Located on the library's 3rd floor (room 382), the Faculty Lab provides Brooklyn College faculty with a range of free services including 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 in the teaching and learning process.
Contact the Lab at: (718) 951 - 4634 or ait@brooklyn.cuny.edu.
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The library has regularly scheduled Introduction to the Library workshops. English 1 students may sign up here or check with reference staff for upcoming workshop schedules.
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RefWorks is an online bibliographic management tool that allows you to format bibliographies and in-text citations automatically; create your own database of citations; import citations directly from library databases; organize your citations into folders; and access your citations from any computer, anywhere in the world.
The Brooklyn College Library is pleased to offer "Introduction to RefWorks" workshops each semester. Please contact the Reference Desk at (718) 951-5628 or RefDesk@brooklyn.cuny.edu for more information. To sign up for a workshop, please contact the session's presenter.
Fall 2009 Workshops
September 15, 2-3 p.m., Library Workshop Center
Professor Jill Cirasella, cirasella@brooklyn.cuny.edu, 718-758-8214
September 19, 2-3 p.m., Library Workshop Center
Professor Mariana Regalado, regalado@brooklyn.cuny.edu, 718-758-8215
October 8, 3-4 p.m., Library Workshop Center
Professor Beth Evans, bevans@brooklyn.cuny.edu, 718-758-8206
November 11, 7-8 p.m., Library Workshop Center
Professor Jill Cirasella, cirasella@brooklyn.cuny.edu, 718-758-8214
Alternatively, you can sign up for a RefWorks Webinar (offerings include RefWorks in 15 Minutes and RefWorks Fundamentals) or watch the RefWorks Basics Tutorial, which has excellent step-by-step instructions.
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Link to see this semester's offerings for technology workshops at the Library Cafe.
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Take a technology workshop including: Computer Basics, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, The Internet, Computer Safety and Apple Macintosh.
If you'd like to learn how to use Adobe Photoshop, consider partaking in a Photoshop Workshop!
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Students need to learn how to recognize when information is needed and how to locate, evaluate, and use information. Well-designed course-integrated library assignments provide students with the opportunity to explore information resources in their discip
Do:
- Have clear objectives for the assignment
- Consult with a reference librarian about how the library can support the assignment
- Schedule a library session to review the library skills needed to complete the assignment
- Be clear about the level of research required (e.g. scholarly v. popular resources)
- Make sure the sources you want students to use are available in the library
- Give complete and accurate citations for information sources and reference works
- Review the dangers of plagiarism and proper citation styles
- Encourage students to ask for help at the Reference Desk
Don't:
- Assume that your students know anything about library research, starting with where the library is
- Limit research unnecessarily to a single index or format (e.g., only articles)
- Ask students to browse in journals for articles, periodical indexes are a more reliable choice
- Send the entire class to the library looking for a single item
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Tips on designing an assignment using library resources from the University of Puget Sound.
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Suggestions on ways to create effective library assignments from Bowling Green State University.
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Assignment examples that can be adapted to most subjects, from the University of Puget Sound.
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Tacoma Community College's suggestions for library research assignments.
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Suggestions for incremental research assignments, written by a reference librarian at Saint Louis University and posted by the UC Berkeley Teaching Library.
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CUNY's eight online tutorials provide guidance and practical exercises for developing information literacy and library research skills.
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Information literacy is the ability to locate, evaluate, and use information to become independent life-long learners. This CUNY website features resources on information literacy standards, assignments, assessment, and advocacy.
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This short YouTube video explains how the Brooklyn College community can use CLICS to borrow books from other CUNY campus libraries.
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This short YouTube video explains how to use a journal index to find articles on your research topic at the Brooklyn College Library.
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This short YouTube video explains how to find the full text of articles on your research topic at the Brooklyn College Library
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The Brooklyn College Library encourages faculty to include library sessions in their courses. This page provides details about the library's instruction services.
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The library has regularly scheduled Introduction to the Library workshops. English 1 students may sign up here or check with reference staff for upcoming workshop schedules.
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This short YouTube video explains how to search for books and more in CUNY+, the Brooklyn College Library's online catalog.
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Contact one of our subject specialist librarians with a reference question.
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Information on course reserves for faculty and students, including instructions for submitting reserve requests online.
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Use Interlibrary Loan to obtain materials that are not available at the Brooklyn College Library.
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The Brooklyn College Library is offering a web browser plug-in known as LibX. It is a more customized version of the Yahoo and Google toolbars, providing you with direct access to the Library's resources. And because it becomes part of the browser, it always stays with you — no matter where you go!
