lloyd sealy library Classified Information The Newsletter of the Lloyd Sealy Library Fall 2013 From the Desk of the Chief Librarian he Lloyd Sealy Library is appropriately named after the an adjunct professor of corrections at John Jay. He died on Tfirst African-American to reach the rank of Assistant June 10, 2002. Chief Inspector in the New York City Police Department. Some years ago, John Jay President Jeremy Travis, who Mr. Sealy’s promotion came in 1966, some 55 years after from 1984–1986 served as Special Counsel to Commissioner Samuel J. Battle became New York’s first African-American Benjamin Ward, and this librarian entered into negations police officer in 1911 under the charter that consolidated the with the Ward family for the late commissioner’s private boroughs in 1898. Mr. Sealy was also a member of our fac- papers. We are pleased to say that we were successful and ulty after his retirement. This brief history goes by way of that the extant papers are safely housed in the Lloyd Sealy saying that on January 5, 1984, Mayor Edward Koch swore Library’s Special Collections Division. The holdings include in Benjamin Ward as the city’s first African-American Police numerous important documents, letters, and his unpub- Commissioner. Mr. Ward had a long career in public service. lished autobiography Top Cop. After he became the first black officer to patrol Brooklyn’s Researchers are encouraged to look at the finding aid and 80th precinct, he quickly rose to the rank of Lieutenant, use this most valuable collection. The finding aid is online at earned undergraduate and law degrees, was special legal guides.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/SpecialCollections. counsel to Police Commissioner Howard Leary, Deputy The Sealy Library is proud of its groundbreaking collection Commissioner of Trials, Deputy Commissioner of Com- building practices and the importance of its holdings in munity Affairs, Chief of New York City Housing Authority, chronicling the history of the police and criminal justice in Commissioner of Corrections, and finally Police Commis- New York. ◆ sioner. Ward retired in 1989 and, among other activities, was Larry E. Sullivan john jay college of criminal justice 1 classified information Table of Contents Fall 2013 News Research 4 Murder Mystery Challenge 14 New Trend in Metrics: Media Mentions 5 A Day in the Life of the Library Science, Special Issue: Scholarly Communication 15 Early Modern Digital Agendas at the Folger Collections The Office for the Advancement of Research 6 Book Browsers 7 Teaching Resources Teaching 8 “Showered” with Gifts 16 Health & Physical Education Resources A Note on the Textbook Collection 17 Essential Career Information at the Library 9 News from the Media Department 18 The Adjunct & the Online Environment 10 The Lloyd Sealy Library Digital Collections 11 The Canevari Collection Faculty favorites 19 Alisse Waterston Databases Orlanda Brugnola 12 Introducing Multisearch TheDSM-5 Online Back cover 13 Spotlight: Faulkner Databases for IT Studies Library Directory Goodbye to Chief Librarian Eileen Rowland ibrary and other college faculty and John Jay colleagues in an Amnesty In- spent many hours closeted in the Ar- Lstaff were saddened to hear that Ei- ternational campaign which succeeded chives of the Library’s Special Collec- leen Rowland, John Jay’s Chief Librarian in securing the release of a young po- tions, ferreting out College history, and during the tumultuous years of 1975 to litical prisoner in Pakistan. Then Eileen undoubtedly exchanging untold tales. 1990, died on August 1. Eileen would became very active in planning the new Eileen was beloved by the library staff, have been a novel character in almost any Sealy Library. She oversaw the move of she kept their interests in her heart, and setting. At John Jay Col- facilities, staff and thou- she extended many kindnesses to them, lege she was a great success sands of books from North although anyone who came in after her because of her clear think- Hall to Haaren Hall in arrival in the morning was clearly late. ing, clear expression, and 1988, and then named the Eileen loved the College and she loved ability to analyze and state new Library for Prof. Lloyd the Sealy Library and they mostly loved issues forcefully. Even fac- Sealy. Professor Rowland her back. ulty who did not agree with was the only librarian who In 1990, Prof. Rowland surprised us her sought her out and re- spent an exchange semes- again by retiring with her beloved hus- spected her opinion. At the ter in the UK at the Police band Ted to Portland, Maine. John Jay same time, there was a bit Staff College at Brams Hill. thought of Eileen as a New York City of the outlier to her. Who On her departure, the offi- person, but she and Ted enjoyed life in else would have retrieved cers presented Eileen