College Assistant Position Available

POSITION: Circulation Assistant

DUTIES:

Under the supervision of the Circulation Manager

Shelves books and other library material

Shelf-reads the collection, places books in proper order & straightens books on shelves

Picks up books left around the library

Sorts new and other incoming books

Searches for missing books

Under the supervision of the Reserves Manager

Places books and articles on reserve

Retrieves closed reserve material for patrons upon request

Searches for missing books

Helps patrons find reserve and non-reserve books

Returns reserve items to professors at the end of each semester

Maintains order of reserve collection

REQUIREMENTS: Familiarity with library of Congress call number system. Familiarity with computer applications and software as well as proficiency using Microsoft Windows desktop required. Pleasant manner and good communication and customer service skills important. Must pay attention to detail, also must lift books off shelves and push full book trucks.

HOURS: Up to 20 hrs/week; may include weekend and evening hours, flexible work schedule

Contact: Curtis Matthew, Circulation Manager
cmatthew@gc.cuny.edu; 212-817-7050

CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences Trial

The Graduate Center has a trial through March 18 to CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences. This new Cambridge Scientific Abstracts database indexes tables, figures, graphs, charts, and other illustrations from scholarly literature in agriculture, biology, conservation, earth sciences, environmental studies, fish and fisheries, food and food industries, forests and forestry, geography, medical sciences, meteorology, veterinary science, and water resources since 1997.

Library Closed February 12 and February 19

The library will be closed on Monday, February 12th and Monday, February 19th for Lincoln’s Birthday and President’s Day. The Graduate Center building will be closed on both of these holidays as well. Please see our library hours for details.

Blackwell Reference Trial

The Graduate Center has a trial through March 31 to Blackwell Reference Online, offering access to 247 reference works in the humanities and social sciences. Subjects covered include African-American philosophy, American immigration, American technology, applied linguistis, art theory, child language, clinical psychology, contemporary Britain, contempoary political philosophy, cultural studies, digital humanities, early modern women’s writing, European romanticism, gender studies, Japanese history, literature and film, major contemporary social theorists, medical socilogy, Middle East history, social psychology, tragedy, urban economics, and the Vietnam War.

New Copy Service

The new library copy service – provided by Konica-Minolta – is up and running. The card vending machines are located on the 1^st and 2^nd floors of the library. There are 4 copiers on the first floor and 4 on the second floor. Two new Konica-Minolta microfilm/microfiche reader/printers are also located on the second floor, one on each side of the library next to our microfilm and microfiche collections. Please see the library reference or circulation staff if you have questions about how to use the new machines. We are pleased to offer this new service that promises greater reliability and functionality than the previous copy service.

Copy cards for the new system can be purchased for $1; value can be added after the card purchase. Copies cost $.10/copy.

Existing Copy Card Policy

Existing Copy cards for the old Continental Copy service will not work with the new machines. Refunds will be given to Continental Copy card holders:

1. after the old copiers are all removed or are no longer in operational
2. if the card value can be verified by Circulation staff, and
3. only until 5 pm, February 28, 2007.

To request a refund, patrons must complete a Continental Copy refund request form at the Circulation Desk, have it signed by one of the supervisors listed on the form. Cash refunds will be provided at the Bursar’s Office upon presentation of a signed Continental copy refund request form.

No refunds will be distributed after 5 pm February 28, 2007.

Aluka Digital Library Trial

All of CUNY has a trial through June 30 to Aluka. This new digital library provides access to primary documents related to Africa. While Aluka will eventually include materials related to struggles for freedom in Southern Africa and African cultural heritage sites and landscapes, the trial version offers only sources about African plants, including 280,000 items involving plant specimens, photographs, art, reference works, and archival records of historical expeditions to Africa.

Xreferplus Database Trial

The Graduate Center has a trial through March 31 to xreferplus. This database offers 2,887,964 entries from 256 reference works in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences from 55 publishers. A title list is available.

Refworks Now Available

Graduate Center Faculty, Staff, and Students now have access to Refworks, a web-based bibliographic citation management tool. You can use to create aand store a database of your citations and automatically insert citations and format bibliographies within your research documents. A short introduction to Refworks can be found on the library website. You will need to create a new account for yourself the first time that you visit the Refworks website.