Faculty

Supporting Your Research

Librarian subject specialists

• Contact the librarian who is your department's or program's main point of contact with the library
• Help with research questions, purchases, subscriptions, citation analysis, journal rankings, alerting services, and more.

Interlibrary loan

• Request an interlibrary loan
• Delivery times: articles in 1-3 days, books in 3-10 days

Recommending purchases

• We welcome all suggestions!
• Recommend a purchase

Borrowing

• Renewable 16-week loan periods for books
• 1-week loan period for videos
• Your student aide or research assistant can borrow on your behalf (stop by the circulation desk to set this up)

Using other libraries

• CUNY Libraries
  • List and Map
  • Request books from CUNY libraries
• Columbia University, NYU, and NYPL
  • MaRLI for access and borrowing privileges at Columbia, NYU, and NYPL
• Request a METRO card to visit other local private libraries for materials unavailable in CUNY and NYPL

Research consultations

• Schedule an appointment with a subject specialist

Data services

• Help with the acquisition and use of datafiles and raw data for research. Contact the geospatial data librarian, Frank Donnelly.

Faculty publications

• Recent books by Baruch College faculty
• Publications uploaded to CUNY Academic Works

Journal alerting services

• View tables of content in BrowZine. You can also sign up for a BrowZine account so you can track journals you're interested

Supporting Your Teaching

Research guides

• By broad disciplines and narrow topics or for specific courses.
• Want a guide for your course? Contact the librarian liaison for your department/program.

Course reserves

• Make a request to put materials on reserve
• Guidelines (procedures, copyright, etc.)
• FAQs
• View what you have on reserve: physical items (print books, DVDs, CDs) or online materials (e.g., ebooks, scanned book chapters, articles, streaming video)
• More info: 646-312-1660 or reserve@baruch.cuny.edu

DVDs and video

• Faculty may borrow videos from the library (complete this request form).
• We purchase DVDs on demand to support the curriculum. Streaming video may be an option as well (contact Michael Waldman).

Library workshops

• Request a librarian to meet with your class to provide general overviews of information literacy, research strategies, and information resources.

All student services

• See what services and resources are available to your students (including technology loans such as clickers, laptops, graphing calculators, iPads, etc.)