Library News Blog

Our new research guide, Remote Resources for a Distance Learning Environment is a one-stop spot providing information on how to access the many and varied digital resources available to John Jay students, faculty and staff.  In addition to Lloyd Sealy Library online resources, you will find links for free (temporary) access to a multitude of electronic books, textbooks, videos and more from publishers and institutions in order to help students during this COVID-19 crisis.

You will find information on where to go and how to access your library's electronic resources--digital textbooks, ebooks, journals, magazines, newspapers, videos, tutorials, ereserves and more.  You will also find links to college wide student and faculty resources (technological and more) to promote success in distance learning now that we have moved fully online.

The Lloyd Sealy Library librarians are committed to helping our faculty locate remote resources in order to accomplish their teaching goals as well as helping our students succeed!  You may not be able to visit our library in person, but please know that we are here for you providing reference assistance through email, chat and text.  Please see the Librarians are Here! tab of this guide for more details.

We want to highlight some of the things you can do online, away from campus, via the Library.

You can:

• Search for ebooks using OneSearch;
• Access our over 150+ databases to find sources for your assignments;
• Watch a streaming documentary or feature film

• Learn how to find and evaluate sources using:
  • Our tutorials created in-house ;
  • And our extensive collection of research guides.

• Contact a librarian via email, phone, or chat for further research assistance.

Faculty:  We have an Online Teaching Toolbox for you!  

Below are more detailed updates related to specific Library departments and functions:

Circulation services

Fines and fees are being suspended for the duration of this health emergency. All items coming due will be renewed automatically (patrons should check their account to make certain). Physical items, including books, are not circulating; requests and holds are suspended.

Electronic resources

Most of the library’s resources are available online.  To find online ebooks, articles, videos and more use OneSearch and limit your results to Full Text Online .  Alternatively, you can limit your search to  one of our over 150+ databases here or learn more about our streaming documentary or feature film collections by using this link.

Interlibrary loan (ILL)

Interlibrary loan services will be limited to requests for items that can be delivered to you electronically, such as articles and book chapters (if electronic resource licensing permits ILL). Please note that at this time, several libraries are not scanning physical items such as print books, print journals and microform. We will process these requests for our patrons, but they likely cannot be filled. There may be a delay in filling requests due to staff shortages and library closures. 

If you are a John Jay patron with an ILL book checked out, please do not return books at this time. We are requesting renewals for patrons; you may receive an email about your loan period being extended.

For libraries that currently have our materials, we will be providing automatic renewals.

Please email libill [at] jjay.cuny.edu if you have any questions.

Reserves

Physical reserve items are unavailable while the library remains closed.

Faculty: If you are currently a user of eReserves and have been requesting that material be posted by the reserves librarian, please continue to do so by completing the online form on this page. Email questions to libreserve@jjay.cuny.edu. Please note that due to a potentially large influx of requests and shortage of staff, we will initially limit the number of posted items allowed per class. If you already use Blackboard for other teaching activities, you can upload readings there without the help of a librarian. Please consider using Blackboard instead of becoming a new user of eReserves, so that you can maintain control over when, how quickly and how many readings you can post. If you are a current user of eReserves and have your own username and password, you may email libreserve@jjay.cuny.edu with any questions.

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How to link to library licensed resources

The library’s licensed electronic content is available from outside the college by way of our proxy server prefix address which  is:    http://ez.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/login?url=  
If you have trouble accessing library content from off campus put this prefix BEFORE the permanent URL of any library licensed content.  For example, for access to the JSTOR database, use:
http://ez.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/login?url=http://www.jstor.org
When someone clicks on your hyperlink, the prefix will activate the log-in script, and the user will be asked to enter their JJ email user id and password.  After that information is entered successfully, the licensed content item should appear on screen.      The URL can be pasted into an email, onto your website, into facebook, twitter, etc.  Test your link off-campus before sharing it!

