NYIT Library Update - Spring 2005

Spring 2005

1. Relocation of the Central Islip Library

Central Islip's collection will be reorganized to support the programs remaining on the Central Islip campus with the remainder of the collection to be divided between the libraries on the Old Westbury and Manhattan campuses. Electronic resources will continue to be available to students on all campuses. Central Islip's existing library is set to close May 31. Materials charged out at Central Islip can be returned to any NYIT library after that date.

2. Amnesty

If you have been reluctant to return library items because you wish to avoid paying fines, now is the time to do it. The library has started an amnesty period, from May 1 through May 31, for overdue items (excluding reserve items) returned to any NYIT/NYCOM library. This policy has been instituted in order to assist with the relocation of the Central Islip collection. All overdue fines for any items (except reserve items) returned from May 1 through May 31 will be waived.

3. ARTstor

ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. The ARTstor Charter Collection currently contains approximately 300,000 images with plans to expand the collection to 500,000 images by 2006.

This resource consists of a broad collection of images of world visual art, key monuments to world art, images from the Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection of American art and architecture, a photographic overview of Asian art from the Huntington Archive of Asian Art, images of paintings and sculpture from the Buddhist cave shrines in Dunhuang, China, and a comprehensive collection representing the Department of Architecture and Design of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

For more information on ARTstor and technical information concerning searching this database, click on the information icon next to ARTstor on the alphabetical listing of databases on the library's Web page.

4. MAD-CAD: Building Codes Online

MAD-CAD is an online reference database containing building codes, knowledge-based design solutions and guidelines to meet the codes. MAD-CAD provides access to cross-referenced collections of building, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, fire and maintenance codes. The codes represent codes derived from Buildings Officials and Code Administrations International, Inc. (BOCA), Southern Building Code Conference International, Inc.(SBCCI), International Conference of Building Officials (ICBO), International Code Council (ICC), and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). MAD-CAD provides access to comprehensive state and local codes to meet architectural, engineering and educational solutions. To access MAD-CAD, select it from the library's alphabetical listing of databases where you can follow the screens for the specific username and password.

5. Naxos Music Library

The Naxos Music Library is an online collection of recorded music in streaming audio, primarily classical music, plus smaller collections of world music and jazz. Naxos contains 85,000 tracks from over 5,500 CDs from the Naxos Music and Marco Polo catalogs. Naxos also features world music anthologies from the Celestial Harmonies label and recordings of 20th century classics reissued on the First Edition label. Users can search by composer, work title, genre, performer, conductor, period, country, and instrument. Background information is available on composers and music. To access the Naxos Music Library, select it from the library's alphabetical listing of databases.

6. Added Hours in New York and Extended Hours for Finals

To better serve students, the Manhattan Library has new hours on Fridays. The library is now open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

For a listing of extended hours during May at the Manhattan campus library and at Wisser Library, Old Westbury campus, please click here.

Need Help With Your Finals and Research Papers -- Try These Resources

Style Guides

Your instructor is likely to recommend a specific style for your research papers. The style guides published by the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Psychological Association (APA) are the two most commonly used. To learn more about MLA, click here; and for APA click here. For additional information on citing electronic resources, please click here.

Avoid Plagiarism

When writing research papers, make sure that you don't commit plagiarism. Do not steal, use, or pass off as your own the words or ideas of another without giving credit to the source. To understand and read more about plagiarism, please click here.

Don't Forget to Use Books

Additional information to assist you in preparing the best research paper ever is also available in books. Try searching the NYIT catalog using the terms Internet searching, report writing, information retrieval, and online bibliographic searching.

Study Skills

For those of you who need to brush up on your study habits, try the e-book "How to Study" by Ronald Fry. Access this e-book by searching the NYIT catalog and clicking on the URL in the catalog record. While you are at it, Mr. Fry has two additional e-books: "Improve Your Writing" and "Improve Your Reading."

New From Gale

The Health and Wellness Resource Center is now available to all libraries in New York as part of the State's NOVEL program. The Resource Center includes the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine; Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence, Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine; the Medical and Health Information Directory; the PDR Family Guide to Nutrition and Health; over 400 health/medical journals and articles form over 2,200 general interest publications.