with Portland on the shores of beautiful Cas- New York County Court her very own bobby’s hat. co Bay. One of Eileen’s recent endeavors trial transcripts of 1883-1927, practically She enjoyed being among police officers was teaching English to Portland’s So- from the trash bin, and then, with Prof. and the feeling was mutual. Late in her mali immigrants, and, as usual, she had Emeritus Eli Faber, get a NEH grant to career, Prof. Rowland completed an Ad- stories to tell! We will miss hearing new index and microfilm 3,000 reels? Those vanced Certificate at NYU in archival stories and we will miss Professor Emer- records are now digitized, partially dis- studies in pursuit of her growing inter- ita Eileen Rowland. ◆ played on the website, and still consulted est in archival work. During research for Janice Dunham by scholars nearly every day. the first edition of Educating for Justice In the early 1980s, Prof. Rowland led (1990), she and Prof. Jerry Markowitz 2 fall 2013 lloyd sealy library News Circulation & Reserves Changes Faculty notes Kathleen Collins arry Sullivan provided on-screen commentary for an epi- Lsode of Secrets of New York, the popular TV show airing on Increase in late fines NYC TV, WNBC, and PBS. The episode focused on the city’s For the first time in decades, thecuny Board of Trustees has famous detectives. increased late fines on books and other materials loaned by In May, Marta Bladek presented a paper on “Exorcising the cuny libraries. As of the Fall 2013 semester, overdue books will Ghost of the Wall: Remembering Socialist Childhoods” at the now be fined at the rate of 25¢ per day (up from 10¢ per day), Transnational Women’s Literature in Europe conference orga- and for late reserve items the charge will be $6.00 per hour nized by Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. (most reserve items are 3-hour loans and to be used in the li- She reviewed Susan Gubar’s Memoir of a Debulked Woman for brary only). the journal Medical Humanities (39.2). Though fine protocols may vary amongcuny libraries, all Kathleen Collins wrote three columns for Vol. 18 of flow faculty, staff and students are subject to these fines when borrowing (flowtv.org), the online journal of television and media studies from the Lloyd Sealy Library. To avoid late fees and account blocks, published by the University of Texas at Austin. please remember to return all library items on time. Robin Davis spent three weeks at the Folger Shakespeare Li- For a complete review of Library policies, visit our web page brary as a participant in the Early Modern Digital Agendas re- and look under the Services menu for the “Borrowing and search institute. A fuller report can be found on p. 15. renewing” link. Janice Dunham reviewed the encyclopedia “Biomes and Ecosystems” (Salem Press, 2013) for Library Journal eReserves Online Submission Form (9/15/2013). She presented on “Ethnographic Assessment” at For any faculty continuing to use eReserves, there is a new on- the metro meeting on September 16th. line submission process. On the Library home page, visit the Karen Okamoto was awarded tenure and promoted to as- Faculty menu, then “Using Reserves.” sociate professor. Congratulations, Karen! She also published Faculty using the eReserve system at the Library have the an article on Toronto’s Tower Renewal Project in Environmen- option of managing their own course pages by creating new tal Justice (6.2). pages, adding documents to existing pages, controlling when Julie Turley’s talk about her years of experience teaching on- items are added to the page(s), etc. just as they would a line, “Disembodied Teaching: Engaging the Online Learner,” Blackboard course. Any faculty interested in doing so should was a part of a distance teaching panel at the Faculty Develop- contact Kathleen Collins ([email protected]). ◆ ment Day on August 27th. The panel had the second highest attendance of the day. See on p. 18 for a write-up. ◆ Visitors from Japan On Thursday, October 31st, six administrators from Nihon University in Japan visited the Library to learn about the services we provide to students and faculty. john jay college of criminal justice 3 classified information Promotional material was posted all The challenge used imagery and information from the First-place winners of the Challenge at their over campus, including Facebook Special Collections and other histoical resources catered lunch in the Faculty Dining Room The Murder Mystery Challenge A pilot project with an impressive turnout Robin Davis ach fall, the Library offers multiple articles) as well as team-based learning ticles or using databases. On a scale of 1 Evenues for first-year students to ac- and gaining familiarity with the study (no fun) to 5 (very fun), students rated quaint themselves with basic college spaces and friendly staff in the Library.