The BMCC Library now subscribes to the plagiarism detection service Turnitin.com. Turnitin compares submitted papers to millions of web pages, paper mills, and some subscription databases. Turnitin creates so-called Originality Reports. Reports are exact duplicates of submitted papers, except that any text either copied or paraphrased appears underlined, color-coded, and linked to its original source on the Web.
If you would like to use Turnitin this semester, please get in touch with Prof. Marion Prudlo.
Contact information: mprudlo@bmcc.cuny.edu, 212-220-1450, Room S-434 Quiet Study Area
1-9-2004

New database subscriptions:
ACM Digital Library: Collection of citations and full text from ACM journal articles and conference proceedings in the field of IT and computer science.
America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present
Learning Express Library Practice tests and tutorial course series.
Choice Reviews Book reviews from all subject areas from Choice magazine.
1-9-2004

The Library now subscribes to three new databases: MathSciNet, Encyclopaedia Britannica, and College Source.
1-5-2004

View a list of new humanities, sciences, math, CIS, and nursing books.
12-11-2003

View a list of new social science books.
12-9-2003

The EBSCO Psychology and Behavioral Science Database provides access to more than 500 full text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles.
12-6-2003

The latest version of the BMCC Factbook is now available as a PDF document.
12-5-2003

More than 300 new e-books were added to the netLibrary database.
12-5-2003

The full text of the New York Times is now avaiable in a new database. It covers the years 1851-2001.
12-3-2003

The BMCC Library now subscribes to the plagiarism detection service Turnitin.com. Turnitin compares submitted papers to millions of web pages, paper mills, and some subscription databases.
If you would like to use Turnitin this semester, please get in touch with Prof. Marion Prudlo before 12/15/03. Contact information: Prof. Marion Prudlo, mprudlo@bmcc.cuny.edu, 212-220-1450, Room S434 - Quiet Study Area
12-3-2003

The remote login to the full text databases is now working.
10-23-2003

The BMCC Links Database is available again.
10-17-2003

The Library is experiencing server problems at the moment. Several pages are therefore not available.
If you want to access library databases remotely, please use the CUNY E-Journals & Databases page.
The Reference Chat room is not available either, however, you can use the e-mail Reference service.
Until further notice the BMCC Links Database will not be available.
10-9-2003

New Books List: August 2003
8-22-2003

The schedule for library walk-in classes for the Fall 2003 semester is now online.
8-20-2003

Chat with a fellow student, attend chat sessions on library research topics or ask a librarian questions about your library research.
4-18-2003

New Books List: March 2003
4-3-2003

Conference schedule and bibliography for the NYCEA Spring Conference "Anatomy of Violence: Examining Conflict."
4-2-2003

A number of links to Websites with news articles and background information on the conflict with Iraq are available in the BMCC Virtual Library links database.
3-27-2003

The Construction of BMCC is an online exhibit of 83 photographs from the time when BMCC was built.
2-25-2003

"African Americans: 400 Years of Achievement," is the theme of the Library's current exhibit celebrating African heritage Month.
Books, photos, and articles showcasing famous names, past and present, who have made major contributions to American life, are featured.
Please stop by the Library during the month of February to view the display.
2-11-2003

The Library subscribes to a new database which is called XreferPlus. It offers the full text of over 100 searchable and browsable reference books from all subject areas. The database is available on the Full text Databases page.
1-31-2003

A digital version of the BMCC Factbook can be accessed through the Faculty Resources page.
1-28-2003

A virtual tour of the Library's service areas is now available.
1-28-2003

The schedule for library walk-in classes for the Spring 2003 semester is now online.
1-22-2003

The faculty and staff of the A. Philip Randolph Memorial Library wish you and your family a Happy Holiday. May the New Year bring the world peace and prosperity!!!
12-18-2002

BMCC has become a member of the Center for Academic Integrity. Baruch and Medgar Evers are the other two CUNY membership schools. The Center serves as a clearing-house for best practices information among institutions of higher education and also offers events and literature. The membership signals the College's commitment to promoting integrity and ethical behavior among students.
12-3-2002

The BMCC Library Serials List is now updated. The list contains the BMCC Library holdings of print and microform periodicals.
12-3-2002

Contributions are again solicited for CUNY Campaign 2003 and the BMCC Fund, Inc. This year's campaign theme is "Giving Close to Home" and a gift to the BMCC Fund, Inc. will indeed be giving closest to home and will directly benefit our community. 197 faculty and staff participated in last year's Campaign --making BMCC the highest fund-raising campus in CUNY.

