lloyd sealy library Classified Information The Newsletter of the Lloyd Sealy Library Spring 2013 From the Desktop of the Interim Chief Librarian hat do Library faculty do when they’re not guiding which rights. Can we balance our goal of a research level Wpatrons at the reference desk or teaching classes in the collection in criminal justice with support for our exciting library classroom? Academics outside of the library world new majors? Should we subscribe to ebook collections or probably occasionally ponder this question the same way purchase individual ebooks? Maria negotiates this rocky those outside of academia wonder what classroom faculty terrain. In the physical landscape, the Library has almost do besides teaching in a classroom for a dozen hours a week. run out of shelf space, so Maria has embarked on a ma- Of course, some of the Library faculty members’ “other” jor project to weed the stacks of little-used or no longer jobs are just as public as their reference work and teaching. needed material. Many of you know that Kathleen Collins is the Reserve Li- Some library faculty rarely work directly with classroom brarian, but did you also know that Kathleen’s work in Re- faculty or with students. Marlene Kandel, Associate Li- serves resulted in her chairing a cuny-wide copyright com- brarian for Technical Services and main cataloger, is re- mittee that revisited cuny copyright policy, hosted workshops sponsible for the integrity of the records John Jay adds to for faculty, and created the ©opyright @ cuny page? cuny+. She is also a major contributor of catalog records Nancy Egan, the Media and Electronic Resources Librar- to WorldCat, the worldwide shared catalog of library re- ian, frequently works with instructors to help arrange for sources, through her work cataloging vital criminal justice videos to support course curricula, but few are aware that for reports available on the Internet. The Report of the Special the last few years Nancy has also been cataloging the dvds— Investigative Counsel regarding the actions of the Pennsyl- now part of the Library’s collection—of the many events held vania State University related to the child sexual abuse com- at John Jay that have been video-recorded. Search “video- mitted by Gerald A. Sandusky can be located through the recording and john jay college” in cuny+ for a flavor of the scholarly tools WorldCat and cuny+ (and on the John Jay rich offerings now available through Nancy’s efforts. Com- Library shelves) because Marlene cataloged it. bining her roles in media and electronic resources, Nancy Robin Davis is our newest faculty member. As our has been a pioneer in cuny in subscribing to streaming video Emerging Technologies and Distance Services Librarian, collections as a way of making video more easily accessible she makes sure that the John Jay College virtual library is to students (see her article in this newsletter). Wearing her an easily accessible place of learning for faculty and stu- Electronic Resources hat and working with Maria Kiriakova, dents. Robin earned the major credit for the new Library Collection Development Librarian, Dolores Grande, Seri- website and is a driving force behind our enhanced social als Librarian, and others, Nancy is responsible for selecting media presence. and maintaining our collection of licensed online databases. There is not room here, unfortunately to discuss all of Last year Nancy chaired a cuny committee that developed a the Library faculty members or all that they do in the Li- metric for evaluating ebook collections. brary, much less describe their very diverse research inter- Maria Kiriakova, as illustrated in her article in this issue, is ests. (For a taste of the latter, see page 2.) responsible for aligning the Library’s collections with the And what does the Interim Chief Librarian do? Goes to College curriculum and with the research interests of the meetings, writes emails, goes to meetings, writes emails... faculty. She decides which books to purchase and wheth- —Bonnie R. Nelson er to buy them in print or as ebooks, and if the latter, with john jay college of criminal justice 1 classified information Newsletter highlights Faculty notes Collections arry E. Sullivan reviewed the “Illumi- 4 Book browsers Lnated: The Art of Sacred Books” ex- 5 Court translating & interpreting resources hibit at the Rubin Museum of Art for 6 John Jay joins the Internet Archive sharp News (Autumn 2012; vol. 21, 7 News from the Library’s Media Collection no. 7). He also wrote about the “Marcel Research Proust and Swann’s Way: 100th Anniver- 8 From Wikipedia to the Lloyd Sealy Library sary” exhibit at the Morgan Museum and 10 Research and citation tool highlights Library for sharp News (Spring 2013; Databases vol. 22, no. 1). 