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Educational & Reference Services

Our Educational and Reference Services Department provides hands-on workshops in OVID/Medline, EndNote, RefWorks, HTML and E-Resources at the Waldmann Library, as well as helping patrons with reference questions. We also provide orientation/tours of the library. Mediated searches are available to NYU Dental Center staff, faculty and students; an online literature search request form can be filled out for this purpose.

Our staff also offers weekly orientations and OVID/Medline and other workshops. Please use this Registration Form to register for the courses below. Individualized instruction can be arranged by appointment.


Library Classes

Library instuction is a joint service provided by the NYU Health Sciences Libraries both at Waldmann's on-site teaching lab and in the Carlisle Computer Classroom at the Ehrman Medical Library. All classes are hands-on (except EndNote).

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For individual instruction sessions call extension x-89789 to set up an appointment.


Computers in the Library

The library maintains 19 in-house computers for student, faculty and staff use. This inlcudes 10 in front of the Circulation Desk in the center of the library and 9 in the teaching lab.

These machines should be primarily used for:

1. Research:
Ovid/Medline (Medical and Dental Library's full-text biomedical databases)
MEDCat (NYU Medical & Dental combined online catalog)
Electronic Journals
Databases
Electronic Texts
2. Access to NYU Home E-mail
3. Academic Intranet
4. Leisure reading when the library is not busy.

When using the library's computers please refrain from:
1. Restarting computers or printers (if there is a problem ask for help)
2. Tampering with any of the equipment
3. Downloading and or installing any programs (i.e.Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail, Real Player...)
4. Eating or drinking around computers

Because of limitations, when the Library is busy please:
Restrict printing to 3 simultaneous jobs per workstation.

Also, academic use of the library's computers always takes priority. Anyone not doing academic work may be ask to give up workstation in favor of a patron that needs the machine to do acedemic work.


Email & Dial-up Account

The Waldmann Dental Library will assist all Dental students, faculty and staff with signing up for NYUHome (email) accounts. Please ask at the circulation desk for details or you can sign up and administer your NYUHome account yourself from the ITS Start page. Any forgotten password situations will be taken care of between 9am and 5pm Monday through Friday.

Technical Technical assistance is available for NYUHome or NYU-NET dial up ISP services through ITS Client Services at (212) 998-3333 or visit the ITS website.


Faculty Bibliography

The library maintains a bibliography of literature written by the faculty at NYU College of Dentistry, published 1994 - present. It is updated monthly via the MEDLINE database. Please send submissions via the Ask a Librarian form in our Forms Section.


Interlibrary Loans

Books and articles not found in the Dental Library may be borrowed from other libraries through our interlibrary loan program. Please use the Interlibrary Loan Request Form. Materials ordered within the metropolitan area take approximately three to ten days to obtain.


Photocopying

The library has two photocopy machines, which are located in the rear, right corner of the library. The vending machine next to the library entrance will supply you with copy cards. First time purchase of a card is $1 which will give you a card with five copies. The card itself cost 50 cents. Additional copies can be added to the card at the time of purchase or at a later date using the machine. The price for photocopying is 10 cents a page. The vending machine now accepts both new and old bill designs in denominations of $1, $5, $10, $20. If you are experiencing problems with the vending machine please inquire at the Circulation Desk. Unfortunately, we can not give out change.


Library Teaching Lab

The lab is open 9am to 9pm Monday through Thursay and 9am to 5pm on Friday. Technical support is available from 9am to 6pm Monday through Friday. There is no eating or drinking allowed in the lab at any time.

We have 9 PC workstations with:
Windows 2000 or XP
MS OfficeXP (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0
Winzip 8.0
Internet Explorer 6.0+
Netscape 7.0

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Educational & Reference
Classes
Computers in the Library
Email & Dial-up
Faculty Bibliography
Inter-library Loan
Photocopying
Library Teaching Lab

 

 



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