EBSCOhost Alerting Services

Ebsco Journal Alerting handout
Here’s a new handout on how to set up journal alerts in Ebsco databases.
There is also a Flash tutorial (Flash needs to be installed on your computer). Follow this link.

Current Awareness for Science Faculty from PLoS

Public Library of Science (PLoS) offers journal alerts and blog feeds related to research in the natural sciences. See http://www.plos.org/connect.html

Out to Eat Lecture is Today!

When: Wednesday, March 19 at 3:30 p.m.
Where: Janet Lefler Dining Room, N215
Refreshments will be served.
You are invited!

New Policy on Electronic Resources

The library has posted a new policy on electronic resources:
Licensed Electronic Resources Acceptable Use Guidelines
The electronic resources provided by the Ursula C. Schwerin Library are governed by legally binding license agreements, negotiated between the library and the publishers. These licenses allow students, faculty, staff, and other authorized users to access the resources for non-commercial, educational [...]

Living Off the Land in Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos

The library has a new exhibit called Living Off the Land in Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos. Read below for more information.
C. Bangs, who served as a NASA Faculty Fellow in 2002-04, created the art in this exhibition. Living in the Land in Space, which Ms. Bangs coauthored with her husband, Prof. Gregory Matloff [...]

New Books at City Tech Library

Selected new books that we have just added to our collection are available to browse and to check out. The New Book Shelf is near the circulation desk in the library. The books that appear there are just a sampling of the many new books we add to the collection every year. More new books [...]

Winter 2008 Electronic Resources Update

New content and other news :: See our electronic resources pages http://library.citytech.cuny.edu/research/AToZ/index.html http://library.citytech.cuny.edu/research/database/index.html for links to these resources.

New digital dictionaries and encyclopedias
v Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
v New online encyclopedias from Oxford University Press (also available via Oxford Reference Online)
o [...]

Out to Eat

When: Wednesday, March 19 at 3:30 p.m.
Where: Janet Lefler Dining Room, N215
Refreshments will be served.
You are invited!
“Out to Eat:
The Emergence and Evolution of the Restaurant in Nineteenth-Century New York City”
Dr. Cindy Lobel will speak about the early 19th century growth of NYC into a metropolis and the related emergence and growth of restaurants. [...]

Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

Palgrave Dictionary of Economics http://www.dictionaryofeconomics.com/ is on
trial until 4/4/08. Access is on-campus only. Send comments to mberger@citytech.cuny.edu or your subject bibliographer.

Sanborn maps trial

We have a month long trial of Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 for New York only.
This trial will be of special interest to the Architectural Technology dept. Access is on-campus only. Send comments to mberger@citytech.cuny.edu or your subject bibliographer.