12 Art and image databases In March, Marta Bladek presented a 13 Social Explorer paper on “Living Your Best Life: Self-Im- provement Stunt Memoirs” at the annual Library databases for pros Nemla conference in Boston, ma. Teaching In January, Kathleen Collins was in- 14 How faculty can help students with assigned readings vited to participate with 23 other writers Fair use in your virtual classroom and researchers in a two-day biography Faculty favorites “boot camp” hosted by the Leon Levy 15 Art & Music Department Center for Biography at the Graduate Center, cuny. In February, she present- ed her ongoing research about media psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers at the Southwest Popular Culture Association annual conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Julie Turley and Lane Glisson (bmcc) gave a presentation at the John Jay’s Janu- ary Faculty Development Day titled “The Librarian is Present: Embedded Librar- ians in Blackboard and Beyond.” Robin Davis and Mark Zubarev led a workshop on “Castles in the Sky: Collaboration and Organization Methods in a Digital Age.” Robin Davis was accepted to the Early Modern Digital Agendas neh summer institute, to take place July 8-26 at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washing- ton, dc. She writes a blog on library tech at emerging.commons.gc.cuny.edu. Janice Dunham reviewed The Lester Singh, 1971–2013 Worldmark Encyclopedia of U.S. and ester Singh, the Library Systems dents all appreciated his patient, quiet at- Canadian Environmental Issues (Gale, LManager, died peacefully on Febru- tention when they needed personal help. 2012) for Library Journal, 9/15/12. You ary 20, 2013, ending a struggle with brain Many of Lester’s colleagues, both here at can follow Janice’s blog at booksnquotes. cancer that lasted more than six years. John Jay and elsewhere in cuny, donated blogspot.com. He was 41 years old. Lester began work- their annual and sick leave time so that Karen Okamoto co-authored an article ing in the Lloyd Sealy Library in January Lester could continue to be paid after ex- with Mark Aaron Polger (College of Stat- 2005 and soon transformed the Library’s hausting his own annual and sick leave. en Island) on academic librarians who computers, servers, and systems into a His family has told us how touched and promote in Library Management, (34/3). smoothly running operation that en- grateful they are. Lester was a great guy With ids Project mentors, she presented riched the lives of tens of thousands of and we miss him. at the illiad conference in March on or- John Jay students. Faculty, staff, and stu- ganizing regional user groups. 2 spring 2013 lloyd sealy library John Jay & Rubin Museum Essay Contest New exhibit and handout for students support undergraduate arts and justice research Ellen Belcher new exhibit on the Library’s upper A floor features exhibition catalogs recently donated by the Rubin Museum. A corresponding pamphlet written by Professor Karen Okamoto lists the titles in the Rubin donation, as well as a small selection of related books in our collec- tions and suggestions for finding many more resources. This exhibit supported students researching and writing essays to submit to the Rubin Museum Essay Contest. The Rubin offered seven cash prizes between $500–$3000 (toward tuition) for John Jay undergraduates who wrote winning essays. The librarians enjoyed assisting stu- dents in researching their essays at the Reference Desk, and we look forward to helping future essay writers next year. We wish students who submitted essays good luck! For information on essay winners for this and past years, see education.rma2. org/john-jay-college. Entry to the Rubin Museum is free to Above: Virupaksha, the Guardian King of Top: Shakyamuni Buddha with Sixteen all John Jay students and staff. the West; China; Qing dynasty, 17th–18th Arhats Tibet; 15th century Pigments on cloth century; clay, polychrome, stone eyes, Rubin Museum of Art c2003.50.7 (har 1052) wooden base, and interior armature; From rmanyc.org/nav/exhibitions/view/617 c2010.10. From rmanyc.org/masterworks john jay college of criminal justice 3 classified information Collections Book browsers Marlene Kandel Kyle, C., McEwen, S., & DeFelice, Kozol, J. (2012). Fire in the ashes: J. (2012). American sniper: The Twenty-five years among the poorest autobiography of the most lethal sniper children in America. New York: Crown in U.S. military history. New York: Publishers. W. Morrow. hv741.k674 2012 ds79.76.k95 2012 Cullen, K., & Murphy, S. (2013). Lasdun, J. (2013). Give me everything Whitey Bulger: America’s most wanted you have: On being stalked. New York: gangster and the manhunt that brought Farrar, Straus and Giroux. him to justice. New York: W.W. Norton. hv6594.2.l37 2013 hv6452.m4 c85 2013 Postigo, H. (2012). The digital rights Sotomayor, S. (2013). My beloved movement: The role of technology in world. New York: Knopf. subverting digital copyright. Cam- bridge, Mass: The mit Press.