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• Library E-Resources Bulletin
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Can You Haiku? Poetry Contest Winners!

There were 210 haiku entries; 165 hand written entries and 45 submitted via the library's online link. Winners were selected by Professors Dorothea Coiffe and Linda Wadas. Congratulations to all who participated!

The 2 Winning Poems:

The sound of wind blows While he whispers in my ear Is it love or fear? - K. Hicks	Deprived of my sleep As you lay beside me I don’t regret yet. - M. Garcia
The First Runner-Up: Water rushes past Your face is washed away I must look again - R. Jorif

Can You Haiku? Poetry Contest
Help us celebrate BMCC's 20th Annual Asian Heritage Month, by entering the Can You Haiku? Contest! Haiku is a traditional Japanese poem of three lines with seventeen syllables in total- consisting of 5, 7, 5 syllables respectively.

Professors Dorothea Coiffe and Linda Wadas will be judging the entries - winners will receive a $25 gift card for Barnes & Noble and may attend BMCC's 20th Annual Asian Heritage Month Dinner on April 11, 2008.

Can You Haiku?

New Trial Databases page
Now you can see all our trial databases on one page:
http://lib1.bmcc.cuny.edu/finding/databases/trials.html

Try out all the new databases the Library is considering purchasing, and give your feedback to Dan Dubei, our new Electronic Resources Librarian (ddubei@bmcc.cuny.edu).

Library Improvements

See anything different around the library? There have been several new additions including new carpet, new desks, chairs, and improved shelving in the Reference Area. Enjoy our bright new space for studying and learning and stay tuned for even more improvements throughout the Fall and Spring semester.

Quiet Study Area Closed
Due to furniture removal and rug cleaning, the Quiet Study area will be closed from Saturday, June 16 to Saturday June 23, 2007. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Looking At: Jazz
The A. Philip Randolph Memorial Library, in collaboration with the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, hosts a Looking at: Jazz screening March 13, 2007. Learn about the the Jazz Swing Era through documentaries, performance clips, and discussions.

For more information, go to:
http://nvr.org/lookingatjazz/content.php?sec=screenings&institution_id=81

  

Nature and Science Magazine Online

Nature and Science magazine, two core journals in the fields of Science and Technology, are now available online. Until now, faculty and library users have not been able to access the full content of current issues online.

Science is now available on the Library's databases page or www.sciencemag.org (from on campus) and off campus after users log-on for access. Full-text article content is available from 1997 to the present. Nature full text content from 1950- present is now available: http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html. We also have access from 1997 - 1 year ago through EBSCO.

Communication Studies - A Sage Collection Online
Communication Studies contains the full-text of 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, with some journals going back 23 years, and encompassing over 5,000 articles. The database covers subjects like Journalism, Public Opinion, Political Communication, Mass Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Cultural Studies, Intercultural Communication, Television and Film Studies, Media Studies, Business Communication, Organizational Communication, Written Communication, Rhetoric, and Literacy Studies.

E-Audio Books Help You Travel In Style
The Library now subscribes to e-AudioBooks through NetLibrary. They are accessible anywhere on campus, including your office and Murray Street; and off-campus (after registering on a campus computer).

e-AudioBooks can be downloaded to most computers or portable devices that support Windows Media Player or the RealPlayer (MP3 players, but not iPods). More on supported devices: http://www.oclc.org/audiobooks/techspecs/devices.htm

The collection features a language series and core collection of non-fiction, mysteries, fiction, and other titles. Each audiobook can be checked out for 21 days; a maximum of ten audiobooks can be checked out at a time. For a more information, visit: http://www.netlibrary.com/recordedbooks/

BMCC Library Survey - Tell Us How We're Doing!
The library survey helps us know how we’re satisfying Faculty and student needs, as well as identifying any room for improvement.The survey only takes about 5-10 minutes to fill in, it’s online, and best of all, it will help us identify needs in our collection, services, and equipment. Go to: http://lib1.bmcc.cuny.edu/survey/index.jsp

Enhanced CUNY+ Records
CUNY+ now has enhanced records for many books. In addition to the call number and bibliographic information, you can now find tables of contents, summaries, cover images, author notes, and first chapters.

