Archive for the 'BlackBoard' Category

Using Library Resources in your Blackboard Course Site

May 12, 2008

Do you want to include course readings and links to licensed library resources in your Blackboard site?
Do you want your students to access full-text articles, book chapters, databases, or other resources directly from your course page?
The NYU Library has thousands of digital resources—all licensed for use on Blackboard. Learn how to add these [...]

Using Library Resources in your Blackboard Course Site

August 3, 2007

Do you want to include course readings and links to licensed library resources in your Blackboard site?
Do you want your students to access full-text articles, book chapters, databases, or other resources directly from your course page?
The NYU Library has thousands of digital resources—all licensed for use on Blackboard. Learn how to add these [...]

Using Library Resources in Your Blackboard Course

January 18, 2007

Do you want to include course readings and links to licensed library resources in your Blackboard site? Do you want your students to access full text articles directly from your course site? The NYU Library has thousands of digital resources—all licensed for use on Blackboard. Learn how to add these to your Blackboard site by [...]

Help Installing Ebrary Reader

September 28, 2006

Ebrary is the Library’s new 30,000+ title electronic book collection. Some users have reported some problems installing the browser plugin to read the books. Here are solutions from Ebrary:

Internet Explorer (PC) help
Firefox (PC) help
Intel Mac help
Ebrary KnowledgeBase for Customers

Naxos Music Library: Create Audio Playlists for Your Class

September 25, 2006

NYU Instructors may use the “playlist” feature of the Naxos Music Library to create playlists of musical selections for use by their students.
Naxos Music Library is a searchable online collection of thousands of high-quality recordings from the Naxos and other well-known labels. The collection includes classical, jazz, world/folk, Chinese music, film and TV music.
The playlist [...]

The Digital Studio: NYU’s Gateway to Digital Services for Scholarship and Teaching

September 14, 2006

This past summer, the Studio and the Faculty Technology Center
combined to create a new and expanded service center called the
Digital Studio. The Digital Studio is a collaborative facility of
the Libraries and ITS and is NYU’s gateway to digital services
supporting scholarship and teaching.
Hours: Monday-Friday, 11:00am-5:00pm.
Location: Bobst Library, 2nd floor, east wing

Linking to Electronic Books: ebrary

August 30, 2006

The Library now provides access to ebrary, a collection of over 30,000 current academic books in all subjects. Here’s how to link to excerpts from these books for BlackBoard or other web documents:

Can I Get a List of Book Titles in Ebrary?

July 5, 2006

We are adding individual ebrary titles to BobCat. At this point we have loaded about 25,000 of them.
You can search for them in BobCat by:
**choosing “all collections” under “select a collection”
**in phrase search, choose “related name” and type ebrary
**To find out if specific titles are included, go to keyword search and [...]

Electronic Books from Ebrary

June 27, 2006

Now available from NYU Libraries: ebrary, a major electronic book collection.
Ebrary is a full text collection of over 30,000 current books from the world’s leading scientific, academic and reference publishers. All of the books are being cataloged in BobCat, and readers have been installed on all public workstations in Bobst Library.
Using an easily installed web [...]

Using Library Resources in Your Blackboard Course

May 3, 2006

Do you want to include course readings and links to licensed library esources in your Blackboard site? Do you want your students to access full text articles, images, books, databases, or primary sources directly from your course page? The NYU Library has thousands of digital resources—all licensed for use on Blackboard. Learn how to add [...]