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LIBRARY Events, Resources & Services
GENERAL LIBRARY HOURS
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 – Sunday, May 31, 2015
Archives & Special Collections is open
Monday – Friday 9AM – 4:45PM
MONDAY – THURSDAY
Faculty Training & Development Lab is open
Monday – Thursday 9AM – 5:45PM
Friday 9AM – 4:45PM
8AM – 10:45PM
Access is limited to the First Floor Only
8AM – 9AM and 9PM – 10:45PM*
New Media Center and L4 are open
Monday – Thursday 9AM – 8:45PM
Friday 9AM – 4:45PM
Saturday – Sunday 10AM – 5:45PM
FRIDAY
8AM – 4:45PM
Access is limited to the First Floor Only
8AM – 9AM*
SATURDAY – SUNDAY
10AM – 5:45PM
*During First Floor Only hours, First Floor services
including Reference, Circulation, Reserves, and
computers are available. Books and periodicals can
be paged at any service desk.
The Library Café is open 24 hours every day for Brooklyn
College faculty and students with valid IDs.
There are exceptions to the general hours.
For a complete list of exceptions, go to:
http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu/library/about/hours/
983 Members of the BC Community
Have Signed Up for Their
Complimentary
New York Times
Subscription!
If you registered a year ago, you will need to register again.
It’s a one year subscription! All you need is your BC email
address to register at:
https://myaccount.nytimes.com/verification/edupass.
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ILL’s Latest Timesaver for You:
“Scan and Deliver” Print &
Microform Materials Electronically
The Interlibrary Loan Unit is piloting a new service called “Scan and
Deliver” for Brooklyn College faculty. This new service offers you the
opportunity to electronically request and receive articles and book
chapters that are in our print and microform collections. This will save
you the time it would normally take to visit the BC Library, retrieve the
item from the shelves, and reproduce it.
This is how it works: Request the item through your BC Interlibrary
Loan account, just as you would normally request an item from ILL. If
you know that it is in our collection, just add a note on the request form.
If you are a first-time ILL user, follow the directions on the website for first-time users at:
https://brooklyn-cuny.illiad.oclc.org/illiad/logon.html or call the Interlibrary Loan Office (x4414).
Instead of cancelling the request (which we would normally do if the material is in our collections), we will scan the
document and send you an electronic link so that you can access it anywhere!
Please note: Depending on initial demand, we may have to limit the number or size of the requests. Also, due to copyright
restrictions, we cannot provide more than one chapter per book or one article per journal issue.
Archives and Special Collections
NY Heritage Digital Collections :
BC Student Handbills
The digitized Brooklyn College Student Handbill Collection is comprised
of 279 BC student handbills created between 1940 and 1989. The
handbills demonstrate student involvement in everything from anti-war
rallies to academic freedom. They are a fascinating glimpse into our
collective history!
To view BC student handbills visit the NY Heritage Digital Collections at:
http://nyheritage.nnyln.net/cdm/search/collection/bc_sh
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LIBRARY Events, Resources & Services
Consider Curating Your
Course Materials and
Ditching Your Textbook!
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or
have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. OER
include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials,
or techniques used to support access to information.
How Can You Use OER in Your Courses?
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Adopt: Replace a high-cost textbook with an open access alternative.
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Reuse, Remix, Revise OER or other authoritative freely available content.
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Replace a textbook with OER and links to Library e-books, book chapters, essays, scholarly journal articles,
images, and thousands of streaming videos.
Try our newest collection, PBS video at: http://search.alexanderstreet.com/pbsv
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Find OER, in all disciplines, on the Library’s website or go directly to MERLOT (www.merlog.org/), OER
Commons (www.oercommons.ore/), or the National Science Digital Library (http://nsdl.org/). Also try government
agencies (e.g., NASA), non-profit educational institutions, associations, and museums.
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Discover engaging, scholarly multimedia learning materials freely available to you and your students. Increase
student learning and achievement!
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For advanced classes, consider having your students find OER course materials as part of developing their
research and information literacy skills within their discipline.
Tip: If you want to embed resources into your BB, Sakai or course website, please be sure to put the following
URL at the beginning of the article or e-book:
https://login.ez-proxy.brooklyn.cuny.edu/login?url=
Thus the link to Academic Search Complete would look like this:
https://login.ez-proxy.brooklyn.cuny.edu/login?url=
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=aph
The Library Has a Wealth of Resources and Technological Expertise to Assist You with This Process.
Please contact Prof. Miriam Deutch at [email protected] for more information
or contact your Subject Specialist (see page 11).
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Is Your Collection of
Digital Images, Media
Recordings,
And Documents in
Disarray?
If so, the Library has an easy to use tool to assist you. Shared Shelf is a web-based
multimedia management, storage, and publishing system that allows you to upload
and catalog your collections and share them others in the Brooklyn College community
or publicly on the web through Shared Shelf Commons.
Shared Shelf provides tools to support use of visual content
such as search, browse, zoom, image groups, Mobile
flashcards, and batch download to PowerPoint.
CUNY content can be viewed and shared via ARTstor or
OneSearch–the Library’s latest discovery tool. Assets
published to Shared Shelf Commons can be discovered via any
search engine.
Faculty in all disciplines–humanities, social sciences, the
sciences, visual and performing arts–are using Shared Shelf
to organize, find, and share all types teaching and research
digital content.
For more information, please contact Prof. Miriam
Deutch at: [email protected].
Continuing through Thursday, May 14, the writing tutor will be
holding sessions in room 142 on the first floor of the Library. His
schedule is:
Tuesdays 12PM – 3PM
Wednesdays 5PM – 7PM
Thursdays 12PM – 3PM
Students can meet with him for help with grammar, style, thesis
development, etc. If they can’t make one of these times, they can
make an appointment to see a tutor at the Learning Center (1300
Boylan Hall).
