IX. Libraries

IX.A. General Information
IX.B. Food, Drink and Noise Policy

IX.A. General Information

The Libraries' website, http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/ is a gateway to a wide variety of online books, magazines, journals, encyclopedias, databases and a wide assortment of other digital collections that may be accessed from anywhere on or off campus. The Libraries offer a range of services including research consultation and assistance in person and electronically, a laptop lending program, customized instruction sessions and Library news and updates through a number of Blogs (online weblogs) - as well as Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr. We are a leader within SUNY, offering federated, faceted, relevance-ranked, categorized, visualized and self-tagged search capabilities. Together these services enable Binghamton University Libraries to provide patrons access to information resources such as catalogs, reference databases, citation databases, subject gateways, and e-journals.

The University Libraries include:

The Glenn G. Bartle Library, which contains collections in the social sciences, humanities, mathematical and computer sciences, and government documents. The Fine Arts Collection is located in the Bartle Library, and focuses on works relating to art, music, theater and cinema. Special Collections, which contains the internationally recognized Max Reinhardt Archives and Library, as well as the Edwin A. Link Archives, is also housed in Bartle Library. The Bartle Library Information Commons, located on the first floor of Bartle Library and second floor mezzanine, has over 200 computer workstations with access to online research material, productivity software and scanning equipment.
The Science Library, a separate building conveniently located near the Science buildings, contains materials in the fields of science, engineering, nursing and psychology and houses the University map collection. The Science Library Information Commons, located on the main floor of the Science Library, has 50 computer workstations with access to online research material and productivity software.
The University Downtown Center Library and Information Commons supports the College of Community and Public Affairs which includes the Department of Social Work, the Department of Human Development, and the Masters in Public Administration program. The UDC Library and Information Commons offers a full range of library services including circulation, course reserves, interlibrary loan, and reference assistance. The Library and Information Commons, located on the main floor of the UDC houses a local collection of books, current periodicals and government documents. Materials from the Libraries on the main campus, including the Bartle and Science Libraries and the Library Annex@Conklin are available for delivery to the UDC Library and Information Commons. The facility has 36 computer workstations with access to online research material, productivity software, scanning equipment, and student quota printing.
The Library Annex, located in Conklin, NY, was established in 1999 to house important older but lesser-used materials in the Libraries' collections. The Library Annex currently houses over 300,000 volumes in a high-density, climate-controlled environment. Materials may be paged and delivered to Bartle or Science or used in the Reading Room on-site at the Library Annex. Electronic desktop delivery is available for journal articles. For more information about using materials housed in the Annex, see http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/webdocs/storage.html.

Our Libraries hold 2,409,043 volumes, including print volumes, government documents, and electronic books, all searchable via the Libraries' online catalog. The collections also include over 93,414 electronic and print scholarly journals, 234 databases and more than 1.8 million titles on microfilm; there are, as well, 2,951 CD-ROMs, 118,948 sound recordings, 3,751 videos and DVDs, and 120,959 maps.

Subject Librarians

http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/subjects/subs.html

Subject librarians provide a range of specialized services to faculty and students by focusing on a particular area or discipline. They:

serve as liaisons between the Libraries and one or more of the University's academic departments, programs, or schools;
provide general reference service and specialized research consultation;
initiate the selection and acquisition of materials for the collections;
provide subject-specific instruction in the use of library and Internet information resources.

Research Assistance

Librarians provide individualized assistance in locating materials on a topic or using the many online resources provided by the Libraries for your research and teaching needs. In-person telephone, e-mail and Instant Messenger research assistance are offered. E-mail inquiries are answered within 24 hours. For more information, see http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/webdocs/reference.html

Instruction Services

http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/instruct/index.html

Librarians collaborate with BU faculty, instructors, and graduate teaching assistants (TAs) in support of the teaching mission of the University. Our instructional services include:

Course-specific and general library sessions customized to meet the course goals and student needs. Most sessions are offered in the Bartle or Science Library computer instruction labs, which allow hands-on active learning;
Personal research consultations for individuals or small groups of students, faculty or staff.
Customized online tutorials and websites that can be used via Blackboard or independently.

Borrowing Privileges

Faculty and professional staff may borrow materials for a one-year loan period with a current BU ID card. Bound journals may be circulated for three days; current periodicals are due at 5 p.m. on the day borrowed. All books may be recalled immediately if needed for Reserve, or after two weeks if requested by another patron. The Libraries' automated circulation system requires the use of an official Binghamton University identification card. Faculty and staff are responsible for replacement fees for lost books according to the following schedule:

Lost books

Lost book charges are assessed when a borrower declares a book lost, on books overdue for more than one year, and in response to borrower inquiries.

Unresolved obligations will be referred to the Office of the Vice President for Administration.

Electronic and Physical Reserves

Articles, book chapters, student papers, and non-copyrighted materials such as lecture notes and exams may be accessed 24 hours a day, seven days a week via Blackboard. Books, videos, DVDs, cassettes, CDs and other items (both from the Libraries and from instructors' personal collections) that have been placed "on reserve" by faculty to supplement classroom materials are available at the Bartle Library Circulation Desk or the UDC Information Services Desk. The loan periods, established in consultation with the instructor, can be two hours, three hours (for media only), one day, or two days. For further information, see the Course Reserves web page at http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/eres/.

