Reference at Newman Library

Author: Michael Waldman

Ethnographic Video Online

We have a trial from Alexander Street Press’ Ethnographic Video Online until May 8, 2012. Access is on campus only for the trial.

Ethnographic Video Online is a comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior.

Thematic areas include: family and race, material culture, language and culture, kinesthetics, body language, food and foraging, cooking, economic systems, social stratification and status, caste systems and slavery, male and female roles, kinship and families, political organization, conflict and conflict resolution, religion and magic, music and the arts, culture and personality, marriage, gender, and family roles.

All videos offer accompanying written transcripts where the spoken word is highlighted as it is spoken.

Please leave your comments about this database below or email me directly.

EBSCO’s Ebook Academic Collection trial

We have a trial to EBSCO’s Ebook Academic Collection trial until June 30, 2012.

This is a new product from EBSCO, comparable to the collection we have from ebrary. Like ebrary, there are over 70,000 titles (only about 51,000 for this trial), unlimited simultaneous users and downloads. Because this is a trial, we will not add the records to the catalog, but if we were to subscribe, they would be added.

We will be actively comparing this product with ebrary’s so please share your comments in the comments below or email me directly. In particular, I would like comments on ease of downloading, search capabilities, on-screen display, marking, saving and emailing capabilities, and any other feature you may consider important.

Library catalog unavailable January 20, 2012, 7 a.m. until January 22, 2012, approx. 12 p.m.

On Friday, January 20, 2012 at 7:00 A.M. CUNY Central CIS will be migrating CUNY’s library systems to newer, more powerful hardware. For the duration of this maintenance, the library catalog will be unavailable.

For users who wish to find out if Baruch owns a specific book, please check WorldCat.  For help with WorldCat or any other questions, please feel free to contact us.

We expect service to be restored by approximately 12:00 P.M. on Sunday, January 22, 2012.

Downloadable books from ebrary

ebrary now allows their books to be downloaded to reader devices. This is just a short introduction to the download function. More instructions will be forthcoming but since we are already seeing some questions, here is some information.

You will notice a DOWNLOAD button next to the ebrary Reader button if the book is open or under the title if searching for a title from within ebrary.

The download options are as follows:

– by chapter and/or up to 60 pages: this will download a PDF copy of the text; if you need more than 60 pages, you need to logoff and back on. This is a PDF so the quality in the reader tends to not be the best. The PDF can then be moved to a device. The PDF is yours forever.

– by the whole book. This will download to Adobe Digital Edition. Users must have their own log-in to Adobe Digital Edition as well. On their devices they must also have Adobe Digital Editions or Bluefire on the iPad/iPhone/iPod platforms. This will check the book out for 14 days. With ebrary since we have unlimited simultaneous users, multiple users can have the book checked out at any one time. I do not think we have Adobe Digital Editions on our public computers at this time.

If you have specific questions, please email me so I can address them.