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If you know of students in your classes
who would benefit from working with
an expert tutor,
encourage them to make an
appointment at:
[email protected].
Questions?
Contact Prof. Matthew Harrick at:
[email protected]
LIBRARY Events, Resources & Services
CUNY Electronic Resources in the
STEM Disciplines
The City University Office of Library Services in
cooperation with the Advanced Science Research
Center, the Vice Chancellor for Research, and the Chief Academic Officers of the University, has comitted to a
five year agreement for universal access to six STEM resources.
Includes the most comprehensive set of nursing and allied health indexing with full text
Includes almost a third of the world’s current electrical engineering and CIS literature
Includes access to 28 journals from the British scientific publisher
Includes the world’s leading full text scientific, technical, and medical literature
Includes the world’s leading full text scientific, technical, and medical literature
Includes the world’s leading full text scientific, technical, and medical literature
What will this mean for Brooklyn College? We have long subscribed to CINAHL, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, and
WileyOnline, we previously subscribed to 5 Nature journals. This agreement gives us 23 additional Nature journals and
we also gain access to the complete electronic library of the IEEE.
All of these resources are befitting a college offering advanced degrees.
We hope this expanded access will add to the prestige of CUNY and to each of its colleges.
Since the publication of the first Annual Review of Biochemistry
in 1932, Annual Reviews has brought to its readers the most
useful and intelligent analysis of the primary research
literature. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for
46 focused disciplines within the biomedical, life, physical,
and social sciences, including economics. The mission of
Annual Reviews, a nonprofit organization, is to intelligently
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synthesize scientific literature in a review format and to
ensure that the information is widely distributed and
readily available. Annual Reviews publications are among
the most highly cited in scientific literature as indexed
by the Journal Citation Reports. All Annual Reviews series are
ranked within the top ten publications for their respective
disciplines.
Annual Reviews will guide you to the principal contributions
of your field and help you keep up to date in your area of
research.
Please take a look at this great resource at:
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/search/advanced.
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Cabell’s International Directories
Are you looking to publish a scholarly or peerreviewed article? Do you need reliable data on
journal acceptance rates, time for reviewing,
and intuitional ranking by specific topics in the
following disciplines?
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Accounting
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Economics & Finance
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Management
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Marketing
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Educational Curriculum & Methods
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Educational Psychology &
Administration
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Educational Technology & Library
Science
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Psychology & Psychiatry
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Computer Science - Business
Information Systems
Cabell’s International Directories provide scholarly journal rankings,
an up-to-date call-for-papers list, and detailed information
for authors and promotion and tenure committees. Cabell’s
proprietary classification index allows authors to do a targeted
browse through–disciplines or new areas in which they may
wish to expand their research. Cabell’s is a great resource for
graduate students and faculty especially those engaged in
interdisciplinary studies.
Please visit http://cabells.com/memberarea.aspx for more information.
Bloomberg Professional
Bloomberg Professional is the premier international financial services data
aggregator providing news and analytics for over 129 countries and 250
exchanges. Features include 24-hour historical and 15-minute delayed
securities pricing, news, data, and analysis on companies, markets, and
economies. Through a generous donation by an anonymous donor, the
Library is fortunate to be able to offer access to Bloomberg Professional
terminals to our faculty and students.
A Bloomberg terminal is available in the Faculty Training and
Development Lab for faculty use. In addition, a laptop with
Bloomberg Professional is available in the Lab to check out for oncampus teaching purposes.
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eMarketer : Marketing
in the Digital World
eMarketer will tell you how consumers are spending their
time, how consumers are spending their money, and how
marketers can reach these consumers. It is a great resource
for businesses and, in particular, for anyone researching social
media. With access to the platform, you can leverage all of
eMarketer’s insights and benchmarking data for delivering
powerful presentations and conducting research projects. You
can search by topics, benchmarks, and forecasts, and sort by
industry or geographic area. You and your students will love
this!
Tutorials are available online every Wednesday.
Check out this terrific new resource at: help.emarketer.com.
Archives Unbound includes topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and
study needs of students and scholars at the college level. Collections in Archives Unbound cover a broad range of topics
from Witchcraft to 20th century political history. These are a few of the eye opening and thought provoking historical
collections the Library subscribes to:
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County and Regional Histories & Atlases:
New York
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“We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death:”
Freedom Riders in the South, 1961
Politics, Social Activism and Community
Support: Selected Gay and Lesbian Periodicals
and Newsletters
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America in Protest: Records of Anti-Vietnam
War Organizations, the Vietnam Veterans
Against the War
Please go to the following site for more
collections that will enhance your
teaching experience:
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Correspondence from German Concentration
Camps and Prisons
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/
cuny_broo39667?db=GDSC
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“Through the Camera Lens:” The Moving
Picture World and the Silent Cinema Era, 19071927
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Artemis: Primary Sources unifies extensive digital archives and
enables scholars to make amazing research connections. It’s a
combination of full text content, dependable metadata, and
intuitive subject indexing.
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection, gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney
(1757-1817), includes his 700 bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets
published in London with additional English provincial, Irish, and Scottish papers
(and examples from the American colonies, Europe and India).
Eighteenth Century Collections Online includes page images of entire books published
during the 18th Century. With full text searching, the collection allows new ways
to access information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, and
science.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online includes the full text of monographs, newspapers,
pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, and statistics.
The Making of the Modern World provides access to millions of pages of primary sources
from the period 1450-1850 that track the development of the modern Western
world through the lens of trade and wealth.
The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2009 allows users to search over 200 years of an
invaluable historical source.
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Library Faculty Go West to Present
at ACRL 2015
In late March, Professors Frans Albarillo,
Lee Ann Fullington, and Mariana
Regalado traveled to Portland, OR for
the Association of College and Research
Libraries (ACRL) 2015 National
Conference. Prof. Regalado and Prof.
