NYU Google Apps for Education
In early 2011, NYU embarked on a project to migrate over 140,000 email accounts (totaling 14 terabytes of messages) and hundreds of calendars from University servers to Google Apps for Education. By the end of May 2011, all NYU community members were successfully transitioned to one of the largest Google Apps for Education implementations to date.
Since the migration, old systems have been archived and a dedicated Google Apps Service Team has developed a variety of training and support options for NYU E-mail, Docs, Calendar, Sites, Talk, and Groups. For tips on making the most of NYU Google Apps, including tutorials and step-by-step instructions (such as how to configure your mobile device), visit the NYU Google Apps website (www.nyu.edu/google). Faculty and staff are also encouraged to register for online training sessions via NYUiLearn; for details, see the Training and Support page.
Borrowing Privileges at Columbia and NYPL Research Libraries
NYU Libraries, Columbia University Libraries and the New York Public Library have launched an initiative to expand research collections and better serve our research clientele. The collaboration, dubbed the Manhattan Research Library Initiative, or MaRLI, enables NYU and Columbia faculty and doctoral students, as well as scholars whose work is based at NYPL, to check out materials from all three institutions, a first step to improve access to collections among the MaRLI members. The model is a departure from NYPL's historical practice, whereby research materials have not been allowed to circulate.
We encourage you to register for this important new service. For more information about MaRLI, including borrowing privileges registration and a list of participating sites at each institution, go to http://library.nyu.edu/marli.
New ITS Service Catalog Available
ITS has launched a new IT Service Catalog to help raise awareness of and facilitate access to the wide range of services we support. Visit www.nyu.edu/its/servicecatalog to browse services by location, role, category or keyword, and to learn more about each service and how to access it. We welcome your questions about and suggested improvements to this new version of the IT Service Catalog; please submit your feedback to the IT Service Desk at AskITS@nyu.edu or 212-998-3333.
Paging and Delivery Service
You can now have circulating books from the Bobst and Courant Libraries paged and held for you at the library of your choice: Bobst, Courant, Institute of Fine Arts, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU-Poly, the Jack Brause Library at SCPS Midtown Center, or NYU Abu Dhabi. It is easy to use the service. When using BobCat, sign in with your netID. When you find an item you want, click on "Getit!". If the book circulates and is available at Bobst or Courant you will see the "Request" option. Click on "Request", specify your preferred library for pick up, and we'll let you know via e-mail when the item is ready for pickup.
For more information about the paging service, including turnaround time, see: http://library.nyu.edu/services/deliveryservices.html.
Virtual Computer Lab
Students can now access a variety of NYU-licensed software—including SPSS, Photoshop, Illustrator, MatLab and more—from their own computers using the new Virtual Computer Lab (VCL). Sign in to the VCL using your NetID and password via the NYUHome Academics tab, or directly at vcl.nyu.edu. For more information, visit www.nyu.edu/its/vcl.