LexisNexis Search Tips

Place: Conference room in the Reference Center on the 1st floor of Bobst Library
Dates/Times: Tues, March 4th at 6 pm and Wed, March 26th at 3 pm

LexisNexis Academic’s full-text database provides a wealth of valuable content, but it can be hard to find what you’re looking for. Learn how to locate local and international news, statistics, and environmental information. (45 min.)

Walk-in session, no registration required.

Paula Feid
Undergraduate Librarian
NYU Libraries
paula.feid@nyu.edu
212-998-2509

Bobst Library Graduate Student Working Group

Hello from the NYU Bobst Library:

We are currently involved in a project aimed at better understanding and fulfilling the needs of NYU graduate students. Over the course of this semester, we will be engaged in collecting information through a variety of means, including everything from structured conversations, to quick surveys, to small-scale experiments with some of the spaces in the building.

This may mean that some things you are used to seeing in the library and its virtual spaces may look a little different, but it also means that we need your help in gathering and evaluating this information. If you would be willing to volunteer to help us, either in conversation, survey, or space prototype tests, please go to this link and fill out our contact form:

You will be contacted over the course of the semester, you can decline to participate at that time, and all of your information will be kept confidential.

Thank you for your willingness to participate.

Thank you,

Scott Collard, Chair, Graduate Student Community Working Group (scott.collard@nyu.edu)

BOBST BOOK SALE: Thursday, March 6

Thursday, March 6, 2008

12 Noon to 2 PM

CRS Conference Room, Mezzanine East

Collections & Research Services will be holding the Bobst Book Sale in the CRS Conference Room in the corridor of the East Mezzanine on Thursday, March 6.

We have a selection of used books available on a multitude of topics.
Books priced at 50¢ or $1.00. Proceeds will benefit the Bobst Library Endowment Fund.

This event is only open to members of the NYU community.

Citation Indexes: How to do Cited Reference Searching Using Databases

PLACE: classroom PC2, Lower Level 1 of Bobst Library.
DATES/TIME: Wednesday., Mar. 5 3:00 p.m., AND Thursday., Apr. 3 — 3:00 pm

The Web of Science, Google Scholar, and other bibliographic databases provide access to a unique search method: “Cited Reference Searching.” Navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans. Users may also navigate to electronic full-text journal articles subscribed by NYU. (45 min.)

Walk-in sessions, no is registration required.

Spring Library Classes

There’s still time to register for the following library classes at http://library.nyu.edu/forms/research/classes.html

Library Tour and Introduction to BobCat

• Fri., Feb. 1 — 10:00 am
• Thu., Feb. 7 — 2:00 pm
• Wed., Feb. 13 — 3:00 pm
• Tue., Feb. 19 — 6:30 pm

Finding Periodical Articles (Using Databases)

• Tue., Feb. 5 — 2:00 pm
• Fri., Feb. 15 — 10:00 am
• Wed., Feb. 20 — 6:30 pm
• Tue., Feb. 26 — 3:30 pm

 RefWorks

• Wed., Feb. 6 — 3:30 pm (Science focus, featuring Ovid and Web of Science)
• Thu., Feb. 14 — 4:00 pm (Science focus, featuring Ovid and Web of Science)
• Thu. Feb. 21 — 4:00 pm
• Fri., Feb. 29 — 10:00 am (Science focus, featuring Ovid and Web of Science)

Advanced RefWorks

• Thu., Feb 14 — 10:00 am
• Wed., Feb. 20 — 3:00 pm

EndNote

• Wed., Feb. 13 — 11:00 am
• Thu., Feb. 28 — 2:00 pm

Google Expert

• Mon., Feb. 4 — 2:00pm
• Wed., Feb. 20 — 10:00 am

For class descriptions, information about March classes and new walk-in sessions, and registration, go to:

http://library.nyu.edu/forms/research/classes.html

Extended Faculty loan periods for videos

Effective immediately, the Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media is
lengthening the faculty loan period for video from twenty-four hours to two
days, with weekend loans extended, as follows:

**Checkout Monday: Due Wednesday by closing time
**Checkout Tuesday: Due Thursday by closing time
**Checkout Wednesday:  Due Friday by closing time
**Checkout Thursday before 7:00 p.m.: Due Saturday by closing time
**Checkout Thursday after 7:00 p.m.: Due Monday by 10:30 a.m.
**Checkout Friday: Due Monday by 10:30 a.m.
**Checkout Saturday: Due Monday by closing time
**Checkout Sunday: Due Tuesday by closing time

(For our operating hours please refer to
http://library.nyu.edu/about/hours/spring.html ).

The following borrower categories have faculty privileges in the Avery
Fisher Center and are therefore eligible for the extended video loans:

**NYU and Consortium faculty at all ranks
**Registered additional borrowers of NYU and Consortium faculty
**Registered teaching and research assistants of NYU and Consortium faculty
**NYU Ph.D. students

The extended loans apply only to non-reserve videos.  Videos on reserve are
restricted to loans of no more than six hours, regardless of the day of the
week.

(For the complete Avery Fisher loan policy please refer to
http://library.nyu.edu/afc/ ).

We hope this new loan scheme will provide a great measure of flexibility and
convenience in connection with class preparation and teaching, balancing
that with a fair and reasonable level of access to our collection on the
part of all our student and faculty clientele.

ITS Stats/Mapping Spring 2008 talks @ Bobst

Open to all NYU, all talks @ 4 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays starting February 5. Instructors interested in arranging introductory talks tailored for their classes using these statistical or GIS software are encouraged to contact data.services@nyu.edu.

All talks at Bobst BLCC (Bobst lower-level computer area seminar room)

SPSS, SAS, STATA, R, and QUICK MAP/Arc Intros and Intermediate Talks:

Extended Hours at Bobst

Exams and the end of the semester are just around the corner.

Bobst is extending hours on floors 1-10 until 3am and in the Computer Center until 1am. Please see the complete detail below.

• December 8 (at 12:01am) through December 21
  Floors 1-10 extended study hours, 7am – 3am
• December 10 — 13
  The Library Computer Center (Lower Level 1), open 9am – 1am
• December 17 – 20
  Lower Levels 1 & 2 will continue to be open 24 hours during this period.

Posters from the Spanish Civil War: Exhibit and Reception

On Wednesday December 5, (6 pm – 8pm) there will be a reception in the Bobst Gallery for “Art and Politics: Posters from the Spanish Civil War, 1936 – 1939.” Professor Jordana Mendelson from the Spanish Department, who teaches a course “Exhibiting Spain,” will be giving a gallery talk.

The Bobst Gallery is located on the Main Floor of Bobst Library.

Professor Mendelson is the curator of “Other Weapons: Photography and Print Culture during the Spanish Civil War” that is on view at the International Center of Photography.

BOBST BOOK SALE THURSDAY DEC. 6

Thursday, December 6, 2007
12 Noon to 2 PM
Collections & Research Services Conference Room, Mezzanine East

Collections & Research Services will be holding the Bobst Book Sale in the CRS Conference Room in the corridor of the East Mezzanine on Thursday, December 6.

We have a selection of used books available on a multitude of topics.
Books priced at 50¢ or $1.00. Proceeds will benefit the Bobst Library Endowment Fund.

This event is open to members of the NYU community.