Maura Smale (Chief Librarian, City
Tech) presented as part of a panel
“The Topography of Learning: Using
Cognitive Mapping to Evolve and
Innovate in the Academic Library.” Prof.
Prof. Frans Albarillo
Prof. Lee Ann Fullington
Albarillo presented a poster regarding
his research on students at Brooklyn College, “Sustaining Immigrant and International Students: A Mixed Methods
Study of Library Use.” Prof. Fullington presented a poster, co-authored with Prof. Matthew Harrick, about the new
undergraduate internship the Library piloted this past fall, “Sprouting STEMs: Science Information Librarianship
Internships for Undergraduates.” Prof. Fullington was awarded an ACRL Early Career Librarian Scholarship to attend
the conference.
Congratulations to our Library faculty for a job well done!
Let the Library Do What It Does Best
The Brooklyn College Library aims to enhance the academic experience of Brooklyn College students, to
improve their research skills, and to foster information literacy and critical thinking. The Library highly
encourages faculty in all departments to include library sessions in those courses that have a research
component. Together we can introduce your students to:
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doing research at the college level
effectively searching, locating, and evaluating information
popular and scholarly resources relevant to a specific assignment
basic and advanced searching of library resources, such as the catalog and article databases
discipline-specific resources and scholarly communication within that discipline
Contact your Library Subject Specialist (see the next page) to schedule a class. We look forward to
working with you and your students!
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Library Directory of Subject Specialists by School
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Frans Albarillo
[email protected]
x8213
Accounting; Economics;
Finance & Business
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Matthew Harrick
[email protected]
x8209
Education; Juvenile Literature
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Frans Albarillo
[email protected]
x8213
Linguistics; Sociology
Jane Cramer
[email protected]
x5332
Government Information; Law; Political
Science
Beth Evans
[email protected]
x8206
Africana Studies; Caribbean Studies;
Judaic Studies; Puerto Rican & Latino
Studies; Studies in Religion; Women’s &
Gender Studies
William Gargan
[email protected]
x5341
American Studies; English; Modern
Languages & Literatures; SEEK
Helen Georgas
[email protected]
x8207
Classics; History; Philosophy
Matthew Harrick
[email protected]
x8209
Children & Youth Studies; LGBTQ Studies
Mariana Regalado
[email protected]
x8215
Communication Arts & Sciences; Speech
Wilfredo Rivera
[email protected]
x8214
Communication
SCHOOL OF NATURAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Susan Vaughn
SVaughn@ Brooklyn.cuny.edu
x5348
Lee Ann Fullington
[email protected] x8217
Earth & Environmental Sciences; Health
& Nutrition; Kinesiology; Mathematics;
Physics; Urban Sustainability
Mariana Regalado
[email protected]
Anthropology & Archaeology
x8215
Biology; Chemistry; Computer &
Information Science; Psychology
SCHOOL OF VISUAL, MEDIA AND PERFORMING ARTS
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Miriam Deutch
[email protected]
x5221
Art
William Gargan
[email protected]
x5341
Theater
Honora Raphael
[email protected]
x5844
Music
Wilfredo Rivera
[email protected]
x8214
Film; PIMA; TV & Radio
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STAFF DIRECTORY
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Larry Albrecht
[email protected]
x4672
Evening & Weekend Manager,
Library Café; Student Workshops;
Staff & Faculty Workshops
Carlos Cruz
[email protected]
x4667
Instructional Design & Multimedia
Development; Blackboard & Sakai
Technical Assistance; Faculty
Workshops
Fatima Davis
[email protected]
x5327
Manager, New Media Center;
Audio/Visual Support for the Library
Slava Gurgov
[email protected]
x8234
Programmer/Web Developer
Nick Irons
[email protected]
x4634
Associate Director, Faculty
Training and Development;
Faculty Workshops; Multimedia
Projects; Website Development &
Management
Anthony Caines
[email protected]
x4672
Manager, Library Café; Print & Web
Design; Staff & Faculty Workshops
James Liu
[email protected]
x4868
Networks & Systems Manager
Alex Rudshteyn
[email protected]
x5342
Director of Library Technology
Entrepreneurship, Systems, &
Network Support
Howard Spivak
[email protected]
x5342
Director, Academic Information
Technologies & Library Systems
Stephanie Walker
[email protected]
x5342
Chief Librarian & Executive
Director, Academic Information
Technologies & Library Systems
Harold Wilson
[email protected]
x5327
Evening & Weekend Manager, New
Media Center; Audio/Visual Support
for the Library
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Free Resources and Services for Faculty
and Adjunct Faculty
Please note that all of the resources and services presented
in this Faculty Bulletin are available for part-time Adjunct
Faculty and full-time Faculty. All Faculty are invited to make use of the Faculty Training and Development Lab (Library,
Room 382) to access state-of-the-art computers, hardware, and software, free printing, technology consultation, and
personal technology training. Please feel free to stop by the next time you are in the Library or call 718.951.4634 to
schedule an appointment. For more information, please refer to the Faculty Lab section in this Bulletin.
Blackboard
Collaborate is
now available
to help you
create virtual
classrooms,
offices, and meeting spaces that allow you to interact
dynamically with your students and colleagues, from
wherever you and they are.
Blackboard Collaborate is a web conferencing tool
where users can interact as if in a traditional classroom.
It has all the functionality needed for a student-centered
learning environment, such as text chat, two-way audio,
multi-point video, interactive whiteboard, emotions,
hand raising and polls rooms, desktop sharing, breakout
rooms, and session recording. This feature is now part of
the listing tools available in CUNY’s current Blackboard
version.
course and an enhanced experience for everyone. It offers
exciting new approaches to learning while involving each
student on an individual level, affording active learners
the information and personalization they want.
