Reference at Newman Library

Reference Services Schedule For The Week Of May 20, 2013

Randy Hensley — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:42:59 +0000

This schedule is now confirmed and posted to the Reference Desk LibGuide.

Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety text released

rormsby — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:28:30 +0000

The text of the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety can be downloaded at http://www.industriall-union.org/. It was released earlier today.

Article re classifications of nonprofit organizations

rormsby — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:54:41 +0000

HispanicBusiness.com has published an article that explains, with short definitions, the various types of nonprofit organizations.

Reference Services Schedule For The Week Of May 13, 2013

Randy Hensley — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:04:57 +0000

This schedule is now confirmed and posted to the Reference Desk LibGuide.

Reference Services Schedule For The Week Of May 6, 2013

Randy Hensley — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:58:10 +0000

This schedule is now confirmed and posted to the Reference Desk LibGuide.

Reference Services Schedule For The Week Of April 29,2013

Randy Hensley — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:57:33 +0000

This schedule is now confirmed and posted to the Reference Desk LibGuide.

Trial: LGBT Life with Full-Text

mwaldman — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:24:58 +0000

We have a CUNY-wide trial to this resource until May 23rd.

This full-text database contains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for hundreds of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers including The Advocate, Gay Parent Magazine, Girlfriends, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies, James White Review, ISNA News, Ladder, Lesbian Tide, New York Blade, ONE, Tangents, as well as over 150 full-text monographs and books. The database contains comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specializes LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,400 terms.

You can find the trial here.

I am interested in all and any feedback and please feel free to let interested faculty know about it as well.

GIS Practicum Summer 2013

fdonnelly — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:04:19 +0000

I will be running one session of the GIS (geographic information systems) Practicum, Introduction to GIS Using Open Source Software, during the summer semester on:

Friday June 7th

The day-long workshop runs from 9am to 4:30pm. CUNY graduate students, faculty, and staff are eligible to register; Baruch undergrads may register with permission from the instructor. Advance registration is required; the fee is $30 and includes a detailed tutorial manual and a light breakfast. Visit the GIS Practicum page to learn more and to register: http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/gis.

FASB Codification for accounting students now includes access to GASB

rormsby — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:11:24 +0000

The FASB Codification of Accounting Standards, of which only accounting students and faculty may access the Academic Version via passwords, now includes access to the GASB (Governmental Accounting Standards Board), which issues the accounting standards that governmental units follow. Baruch community members also have access to the FASB and GASB standards through CCH Accounting Research Manager.

An accounting professor told me that the most recently issued GASB Statement, Statement No. 69, Government Combinations and Disposals of Government Operations, issued in January, 2013, is only available on CCH Accounting Research Manager. I checked and the version of GASB on the other database is current as of June 30, 2012. So, if you have an questions about Statement No. 69, the database to use is CCH Accounting Research Manager.

New Catalog Feature Lets You Text the Call Number to Yourself

Stephen Francoeur — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:39:39 +0000

The staff at the CUNY OLS just added a new feature to the catalog today that lets you send the basic holdings info (title, location, and call number) as a text message to your phone.

When you are looking at the holdings screen for an item, you’ll now see a new button, “Send Info via Text.”

If you click the button, you are asked to enter your phone number (no spaces or punctuation marks) and select your carrier (Verizon, AT&T, etc.).

Once you do that, click the “Send Message” button at the bottom of the screen and in about a minute, you’ll get a text from the sender “libraries@cuny.edu.” The body of the text includes the title of the work, the location, and the call number. The end of the message reads, “DO NOT RESPOND,” as any replies a patron may try to send back will go nowhere.

If you find any odd behavior or text messages from this new system, please let me or Mike Waldman know so we can forward the info on to CUNY OLS.