Too Busy to Visit the Library?
Starting Monday (December 4) until the end of the semester, look for librarians with laptops in 2 locations outside of the Library! Librarians will be available to help with your research needs and questions. A poster display will help you find us.

Librarians are available:

• Mondays and Tuesdays: 1:45-2:45 pm, Richard Harris Terrace (near cafeteria)
• Wednesdays: 10:45 - 11:45 am, Murray Street Building café
• Thursdays: 2:45 - 3:45 pm, Murray Street Building café

Looking At: Jazz
The A. Philip Randolph Memorial Library, in collaboration with the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, is proud to host the Looking at: Jazz series, a grant-funded film and discussion project for non-profit organizations and libraries from National Video Resources and the National Endowment for the Humanities, in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center and the American Library Association.

Films related to the history of jazz will be shown over the course of the 2006-2007 academic year and will be moderated by jazz and film scholar Krin Gabbard. For more information on this project and for a schedule of screenings, additional resources and readings related to the films, go to www.lookingatjazz.com.




We now subscribe to RefWorks, a citation management tool (like Endnote) to manage, organize, and share citation information. Use the Write-N-Cite Plug in to automatically insert references into papers and generate formatted bibliographies and manuscripts in seconds. To get started, log on to Refworks and create an individual account. (If you're accessing from off campus, you'll need to log in first.)

How Do You Access 10 Million Books in CUNY (without Leaving BMCC)?

It is very easy. You just place a Hold in the CUNY+ Catalog to obtain a book from another CUNY Library. An email will be sent to you once the book arrives. You can request a book from one CUNY library to be delivered to a second CUNY library for pickup, and then return it to a third library. Brief instructions are available at: http://lib1.bmcc.cuny.edu/services/circ.html#open

For further information on Direct Borrowing (CLICS), please contact Joy Dunkley at 5259 or Barbara Linton at 1448.

New to the Media Collection:

New DVDs
Take out a look at a list of the library's newest DVDs. Or, see a Complete Video List, including VHS and DVDs. Visit the Media Collection page for more information on the collection, and checkout policies.

New to the Library Databases Page:

Book Index with Reviews (EBSCOhost)
This new book review index features descriptive summaries of books, images of book covers and excerpts of book reviews.

SocINDEX (EBSCOhost)
This comprehensive sociology research database has full text for 344 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 129 "priority" coverage journals. The database features more than 1,660,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.

Can You Haiku? Poetry Contest
In celebration of BMCC's 18th Annual Asian Heritage Month, our library created the Can You Haiku? Contest as a creative and fun way to involve the BMCC community and honor Asian heritage. Haiku is a traditional Japanese poem of three lines with seventeen syllables in total- consisting of 5, 7, 5 syllables respectively.

Professors Dorothea Coiffe (Library) and Peter Marcus (Social Science), received 114 original haiku poems to judge, and selected two poems as winners of $25 Barnes & Noble gift cards. The judges would like to congratulate BMCC students on the beauty and creativity of their submissions.

The winning poems are:

Always intriguing
a circle punctured by a
sparrow of reason

- M. Sutherland

Sunshine beam explodes
Like an oil spill prism
I'm bathing in light

- Olivia Calabrese

African Heritage Month Multimedia Exhibit
For African Heritage Month, students were able to request documentaries illustrating the struggles and triumphs of African Americans throughout history. The following films were shown in this unique exhibit which drew over 800 viewers: Eyes on the Prize, Malcolm X, Roots, Roots: The Next Generation, Amistad, Rosewood, Shakazulu, Boycott, Through the Door of No Return, The Woman Called "Moses", Sankofa, Martin Luther King Jr. : I have a Dream, Nelson Mandela, Glory, Lumumba, Cry Freedom, and Hotel Rwanda.

SpringerLink is new to our databases, and is the premier electronic data source from Springer for researchers in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics. It includes more than 600,000 individual documents, organized by subject into 12 online libraries spanning medicine and the sciences.

The Library now has access to 19 online reference sets produced by Gale Publishing, through the Gale Virtual Reference Library. These online reference titles have the same information as the hardcover reference books - and are now available outside of the library.

