NYIT Library Update

Fall 2006

Wireless Cafe Opens in Wisser

With the start of the fall semester, a new wireless cafe opened on the lower level of Wisser Library. The self-service cafe has two vending machines offering snacks, salads, sandwiches, and cold drinks. A European-style coffee machine with a selection of coffees, cappuccino, and hot chocolate is also available. Furnished with comfortable seating and bistro tables, the cafe offers a cozy environment for relaxed study.

New Online Resources - Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage is a comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering online access to popular Standard & Poor's research products including independent research, data and commentary on stocks, bonds, funds, and industries. NetAdvantage provides powerful searching and screening tools to facilitate job searches, case studies, competitive intelligence, and strategic planning. Included in this online resource is hard-to-find data on more than 85,000 companies that are not publicly traded as well as biographies of thousands of corporate executives. To access Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage, click here and select the database from the alphabetical listing.

New Online Resources - Primal Pictures

Primal Pictures on the Ovid search platform provides a dynamic interactive multimedia overview of human anatomy--from head to toe. It features three-dimensional animations that illustrate function, biomechanics, and surgical procedures. Clinical videos and textual descriptions by leading specialists supplement the animations and models.

Primal Pictures has created the world's first complete 3-D model of human anatomy. Images are not mere drawings; they are derived from real medical scan and dissection data interpreted by a team of staff anatomists, and constructed using advanced imaging by a team of graphics specialists. Available on Ovid's Web Gateway, this resource can be accessed from the library's database listing under OVID.

Document Delivery

The Manhattan Campus Library is running a pilot program for a document delivery service with the British Library. If the NYIT library does not have a specific journal article, it can be ordered from the British Library for desktop delivery within two to five business days. The cost to patrons is $1. The library absorbs the costs for requests up to a total charge of $25. If the article requested is more than $25, the patron pays the difference. Rush orders for desktop delivery within 24 hours can be accommodated for a $10 fee.

Information Literacy

Over the summer, reference librarians worked hard, using Captivate software to produce new content for the library's information literacy tutorial. The focus has been to produce video tutorials, taking users step-by-step through the search process, for the most popular online resources. Please click here to find videos for Proquest, LexisNexis, biographical resources, and the Literature Resource Center. Stay tuned for videos for ERIC and CQResearcher.

Librarian As Author

Amy Young, catalog librarian at Wisser Library, has just had her book, Bedlam Among the Bedpans: Humor in Nursing, published by Elsevier. The book includes more than 100 stories that highlight the humor in situations nurses face every day. Anecdotes were collected from nursing journals, books, and the internet. Inspired by the experiences of real nurses, the stories relate situations to insights that only nurses who have "been there" in the field could experience.

New Staff Members

Please join us in welcoming two new staff members to our Manhattan campus library. Robert Kayton, part-time weekend reference librarian, has an M.B.A./M.S. from Baruch College and an M.L.S. from Queens College. Hugar Hughes, part-time weekend library assistant, has work experience from the Quinn Library at Fordham University.

Grant for Electronic White Board

Wisser Library received a grant from the SMARTer Kids Foundation toward the purchase of an electronic white board. The e-board is now in use in Wisser's wireless classroom, which also houses 24 laptops for hands-on exercises, a new instructor's workstation, and new printer.

E-Books - The Kite Runner

Author Khaled Hosseini's novel, the Kite Runner, is the assigned reading for NYIT 101. The book is available to the NYIT community 24/7as an e-book. For access to this book, please click here. For access to NYIT Library's other 10,000 e-books, please click here.

Recently, Khaled Hosseini participated in the Library Of Congress National Book Festival. To listen in as Hosseini talks about Afghanistan, the inspiration behind his book, and experience as an immigrant in the United States, please click here.