LaGuardia’s 40th Anniversary - Institutional Archives research guide
Check out this useful research guide to help contextualize the newly-digitized treasures of our Institutional Archives: http://library.laguardia.edu/webguide/40th.
You’ll find a growing collection of searchable PDFs and images including LaGuardia course catalogs, newsletters, yearbooks and student newspapers that date as far back as 1973. The LaGuardia publication, The First 25 Years from 1996 is also available online. These documents and guides to help researching LaGuardia and CUNY history can be easily linked to in Blackboard and course pages.
Looking for census data?
Census data can be tough to navigate through, but we've got a great new research guide to finding important census data: http://library.laguardia.edu/webguide/census/
It can be found under Find a research guide by topic, and on the database listings for New York City and Statistics. It also links to our two New York research guides, so you can conveniently connect to all three. The census research guide includes some great customized instructional videos for American Factfinder and Infoshare as well. Make sure to check this useful guide out!
CUNY+ Catalog is back!
The CUNY+ catalog is back online! YAY!
CUNY Library catalog unavailable due to system maintenance Friday, Jan. 20-Sunday, Jan. 22
We are very sorry but the CUNY+ catalog will not be available from January 20-January 22 due to server maintenance. You cannot renew books or request books from other CUNY schools while the catalog is unavailable. We expect service to be restored by approximately 12:00 P.M. on Sunday, January 22, 2012.
If you wish to see if we have a book, please try the search box found on this page: http://library.laguardia.edu/research/cunyplus.
SOPA and Internet Censorship
The planned January 18, 2012 web blackout/strike in protest of SOPA includes a number of sites online users visit daily including: Wikipedia, Reddit, Wordpress, Boing Boing, and lots of Twitter/Facebook users.
An in-person protest on January 18 at 12:30 pm [780 Third Ave (at 49th street) — outside the offices of New York Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, sponsors of Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA)] is planned: http://isoc-ny.org/p2/?p=2812. The White House has issued a statement that it does not support this controversial legislation.
Colbert’s take on SOPA:
Library will be closed on Mon. Jan. 16 in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
The Library will be closed on Monday, January 16, 2012 in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. No classes are scheduled. Regular library hours resume on Tues. 1/17.
There are a number of great documentaries and newsreels available to be viewed in full via the America History in Video database, such as Citizen King (PBS, 2004)
More videos are available on this MLK playlist. You can generate clips from any of the videos found in this database.
Panda vs. content farms
According to a study mentioned in New Scientist, Google's Panda update has been notably successful in reducing low-quality results from content farms, for popular searches anyway. Term paper mills still seem to come up though.
Virginia Woolf and James Joyce in the Public Domain (but not if you live in the U.S.)
January 1 is Public Domain Day, where "due to the expiration of copyright protection terms on works produced by authors who died several decades earlier, thousands of works enter the public domain - that is, their content is no longer owned or controlled by anyone, but it rather becomes a common treasure, available for anyone to freely use for any purpose." Unfortunately, here in the U.S. we do not benefit from this. Duke University School of Law provides a good overview and analysis:
"What is entering the public domain in the United States? Nothing. Once again, we will have nothing to celebrate this January 1st. Not a single published work is entering the public domain this year. Or next year, or the year after that. In fact, in the United States, no publication will enter the public domain until 2019. And wherever in the world you live, you will likely have to wait a very long time for anything to reach the public domain. When the first copyright law was written in the United States, copyright lasted 14 years, renewable for another 14 years if the author wished. Jefferson or Madison could look at the books written by their contemporaries and confidently expect them to be in the public domain within a decade or two. Now? In the United States, as in most of the world, copyright lasts for the author’s lifetime, plus another 70 years. And we’ve changed the law so that every creative work is automatically copyrighted, even if the author does nothing. What do these laws mean to you? As you can read in our analysis here, they impose great (and in many cases entirely unnecessary) costs on creativity, on libraries and archives, on education and on scholarship. More broadly, they impose costs on our entire collective culture."
