To add to the information from Chistian Keck of BCTC that just came out via email on the faculty-staff mailing list, I’d like to note that the campuswide network outage this coming Monday (Jan. 17) means that the library website will not be available. Although LibGuides and the library catalog will be available (they are not hosted on servers here at Baruch), links to authenticated resources (ebooks, databases, ejournals, etc.) will not work, as the EZ Proxy server we use is located here on campus and will be part of the shutdown.
Crain’s NY Book of Lists 2011 being recataloged
I had a rankings question today from College Advancement. I noticed that the most recent Crain’s NY Book of Lists was at access services rather than at the reference desk so I am asking Mike and Janey to recatalog it. I found it quite a handy resource.
New York Salaries
the following website is searchable for finding salaries and other information about New York State and City employees: www.seethroughny.net
Lehman College Joins the QuestionPoint Subscription Group
Later this winter, we’ll begin to see questions coming into chat from students at Lehman College, the latest CUNY school to join the QuestionPoint subscription group. The complete list of schools in our group is:
- Baruch College
- Borough of Manhattan Community College
- Bronx Community College
- Brooklyn College
- CUNY Graduate Center
- Hunter College
- John Jay College
- Lehman College
Printing Accounts
Students registered for the Winter session have a $ 30 printing account.
My LIB 1015 Students and Final Projects
One of my students in LIB 1015 has asked to get a copy of his graded final project back. I’ve left it in an interoffice mail envelope at the reference desk, as my office on the 5th floor is hard to find and as I’ll be away on annual leave starting tomorrow (Tuesday, Dec. 21) and won’t be back until Monday, Jan. 3.
Jewish Studies Source trial
We have a trial until the end of January to Jewish Studies Source, a new EBSCOhost database. It is listed in on our database page. Please share any feedback you may have on this resource.
JSTOR Current Scholarship Program
You may have heard that JSTOR has added current content to its holdings. They are calling it their Current Scholarship Program (CSP).
While JSTOR is offering many different subscription models to their CSP, what affects us at this time is the move from many smaller publishers to move their current content from their own platform to JSTOR’s.
There are a number of titles that we subscribe to as individual titles that are now going to be available on the JSTOR platform with current holdings. You can find a list of publishers involved here; most of our titles are coming from the University of Chicago Press and the University of California Press.
The platform changes will launch on January 1, 2011. I will be changing our links the first week of January.
Catalog Now Includes ICPSR Records
As announced on the Library News blog from the CUNY Office of Library Services, records for ICPSR items can now be found in the library catalog.
Want to add the feed for the Library News blog to Microsoft Outlook or some other feed reader? Here’s the URL for the feed: http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/library-news/feed/
NY Times Mapping America
A follow-up from my post from a few days ago – the NY Times has used the new 5 year 2005-2009 ACS data to build census tract level maps for the entire country. They’re great for viewing distributions and for identifying basic data for specific tracts, but you can’t download or capture anything:
http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer?ref=us
(note – a census tract is a relatively permanent statistical entity created by the Census Bureau designed to have an ideal population between 1500 and 8000 people, with an ideal size of 4000)