Full functionalities to Blackboard Collaborate are offered
only through a computer’s web-browser connections.
Limited access to session tools are now available on iPad
and iPhone platforms via Blackboard Collaborate Mobile
app or on other mobile devices by using the mobile’s webbrowsers. These two mobile options are free of charge,
and in both cases students can interact with each other by
joining the text chat and two-way audio, when watching
the instructor’s whiteboard, desktop documents or
presentations in the Blackboard Collaborate main room.
For more information or assistance with using
Blackboard Collaborate, please contact Carlos A. Cruz
at [email protected]; 718.951.4667
Collaborate is a key component to consider for any online
Analog-to-Digital Media Conversion
Do you need to convert your LPs, audio cassettes, or video cassettes into a digital
format for educational purposes? The Faculty Lab has installed new equipment
and software that will allow you to convert your audio cassettes and LPs into
MP3 digital audio files or CD audio discs, and your VHS video cassettes into
MP4 digital video files or DVD video discs.
Please bring your analog media to the Faculty Training and Development Lab
(Library, Room 382); staff will provide assistance in converting your materials.
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Did you know that last year the Library and Academic
IT presented more than 300 technology-based workshops
focused on the needs of Faculty, students and staff ?
Faculty workshops covered the features and modules of
Blackboard, Sakai and iTunes U.
Faculty and staff are welcome to participate in our
student workshop series. The workshops in this series
attempt to conform to the busy schedules of our students.
There are workshops for those who can only attend
on weekends, both Saturday and Sunday. There are
afternoon workshops, common hour workshops and
evening workshops. During intersession we conduct a
winter graduate colloquium.
All workshops are hands-on. Workshop topics include
Introduction to the PC, Introduction to the Internet,
basic and intermediate level courses in Microsoft Excel,
PowerPoint and Word. In addition, workshops are
given for both Mac and Windows in Adobe Photoshop,
Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign. Recent workshop
additions include basic QuickBooks, and basic and
intermediate SPSS.
Want a Faculty workshop? Please send your suggested
topic to Howard Spivak at [email protected].
Please include a suggested time and day; Faculty have
crowded schedules and coordinating Faculty workshops
is challenging.
Would you like to schedule a staff workshop or workshop
series for your department? Include topics and times
that your staff will be available. We will try to arrange
a workshop or series to meet your department’s needs.
Please contact Nick Irons for more information at
[email protected]; 718.951.4634.
Do you want student course-specific workshops tailored
and restricted to your class? In the modern academic
environment, access to technology-centered help and
instruction can make a sizable difference in the efforts of
both you and your students. We are able to offer extensive,
high-end assistance to you and your students in a wide
variety of computer related areas including statistical
analytic processing with SAS or SPSS; presentation
creation and editing with PowerPoint; desktop publishing
and word processing; database creation, maintenance
and usage; and many more.
Course-specific workshops can be held during
regular class sessions or outside class times. Please
contact Howard Spivak to make arrangements at
[email protected]; 718.951.5342.
Free Hands-on Technology Workshops for Faculty
The Library and Academic Information Technologies offer Faculty a full calendar of hands-on technology
workshops on the CUNY Portal, Blackboard, Sakai, Microsoft Office, and Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
Please direct your Web browser to: http://ait.brooklyn.cuny.edu and follow the Workshops link located along the
top navigation bar.
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Swivl: The Motion Tracking Camera Platform
Would you like to capture your classroom lectures or guest presentations on your camera or mobile device, but you
don’t have a dedicated camera operator on hand to help? Well, it’s not a problem anymore: Swivl may be the solution
for you.
Swivl is a robotic platform that turns your iOS and Android devices into a motion-tracking personal camera, and
enables you to move freely through the classroom while recording your presentation. For more information about
Swivl, please direct your web browser to: http://www.swivl.com/.
Swivl is fast-becoming a “must-have educational tool for a flipped classroom,” and seems to be the perfect tool for
recording classroom interaction, student projects, and classroom observations.
The basic Swivl set has 3 components:
1. The Robot (base/platform) where your mobile device is mounted, sits on a round base that tilts 30 degrees, and
rotates 360 degrees. The Base is portable and cordless, with batteries that last up to 4 hours.
2. The Marker (remote control) includes wireless audio, high quality built-in microphone and a recording button.
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Once the remote control is synchronized with the robotic platform, the base follows the Marker as it is moved
around the classroom.
The Swivl Capture app has a user-friendly interface, it allows the instructor to create presentations and store
them in the Swivl library, and facilitates uploading recorded lectures into your iOS Photo Library or the Swivl
Cloud media service. You can find the Swivl Capture app by searching for “Swivl Capture” in the Apple App
Store or Google Play Store.
Swivl Cloud < http://cloud.swivl.com > is also part of the Swivl product line. Swivl Cloud is not required if you’re
only using the Swivl Robot and app, but a Swivl account will be needed to create and show slide presentations and
movies simultaneously.
In response to requests from interested faculty, the Office of Academic Information Technologies (AIT) acquired three
Swivl kits to launch as a pilot project. Each of our Swivl kits includes:
•1 Swivl Robot and Marker
•1 sturdy tripod
•1 Apple iPad
Participants may also choose to use their own mobile device, and AIT will provide training and support on
synchronizing the device with the Swivl Base and Marker (training is required in order to borrow a Swivl kit).
For more information, please contact:
Faculty Training Development Lab, Room 382 Library
Campus phone: 718.951.4634
Recording your class has never been so easy! Happy Recording!
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Blackboard Learn 9.1 is available
for all CUNY’s instructors and
students with a redesigned interface
and more powerful features. Faculty
who log into Blackboard will have
at their disposal many new tools
and capabilities to effectively
manage their online teaching/
learning component. Blackboard
9.1 eliminates much of the “clicking”
involved in managing the course,
mainly through making many of Bb’s
present capabilities more accessible
to users as well as implementing
new functions that together bring
Blackboard closer to an environment
that users accustomed to Web 2.0
take for granted.
