IS Division Email Update

As mentioned at the last IS Division meeting, this is the first of our routine announcement emails. We will keep announcements to a minimum at Division meetings.

Next IS Meeting: Monday, March 12, 2:00-3:30 pm. Save the date and time.
We will schedule a policy discussion on use of the wikipedia as a research and reference tool. Several readings will be sent to everyone for background reading in preparation for this discussion.

Update on 10 Millionth Student

An email just received from recently-retired Diane DiMartino reports that Sandra Younger, our 10 millionth visitor, was a student in her LIB 1016 course!

Reminder – Time is running out to register for Academic Integrity Conference

Thus far only four Baruch librarians have registered for the Academic Integrity Conference, scheduled for March 9th in the 7th floor conference center in this building. It is important for librarians to participate in this event. The ethical handling of information is a critical aspect of information literacy and we have a vital role to play regarding the development of anti-plagiarism materials, including revised and new tutorials. The conference will provide an opportunity for librarians to meet and network with faculty in other departments.

The conference announcement from Dennis Slavin is reprinted here:

Academic Integrity Conference at Baruch
Friday, March 9, 9:00-3:15, 151 E. 25th Street (Newman Library Building), Room 750
Faculty members, students, and administrators are invited to a CUNY-wide Academic Integrity Conference to discuss a wide range of issues in open forums, break-out sessions, and in response to our keynote speaker Lawrence Simon (Baruch BBA ’65), Vice Chairman, Ivy Asset Management Corporation and a trustee of the Baruch College Fund. Please encourage students to attend.
Program: A provisional program is available at http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/facultyhandbook/aiconference.htm
Register: http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/asset/survey?id=217774 (username = your last name)
Questions/Comments: aiconference@baruch.cuny.edu


Write Your Own Term Paper site. Please take a look at the anti-plagiarism website that Jerry’s been working on with a grad student designer from the Direct and Interactive Marketing Lab.
We have registered the url www.writeyourowntermpaper.com
which redirects users to an address on the college's website:
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/writeyourowntermpaper/

The site uses vernacular language and humor to spoof termpaper mill sites and to focus on academic integrity.
While the site is up and publicly accessible, there has been no major publicity about it yet--students in the Marketing lab are devising a promotional strategy as we speak.
Any feedback will be welcomed.

Professional Development on Reference Work:
Friday, Mar. 2 10:00-2:30 Marie Radford, guest speaker
Room 135. Lunch will be provided. This is a rare opportunity for a serious professional development event in the library—perhaps the most important one since Randy Hensley was here. It is crucial that all librarians who work the reference desk, whether members of IS Division or not, participate in this session.

Reminder to sign up for ENG 2100 FRE sessions.

As Aisha reminded us yesterday, there are seven sections left of ENG 2100 classes that no one has signed up for yet. If you have not signed up, please do so. To access the sign-up form go to Numan\shared\Divisions\IS\FRE\SignUpFRE.
English 2100 Classes
0739DG24A TTH 08:40am10:20am 4120VC FRANK X3984
0747JM24A TTH 10:45am12:25pm 30323 FRANK
0751JM35B WF 10:45am12:25pm 140223 PARKS X3950
0753PS13A MW 12:50pm02:30pm 130423 KNEZEVIC X3957
0754RU13A MW 01:40pm03:20pm 132223 RILEY X4021
ENG 2100T
0757EL13A MW 09:05am12:00pm 6150VC SEGAL X3967
0758TZ13A MW 02:30pm05:25pm 71023 TURNER X3949

Sign up for Research Consultation Sessions.

The schedule for this spring's research consultation program has been finalized.
- Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 1-3 pm
- Thursday, April 12, 2007, 1-3 pm
- Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 1-3 pm
- Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 3-5 pm
- Thursday, April 19, 2007, 1-3 pm
- Tuesday, April 24, 2007, 1-3 pm
- Wednesday, April 25, 2007, 3-5 pm
- Thursday, April 26, 2007, 1-3 pm

Please use the Excel spreadsheet in the "Research Consultations" folder in the IS Division folder to sign up for two or three of the hour-long shifts (they don't need to be consecutive shifts).

Here's the location of the file:
Shared on Numan >> Divisions >> IS >> Research Consultations >> Schedules >> Research Consultations--librarian sign up

Soliciting Announcements for Division Report for Department Meeting

If you have any professional announcements to be included in the upcoming division report for the March 7 department meeting, please email to Jerry by March 1.




Jerry Bornstein