News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).
I can’t believe that I didn’t know this until Mike told me about it today. If you are in the union catalog and want to see on one page all the libraries that have a title and what the availability status is at each school, you can do it by clicking the “Check location” link at the top of the record (as opposed to clicking on the name of each school at the bottom of the record).
Here is a screenshot of where to click:
And here is what the screen looks like when you click on “Check location”:
Aleph is currently down. The Office of Library Services is investigating.
Thank you for your patience.
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.
As you may already know, every month ebrary sends new titles to the database and deletes some.
The June update is unusual in that 436 titles, a much larger number than usual, is being deleted, the majority of which is from Oxford University Press. Most are older titles. It is impossible for me to know if any of these titles were currently being used so I wanted to alert everyone about this event. The records have already been removed from the catalog. I have a list of them if interested.
We have also received a larger than usual number of new titles, 16,000 of them, that should be loaded by tomorrow.
In response to a question asked the desk today from a student who wanted to browse the titles in the MTA Collection, Jin and I figured out use the command codes to find all the items from a collection:
There are other commands you can use that work all sorts of wonders.
From 7:30 am to 8:30 am, the catalog will be down for planned maintenance.
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/
As we purchased some ebooks collection by packages, not by individual titles, it is possible that you may find duplicate records in CUNY+ from different vendors (books 24×7, ebrary, credo, Gale Virtual reference, etc.). Our initial thought was to suppress duplicate records to one record. However, as these collections are constantly updated, titles may be deleted in the near future. We decide to keep multiple records for now.
So, if in case you find duplicate records in CUNY+, it is not a mistake. Please let me know if it occurs to you.