Here are a few examples of some
important changes and additions
that make managing a course in
Blackboard 9.1 easier:
The Control Panel: For instructors,
the Control Panel appears in the
entry page of a course as a menu,
significantly improving navigation
among different tasks and areas.
Multiple File Upload: Now, when
you have many documents that you
wish to post, instead of tediously
browsing and posting each one at
a time, you can select a group of
documents to upload into the content
area simultaneously.
Test Lockdown Timer option: With
Bb 9.1 you now have the option to
have a test automatically end when
the time limit has been reached.
Needs Grading function: Instructors
can view student attempts ready
for grading or review on the Needs
Grading page.
Multiple Assignment Submission
Attempts: In Blackboard 8, to allow
a student to redo an assignment and
submit it using the same assignment
link, the instructor needed to delete
the previous submission from the
Grade Center. Blackboard 9.1 allows
the option of letting an assignment
accept multiple attempts.
Brooklyn College’s Office of
Academic Information Technologies
(AIT) is offering Blackboard 9.1
training as well as an extensive list
of online video, print tutorials, and
other online help and documentation.
If you have any questions or are
interested in trying some of these
new features, make an appointment
with Carlos Cruz.
Carlos Cruz: Instructional/
Multimedia
Design Specialist
and Campus
Blackboard
Administrator
E-Mail:
CarlosA@
brooklyn.cuny.edu
Campus Phone:718.951.4667
Helpful Blackboard links and emails for Faculty:
Blackboard 9.1 FAQs for Faculty/Staff
http://ait.brooklyn.cuny.edu/blackboard/bb-faculty-faq.pdf
Blackboard 9.1 workshop schedule for Faculty/
Staff
http://ait.brooklyn.cuny.edu/?view=workshops&category=16
Blackboard Faculty Support
[email protected]
Helpful Blackboard links and information for Student:
Blackboard 9.1 FAQs for Students
http://ait.brooklyn.cuny.edu/blackboard/bb-faculty-faq.pdf
Blackboard Student Support
On-Campus:
Library New Media Center (2nd floor, Library)
Library Café (lower level, Whitehead Hall)
Off-Campus:
Please contact: Information Technology Services (ITS) Help Desk
E-mail: [email protected]
Campus Phone: 718.677.6180
Hours: Monday - Friday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
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Digital Lessons
AIT is ready to help you create one of the latest and
most revolutionary forms of educational materials:
digital lessons. With a capability of much more than
simple video, projects can be given interactive features,
posted online or distributed as a file package. Digital
lessons are ideal for exploring topics outside of your
syllabus, elaborating on difficult premises, or creating
all new lectures. Digital lessons can be composited from
a host of elements, including photographed video,
emphasis graphics, text, and animation. They can utilize
established lectures or be built from the ground up.
Please contact Larry Albrecht to begin a project or see
a demonstration of the myriad possibilities this new
technology offers.
E-Mail [email protected]
Campus Phone: 718.758.8216
How Can Faculty Arrange for
Academic IT to Visit Their Next
Department Meeting?
Representatives
from
Academic
Information
Technologies are available to participate in your
monthly department meetings. We can answer questions
on hardware/software relevant to your discipline and
discuss how we can help meet your instructional and
research needs.
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For more information, please contact:
Howard Spivak:Director, Academic
Information Technologies
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Campus Phone:718.951.5342
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AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies
How Can Faculty
Add Multimedia
Content to their
Blackboard or Sakai
Course Sites?
Course Site Design and
Incorporating Multimedia
Content
For assistance with using images, full-motion video,
animation, and audio within your Blackboard or
Sakai course sites, please contact:
Carlos Cruz:
Instructional/Multimedia
Design Specialist and Campus
Blackboard Administrator
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Campus Phone: 718.951.4667
For more information or to set up an appointment,
contact:
Carlos Cruz: Instructional/Multimedia Design
Specialist and Campus Blackboard
Administrator
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Campus Phone:718.951.4667
How Can Faculty
Put Documents on
E-Reserves?
E-Reserves staff will scan your documents, create
PDFs, and upload them to your Blackboard
course site. For complete details on this valuable
service, please direct your web browser to:
http://dewey.brooklyn.cuny.edu/resources/
service.jsp?sub_id=92.
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iTunes
U
is available for Faculty to store
and distribute video, audio, slide shows, and PDF
documents. At present, iTunes U is accessible only
through Blackboard.
For information on using iTunes U effectively in your
Blackboard course sites, please contact:
If you have questions about the e-Reserves service,
please contact:
Mary Pope:
Reserves Specialist
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Campus Phone:718.951.5335
If you would like assistance with designing and/or
adding multimedia elements to your course web sites,
Carlos Cruz is available to consult with you. In person,
over the telephone, or via e-mail, Carlos can help you
achieve a positive impact on teaching and learning
with online technologies, including Sakai, Blackboard
course sites, standard web pages, discussion boards,
real-time chat, etc.
Carlos Cruz: Instructional/Multimedia
Design Specialist and Campus
Blackboard Administrator
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Campus Phone:718.951.4667
SPRING 2015
AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies
How Can Faculty Get Free
Software, Such as Microsoft
Office, McAfee VirusScan,
and Maple?
Free work-at-home software licenses for Microsoft Office (for Windows
and Mac OS); Microsoft Windows 8 and 7, McAfee antivirus software
(for Windows and Mac OS); and Maplesoft Maple (for Windows and
Mac OS) are available for you to download and install on your home
computers (desktops and laptops).
Please note that CUNY eMall software is for use at home or offcampus only.
