BobCat Maintenance

BobCat will be unavailable due to system maintenance at the following time:

Monday, June 22, 11pm – midnight

BobCat Standard
http://bobcatstandard.library.nyu.edu:8991/F

will be available during these times.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Worldwide Reaction to Obama’s Speech in Cairo: Read about it at the Library

You can read about reactions to President Obama’s speech in Cairo in many sources available through Bobst Library.

I would recommend PressDisplay and MideastWire.
PressDisplay offers full text of newspapers in 39 languages from 82 countries including many from the Middle East. It is available at: https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=http://library.pressdisplay.com

MideastWire offers English translations of selected articles from major newspapers in the region.
Available at: https://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=http://www.mideastwire.com/
One can receive daily brief of news events by sending email address to info@mideastwire.com with subject line “Request for Daily Briefings”

Both resources offer searchable archives.

Peter Magierski
Middle East Studies Librarian
E-mail: peter.magierski@nyu.edu

Bobst Memorial Day Weekend Hours

Saturday Sunday, May 23-24 – Regular Summer Hours

Monday, May 25 – Library closed

Regular summer hours are at: http://library.nyu.edu/about/hours/summer.html

Summer Library Classes

This summer we’re offering the same hands-on classes as offered during the fall/spring semesters along with a small sampling of the Data Service Studio tutorials.

There was a STATA class today but all other classes start next week so there’s still time to register at http://library.nyu.edu/forms/research/classes.html

BobCat Unavailable 5/24/09 7-9am

BobCat will be unavailable on Sunday, May 24th from 7am to 9am due to maintenance. Users needing access can use BobCat Standard to locate items at: http://bobcatstandard.library.nyu.edu:8991

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Library Hours Commencement Week

The Library will be open on Commencement Day, Wednesday May 13th, with special hours through the weekend beginning Wednesday.

Wednesday-Friday, May 13-15:

• Stacks, Lower Levels 1&2: 7am – midnight
• Service areas: 9am – 6:45pm
• Reference (1st floor): 10am-5:45pm
• Reference (6th & 9th floors): 12pm-5:45pm
• Data Studio: noon-6pm
• Fales, Dig. Studio, Archives, Tamiment/Wagner – see regular hours

Saturday-Sunday, May 16-17

Library Closed

Monday, May 18 – Summer session begins

Library opens at 7am

Congratulations to our Commencement Class of 2009, best wishes for your future plans. A complete schedule for both this final week of the Spring Semester, and the Summer Schedule, can be viewed via the Bobst Library website at:

http://library.nyu.edu/about/access.html

Finals Week at Bobst Library

Reminder: During finals week, the Bobst Library offers some special services and support for the NYU community.

Extended Hours: The stacks are open for study until 3AM during final exams, May 2-13. Lower Levels are open 24/7.

Expanded Seating: We are offering extra seating in the 6th floor reference area and in the Avery Fisher Center classrooms on the 2nd floor.

FREE Coffee: Get complimentary coffee during finals after 6pm at the snack bar on Lower Level 1.

FREE Stress Management Assistance: The Student Health Center will be offering sessions on relaxation and self-hypnosis to improve concentration and reduce anxiety. May 5th from 10am to 12pm and May 7th from 2:30 to 4:30 in seminar room 1-17A (next to the circulation desk opposite the elevators, around the corner from the Elmer bust)

Reference Assistance: The reference desks are open as usual (1st floor: Mon-Thurs 10am-9:45pm, Fri 10am-6:45pm, Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 1-7pm), and you can always IM a librarian (screen name: AskBobst) Mon-Wed from 10am-midnight, Thurs 10am-11pm, Fri-Sat 11am-6pm, and Sun 1pm-10pm. For more info on Ask-a-Librarian, go to: library.nyu.edu/ask/

Bobst Library Final Exam Hours

Bobst Library hours are extended during the final exam period as follows:

• Stacks study hours (floors 1-10) remain open until 3am — May 2 – May 13

• Bobst Library Computer Center
• Monday-Thursday (May 4th-7th) – hours extended until 12:45am
• Monday-Tuesday (May 11th-12th) – hours extended until 11:45pm

Grad Students, finish your semester right!

Bobst Library offers a number of ways to support grad students during the busy end-of-the-semester crunch:

Extended Hours: The stacks are open for study until 3AM during final exams, May 2-13. Lower Levels are open 24/7.

Expanded Seating: We will be offering extra seating in selected areas of the library.

FREE Coffee: Get complimentary coffee during finals after 6pm at the snack bar on Lower Level 1.

FREE Stress Management Assistance: The Student Health Center will be offering sessions on relaxation and self-hypnosis to improve concentration and reduce anxiety. May 5th from 10am to 12pm and May 7th from 2:30 to 4:30 in seminar room 1-17A (next to the circulation desk opposite the elevators, around the corner from the Elmer bust)

Reference Assistance: The reference desks are open as usual (1st floor: Mon-Thurs 10am-9:45pm, Fri 10am-6:45pm, Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 1-7pm), and you can always IM a librarian (screen name: AskBobst) Mon-Wed from 10am-midnight, Thurs 10am-11pm, Fri-Sat 11am-6pm, and Sun 1pm-10pm. For more info on Ask-a-Librarian, go to: library.nyu.edu/ask/

RefMobile: RefWorks for Mobile Devices

RefMobile is a version of RefWorks for mobile and smart phones, as well as PDAs, that allows you to access and view your references, manage folders and even add information to the Notes field of your references.

To use RefMobile, you must be online.

In addition to being able to access and manage your references, RefMobile has a feature – SmartAdd – that will search the web for references based on a digital object identifier (DOI), PubMed ID (PMID), PubMed Central ID (PMCID), ISSN/ISBN number or by author and publication year or even search using part of a title. References located by SmartAdd can even be imported into your RefWorks account via RefMobile. Any user can access RefMobile at www.refworks.com/mobile.

Please note: you must have a group code to access RefMobile.
To get the NYU Group Code, email gr1@nyu.edu, and include your NYU NetID.