Intro to Graduate Center Library - Fall 2015
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An overview of the services, resources, and people of the CUNY Graduate Center Library.
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Intro to Graduate Center Library - Fall 2015
- 1. Introduction to the Graduate Center Library
- 6. Nitty-Gritty
- 7. GC Photo ID Card Also your library card! ID card + library barcode sticker = CUNY libraries card If you got them at One Stop, you’re all set! If you didn’t: • Get proof of tuition payment • Go to Bursar (8th floor) for a Fall 2015 validation sticker • Go to Room 9123 for GC photo ID card • Go to Library Circulation Desk (1st floor) for a barcode
- 8. GC network account username/password: login for GCcommunity wifi + login for GC computers + login for GC printing + login for off-campus access to library databases Note: network account ≠ student email account GC Network Accounts
- 10. What’s Where? 1st Floor Circulation/Reserves Desk New Arrivals Dissertation Reading Room (Quiet!) Computers 2nd Floor Reference Desk Books, Print Journals & Microfilm Computers & Printers Scanners & Digitization Equipment Concourse Level Computers & Printers Computer Classrooms Anywhere! Library Databases E-Journals E-Books
- 11. Course Reserves Save Time and Money! Many professors put required books on reserve in the library (Circulation/Reserves Desk, 1st floor) • Find reserve books in the library catalog • Borrow them for 2 hours at a time, or overnight • Overdue fine: $0.10/minute Many professors share articles/chapters with students via Blackboard or Academic Commons
- 12. Circulation & CLICS CUNY’s Libraries Are Your Libraries! Borrow books from other CUNY libraries: • Go in person to any other CUNY library • Use the CUNY library catalog to request books from other libraries (CLICS) Loan periods: • PhD students: 8 weeks • Master’s students: 6 weeks • Renewal limits vary across CUNY libraries Overdue fines: • $0.25/day – but $1/day if recalled
- 27. Off-Campus Access Everything’s the same once you log in.
- 28. CUNY Academic Works academicworks.cuny.edu Share your research on CUNY’s open access institutional repository!
- 30. Ask a Librarian Ask in Person Reference Desk (2nd floor) Ask by Chat Library Website, 24/7
- 32. Workshops September: • Archival Research Conference • Intro to Library Resources • Citation Management with Zotero • Intro to Grants Resources October: • Intro to Archival Research • Intro to Authors’ Rights • …and more! For details, consult our workshops handout or online events calendar!
- 33. Beyond the GC Library CUNY Libraries, Interlibrary Loan, MaRLI, and…
Editor's Notes
- Now we’re going to show you what it’s like to do research in one of our newest tools, OneSearch. When you search OneSearch, you’re searching across the library book catalog and many library databases all at once. It doesn’t include everything we have, so it’s not one-stop shopping. But it includes a lot, so it’s great *first* stop when you’re doing research.
- Suppose you’re researching the correlation between various neighborhood characteristics and the level of physical activity of its residents. We could craft a complex search trying to communicate to OneSearch exactly what we want. But, for now, let’s just do a simple search for “neighborhoods AND physical activity.”
- Here’s what search results look like in OneSearch. You can see right off the bat that the results are a combination of books, articles, and other things. And you can see that there are opportunities to refine and limit your search over on the left.
- Suppose this item interests you: “Neighborhood Environments and Physical Activity Among Adults in 11 Countries.” You can tell from the icon that it’s an article, and you can see right under the article title that it appeared in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine in 2009. If you look a little farther down, you’ll see a green dot, which in OneSearch always means “full text available.”
- You can click the “Details” button to get a bit more information about this article, including the article’s abstract.
- Now that you know a bit more about the article, you might want to look at the article itself. Because the full text of this article is available, you can just click “View Online,” which will lead you to…
- …which will lead you to the full text of the article, no matter what database we get it from. In this case, the article happens to come from ScienceDirect, but you don’t have to go separately to ScienceDirect to get the article – OneSearch brings it right to you.
- Now let’s look at a different result. This item – Urban Health: Readings in the Social, Built, and Physical Environments of U.S. Cities – is a book, which we can tell by the icon on the left. And again there’s the green dot, which means it’s available to you. In fact, OneSearch shows you right on the results page what the book’s call number is in the Graduate Center Library.
- You can also click “Locations” to get more information about its availability across CUNY. In this case, the book is available both here and at Hostos Community College. So if the book were checked out here or unavailable for any reason, you could request the copy from Hostos.
- When you first do a search in OneSearch, it only shows you results that are readily available from the Graduate Center Library. But in the options on the left, you can check the box that says “Include results without full text onliine.” And then you will see many more results. However, those extra results will just be information about the materials -- we probably won’t have the materials themselves.
- So, indeed, you can see here there’s a grey dot instead of a green dot. The grey dot means “no full text available.”
- But, there’s still hope! You can click the “Find Item” button…
- Which will take you to a page that gives you the opportunity to request the item through interlibrary loan. And we have a FANTASTIC interlibrary loan office here. We can almost always get you what you need, and when it’s an article, we can often get it for you in just a couple of days – sometimes just a couple of hours!
- If you click that “Request item via Interlibrary Loan” link, you’ll be prompted to log into your interlibrary loan account, and then the request form will be filled in automatically for you. You don’t need to type in the information – the request link does it for you!
- So that’s just a tiny glimpse into all the many ways to do library research. There are of course many more methods and many more databases. But rest assured that no matter what database you use, you can also use it from home. All you need to access library tools from off campus is your GC network account username and password.