To download software from the CUNY eMall, please direct your web
browser to http://portal.cuny.edu. After you login, select the CUNY
eMall link, located at top-center. Next, select the SOFTWARE link.
Select the link(s) to the software you want, and follow the instructions
provided to order, download, and install the software.
If you would like to install any of these applications onto your
Brooklyn College office or lab computer(s), please contact:
ITS:
Help Desk
E-Mail: [email protected]
Campus Phone:
718.951.4188
How Can Faculty Create a
CUNY Portal ID?
Faculty, students, and staff may access CUNY’s Enterprise Edition
of Blackboard via the CUNY Portal. Direct your web browser to:
http://portal.cuny.edu and select Login. If you already have a portal
account, type in your user name and password. If you need to create
a new portal account, select Register and follow the instructions. In
order to verify your identity, you will be prompted to enter your SSN
and date of birth at this secure, encrypted site; this is a one-time-only
registration action.
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How Can Faculty
Borrow a Laptop To
Use Off-Campus?
The Office of Information Technology
Services (ITS), Library, and Office of
Academic Information Technologies (AIT)
manage the Faculty Laptop Loan Program,
which is designed for Faculty who are
traveling on college business or have other
off-campus research and computing needs.
Laptops are loaned out on a first-come,
first-served basis to Faculty. Laptops may
be borrowed short-term for a one week
(full-time & adjunct Faculty) or long-term
up to the end of the semester (full-time
Faculty only). We have Windows and Apple
Macintosh laptops available for loan; we
will do our best to provide the requested
platform; however, due to the limited
number of circulating laptops, we may not
have your preferred platform available.
To request a laptop, please complete the
Faculty Laptop request form, available at:
http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu/
resources/?computing=faculty_
services#c263.
Note to Adjuncts: Laptop loans must be
co-signed by your department chair via
e-mail.
For more information on the Faculty
Laptop Loan Program, please visit:
Faculty Training and Development Lab
Library, Room 382
Campus Phone:718.951.4634
AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies
How Can Faculty Get
Software Installed
for Student Use on
the Computers in
the Library and the
Library Café?
How Can Faculty
Access Software for
Qualitative Research?
To better assist Faculty with qualitative research and
analysis, the Faculty Training and Development Lab
has installed and configured two distinct qualitative
data analysis applications:
At the beginning of each semester Academic IT
loads software and system updates, and tests each of
the more than 700 public computers in the Library
and Library Café. Academic IT will attempt to
accommodate Faculty requests for new software
installations. To make this process more efficient, we
need your cooperation.
Please submit your requests for new software
installations or version upgrades four weeks before the
start of the new semester. We need this time for clone
preparation, installation, and testing.
To get software installed in the AIT/Library
MultiMedia Classrooms and/or the public computer
labs in the Library Café, New Media Center, Library
Lower Level Lab, 1st Floor Reference Area, and
Reserve Reading Room, please contact:
Howard Spivak:Director, Academic
Information Technologies
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Campus Phone:718.951.5342
http://www.qsrinternational.com/
products_nvivo.aspx
Atlas.ti:
http://www.atlasti.com/
These software packages are designed to facilitate
analysis of unstructured text, web links, and/or
multimedia materials such as interviews, feedback
forms, reports or media clips.
At present, both programs are only available on a
dedicated workstation located in the Faculty Training
and Development Lab (Library, Room 382). Please
speak with any member of the Faculty Lab staff for
access to NVivo or Atlas.ti.
Please note that we currently have only single-use,
single-machine licenses for both QR programs; we do
not have licenses for installation or use outside of the
Faculty Lab or off-campus.
Please note that Faculty members are responsible
for obtaining license permissions from the software
publishers. Software will be installed only on the
computers covered by appropriate valid license
agreements.
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NVivo:
Would you like to learn more about qualitative research
and analysis? We suggest taking advantage of the
Library’s extensive collection of electronic books:
http://dewey.brooklyn.cuny.edu/resources/?service=ebooks.
SPRING 2015
AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies
How Can Faculty
Obtain IBM SPSS
Statistics for Use
On-Campus?
An essential tool with which to analyze your research
data is IBM SPSS. CUNY provides the College with a
multi-user campus-license for IBM SPSS v20 statistical
analysis software.
The campus-licensed version of SPSS v20 may be
installed on Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X,
and is available for on-campus use only.
Please contact the ITS Helpdesk to request installation
on your office computer:
ITS:
Help Desk
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Campus Phone: 718.951.4188
Please note that CUNY does not provide licenses for
using SPSS off-campus.
Software Requests for
the Faculty Training
and Development Lab
If you would like to recommend a software purchase
for the Faculty Training and Development Lab, please
contact:
Howard Spivak: Director, Academic
Information Technologies
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Campus Phone: 718.951.5342
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How Can Faculty
Access Dragon
Naturally Speaking
Professional for Voice
Transcription?
At the request of
several Brooklyn
College Faculty
members,
the
Faculty Training
and Development
Lab purchased and
installed
Dragon
Naturally Speaking
Professional to aid
in the transcription
of digital voice
recordings. Using
Dragon with a
compatible digital
voice recorder, you
can capture notes in the field, and then automatically
turn your recorded voice files into editable text. Dragon
can recognize .wav, .wma, .dss, and ds2 and .mp3 files.
For more information about using Dragon Naturally
Speaking Professional in the Faculty Training and
Development Lab, please contact:
Nick Irons:
Associate Director,
Faculty Training
and Development
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Campus Phone:718.951.4634
SPRING 2015
AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies
Faculty Training and Development
Location:
Lab (Faculty Lab, FTDL)
The Brooklyn College Library Faculty Training and Development Lab
provides all Brooklyn College Faculty (full-time and adjunct) with a
range of free services to meet both individual and group needs.
Faculty can access computer-based resources
and services, free printing, and technical support.
