Spring 2006

NYIT Library is Beta Test Site

The NYIT libraries have been chosen by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) as a beta test site for a new Web-based search feature: Link to MY Library. ERIC, sponsored by the U. S. Department of Education, produces the world's premier database of educational literature containing 1.1 million citations and over 107,000 full-text, non-journal documents.

The Link to My Library feature, based on Open URL technology, enables MY ERIC users to seamlessly link to electronic full-text resources available from the user's affiliated library. Members of the NYIT community can sign up for a free MY ERIC account on the ERIC Web site. The new Link to My Library feature is currently being beta tested by selected libraries including NYIT. ERIC users at NYIT can conduct a search while logged into the MY ERIC area of the ERIC Web site and link directly from the search results to the library's full-text resources. This will greatly help users at NYIT access full-text journal articles.
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New Engineering Resource - E-journals from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, currently ASME is a 120,000-member professional organization focused on technical, educational and research issues of the engineering and technology community. The library has recently purchased 20 of the association's transactions journals online. For a list, please click here.

To access the full-text of the journals, please click here. At the home page, click on the browse tab and select ASME from the publisher's drop-down menu. If you need further assistance, please contact the library's reference staff at ext. 7657.

ARTstor News

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. ARTstor has recently added a Personal Collections Tools feature. These tools allow users to add local images to the online ARTstor environment. Once uploaded, these images can be added to public or private image groups and used like any other image in ARTstor. Please click here for tips on building a personal collection.

In addition, ARTstor has added several new digital collections including:

- Canyon Lights archive of original photography by Susan Silberberg-Peirce of ancient sites throughout the Mediterranean, Europe and the American southwest.

- The Gernsheim Photographic Corpus of Drawings of more than 184,000 European master drawings from the fifteenth to the early twentieth century.

- Sarah Quill's unique photographic archive devoted to the architectural history of Venice, Italy.

- Images of the art and architecture on Islam from the personal archives of leading scholar photographers in the field.

Morningstar Library Edition

The library is pleased to announce the addition of Morningstar Library Edition to its portfolio of business databases. Accessible from both on and off campus, the database contains reports on more than 2,000 mutual funds and Morningstar ratings for stocks and funds. Morningstar contains both stock and fund screeners and a portfolio x-ray tool that helps you look for strengths and weaknesses in a portfolio. To learn more, please click here.

"In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim."

Weeks, Linton. "The Old-Fangled Search Engine: In a Digital Age, Do Libraries Still Count?." Washington Post 13 Jan 2001: C 1.

Laptop Loan Program

Wisser Library and the Manhattan campus library will soon launch a program to lend laptops to patrons with a valid ID. Laptops can be borrowed for three hours at a time and used anywhere in the library. Please stay tuned for details.

Central Islip Library Reorganization

Art and architecture books from the former Central Islip library at Sunburst Center continue to be evaluated and integrated into the collections at the Art and Architecture library in Education Hall, Old Westbury campus, and the Manhattan campus library. Many of the Old Westbury campus library staff have been involved in breaking down and re-distributing the library's materials since last fall. Users should verify with library staff the location of any Central Islip items listed in the online catalog.

Medical Database Tutorial

NYCOM's medical librarian, Jeanne Strausman, has created a new instructional video tutorial for users of health science databases. The video walks users through the OVID search engine and demonstrates the basic search steps for the MEDLINE database. MEDLINE is produced by the National Library of Medicine and indexes over 4,000 medical journals. To view the tutorial, please click here.