Library Holiday Schedule 2011
The library's holiday hours will be:
- Mon.12/19/11-Tues. 12/20/11: 7:30 am - 9:45 pm
- Weds. 12/21/11-Thurs. 12/22/11: 9:00 am - 4:45 pm
- Fri. 12/23/11 - Mon. 12/26/11: CLOSED
- Tues. 12/27/11 - Weds. 12/28/11: 9:00 am - 4:45 pm
- Thurs. 12/29/11 - Sun. 1/1/12: CLOSED
- Mon. 1/2/12: 9:00 am - 4:45 pm
Regular hours will resume with the start of the Fall II semester on January 3, 2012.
Online library resources are accessible 24/7. If you get a chance during the break, you might want to try downloading a library ebook from our database ebrary. Instructions can be found here. Enjoy the holidays!
Extended Library Hours, 12/12/11-12/15/11
In order to help provide additional study space and research support during finals week, Library hours will be extended from December 12 to December 15 (the usual closing time is 9:45 PM, Mon.-Thurs.):
Library Hours for Finals Week, 12/12/11 through 12/15/11:
- Monday, 12/12/11 - 7:30 - 10:45 PM
- Tuesday, 12/13/11 - 7:30 - 10:45 PM
- Weds., 12/14/11 - 7:30 - 10:45 PM
- Thurs., 12/15/11 - 7:30 - 10:45 PM
- Fri., 12/16/11 - 7:30 - 8:45 PM
Thanks to the SGA for helping to make this possible! Good luck on your finals!
MLA / APA Help-A-Thon TODAY
MLA/APA Help-A-Thon
WHEN: Drop in anytime during this two hour session:
- Tuesday, December 6th 5:30-7:30PM
WHERE: Library Lab (E101-B)
NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY!
MLA/APA Help-A-Thons AND RefWorks2.0
MLA/APA Help-A-Thons
WHEN: Drop in anytime during any of these two hour sessions:
Tuesday, November 22rd 1:00-3:00PM- Wednesday, November 30th 9:30-11:30AM
- Tuesday, December 6th 5:30-7:30PM
WHERE: Library Lab (E101-B)
NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY!
RefWorks2.0 Workshop
- Tuesday, November 29th 11:00AM-12:00PM
WHERE: Library Lab (E101-B)
ebrary Books Now Downloadable!
Great news!
You can now download ebrary books! You can either download the entire book, or just the parts that you want to read. This means you can read on your iPhone, iPad, Nook, or other device.
To search for ebrary books, visit the CUNY+ catalog and search on ebrary.
Learn how RefWorks can help you with your citations!
Refworks 2.0 - Hands-on workshop - RefWorks has changed and this workshop will guide new or nearly new users through the basics of RefWorks 2.0. ~ Presented by Lydia Willoughby
WHEN: Monday, Nov. 14th 2:30 - 3: 00pm
Tuesday, Nov. 29th 11am - 12:pm
WHERE: Library Lab, E101-B
For LaGuardia students, faculty and staff
Short Takes on 11/03/11: Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, Hayat Bin al-Shaykh and Luo Shu
Next reading: Thurs. November 03, 2:30-4:00 in the Library Conference Room: Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, Hayat Bin al-Shaykh and Luo Shu - "Fleur" and "Yellow Woman" from We Are The Stories We Tell & "Aunt Lui" From Wayward Girls and Wicked Women
The theme this fall is: Mothers, Maidens, Martyrs, Mayhem. Please take a look at the schedule of short stories from around the world. As always, everyone is welcome to the sessions where students, faculty, staff and members of our local communities share insights and cookies.
Remember there are rewards for students who attend three sessions - a collection of stories and a certificate. Everyone brings ideas and access to the stories will be at the Library Reference desk. Come early or join in late and get a really good reading list and make new friends. See you each Thursday (except Thanksgiving Day) until Dec 1.