In the Faculty Lab, Brooklyn College Faculty have access to
computer hardware and software, technology support and
advice, drop-in individual consultation with knowledgeable
and friendly staff, and small-group workshop training in the
effective use of digital technologies for teaching and learning.
The Faculty Lab maintains state-of-the-art, dual-core, Intelbased, Windows and Apple Macintosh computers; color flatbed
scanners; a 35mm film scanner; DVD and CD-Recordable
drives; digital video and audio capture; and B&W and color
laser printers. The Faculty Lab provides software for web page
creation; word processing; spreadsheet analysis; statistical
analysis; database file management; graphics creation; digital
video and audio; desktop publishing; desktop presentation; and
multimedia authoring.
3rd Floor Library,
Room 382
Campus Phone:
718.951.4634
Hours
of Operation
for Spring 2015
Monday-Thursday
9AM – 5:45PM
Friday
9AM – 4:45PM
Closed on weekends
and holidays.
Technical Support staff are available to assist you with the use of all computer hardware and software in the Lab.
Please note that food and drinks are NOT permitted in the Faculty Lab.
For more information about the resources and services available in the Faculty Lab, please contact:
Nick Irons:
E-Mail:
Campus Phone:
Associate Director, Faculty Training and Development
[email protected]
718.951.4634
Free Printing for Faculty
The Faculty Lab maintains two high-speed, highcapacity, networked laser printers (B&W and color) for
Faculty to use at no charge. Our B&W printer (HP 4015)
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outputs to 3 single-sided sizes: letter; legal; and tabloid.
Our color printer (HP 3525) outputs to 2 double-sided
sizes: letter and legal. Please consult with Faculty Lab
staff for assistance with formatting your documents
correctly for each printer.
SPRING 2015
AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies
Free Wide-Format
Printing: Posters
and Banners
The Faculty Lab has the capacity
to print wide-format posters and
banners (up to 42 inches wide).
Supported file formats include:
high-resolution PDF, GIF, and JPG
with embedded fonts and graphics.
AIT/Library
MultiMedia
Classrooms
High demand precludes scheduling
these rooms for every class meeting
during a semester. Technical Support
Staff are available for classroom
support.
Faculty may reserve the Windows
or Macintosh Classrooms to teach
using computers with advanced
graphics and sound capabilities.
Each classroom will accommodate
34 participants and has one
dedicated instructor station. These
specialized classrooms may be
reserved for occasional, specific
class meetings requiring the use of
technology.
W oody
Tanger
Auditorium
To check room availability and to
submit a reservation online, please
direct your browser to:
http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu.
Select the link Room Scheduler
located at top right. Please read and
follow the on-screen instructions.
Please contact Faculty Lab staff
for more information by Campus
Phone at 718.951.4634.
You may submit your project on
CD or USB flash drive, along with
a letter-sized proof. Your poster
print jobs will be processed within
2 - 3 business days.
Please note that food and drinks
are NOT permitted in the
MultiMedia Classrooms.
If you would like to recommend
software for use in the AIT/Library
MultiMedia Classrooms, please
contact:
Howard Spivak:
E-Mail:
Campus Phone:
Director,
Academic
Information
Technologies
HowardS@
brooklyn.cuny.edu
718.951.5342
The Woody Tanger Auditorium (Library, Room 150) is available to reserve for your
class on an occasional basis. The Auditorium is a place where the College community
can experience and experiment with a high-tech communication infrastructure.
For complete information on the capacity and technical resources available in the
WTA, or to arrange a tour or tutorial on the auditorium’s audio/visual, computing
or lighting systems, please contact:
Fatima Davis: New Media Center Manager
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Campus Phone: 718.951.5327
Harold Wilson: NMC Evening and Weekend Manager
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Campus Phone: 718.951.5327
Technical assistance is available before and during your
scheduled event. Printed instructions are available for
most systems.
http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu and selecting the link
Room Scheduler or by contacting the New Media Center
at [email protected].
You may request the Woody Tanger Auditorium by
visiting the Library’s room scheduling page:
Please note that food and drinks are NOT permitted
in the Woody Tanger Auditorium.
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SPRING 2015
AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies
Woody Tanger Auditorium Update
Due to major equipment failure, we were forced to shut the Woody Tanger Auditorium’s doors in the early part of 2014.
When we reopened the auditorium had, unfortunately, limited capabilities. Last summer we took the opportunity to do
around the clock repairs and to strategically plan for the future of the WTA. While the sound and lighting are not at 100%,
we are pleased to say that we were able to re-open the WTA and it has been in full use since last fall. The WTA is once
again capable of showing videos, providing Internet streaming, and accommodating PowerPoint presentations.
As for our future goals, we plan to have the WTA upgraded in the very near future. Our plans include acquiring a new
projector with Blu-ray streaming capabilities, more lighting choices, and a new sound system. We hope that these plans
will make your classroom presentations a more dynamic experience.
Classroom Microphones
and Amplifiers
Teaching in a large classroom? Having trouble projecting your
voice to the back of the room? A small number of portable
microphones and amplifiers have been purchased for Faculty
use. Please contact the New Media Center managers for more
information:
Fatima Davis:
New Media Center Manager
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Campus Phone: 718.951.5327
Harold Wilson:
New Media Center Evening and Weekend
Manager
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Campus Phone: 718.951.5327
Morton and Angela Topfer Library Café
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The Café is staffed until 11:45 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
Wireless printing is now available.
Two new self-service printers have been added to decrease waiting time for printouts.
A brand new, high-speed, high-capacity copy machine provides students the convenient option to remain in the
Library Café to complete their academic work.
