The 3rd floor technology loan desk has acquired 30 new MacBook Air laptops to loan for 72 hours! These are in addition to our 3-hour and same-day MacBook Air loans. We are excited to offer these popular models to students for a longer period than they had been accustomed.
Year: 2018
Graphing Calculators for Spring 2018
Information about the spring 2018 lottery for graphing calculators can be found on the Newman Library News. A link to the news announcement can also be found on:
- the “check availability” link in the listing for “Graphing Calculators” on the Technology Loan Service page
- this tweet from the “Baruch IT+IR+Library” account (@ciobaruch)
New Look for the Blog
The Blogs@Baruch team notified me this week that they needed to retire some of older WordPress themes, including the Freshy theme that had been in use for this blog and for the Newman Library Idea Lab blog. I switched the themes on this blog and the Idea Lab blog over to a couple of the Baruch-branded custom themes. If anyone else in the library wants to try out some of the dozens of other themes we have to choose from, be my guest; I can set you up with admin rights that will let you preview our blog in any of those themes.
New items/loan periods at the Laptop & Circulation desks
The 3rd floor laptop desk now loans a small number of Dell laptops for 7 days. We also recently acquired wireless/Bluetooth mice that students can borrow until the laptop desk closes.
Also, we have new portable DVD players for loan from the circulation desk. These loan for 7 days and connect to a computer/monitor via USB.
If students ask for these items at the reference desk, please direct them to us. Thank you.
LexisNexis Academic Is Now Called Nexis Uni
LexisNexis is shutting down its LexisNexis Academic platform this month and migrating us over to the new Nexis Uni interface. There is now a link to “Nexis Uni” on the A-Z databases page. The existing link for “LexisNexis Academic” has been relabeled as “LexisNexis Academic is now Nexis Uni” and redirected to point to the Nexis Uni interface; we’ll leave this set of dual links in place for the rest of the year.
If you’d like to dive in to the documentation from LexisNexis about the new interface, try these:
- Top 10 Nexis Uni Features to Explore (pdf)
- Nexis Uni Search FAQ (pdf)
- How to Search from the Home Page (YouTube)
- How to Use the Advanced Search Form (YouTube)
- How to Select Sources and Create Permalinks (YouTube)
- How to Annotate and Share Documents (YouTube)
- Navigating Your Profile Settings (YouTube)
If you’ve got links to LexisNexis in a LibGuide you authored and you re-used the official database link, it will automatically get updated to the new URL. If, though, you have typed out in text somewhere on your guide the name “LexisNexis” you will want to change that to “Nexis Uni.” Here is a search in the LibGuides system of all pages where the word “Lexis” appears. Please review these search results and update any mentions of LexisNexis to reflect the new name, Nexis Uni.
ProQuest Scheduled Downtime on January 20
Date and Time
Saturday, 20 January 2018, 1 pm – 7 pm.
This downtime had previously been announced for January 27-28 but was moved to January 20.
Affected Services and Resources
- All databases on the ProQuest platform
- RefWorks
New Database: Trade Catalogues and the American Home
We’ve added a new primary source collection to our databases: Trade Catalogues and the American Home. The collection includes hundreds of illustrated product catalogs and other marketing ephemera from 1850 – 1950. Links to this database can be found on the A – Z list of databases and on the history databases page. If you’d like to see a link to this database on other subject database pages, just let me know.