The Jack Brause Library collection supports the
curriculum of the Real Estate Institute at the School of Continuing and
Professional Studies. This includes the degree programs for the Master of
Science in Real Estate and the Master of Science in Construction Management,
the license qualifying courses, the certificate programs and the workshops,
conferences and seminars on the real estate industry and construction management.The real estate collection is also used by
other departments at New York University, including the business, law and urban
studies departments. The Jack Brause Library allows limited public access to
professionals in the real estate community.
II. SCOPE
A. Language: The materials are almost exclusively in
English.
B. Geographic Areas: There is a focus on the New York metropolitan area and the Tri-State New York, New Jersey, Connecticut area, but
the library also collects information on the national and international real
estate markets.
C. Chronological
Periods: The collection is mostly publications
covering the 1980’s through the present. There are some retrospective
collections of periodicals dating no earlier than 1946.
III. TYPES OF MATERIALS
The materials are predominantly professional and
trade monographs and serials, journals, market reports and maps. Textbooks
generally are not collected. Some of the older periodicals are housed as
microfiche. The subject matter of the materials is almost exclusively real
estate and construction management, but there is a small collection of basic
business materials, including directories, data and texts on accounting,
finance and economics. The collections do not duplicate the materials at Bobst
Library. The Web-based databases of the NYU library system are available, and
there is a selection of specialized
electronic databases for real estate that are available exclusively at the Jack
Brause Library.
IV. STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
The library has an especially strong collection of
materials on real estate in the New York metropolitan area and the tri-state
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut area. It has a comprehensive selection of
real estate specific periodicals. Some of our materials are otherwise
unavailable outside of the private sector. The library could provide greater
service with an expansion of the collections on other United States regional
real estate markets and selected international real estate markets. In
addition, the library would benefit from an increase in resources on real
estate securities.
V.
OTHER RESOURCES
The students at the Real Estate Institute rely on
the Bobst Library business and social sciences collection for their studies in
finance, economics, accounting and statistics. Students are sometimes referred
to the collections of the NYU Law School Library as well. Other common
referrals are made to the New York Public Library Science, Business and
Industry Library, and various government offices, such as the New York City
Department of Finance, the Department of City Planning and the Department of
Records and Information Services.
VI. SUBJECTS AND COLLECTING LEVELS: Collecting Intensity
*see next page for definitions of collecting level
codes.
Definitions of Collecting Levels:
Level O: No works are acquired on this topic or in
this area with the
possible exception of a few fundamental reference works.
Level A: This level
describes a highly selective collection, including introductory background, and
fundamental material and basic reference
works, that serve to introduce and define the subject and to
indicate the varieties
of information available elsewhere. It includes major dictionaries and encyclopedias, selected editions
of important works, historical
surveys, important bibliographies, a few major works and
a few major periodicals.
Level
B: Study Level: MA and
Undergraduate. This level is intended to support undergraduate or graduate
course work, or sustained independent study
which is adequate to maintain knowledge of a subject required for limited or generalized purposes of
less than research intensity. It includes a
wide range of basic monographs, complete collection of the works of important writers, selection from
the works of secondary writers, a selection of representative journals, and the reference
tools and fundamental
bibliographical apparatus pertaining to the subject.
Level
C: Research Level. This level is intended to
support ongoing research or likely future research leading to
the Ph.D. It includes the major
published source
material required for dissertations and independent research, all important reference works and a wide
selection of specialized monographs and other secondary literature as
well as an extensive collection of journals.
Level
D: This level is intended to support doctoral
and post-doctoral research with a
high degree of adequacy. In addition to printed
and microform material, it may include manuscripts and other special materials if they are
appropriate and within the library’s financial capabilities.
It allows for indefinite expansion of the research program both at the level of faculty and
post-doctoral, and Ph.D. research.
Level
E: This level describes the effort to acquire so far as
reasonable all available significant
works of recorded knowledge for a necessarily defined and limited
field, and intensive effort to acquire manuscript, archival and ephemeral
material, etc., in addition to published sources.
This level creates or maintains a special collection; the aim, if not the
achievement, is exhaustiveness.
