News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
We have a trial to the MLA Literary Research Guide until 8/31/10.
In their workds, “[the guide] is a selective, annotated guide to reference sources essential to the study of British literature, literatures of the United States, other literatures in English, and related topics.”
I would appreciate any feedback or comments.
Message from CUNY’s Office of Library Services:
The Aleph system is once again experiencing performance problems. Recently added records will likely not be available and keyword indexing will be
very slow throughout the day. We are aware of these problems and are
continuing to work with CIS and ExLibris to resolve them. We apologize
for the continued inconvenience that this causes.
From the university systems librarian:
Aleph is experiencing a couple of problems that are affecting its use.
– keyword search in CUNY+ will likely be VERY slow today and will NOT retrieve newly added records.
– Use direct indexes (author, title, etc) instead.
ICPSR announced that the Data Sharing for Demographic Research has a new easier to navigate look.
As you know, ebrary became a CUNY-wide resource earlier this year and records were loaded for all schools (these records’ holdings says CUNY). But because we already subscribed to ebrary, we already had our own records in.
The Central Office will begin removing our records in batches starting next week. We are not losing any records – you will find all the titles under the holdings indicating CUNY.
The only ebrary titles that will keep saying Baruch are those 100 or so titles that we have purchased on our own, separately from the subscription.
Because there are over 40,000 records to be removed, this will take time, so you will find some titles that have a duplicate record in the catalog and some that have not.
I will let you know when this process if finished.
As agreed with the business librarians.
We still have access to the information via Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw Campus (News).
The library now has access to the Financial times digital archives, from 1888-2006.
We have purchased all e-books published by APA from 2001 to 2010. They are now available by going to our database list. MARC records will be eventually loaded into the catalog as well. Enjoy!
Per Emerald:
In preparation for forthcoming changes to the Emerald website, we will be undertaking essential site maintenance over the next few days, from 19 June, which will result in a period of down time. A message will be displayed on the website during this period. We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause. We will make every effort to keep down time to a minimum and will seek to reinstate the website at the earliest opportunity.
Serials Solutions will be doing a presentation on their ERMS in the VC in room 3-125. In case some librarians come to the library building instead, please direct them to the vertical campus.