Newman Library News

The Library has approximately 400 graphing calculators available for Baruch College students to borrow for the spring 2013 semester.  Students who are interested in borrowing a calculator must enter their names on a list in ONE of the following ways:

1.  Text the word “calculator” to 877877 and reply to the request for your Baruch e-mail address.  (Message and data rates may apply.)

OR

2.  Enter your Baruch e-mail address on this online form.

The randomly selected patrons will receive an email message on Thursday, January 31.  They will have until closing (9:50) on Thursday, February 7 to pick up their calculators.

First-come, first-served distribution of remaining calculators will begin at 9:30AM on Friday, February 8.

Multiple entries will result in disqualification from the calculator loan process.  Entries must be submitted by 7:00 a.m. on January 31, 2012.

Baruch College’s contract with the Library’s current photocopy service vendor has expired.  The vendor will remove the photocopiers on December 27, 2012.  Any balance on copycards at that time will be lost.   The Library’s printing and scanning services are not affected.

Professor Frank Donnelly, the College’s Geospatial Data Librarian will offer a day-long (9 a.m. to 4:30 pm) GIS workshop on October 12 and November 9.  Baruch students (undergraduate, graduate, CAPS), CUNY graduate students, and Baruch and CUNY faculty and staff are eligible to register.  Registrants should possess basic to intermediate level computer skills.  Registration fee is $30.A light breakfast and a detailed tutorial booklet will be provided.

Participants will:

• Add data to GIS software and navigate a GIS interface
• Perform basic geoprocessing operations for preparing vector GIS data
• Convert text-based data to a GIS data format
• Conduct geographic analyses using standard GIS tools and vector data
• Create thematic maps using the principles of map projections, data classification, symbolization, and cartographic design
• Locate GIS data on the web and consider the merits of different data sources
• Demonstrate competency with a specific GIS package (open source QGIS)
• Identify other GIS topics (tools and techniques for analysis), data formats (raster, vector), and software (open source and ArcGIS) to pursue for future study.

For more information and to register go here.

The Library has approximately 400 TI-89 graphing calculators available for Baruch College students to borrow for the fall 2012 semester.  Students who are interested in borrowing a calculator must enter their names on a list in ONE of the following ways:

1.  Text the word “calculator” to 877877 and reply to the request for your Baruch e-mail address.  (Message and data rates may apply.)

OR

2.  Enter your Baruch e-mail address on this online form.

Students will be selected at random from the list during the first week of classes and notified by e-mail to come to the circulation desk to pick up the calculator.  Students who are selected from the waiting list will have one week from the sending of the e-mail message to pick up the calculator.  Calculators that are not picked up within the week will be distributed at the laptop loan desk on a first-come, first-served basis.  Each student may only submit one entry to the waiting list.  Multiple entries will result in disqualification from the calculator loan process.  Entries must be submitted by 7:00 a.m. on August 30, 2012.

We need your help as we test a new way to search the library catalog, a project we are referring to as our Beta Catalog. Along with three other CUNY colleges, Baruch is trying out  the Beta Catalog to see if it offers faster and easier access to items in CUNY libraries as well as items held in other libraries in the New York area.
After you’ve kicked the tires of Beta Search, it would be great to hear what you thought of it in this 30-second survey.

The Newman Library has a web page that provides links to databases that are optimized to work on mobile devices.  In addition to a full alphabetical list, the links are also organized by subject area.  Simply bookmark the following link on your mobile device

http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/mobiledatabases

and go to the page.  After you select a database you will be prompted to enter your Baruch username and password– the same log in process that you use when you search Newman Library databases from off campus.  As soon as you log in, you will be able to enter your search and view the results.