Reference at Newman Library

News and tips by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library, Baruch College (New York, NY).

Friday, June 19, 2009

New Home for Reference at Newman Library

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Early next week (around June 22 or June 23), you will want to keep your eyes open for a message in your email inbox inviting you to join the...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

guest login down

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The guest login was down starting 7:30pm, Thursday, June 18.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Key for Cabinets in Printing Room

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I'm working the 6-9 shift and the key for the paper supply cabinets is not in the drawer, Cabinet #1. (It is 8:20pm now.) Does anyone kn...
Thursday, June 11, 2009

FASB announces free webcast about upcoming Codification transition

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The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has announced a free webcast on June 22, that will be archived, to help prepare for the upc...

Elevators

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A patron told me that the elevators will not stop on the 4th floor. I went and checked and was able to enter the elevator on the 4th floor (...

Printing in the Summer

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The BCTC Help Desk just assisted me in answering a question I wasn't sure about. A student taking a class only in the first summer sessi...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009

GIS Intern for the Summer

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We have a GIS intern for the summer session. Originally from West Texas, Clint Newsom is currently working on his M.S. in Information at the...

Every Nasdaq Firm Gets a Report

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That was the title of a story in today's Wall Street Journal . Nasdaq is teaming up with Morningstar to provide research profiles of eve...
Monday, June 08, 2009

Marc Antony's speech from Julius Caesar

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A student came to the desk confused as she said her communications professor had said "Just Google It" for Marc Antony's speec...
Friday, June 05, 2009

What LibGuides Look Like

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If you haven't heard yet, we are looking into using LibGuides to create subject guides. Here's a seven-minute video that gives an o...
Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Elevators Out of Order

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The elevators are not working this morning. Jerry said that the problem is being worked on and they may be back in service in a couple of ho...
Monday, June 01, 2009

Guest Login System Down This Morning

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The guest login system has been mostly down all morning. As of 11:57 am, it's still down. The Help Desk gave me a ticket number for this...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Datastream Navigator Available Again

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The Datastream Navigator (the tool for searching for the mnemonic codes for series within the application) is again available. [It was not a...
Friday, May 22, 2009

Map of Manhattan from 1609

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Connected to the 400th anniversary of the first European contact with the Hudson River and the area that now makes up New York City, the Wil...

Full text list

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Serials Solutions is experiencing some sort of problem and our Full Text list page has temporarily lost all its customization. This is happe...
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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Serials Solutions records in CUNY+

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Because Serials Solutions has changed the format for sending their e-records, the central office has had to reload all electronic serials re...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Ebrary now allows exporting to RefWorks and EndNote

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ebrary just announced the new feature added to the QuickView menu. Users must go to My Settings on the top right, where they have a choice t...
Monday, May 18, 2009

WNYC's On the Media critiques two new search engines

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WYNC’s On The Media featured a segment this weekend on search engines. The segment discusses two savvy search engines, Wolfram Alpha and Cu...
Friday, May 15, 2009

Zotero

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At today's Tech Sharecase , I demo'ed Zotero , an open source citation manager that works within the Firefox browser. If you want mo...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Company History

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At the last practicum we discussed an assignment about company histories. An entrepreneurship class has to find out about the history, manag...
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