From The Desk Of The Chief Librarian

So what have we been doing since graduation? Well, let's see....

We've added another regular service hour to the Cohen Library, now open Fridays until 6 p.m. And, our improved services, important new resources, and upcoming fall events are described below.

Services

Improvements in our facilities include:
—new switched hubs in the Cohen Library to speed up access to the Internet
—more computer workstations with Internet access in Cohen
—Pentium workstations instead of 286 level machines on the LAN in Cohen
—microfilm/fiche reader/printers in the Architecture and Science/Engineering libraries
—additional new chairs in Cohen and Architecture
—high-quality, plain-paper fax for Interlibrary Loan articles received from document services
—and an additional microfiche cabinet for the ERIC document collection that allowed us to take the earliest ERIC fiche out of storage and make them available for general use.

Resources

When searching City College holdings on CUNY+, you will find significantly more materials purchased in education, psychology, music, and architecture this year. These areas received special attention, and the number of books purchased in all subjects increased as well.

Two new databases are being added to CUNY+ for the university. Books in Print is available now, and RILM Abstracts of Music Literature should be available by the time you read this.

We completed binding of our older periodical issues, so volumes up through 1996 can be found on the open periodical shelves.

In the Architecture Library important map sets were added.

Available on Web workstations in all the libraries is the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals. This license to the full database replaces a sample database previously found in Architecture.

Available on Web workstations in all the libraries is Britannica Online, which provides Internet access to the full encyclopedia and links from its articles to related sources of information elsewhere on the Web.

Two five-year cumulative indexes to Chemical Abstracts (1987-1997) have been added to the Science/Engineering Library.

Engineering Information Village, a Web license which includes multiple databases, news, links to the profession, corporate information, industrial catalogs and much more, is available in the Science/Engineering Library. EI Village also includes the COMPENDEX database complete back to 1980 (replacing the two years worth of coverage we had on CD-ROM).

Additional years worth of data for the INSPEC (Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Physics) and BIOSIS databases in CD ROM were purchased for the Science/Engineering Library.

Access to MathSciNet, the Web version of Mathematical Reviews with coverage back to 1940, and Current Mathematical Publications, became available from library Web workstations on October 10th.

Events and Exhibits

Fall events include:

Monday, November 3, 3:30-5, An Afternoon with Judith Rossner

This literary event will be held at the University Club, 1 W. 54th St., and is jointly sponsored by the CCNY Rifkind Center for the Humanities and the Friends of the City College Library. Please call 650-7271 for more information.

November 17 - January 23, 9-9, Remembering William Faulkner, an exhibit in the Cohen Library.

October 24 - November 21, 1-5, Academic Architecture at CCNY: The Post Legacy, an exhibit in the Architecture Gallery (Shepard 104).

Faculty/Staff News

The library is pleased to welcome Natalie Whitfield to the Circulation Division. Ms. Whitfield earned her B.A. in sociology at SUNY/Stony Brook and joined the staff in June.

During fall registration, Professors Herman Cline, Judy Connorton, Betty Jenkins and Julio Rosario met with new and transfer students at academic advising. This is the first semester that library faculty have done student advising, and other library faculty are planning to join up next semester.

Professors Jacqueline Gill, Pamela Gillespie and Betty Jenkins are teaching New Student Seminar sections this fall.

Comments, suggestions and feedback regarding the library's services are always welcome and should be addressed to me by calling x7271, sending email to prghc@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu, or by dropping by NAC 5/333 (Cohen Library).

Pamela Gillespie