Special Collections

The Special Collections has suspended all in person researcher visits while the library is closed. We are available to respond to all inquiries at libspcoll@jjay.cuny.edu, and will promptly answer all questions. When it is safe for us to return to campus, we will offer expanded services to researchers, including students according to the emerging best practices for providing remote access to special collections and archival materials. These services will include on demand research, collection searching and digitization to support remote research as best we can. Please visit our Digital Collections and the Library's Primary Source databases and Research Guide to find archival and historic materials already digitally available. We are also constantly updating the John Jay College Archives COVID-19 Pandemic Response Timeline

Please continue to check the John Jay College website for further updates.

The CUNY+ Catalog has provided access to finding, locating, and accessing library materials and information for close to twenty years. As with all forms of technology, the library’s Integrated Library System (ILS), will be upgrading to a new platform. Unfortunately, the CUNY+ Catalog will no longer be supported by the new update. The good news is that the new ILS will be using a familiar friend, OneSearch, to find, locate, and access library materials and information.

OneSearch was introduced to the CUNY community in 2014. OneSearch differs and exceeds the CUNY+ Catalog through its capability to search multiple platforms at the same time.  By entering search terms in OneSearch, you can find many articles, books, e-books, streaming videos, digital content, and more.  However, it does have its limitations, OneSearch doesn’t have access to every database John Jay subscribes to. If you are researching a specialized topic, please refer to the specialized database list, and subject research guides.

Feeling concerned, or nervous about the change? No need to worry. Here’s your brief guide to using OneSearch and links to video tutorials provided for you by the staff at the Lloyd Sealy Library.

You can begin using OneSearch from the Library Homepage by typing into the search box.

After typing in your search terms and pressing Search, or hitting Enter, you will be brought to the results page with filters and advanced search options to widen or narrow down your search.

On the right hand side of the results page, you will find a list of Filters which will assist in locating the types of information/materials you are searching for. You can filter by Resource Type (books, journal articles, newspaper articles, maps, etc.), Topics (controlled subject headings), a custom date range of publication, Language, Author, etc.

Additionally, you can use the search box located at the top of the page to try a Boolean Search.

As you can see in the picture below, Prison is now a “subject” and New York has been added for any field, and this has brought the results down from over 2 million to about 7 thousand results.  Using the filters on this search will narrow down the results as well to locate a digestible amount of information/materials.

Another great function in OneSearch is the Browse option, located at the top of the page. Using this feature, you can browse by Title, Author, Subject, or Call Number. This feature is similar to the functionality of the CUNY+ Catalog, it will provide results from the physical collection.

Browsing by Call Number will provide a list of materials that are classified together.

Browsing by Author will provide a list of physical items at the John Jay Library (4), while searching the author in the main Onesearch will provide much more (348).

Feeling overwhelmed? Stop by the Reference Desk for any questions, concerns, or tips on how to use OneSearch!

- Patrick Raftery

Thursday March 5, 2020, 6:00pm Moot Court, New Building, 6th floor.

Click here to download this lecture flyer.

The fall 2019 issue of the Library newsletter is now available.

Marta Bladek published “From Women Staffed to Women Led: Gender and Leadership in Academic Libraries, 1974-2018” in The Journal of Library Administration (Vol. 59.5: 512-531) and “Latino Students and Academic Libraries: a Primer for Action” in The Journal of Academic Librarianship (Vol. 45.1: 50-57).

Maria Kiriakova published “Printed and Electronic Media, Journals and Professional Associations.”  In Natarajan, M. (Ed.). International and Transnational Crime and Justice, 2^nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 505-510.

Jeffrey Kroessler had an op-ed in the New York Daily News in August: “New York City Saved My Life.”

Larry Sullivan, Chief Librarian, will chair the session “Pornography in the Age of Kinsey” and provide the commentary on three papers at the American Historical Association’s Annual Meeting in New York in January 2020.

