Resources for Faculty and Staff

Faculty Research Support

MediaPatch Faculty Library Liaison Committee Pace Library Catalog Interlibrary Loan Databases Remote Access to Resources E-Journals E-Books Reserve Materials

Instructional Services Collection Development (plus Faculty Development Collection) Reference Distance Education Services (plus Copyright and Distance Education) Technology Services The Information Edge

Faculty Library Liaison Committee

The members of the Faculty Library Liaison Committee work closely with library staff to effectively develop the Pace University Library's print and electronic collections. If you're not sure who your department liaison is, please refer to the online list. 

Pace Library Catalog

• The Pace Library Catalog contains the holdings of the Birnbaum, Mortola and Law library collections.

• Request items be sent from another Pace University Library location - when viewing the record for the item you want, click the blue REQUEST button near the top of the screen. At the next screen, fill in your name and library barcode, then click on Submit.

• NEW - SPRING 2005 - Search and REQUEST items from a consortium of academic libraries in New York State using Connect NY. After searching the Pace Library Catalog, if you do not find what you are looking for, try searching other academic libraries using the Connect NY button. Items can be requested using the same procedure as requesting items from another Pace Library location - just click on the REQUEST button, enter your name and Pace Library barcode, and the book will be delivered to the Circulation Desk at your home campus library in 2 to 3 business days.

• Suggest an item for purchase

• Please be sure to provide complete bibliographic information for the item you are suggesting, whether it be a book, journal or video - author, title, publisher, publication date, edition, etc. (Also see Collection Development, below)

• View your own Circulation Record

• Check to see what books you have checked out
• Check the status of Interlibrary Loan requests

• Use the Z39.50 connection to search other library catalogs, using our library catalog interface
  
  
  • Z39.50 allows you to search the library holdings of many other libraries while using the familiar interface of the Pace Library Catalog. You will be able to select which library holdings you would like to search. If you have any questions regarding the Z39.50 interface, please contact Rey Racelis, x11598. 

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Interlibrary Loan

• Interlibrary Loan allows a user to request items that the Pace University Library does not currently own. The library uses a number of electronic article delivery services to speed the acquisition of article requests. 
  • ILLiad - ILLiad is the Library's Interlibrary Loan (ILL) system that allows for more complete tracking of ILL requests and processing. You can also set up your profile to specify online delivery of articles. 
  • When requesting an article from Interlibrary Loan, be sure to indicate whether or not you would like the article sent to you via e-mail. Many times articles can be scanned and sent as a PDF attachment via e-mail. 

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Databases

• Trial Databases

• The library continually tests new databases, and interfaces to existing databases. Please check the Trial Databases page regularly, and let us know what you think. 

• Remote Access

• Access to the library's databases is restricted to current members of the Pace University community (faculty, staff and students). 
• From any computer on the Pace network (including those users who are dialed in to a Pace dial-up account) access to the databases should be seamless. When attempting to access library databases from off the Pace network, you will be prompted to enter your Pace email user id and password (Update: you may also use your Portal username and password). If you do not know your Pace email user id, you can search the Pace University White Pages , or contact DoIT at (914) 773-3647.

• Persistent Links and Stable URLs
• A number of the library's subscription databases now provide the ability to create persistent links - also called stable URLs - to certain full-text articles. By following these links, a user is taken directly to the article. These persistent links are created in different ways, depending on the database, and are only available from a select number of databases. These links can be made available from a Blackboard course page, a Discussion Board post, or from a web page.

  Persistent Links are available to articles in databases from the following vendors:
  JSTOR
  Gale databases
  ACM Digital Library
  Project Muse
  ProQuest databases
  Ebsco databases
  ACLS History E-Books

• Open our Persistent Links/Stable URLs help guide for more information.
  
  ***IMPORTANT NOTE***: To allow off-campus access to persistent links and stable URLs, you MUST add the following text string before the persistent link or stable URL:
  
  http://rlib.pace.edu/login?url=

For example - Here is a link to a full-text article in the Academic Search Premier database from Ebsco:

Riddle, John S. "Where's the Library in Service Learning?: Models for Engaged Library Instruction." Journal of Academic Librarianship. Mar2003, Vol. 29 Issue 2, p71.
http://rlib.pace.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9506023&db=aph

 

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E-Journal Collections

In addition to the number of selected full-text databases to which the library subscribes, we also provide access to a number of reputable and scholarly E-Journal collections:

• ACM Digital Library - Tables of contents, abstracts, reviews and the full-text for articles published in the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) periodicals and proceedings since 1985. 
  
  
• American Chemical Society (ACS) - Online access to 25 journals published by the American Chemical Society. The current 5 years of information should be available online. These are in addition to our print subscriptions to the same journals.
  
  
• Ebsco - Online access to journals sold by Ebsco, to which we already have a paid print subscription. These journals are from various subject areas, but focus on the Social Sciences, Nursing, Health and Psychology. See the title list for this product on our Ejournal List Page.

 

• IEEE Computer Society Digital Library - Provides access to the full-text of 18 applications and research-oriented Computer Society Magazines and transactions, as well as a growing body of conference proceedings, from 1995 to the present.
  
  
• JSTOR - JSTOR provides access to the complete backfiles of scholarly journals in 15 academic disciplines dating back to the 1870’s (see the website for a title list). JSTOR has a "moving wall," which in most cases is from 2 to 5 years. The "moving wall" defines the gap between the most recently published issue and the date of the most recent issues available in JSTOR. 

