Libraries and ITS Faculty Guide

This alphabetically-arranged website describes faculty services and resources provided by the NYU Libraries, Information Technology Services, and Classroom Media Services.

Keywords in maroon text indicate a cross-reference to a related service.

INDEX

ALPHABETICAL LISTING
A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I
J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R
S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

CATEGORICAL LISTING
Getting Started
Classroom & Teaching Support
Research Support
Library Collections

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Laptops & Laptop Connections
Laptops for Lectures: Multimedia- and network-enabled computers are available from Classroom Media Services for instructors' presentations in general-purpose NYU classrooms. www.nyu.edu/campusmedia/.

NYURoam Wireless: Use your own laptop to connect to an ever-growing number of convenient NYURoam wireless access locations around campus. Wireless access is available throughout Bobst Library. See the Wireless Computing (NYURoam) section of this guide for more information.

Laptops for loan in Bobst: You can borrow a wireless-enabled laptop or Apple iBook for use in Bobst from the Bobst Library Computer Center (BLCC) on Lower Level 1.

Wired laptop access in Bobst: If your own laptop isn't wireless-ready and you want to connect to NYU-NET, the Wired Laptop Access service enables you to plug into one of the laptop ports in Bobst Library. For information about Wired Laptop Access, see www.nyu.edu/its/nyunet/wired/. For locations of laptop ports in Bobst, see http://library.nyu.edu/services/computer.html.

LibLink: Library Updates
Subscribe to the LibLink forum to get updates about new library services, databases, etc.
http://library.nyu.edu/services/liblink.html

Libraries at NYU
The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library on the southeast corner of Washington Square is NYU's main library for the Washington Square campus. The library has 28 subject librarians to work with you. The Libraries' website is your gateway to the Libraries' services and collections. For quick links to services for faculty, see http://library.nyu.edu/services/for_faculty.html.

The other NYU libraries are the Law Library, Frederick L. Ehrman Medical Library, John and Bertha E. Waldman Dental Library, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Library, Jack Brause Real Estate Library, Stephen Chan Library of Fine Arts, and the Conservation Center Library. For details and links to these libraries' websites, see http://library.nyu.edu/about/.

Libraries, Other
NYU faculty have on-site access and borrowing privileges at Consortium and affiliated libraries (New School, Parsons, Cooper Union, Mannes College of Music, and the NY School of Interior Design). Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and other research libraries in NYC, the U.S., Canada, and Europe can also be accessed. For details, see http://library.nyu.edu/about/access/.

Library Catalogs
BobCat is the catalog for Bobst, the Institutes of Fine Arts, Courant Mathematical Sciences, and Real Estate, as well as New School, Parsons, Mannes College of Music, Cooper Union, and NY School of Interior Design libraries. www.bobcat.nyu.edu/

You can also connect to catalogs for NYU's Law, Medical and Dental libraries as well as catalogs from other NYC, national, and global research libraries (NYPL, RLG Union Catalog, OCLC WorldCat, etc.) at http://library.nyu.edu/collections/other_catalogs.html.

Library Collections at NYU
The Libraries of New York University offer more than 4.9 million book volumes, 35,000 journal subscriptions, sound and video recordings, access to over 850,000 electronic texts, and one of the nation's largest collections of United Nations documents.

At Bobst there are three special collections:

Fales Library and Special Collections feature rare books and manuscripts in English and American Literature. Among its smaller specialized collections, the Fales Downtown Collection is a multimedia archive that documents the New York avant-garde from 1975-present. (3rd floor)
University Archives (10th floor)
Tamiment Library and the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives feature American radical, activist, and labor history collections. (10th floor)

For more about library collections, visit http://library.nyu.edu/collections/.

Library Hours at Bobst
Open Stacks Mon. – Sun., 7am – midnight

Reference, Circulation & Other Services
Please check Bobst Library Information Bulletin #1 or the library's website for the most current information and for holiday and intersession hours. http://library.nyu.edu/about/

Study Areas, Lower Levels 1 & 2
Mon. – Sun., Open 24 Hours

Library Instruction for Your Students
Learning to use peer-reviewed literature and other scholarly resources can be invaluable to your students' academic success. If you're assigning a research paper in class, you may want to:

Encourage your students to attend a pre-scheduled library instruction class. The schedule of classes is at http://library.nyu.edu/forms/research/classes.html.
Request a course-specific library instruction session tailored to the assignment and research needs of your class. For details, see http://library.nyu.edu/forms/instruct.html.
Encourage students to use the "Library Research" button on Blackboard course pages to link to BobCat, databases, and Library tutorials.
Refer graduate, honors, and advanced undergraduate students needing individual research assistance to a Subject Librarian; refer novices needing extra help to the Undergraduate Librarian.

Linking to E-Journals in Blackboard
Links can be added to your Blackboard course for e-journal articles, images, and audio from the Libraries' licensed collections. Directions are available at http://library.nyu.edu/services/persistent.html.