News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
At the request of the director of the First Year Initiative (formerly known as FRO), I’ve put together a research guide for this year’s text, Russell Shorto’s The Island at the Center of the World.
More info about the program for First Year Students can be found on the Student Affairs website.
If there isn’t a lab staff member from BCTC around on the 2nd floor, try calling x1102 (the front desk at the entrance to the 6th floor lab) or x1010 to see if someone can come down.
The printing allotment for students in summer sessions is 150 credits.
We’ve added two new databases from Adam Matthew Digital that feature recently digitized, historical source material.
Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration, and Cultural Exchange
J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America
A change was made by BCTC to the EZproxy server that restored off campus access to Factiva.
We’ve lost remote access to Factiva due to some unknown technical problem (the vendor, ProQuest, thinks it may either be an issue that our campus IT can help diagnose or that OCLC, the vendor for EZproxy, can figure out).
On campus access to Factiva is working fine, though. I’ll update this blog when we figure out a fix.
Zicklin is planning more hybrid course offerings for the Fall semester. At the request of one of the Management faculty we now have a Research Guide for Business: Open Educational Resources (OER). This will complement our guide to Open Access and OER.
ProQuest recently shut down the MyiLibrary ebook platform. All of the ebooks we had there are now found in Ebook Central.
If you have any featured book boxes in your LibGuides that have URLs going straight into the MyiLibrary platform, you will want to update them. The new link can either go to a permalink for the book record in OneSearch or to a permalink to the book in Ebook Central.
All JSTOR customers are having problems accessing content today. See the JSTOR Support account on Twitter for updates.
Through May 6 we have on- and off-campus access to two magazine archives on the EBSCOhost platform:
Links to these can be found on the trials tab of the databases page along with a link to a feedback form. Please share news of this trial with any faculty you think would be interested.