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E-Books

• Books 24x7 - Access is provided to the full text (including code, examples, and graphics) from over 1,500 technology reference books and journals. The collection covers technology topics including networking, programming languages, desktop applications, the Web and more. You will also find these titles when searching the Pace Library Catalog.
  
  

• NetLibrary - Provides access to a collection of books in electronic format. Titles can be viewed online, downloaded, or printed. The library is currently selecting books from the disciplines of Business, Nursing, English, and History. For a list of current titles, check our online listing. 

 

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Reserve Materials

Items may be placed on Reserve at the circulation desk of any of the Pace University Library locations. These items are ones that you anticipate being in high demand for a class you are teaching, and which you would like to have available for all students throughout the semester. Loan periods on reserve materials may vary. Please contact the library regarding materials you would like placed on Reserve as early as possible, as we may have to purchase some of the items. 

In addition to the traditional print Reserve Materials system, the library provides an Electronic Reserve system for articles. The electronic reserve system allows us to provide password-protected, online access to articles you would have traditionally placed on print reserve in the library. Articles are made available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. 

• For more information on how to place items on either print or electronic reserve, please contact: 
• in Pleasantville, Nadine MacDonald, x33854
• in New York, Elisabeth Birnbaum, x11667
• at the Graduate Center, Michelle Lang, x44384

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Instructional Services

The mission of the Instructional Services team starts with helping the members of the Pace community to "become critical thinkers and competent users of information resources so that they are able to identify, retrieve, and evaluate information for use in curricular pursuits as well as lifelong learning." (See the entire Instructional Services Mission Statement online.) 

This includes faculty, staff and students. We are available and interested in developing workshops for you and your students. We can develop workshops which introduce faculty to new resources in their field of study, and we are available to collaborate with faculty on integrating information literacy and library instruction into your course assignments. Please contact Sarah Burns Feyl, x33220, if you are interested in scheduling an instructional workshop for faculty. 

From the Instructional Services page you can: 

• Schedule an Instruction Session for your students - please remember we compete for time in the electronic classrooms, therefore we ask that you contact us as early in the semester as possible. 
• Learn more about Information Literacy at Pace
• Access Plagiarism Facts for Faculty and Students
• Contact an Instructional Services Librarian to discuss using the library's online, interactive reseach tutorial - APOLLO: A Pace Online Library Literacy Orientation - in one of your classes.

 

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Collection Development

The librarians welcome and encourage participation from faculty and staff as we continue to develop our library's collections. One quick way you can help us to continue to add relevant items to our collection is to send us your syllabi each semester. We consider the Syllabi Review Project to be our major, ongoing Collection Development project. If we do not already own them, we will purchase those titles that are listed as "recommended readings." 

• In Westchester, please send copies of your syllabi to Harriet Huang, Collection Development Librarian, Mortola Library. 
• In New York City, please send copies of your syllabi to Michelle Fanelli, Head of Information Services & Resources, Birnbaum Library.  
• Reference librarians are responsible for collection development activities in one or more subject areas. The syllabi received in the library are shared with the appropriate reference librarian. In Westchester contact Harriet Huang, x33240, and she can put you in contact with the librarian who works with your department or area. 

The library has developed a number of special collections that may be of interest to faculty and staff: 

• Faculty Development Collection - if you have additional titles you would like us to purchase in this area, please contact, in Westchester, Sarah Burns Feyl, x33220 or, in New York City, Michelle Fanelli, x11667. 
  
  
• Pace Faculty Authors Collection - The Mortola Library has established a special collection of publications by Pace University faculty and emeriti which are exhibited in cabinets opposite the Reference Desk. Faculty are actively encouraged to contribute copies of published works, including monographs, article reprints, and audiovisual materials to this collection. All donations should be directed to the attention of Harriet Huang, Collection Development Librarian/Westchester. 

Now available online - a list of recent acquisitions made by the Pace University Library, organized by subject and updated quarterly. 

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Reference

• The Pace University Library strives to provide access to quality reference services for both on and off-campus members of the Pace University Community. (See our complete Reference Mission Statement online.)
• In keeping with that goal, we encourage faculty members to contact a member of the Reference or Instructional Services staff when giving their students an assignment that could require the use of library materials. By discussing the assignment with a librarian first, we can together assess whether the library resources can support the assignment, and if a library instruction session may be valuable.
• To contact a reference librarian during normal working hours: 
  • in Pleasantville, dial x33505
  • in New York, dial x11331
  • at the Graduate Center dial x44384

   

• Also available are a number of choices for reaching a librarian from off-campus, including Live Chat Reference - chat with a reference librarian real-time, over the Internet. 

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Distance Education Services

• Refer to our Services for Distance Education Faculty page for more information on what we can do for those of you teaching online courses. 

• Also see the Library's Copyright and Distance Education page.
  

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Technology Services

• Circulating Laptops - The Birnbaum and Mortola Libraries, in conjunction with the Division of Information Technology, are now offering the use of circulating laptops which access the Internet using the Pace Wirelss Network.
  • in New York, laptops are available at the Birnbaum Library Circulation Desk 
  • in Pleasantville, laptops are available at the Technical Help Desk
    
• Multimedia Production - now available in the Mortola Library are two multimedia production workstations. For more information, check out the Technical Help Desk web page.

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The Information Edge: A Newsletter of the Pace University Library

• Access current and back issues of the library's newsletter, The Information Edge, online. 
• If you have something you would like to see featured in the newsletter, please feel free to contact co-editors Karen DeSantis, x33230 and Janell Carter, x10116.

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