News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
The collection of databases that NOVELny provides to all public libraries and public higher ed institutions in New York state no longer includes Grolier Online. It has been removed from our database lists.
For other general encyclopedias, see this list on our databases pages.
The lottery for graphing calculator distribution is now open. The Newman Library News blog post about it has all the details. You can show students this news blog post (which includes a link the entry form) by starting out from any of these three paths:
Following up on our integration of BrowZine into Serials Solutions search results from earlier this month, we’ve found another way to take advantage of BrowZine’s API. Starting today, when you run searches in OneSearch, if there is a table of contents related to a scholarly journal article you’ve found or to a scholarly journal you searched for, relevant records in OneSearch will display a link into BrowZine.
EXAMPLE: When your search results include a record for a journal, such as JAMA.
EXAMPLE: When your search results for articles include scholarly journal articles.
Please note that not every school in CUNY has BrowZine and that among those that do have it, only Baruch has set up this integration (Queens is still testing it out).
If you go to the bottom of the Faculty Services page on the library website, you’ll also find a link to BrowZine in the “journal alerting services” section.
On the EBSCO platform, we now have access to the complete run of Life (1936-2000). A link to it can be found on the A-Z databases page, the history databases page, and by searching in the Serials Solutions e-journal system.
This new collection from EBSCO offers in full text thousands of periodicals published in America between 1693 and 1877. Links to it can be found on the A-Z databases page and on the history databases page.
As the co-chair of the Public Services Committee, I’d like to invite any suggestions for agenda items for the committee’s next meeting (July 26). The committee is charged with advising CUNY OLS on needed changes to the display and functionality of OneSearch (we used to focus on the catalog as well, but work on that has halted as we prepare to move from an ILS to a library services platform).
A draft of the minutes from the previous meeting and a draft of the agenda for the next meeting are available. If you have any suggestions for things the committee should focus on, please add a comment to this blog post or contact me directly.
Using the API from Browzine, we were able to customize the Serials Solutions e-journal portal so that search results will display links to tables of contents for scholarly journals.
Example: search results page for American Quarterly
Example: table of contents display in Browzine for American Quarterly
Caveats
In the coming months, we’ll explore integration of the Browzine elsewhere in our systems.
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.