The United Nations invited Sullivan to present a paper and chair the panel on the Mandela Rules for the treatment and rehabilitation of prisoners at its 75^th Anniversary conference in Kyoto, Japan in April, 2020.  His panel is entitled, "Prison Libraries, Information Access, and Evolving Standards of Decency” (Mandela Rules, 3, 4.7, 16, 63, 64).  He will also write a chapter on Mandela rule 64 for the United Nations’ anniversary volume for the accompanying conference in Kyoto on “Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (14^th Annual Convention).

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Patrick Raftery joined the Lloyd Sealy Library faculty on November 1. He is an experienced cataloger of electronic, digital, and physical resources, and comes to John Jay after a five-year stint at the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where he worked in circulation, reference and technical services. Patrick earned an MSLIS/MA History Dual Degree at Queens College where his capstone project focused on New York State Prison Library Services and American prison reform. His CUNY roots go back even further, as he earned his Associates degree at Kingsborough before ultimately graduating with a BA from Columbia University.  We are very pleased to have Patrick join us as a full-time faculty member in the library.

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From late Spring through this Fall, the Indoor Voices podcast has featured episodes on horse-crazy girls, the Baltimore “Hon,” teaching psychology, zeitgleich, digital humanities, punk history and literary autism. If any of these key words pique your interest or if you just need a new podcast to add to your listening queue, visit indoorvoicespodcast.com to listen to past episodes and sign up for new episode alerts.  -Kathleen Collins

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The library relies heavily on our dedicated team of college assistants (CAs) and work study students to keep the library open. They help hundreds of students, faculty and staff at our circulation desk and reserve room answering queries and completing circulation transactions. Some of our CAs have been working with us for years, while some have joined us this Fall. Our team includes computer science majors, future forensic scientists, undergraduate students and graduate students. Some are native New Yorkers and some are international students. Not all are pictured here, but we hope you will meet most of them on your next visit to the library.

Photo foreground, left to right: Jibran Hussain, Tichania Nathaniel, Tané Dixon, Gabriella Lopez, Ayana Ikenouchi
Background, left to right: Zann Blanchard (Head of Circulation) and Steven DeJesus

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By Ellen Sexton

A complete list of our DVDs is available at https://guides.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/video/DVD  All DVDs are shelved behind the Reserve Desk – please ask for them by DVD number.  

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2016).  Dir. S. James.  The only bank charged with a crime after the 2008 financial crisis is a small family bank in NYC Chinatown.  Documentary.  DVD 1554. 

Birds of Passage = Pájaros de verano (2018). Dir.s  C. Gallego & C. Guerra.  Set in 1970s Colombia, an indigenous family becomes involved in the nascent drug trade.  Narco-thriller.  DVD 1568. 

Documenting Hate: Charlottesville & New American Nazis (2019).  Two part Emmy winning series from Pro Publica & PBS.  Documentary.  DVD 1559.

Embrace of the Serpent = El abrazo de la serpiente (2015).  Dir. C. Guerra.  Shot in black and white in the Colombian Amazon, it follows a shaman accompanying scientists in their search for a hallucinogenic plant in 1909 and 1940.  Drama.  DVD 1570.

Fail State: Subprime Goes to College (2017).  Dir. A. Shebanow.  For-profit colleges’ predatory practices and their effects on low-income students.  Documentary.   DVD 1552.

Newtown (2106).  Dir. K. Snyder.  Interviews with the community during three years following the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.  Documentary.   DVD 1561.

Nowhere to Hide (2016). Dir. Z. Ahmed. A civilian medic living with his family in Diyala, Central Iraq filmed his surroundings during five years of war.  Received best documentary award at IDFA.  DVD #1562.    

The First Measured Century (2001). PBS documentary portraying 20th Century social scientists.  16 segments, three hours.  DVD 1564.

The Hunt / Jagten (2013).  A small community ostracizes and terrorizes a Danish pre-school teacher unjustly accused of abusing a child. Drama.  DVD 1570.

Explore our film and video collections via our guide: guides.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/video

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