Included are several volumes of the Business Plans Handbook, the Encyclopedia of World Biography, the World Education Encyclopedia, sets relating to history and politics such as American Civil War Reference and Major Acts of Congress, others relating to medicine including the Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer and the Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health, and in the social sciences, the Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural American and the Encyclopedia of American Religions.

New to the Library Databases Page:

Scopus, the world's largest indexing and abstracting database, is now listed on our databases page. It provides citations and abstracts from 14,200 peer-reviewed journals in the social sciences, sciences, technology, and medicine, covering 2,700 titles in anthropology, cultural studies, economics, education, gender studies, law, linguistics, political science, public administration, psychology, sociology, urban studies, and other social sciences; 5,900 in life and health sciences; 4,500 in chemistry, engineering, mathematics, and physics; 2,500 in biological, environmental, and agricultural sciences; and 50 in general science. These sources come from over 4,000 international publishers.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) This service covers free, full text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals (commonly known as the Open Access Journals.) Reporting primary results of research or overviews of research results to a scholarly community, DOAJ covers all subjects and languages. There are currently 1888 journals in the directory, and 461 journals are searchable at article level.

Searchasaurus (EBSCO) Features three popular elementary and middle school databases (Primary Search, Middle Search Plus and BookSource: Nonfiction) with a colorful, discovery-themed interface for children.

Kids Search (EBSCO) searches four EBSCO databases (Primary Search, TOPICsearch, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia and EBSCO Animals) with a colorful, easy-to-use interface.

is a new and powerful linking tool that helps you get more from your database searches. Find it! allows users to start with an item of interest found in one database, then view a menu of related options in other information resources. Find it! will take you as close to the full text of the article as each database will allow. Please note that not all of the Library’s databases work with the Find it! technology. If you already have the bibliographic information for the reference you are interested in, try Find it! now!

Ask-a-Librarian Chat Hours Extended
Have a Reference question and want to ask a librarian? Chat with a librarian, real-time, even on Saturday and Sunday.

The monthly "Library e-Resources Bulletin" was launched with the September 2005 issue. The goal is to highlight new additions to our collection to the faculty to promote research and publishing.

New Laptop Lending Program
BMCC students with a current ID can now borrow Dell notebooks to use in the library for a period of 3 hours. For more information, visit our Laptop Lending policy.

Library hours were significantly increased to put us among the top-tier for CUNY Libraries. The library is now open 80 hours per week and Quiet Study hours are extended until midnight.

Guerda Baucicaut, Stacks Manager, won first prize in the 2005 Freshman Assembly display contest, welcoming incoming students on behalf on the library. Many people noted her creative design of a tree of knowledge adorned by many miniature books. She was ably assisted by Trevor Smith, a fellow library staff member.

Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry is now available online. Students have access to the full text of the following publications:

• The Classic Hundred Poems -- a fully annotated anthology of the one hundred poems that, in the Granger's® database, are most frequently anthologized
• The Top 500 Poems -- an annotated anthology of the 500 poems that, in the Granger's® database, are most frequently anthologized
• The Columbia Granger's® Index to Poetry in Anthologies, editions 8–12 – an index to poetry in anthologies
• The Columbia Granger's® Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works, editions 1-2 -- an index to poems in the other main type of poetry book found on library shelves
• The Columbia Granger's® Index to African-American Poetry -- an index to 65 volumes of the best poetry by African Americans

Streaming Video on ERes
The BMCC Library now offers streaming video from our electronic reserves site, ERes. Students can watch required videos from home or on campus, 24 hours a day! For more information, contact Flor Hernandez: flhernandez@bmcc.cuny.edu.

The Library participated in the LibQUAL survey which measures library user perceptions of service quality and identifies gaps between desired, perceived and minimum expectations of service. This survey has been administered by the Association for Research Libraries since 2001. The choice of questions, about 30 in all, are partially standard and partially chosen from a standard list.

Seven new journal titles in JSTOR:

• Dumbarton Oaks Papers
• Feminist Studies
• International Studies Review
• Journal of Design History
• Journal of the American Institute for Conservation
• Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft
• NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction

New Look for the Library Website
The BMCC Library unveiled its new site design which incorporates added usability and an appealing new look.