LibX is free software that modifies your Internet browser to allow you to use the Library's resources from any page on the Web. As soon as you install it, you will be able to quickly search your terms in Library Catalog, E-Journals Finder, Google Scholar, and Worldcat. You will be able to utilize the toolbar's dropdown menu to quickly open Brooklyn College Library webpages such as Databases, Library Catalog, Interlibrary Loan, etc.
Furthermore, whenever you see the Library icon  at an online bookseller (e.g., Amazon) or online books digitization project (e.g., Google Books), you can click on it to see our Library Catalog record for that item. The same icon will appear on many popular webpages, such as The New York Times. Just click on it to see if you can check out the linked book from the Library. Additionally, you will be able to highlight text (an author, a book title, etc.) on any webpage and then right-click it to search that text in the Library Catalog, E-Journals Finder, Google Scholar, and Worldcat.
(There exists a customized version of the CUNY Graduate Center Library LibX toolbar. For more information, please see: http://library.gc.cuny.edu/aleph/toolbarsetup.html.)
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If not in demand, books may be renewed for further use. Books are renewable in person or online.
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Instructions for students, faculty, and staff to access library article databases and electronic resources from off-campus.
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The Budapest Open Access Initiative, which arose from a 2001 meeting of the Open Society Institute, defines open access and explains its benefits.
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Create Change is an educational initiative that examines new opportunities in scholarly communication, advocates changes that recognize the potential of the networked digital environment, and encourages active participation by scholars and researchers to guide the course of change.
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Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."
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The Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full-text, quality-controlled online scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects and languages.
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An annotated bibliography of studies that examined the effect of open access on article impact, as measured by citations in other works. Many studies show that open access increases impact; this effect is often called the "open access advantage."
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SHERPA/RoMEO helps users determine what self-archiving permissions different publishers give in their normal copyright transfer agreements.
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SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system. One of SPARC's priorities is advancing open access publishing.
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The SPARC Open Access Newsletter (SOAN) is a monthly newsletter authored by Peter Suber and offering news and analysis of the open access movement -- the worldwide movement to disseminate scientific and scholarly research literature online, free of charge, and free of unnecessary licensing restrictions.
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The Brooklyn College Library adheres to the College's policy on academic integrity. Please use this link to find more information on the CUNY-wide policy on academic integrity.
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This CUNY guide explains plagiarism and academic honesty.
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Resources and advice on ways to avoid plagiarism to share with your students.
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An essay-based detection service for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 and XP. A one time cost of $29.99 for unlimited use.
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Glatt offers three programs that help teach what constitutes plagiarism and how to avoid it, detect plagiarism and copyright infringement, and prevent inadvertent plagiarism.
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Moss (Measure Of Software Similarity) is an automatic system for detecting software plagiarism in C, C++, Java, Pascal, Ada, ML, Lisp, or Scheme programs. Free.
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A guide to resources on the Web, selected by librarians, from College and Research Libraries News.
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Helpful hints from TechNotes: Teaching Writing in an Online World, a blog from Bedford/St. Martin's Press, a college textbook publisher.
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The best known essay-based plagiarism detection service. Individual and department licenses are available.
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Learn how to put materials on reserve at the library, both on-site and online.
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As faculty at Brooklyn College, you must comply with copyright law when you are engaged in E-Reserves as well as any teaching and instruction, research and publishing, learning activities, and other activities using Brooklyn College resources. Click here to find out more about copyright and fair use.
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Reference chart determines copyright status of a given work.
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Alphabetical list of electronic databases and indexes available at Brooklyn College, many with the full text of articles. Linking to articles in these databases for your course reserves may help you avoid copyright issues.
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A collection of resources (free & subscription) for locating full text books online. Linking to online books for your course reserves may help you avoid copyright issues.
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Once you have gathered the information you need, the link below provides everything from style and citation guides to dictionaries and thesauruses; all the help available to write a great paper.
As faculty at Brooklyn College, you must comply with copyright law when you are engaged in teaching and instruction, research and publishing, learning activities, and other activities using Brooklyn College resources.
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RefWorks is an online bibliographic management tool that allows you to format bibliographies and in-text citations automatically; create your own database of citations; import citations directly from library databases; organize your citations into folders; and access your citations from any computer, anywhere in the world.
Learn how to use RefWorks by attending a RefWorks Workshop at the library, signing up for a RefWorks Webinar, or watching the RefWorks Basics Tutorial, which has excellent step-by-step instructions.
Note: From off campus, you may be asked for Brooklyn College's Group Code: RWBrooklynC.
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Resources for research, writing, and study, selected by Brooklyn College Librarians.
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