fixed.
If you do an “Articles” search from the yellow search bar on the library website (this searches Bearcat Search, our instance of Summon), you’ll get some articles in the search results that won’t let you connect to the full text. In any search you do, about 50% of the articles will link directly to the article with no problem. The other half rely on SFX to generate a “Find it! @ CUNY” menu that will lead to the article. For those that rely on SFX menus, the linking system is not working properly.
For an example of this, run this “Articles” search for “homophily” and click on the first item in the search results: “Homophily in Peer Groups” from the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. If you click on the article title or the “Full Text Online” link, you’ll get a SFX menu that fails to list the places we actually have online access to this article (we have it in EconLit)
Until we can get to the bottom of this problem, users who run into this problem can go to the “Journals” search on the library home page and use that to figure out what database has access to any publication that is inaccessible via the “Articles” search.
The lottery for TI-89 calculators has closed. Students have been emailed if they were chosen, and they can pick them up at the Circulation Desk. Any additional calculators left over will be distributed on a first come, first serve basis at the Circulation Desk on Wednesday, September 10th at 9 AM.
As Randy noted in a recent email, we’ll be gathering reference desk statistics from Monday, September 8, through Sunday, September 14. I’ve uploaded Randy’s ref desk stats collection form to the ref desk LibGuide. You can find it on the “Forms” tab of that guide and download it.
FYI: if you ever find yourself unable to locate the ref desk LibGuide, just go to the main LibGuides page at http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu and type “/ref” at the end:
http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/ref
This past week at the reference desk has been all about explaining Baruch usernames and passwords to new students. The usernames can be looked up on BCTC pages of the college website. Those pages also feature info about the default format of passswords. I’ve found it easier to use my own paper document at the desk to illustrate the format of most Baruch passwords and am attaching it here in case anyone else wants to print it out to have on hand at the desk. I’ll put a copy on the reference LibGuide as well.
Baruch Passwords (.doc)
Please let me know if you still experience any issues.
Our subscription to Books 24×7 has expired and is in procurement. I am working to restore access until this can be resolved.
Through September 23, we have trial access to American Consumer Culture:
Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965 provides a unique insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through access to the complete market research reports of Ernest Dichter, the era’s foremost consumer analyst, market research pioneer and widely-recognised ‘father’ of Motivational Research.
The collection is a treasure trove of information on some of America’s best known brands, containing thousands of reports commissioned by advertising agencies and global businesses in a booming era for consumerism, ‘Madison Avenue’ advertising and global brands on consumer goods ranging from tobacco and broadcasting to cars and hotels. Use the fully searchable interactive chronology to discover fascinating facts and events in the history of American consumerism; gain a deeper insight into Dichter and the world of market research through essays and further resources; and view hundreds of advertising images in the Ad Gallery.