Follow the Library Café on Facebook and Twitter:
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Facebook: Twitter: https://www.facebook.com/BClibrarycafe
http://twitter.com/bclibrarycafe
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AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies
Resources and Services for Your Students
Free Printing for
Free Hands-on Technology
Your Students in the
Workshops for Your Students
The Library and Academic Information Technologies offer
Library and Library
students a full calendar of hands-on technology workshops on
Café
the CUNY Portal, Blackboard, Microsoft Office, SPSS, Windows,
Macintosh, and Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
Please direct your web browser to http://ait.brooklyn.cuny.edu
and follow the Workshops link located along the top navigation
bar.
The Library Café also offers a large assortment of in-house
produced literature dealing with computer usage and academic
skills. Please direct your web browser to http://ait.brooklyn.
cuny.edu/litrack/.
The College’s Print Management System
in use at the Library and Library Café
standardizes free-printing privileges for
students throughout the campus and helps
students to save money, maximize efficiency,
save time, and conserve paper. Many
students are already familiar with the system,
which has been in use for several years in the
ITS Public Computing Labs, located in the
West End Building (WEB).
Additional Fee-based Printing Services for Your Students
Color Printing
Color printing to letter- or legal-sized paper is also
available in the Library and Library Café. Please note
that free printing balances are not applicable towards
this premium service.
Poster Printing Service
Brooklyn College clubs, organizations, and individual
students may now have their JPEG image files printed
as a full-color poster. Posters are printed on heavy stock
paper in either 2’x3’ ($24.00) or 3’x4’ ($48.00) sizes.
Please note that free printing balances are not applicable
towards this premium service.
To submit the poster for printing, students must bring
a properly formatted and ready-to-print JPEG image
file on USB flash drive or CD to the New Media Center
Service Desk, located on the 2nd floor of the Library.
Please note that the poster will be processed and
available for pick-up within 2 business days.
The Library Cafe’s friendly, knowledgeable staff is available to assist students with all their computing needs.
Always lively, the Library Café is CUNY’s only 24/7 information commons. Designed with a chic, open-concept
feel, it is an ideal place to study, meet with friends, use one of the many Internet-connected computers, grab a
snack, or just relax.
http://ait.brooklyn.cuny.edu/librarycafe/
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Whitehead Hall, 1st floor
SPRING 2015
718.951.4672
AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies
Book Scanners
Dedicated and easy-to-use book scanning stations have
been installed at four convenient locations in the Library:
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Reference (first Floor)
Reserve Reading Room (first floor)
NMC: New Media Center (second floor)
L4: Library Lower Level Lab (lower level)
The book scanners are provided free to all Library patrons.
Scans can be uploaded to a flash drive, emailed, or printed
out.
The scanning system utilizes simplified scanning
software developed in-house by Academic Information
Technologies.
Presentation
Practice Rooms
Do you need a place for you or your students to
practice a PowerPoint presentation? Several viewing
rooms in the New Media Center (2nd Floor) are
now equipped to allow a laptop connection. Please
inquire at the New Media Center Service desk for
more information:
New Media Center:
Campus Phone:
Wireless Printing
in the Library
Service Desk
718.951.5327
Laptops, tablets, and Smartphones (Android, iOS) must first
be configured to access the College’s secure Wi-Fi wireless
network. Please direct your students to the ITS Computer
Lab located in the West End Building (WEB) for assistance
with Wi-Fi setup.
To print in the Library, go to https://webprint.brooklyn.cuny.
edu. You will then be prompted to enter your User Name
(CUNYFirst Emp ID) and PIN (date of birth, MMDDYY).
Documents sent for printing via Wi-Fi are sent to the selfservice printing stations located throughout the Library.
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SPRING 2015
AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies
Student Laptop and Tablet Loan
The Brooklyn College Library, Academic Information Technologies,
and Information Technology Services are pleased to continue our
successful Laptop Loan Program for Brooklyn College students.
As of the Fall 2012 semester, we have more than doubled the number
of Apple MacBooks available for student borrowing; this service
enhancement is made possible by the generosity of College President
Karen L. Gould. Furthermore, with our gratitude for a very generous
gift from the Class of 1960, 50th Reunion Class Gift Fund, the
Library is pleased to announce that the Student iPad Loan Program is
continuing to be a huge success.
We now have a total of 72 Dell Windows
laptops and netbooks, 23 Apple MacBooks,
and 5 Apple iPads for student use.
Windows laptops and netbooks are available
for 3-day loans to undergraduate students;
graduate students may borrow Windows
laptops and netbooks for up to 30 days.
Apple MacBooks and Apple iPads are available
for 1-day loan only.
The Student Laptop and Tablet Loan service is
free of charge. A valid BC ID and an additional
photo ID are required to borrow a laptop.
Please direct your students to the New Media
Center Service Desk, located on the 2nd Floor
of the Library for detailed information, and to
complete and submit a Laptop or Tablet Loan
Form.
New Media Center (NMC) and Library Lower Level Lab (L4)
The New Media Center (NMC) provides the College community with a variety of services, including a state-of-theart computing facility with Windows and Macintosh computers, access to the video and audio portions of Brooklyn
College’s non-print collections, and viewing/presentation rooms for small and large groups or classes. NMC staff
oversee use and scheduling of the Woody Tanger Auditorium, and manage the Library Lower Level Lab (L4) student
computer lab.
For more information about the New Media Center or L4, please direct your web browser to
http://ait.brooklyn.cuny.edu/. (Follow the link < New Media Center / L4 > located at left)
Location and contact information: NMC Service Desk, 2nd Floor Library
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Fatima Davis:
E-Mail:
Campus Phone:
New Media Center Manager
[email protected]
718.951.5327
Harold Wilson:
E-Mail:
Campus Phone:
New Media Center Evening and Weekend Manager
[email protected]
718.951.5327
SPRING 2015
To access this Faculty Bulletin online, go to:
http://ait.brooklyn.cuny.edu/fbulletin/
Office of Academic Information Technologies
and Brooklyn College Library
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