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NYIT Library is pleased to offer Credo Reference Service. Credo is a vast, online reference library, providing access to the full text of 100 of highly regarded and popular titles. Credo Reference contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range or subject-specific titles covering everything from accounting to zoology, via maps, math, management, martial arts, media studies, medicine, mountains, moons, music, multimedia, mythology.

Whatever you need to find - facts, words, concepts, people, places or sayings - you’ll find it in Credo. All cross-referenced, all reliable and in one place.

Below is a selection of some of the items currently available in the subscription service. For a complete listing click the Find a Book link. If you have any questions about this resource please e-mail askalibrarian@nyit.edu.

• Dictionary of Business and Management
• Chambers Classic Speeches
• CIA World Factbook
• Dictionary of Accounting
• Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms, Barron’s
• Dictionary of Law
• Dictionary of Media Studies
• Encyclopedia of African History
• Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century
• Encyclopedia of Computer Science
• Encyclopedia of Health Care Management, Sage
• Harris, Dictionary of Architecture and Construction
• International Encyclopedia of Hospitality Management
• Mosby’s Dictionary of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present
• The Bloomsbury Guide to Art
• The Penguin Dictionary of Economics
• The Penguin Dictionary of Physics
• The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of 20th Century Architecture
• Webster’s New World Finance and Investment Dictionary

Photographs of the NYIT Manhattan Library following the Summer 2008 renovation. Link

The Manhattan and Wisser Memorial libraries are now pleased to offer Bloomberg.

The Bloomberg system is a leading information service for global financial markets. At least 250,000 terminals are used by investment professionals around the world. The Bloomberg Terminal is a computer system that enables financial professionals to monitor and analyze real-time financial market data movements and place trades. Bloomberg includes current and historical financial quotes, commodity market and economic statistics, business newswires, and descriptive information, research and statistics on over 52,000 companies worldwide. Most large financial firms have subscriptions to the Bloomberg service, which costs $1,500 to $1,800 per terminal per month (as of 2007).

For more information, please contact Sebastien Marion (smarion@nyit.edu) at the Manhattan Library, or Jeffrey Feinsilver (jfeinsilver@nyit.edu) at the Wisser Memorial Library.

• Getting Started: 2 page guide
• Earn Bloomberg Certification:
  The Bloomberg certification series trains professionals on how to use the system. Bloomberg permits all academic users to earn product certification completely on-line and there is no fee for this certification. Type the command BU and hit the <GO> button.

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LexisNexis Academic is a major resource for researching business, news and legal topics. The full text of over 6,000 print, broadcast and online publications are included. Coverage of many events extends back for decades. These 4 interactive tutorials explain the major features of Lexis Nexis.

• Tutorials

Do you have a Facebook, Myspace, or other social network profile? If so, heed this warning and in the future proceed with due caution. A new national survey recently revealed that 1 in 5 hiring managers are looking at social profiles prior to engaging employees. In effect, employers have shifted their use of social networking sites from advertising to finding out about people by including Facebook and other networks in background checks during the hiring process:

Could your future boss be perusing your profile? Twenty-two percent of hiring managers said they use social networking sites to research job candidates, up from 11 percent in 2006, according to a nationwide survey of more than 3,100 employers from CareerBuilder.com. An additional 9 percent said they don’t currently use social networking sites to screen potential employees, but plan to start. Link

Reading the above, I think it’s important to keep in mind that this holds true not only for full time employment, but also for internships. For advice on how to manage your online identity you might begin by reading Selena Dehne’s “Will Your Social Networking Profile Get You Hired or Fired?”

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Celebrating its one year anniversary, the latest version of the New York Public Library (NYPL) Newsletter is now available for online reading. Every year we advise NYIT students and community members to take advantage of the incredible resources that are provided by NYPL. 1000s of e-journals, e-books, even download able movies are all available by simply registering for a free library card.

• Subscribe to the NYPL Newsletter

The Fall 2008 newsletter of the NYCOM Medical Library, located at NYIT’s Old Westbury Campus, is now available to read.
The current newsletter provides NYCOM Library resource quick access links, laptop and reserve book regulations, NYIT id card rules, library hours, and more.

If you are curious as to what books the libraries have recently been purchasing new book lists for the Manhattan, NYCOM and Wisser Memorial libraries have just been published, circa January 1, through August 31, 2008. More importantly, if you are either a student or faculty member with a new books purchase request, we encourage you to fill out our book request form, or speak with one of the librarians during your next visit.

Welcome back to another full and exciting year at the New York Institute of Technology. This year become one of the many community members who subscribe to the library’s news feed and visit the NYIT Library Blog regularly to learn about new and exciting resources aimed at facilitating your studies and career.

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