12-3-2002

Two helpful fact sheets on the hazards of smoking as well as second-hand smoke from the New York City Department of Health have been reproduced for distribution.
Copies are placed in the Information Center Box near the main entrance as well as some in the Lucite holder that is attached to the Reference Desk near computer #1.
12-3-2002

"Harlem On My Mind: Fact and Fiction", the current exhibit at the library, focuses on that world famous New York neighborhood; its history, culture and people.

The current hit musical about Harlem, "Harlem Song" which is being performed at the Apollo Theatre on 125th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, a place where many legendary performers got their start, is a focal point of the display.

Books about Harlem past and present: the Harlem Renaissance, Harlem during WW II, El Barrio, Harlem in the fiction of Baldwin, Hurston, Petry, Mohr, in the poetry of Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson, are all included. The display was organized by Prof. Joan Abelack.
10-10-2002

Strategies for Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism.
Wednesday, Sept. 18th: Room S-608, 4-5pm
Thursday, Oct. 10th: Room S-630, 4-5pm
Please call (212) 220-1450 or send an e-mail to mprudlo@bmcc.cuny.edu to sign up.
9-6-2002

The new schedule for walk-in classes is out! A list of classes and workshops can be found on the Library Instruction page.
9-5-2002

Due to popular demand, the library's Sunday opening hours (12-5 pm) are expected to continue in September 2002.
5-17-2002

Our new Help pages are now public with extensive information on our subscription databases, how to find resources, and how to cite and evaluate sources.
5-17-2002

Our online e-Books database (netLibrary) consists of a three-part collection:
The BMCC Library has purchased over 6,000 full-text e-Books, concentrating on titles geared to the colleges' areas of study as well as subjects of general interest to our students.
The public domain collection, given to us free of charge, contains over 4,000 titles considered classics of literature and history.
The Nylink netLibrary shared Collection, accessible to all the CUNY colleges, consists of over 4,500 electronic texts. This collection, with 900 recently added titles, is particularly strong in business and economics, reference, information and computer science, education, law and consumer health.
5-16-2002

The Library now subscribes to new databases:

• CQ Researcher explores a current "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and cultural issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. Every report features comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue. Numerous charts, graphs and sidebar articles - plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, bibliographies and a list of contacts - round each report.
• MagillOnAuthors is a reference database comprising information on over 1,500 notable authors, including 10 Critical Surveys and three Magill's Choice series, as well as World Philosophers and Their Works. This database offers approximately 3,000 articles and over 450 images and covers long and short fiction writers, poets, dramatists and philosophers.

An Information Competence Tutorial (http://ols.cuny.edu/tutorial/) is now available. The tutorial is comprised of four modules:

• Determine Your Information Needs
• Define Your Research Topic
• Locate and Retrieve Relevant Information
• Use the Technological Tools for Accessing Information

The Library is about to launch an electronic reserve service to allow patrons to access specified course materials online. Some examples will be course syllabi, sample tests, or articles. The system also has the ability to encourge copyright laws compliance through the use of passwords. Presently we are in the process of identifying willing faculty members to become active partners. Click here to see the startup page.

The College has just received 45 iMacs from Apple, and they will be deployed throughout the Library on the 4th floor. Others will also be used to expand the Cyber Café near the area just off the students cafeteria. These attractive machines will be used as browser-boxes for their simplicity and small foot-print. BMCC is always on the go!

Your Library has instituted a new policy to benefit students who wish to use library services during the summer. Even if you are not registered for Summer School, we will extend borrowing privileges to those who hold a CUNYCard with a Spring 2001 imprint. This will allow students to have a leg up or catch up with "incomplete's".

After careful consideration, CUNY announced the university-wide subscription to EBSCO Academic Search Premier--the world's largest multi-discipline, full text database. It is to replace the familiar Expanded Academic Index, also known as InfoTrac. Academic Search Premier contains:

• full text for 3,180 scholarly publications, covering all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
• abstracts and indexing for 4,150 scholarly journals with many dating back to 1984
• full-page images, as well as color embedded images

Through EBSCOHost BMCC will be offering its students access to CINAHL, ERIC, Medline, PsycINFO and Sociological Abstracts through the same easy to use interface. EBSCO has the ability to link to full text in Academic and Business Search Premier from third party databases (i.e. CINAHL, ERIC, Medline, PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts) making these publications partially full text.

The EBSCO product is available immediately. To ease the transition Gale's Expanded Academic Index will be available through September 30, 2001.