Interlibrary Loan

Interlibrary loan expands the range of research materials available for scholarship and instruction. Materials not owned by the University Libraries may be obtained from other state, national or international libraries. Binghamton faculty can submit paperless requests using ILLiad computer software, accessed from our library home page (http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/) or from the many online search tools, such as WorldCat available through our membership in the Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC). We are members of several library consortia: SCRLC (a regional group which includes Cornell); SUNY Connect (including all SUNY research centers); The Research Libraries Group (RLG), where membership includes on-site access privileges across member institutions and facilitates resource sharing among member institutions; and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), which provides quick turnaround of materials, and the Information Delivery Services Project (IDS). We will notify you, via e-mail, when items arrive. Articles can be accessed electronically and books/microfilm (returnable items) can be picked up at the Bartle Library Circulation Desk, the Science Library Information Services Desk or the UDC Information Services Desk during library hours.

Requests are processed within the guidelines of the American Library Association Interlibrary Loan Code and US copyright legislation.

Special Collections

Special Collections consists of three major research components: rare books, manuscripts and archives; sound recordings; and the University Archives. Notable among the rare books are collections (chiefly literature and history) donated by prominent Binghamton attorneys Archibald Howard and George Hinman; the Herbert Reichner Collection, which focuses on the history of printing and publishing; the William J. Haggerty Collection of French Colonial History; and the personal libraries of Austrian actor and theatre director/producer Max Reinhardt; William Klenz, a well-known composer and former Professor of Music in Harper College, and Edwin A. Link, Jr., the father of flight simulation. Titles of interest to scholars include the Latin edition of the Nuremburg Chronicle (1493) and the first edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855b).

Special Collections' manuscripts and archives contain a diverse selection of materials which span several centuries and continents, and includes posters from Pre-Soviet Russia; photographs, correspondence, theater prompt book and scene designs that document the life and career of Max Reinhardt; photographs, family and business correspondence, and records from Edwin A. Link and the various Link enterprises; records and photographs of the Anitec Corporation; and papers of prominent local individuals and families including the Rose Family, David Bernstein and Lamont Montgomery Bowers, the former personal secretary to John D. Rockefeller.

The Frances R. Conole Archive of Recorded Sound was donated by a former member of the library staff, Philip Conole, who developed his collection to document the history of recorded performance, especially opera.

The University Archives include campus publications; records from administrative and academic offices; books written, edited or translated by faculty; and recordings or videos of campus events.

Most of the materials in Special Collections can be located in infoLINK, and finding aids for some of the archival collections are available on the Special Collections web page. For more information, see http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/special/index.html

Preservation

The Preservation Unit is located in Special Collections, but it repairs and maintains materials from all of the Libraries' collections.

Memberships and Affiliations

The Binghamton University Libraries maintain a variety of memberships that extend access to research materials and services.

Membership in the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) provides access to the Center's extensive collection that complements and supplements the collections of the major research libraries of North America. Materials owned by the Center are available by placing orders through Interlibrary Loan. For more information about CRL's collections, visit http://www.crl.edu/.

Membership in the Research Library Group (RLG) provides Binghamton University faculty on-site access to other RLG libraries upon presentation of your valid BU faculty ID. Exact privileges may vary from library to library. We recommend calling the destination library before you visit. For more information, visit http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=382.

Membership in OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) allows Binghamton University to include its library catalog records in WorldCat, the world's largest database of research material. WorldCat provides global access to our collections and provides the Binghamton University community with access to the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by over 57,000 OCLC member libraries worldwide in 112 countries and territories around the world. For more information see http://www.oclc.org/default.htm

Membership in the Inter-university Consortia for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides Binghamton faculty, staff, and students with access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction. ICPSR also offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use. See http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/index.html.

The Libraries participate in the SUNY Open Access Program. Upon presentation of a valid State University ID card from one's home campus, a reader is entitled to the same use of the collection, and the same services and facilities, as the library offers its own community, including borrowing privileges. See http://olis.sysadm.suny.edu/openaccess/over.htm for more information.

SUNYConnect is a joint initiative of the SUNY Office of Library & Information Services and the libraries of the 64 SUNY campuses to create a virtual library for the State University of New York. It is the largest public university library system. In addition to providing access to shared database resources, SUNYConnect offers a combined catalog (http://136.223.18.41:8080/F) for all SUNY libraries. SUNYConnect increases the purchasing power and influence of all SUNY libraries.

The Libraries support a variety of resource sharing agreements and consortia, including the New York State Higher Education Initiative (NYSHEI) http://www.nyshei.org/default.cfm, the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) http://www.cni.org/ and Portico http://www.portico.org/ . Consortial purchasing arrangements with other SUNY libraries, Nylink, Waldo, and NERL allow the Libraries to purchase resources at favorable rates. The Libraries are also are selective depositories for U.S. Federal and New York State government publications.

IX.B. Food, Drink and Noise Policy

The purpose of the food and drink policy is to aid in the preservation of library materials and electronic equipment and to ensure a comfortable environment for research and collaboration. For more information, please see http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/webdocs/fooddrink.html and http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/webdocs/noise.html.