scholarly journals Sustainability in the first-year experience: Taking library orientation online

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (6) ◽  
pp. 350
Author(s):  
Gina Levitan ◽  
Jennifer Rosenstein
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
York City ◽  
Data Entry ◽  
First Year Experience ◽  
First Year ◽  
Student Enrollment ◽  
Undergraduate Enrollment ◽  
Library Resources

Since 2012, Pace University in New York City has used a library scavenger hunt for the required library orientation for first-year undergraduates. As detailed in a 2013 article in C&RL News, the scavenger hunt replaced library tours and classroom sessions as undergraduate enrollment grew and individual class visits were no longer feasible. As student enrollment continued to increase each year, it became less manageable and more wasteful to conduct a paper scavenger hunt. Each fall, more than 1,000 students collected five separate sheets of paper in order to complete the activity. Not only was this a waste of library resources and an unacceptable environmental impact, it also required a great deal of Jennifer Rosenstein’s time to print the volume of clues and complete the data entry for the surveys. For fall 2016, she was determined to make the scavenger hunt as close to paperless as possible.

The Information Needs of Homeless Library Patrons in New York City

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gali Yemini–Halevi
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Field Study ◽  
York City ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
Reference Areas

Field study discovered some information needs of homeless people visiting public libraries in New York. During summer 2006, reference areas of New York public libraries were observed unobtrusively to track homeless patrons’ use of library resources and services. Findings include the use of resources and services by homeless patrons groups.Une étude de terrain révèle certains besoins informationnels des itinérants visitant les bibliothèques publiques de New York. Pendant l’été 2006, les services de références des bibliothèques publiques de New York ont été observés de manière non obstructive afin de connaître les ressources et les services des bibliothèques utilisés par les itinérants. Les résultats incluent l’utilisation des ressources et des services par les groupes d’usagers itinérants. 

“It Did Not Sound Like a Professor's Speech”: George Pierce Baker and the Market for Academic Rhetoric

2005 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-246
Author(s):  
Mark Hodin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
York City ◽  
First Year ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Artistic Director

In November 1910, New Theatre artistic director Winthrop Ames asked his former teacher, Harvard English professor George Pierce Baker, to speak at a reception honoring the theatre's financial backers. The occasion was the start of the New Theatre's second season, and Ames was hoping to raise morale after a disappointing first year. Endowed primarily by millionaires in New York City, the New Theatre was supposed to offer a venue for staging plays free of the usual commercial pressures of Broadway productions. The contradiction at the heart of such an enterprise was manifest, particularly in the New Theatre's architecture and opulent interior design, which continually marked the “noncommercial” house as a monument to the economic power of those wealthy enough to provide for its massive and gaudy construction. Audiences complained that the two-thousand-seat auditorium had lousy acoustics; critics deemed the productions undistinguished and condemned the twenty-three Founders Boxes that ringed the orchestra as vulgar and ostentatious. Maybe an English professor, Ames thought, would have something helpful to say on the matter.

A Survey of Latent Tuberculosis Infection Among Laboratory Healthcare Workers in New York City

2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (11) ◽  
pp. 801-806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Garber ◽  
Pablo San Gabriel ◽  
Lauren Lambert ◽  
Lisa Saiman
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Latent Tuberculosis ◽  
Skin Tests ◽  
First Year ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
History Of ◽  
Latent Tb Infection

AbstractObjective:To determine the prevalence of positive tuberculin skin tests (TSTs), incidence of TST conversion, risk factors for positive TSTs, and history of active TB among HCWs in microbiology laboratories in New York City.Design:Two-year survey from May 1999 to June 2001.Setting:Nineteen microbiology laboratories.Results:During the first year, interviews were conducted with 345 laboratory HCWs (mean, 18 HCWs per site; range, 2 to 51) to assess the prevalence of positive TSTs, but 3 (1%) could not recall their result and were excluded from further analyses. The mean age of the remaining 342 HCWs was 48 years; 68% (n = 233) were female, 54% (n = 183) received bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination, and 71% (n = 244) were foreign born. The prevalence of a positive TST was 57% (n = 196), but only 20% (n = 39) of the HCWs received isoniazid. The incidence of TST conversion in the second year of the study was 1% (1 of 108). Multivariate analysis identified age (odds ratio [OR] per year, 1.05; 95% confidence interval [CI95], 1.02–1.08), foreign birth (OR, 3.80; CI95, 1.98–7.28), BCG immunization (OR, 4.89; CI95, 2.72–8.80), and employment in a mycobacteriology laboratory (OR, 2.14; CI95, 1.25–3.68) as risk factors for a positive TST. Only one HCW had been treated for active TB.Conclusions:The prevalence of positive TSTs was high among laboratory HCWs, but the TST conversion rate was low. Higher rates of treatment for latent TB infection are desirable.

scholarly journals First 12 Months of Life for Infants in New York City, New York, With Possible Congenital Zika Virus Exposure

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen H Lee ◽  
Hannah Cooper ◽  
Martha Iwamoto ◽  
Maura Lash ◽  
Erin E Conners ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Zika Virus ◽  
Birth Defect ◽  
First Year ◽  
Public Health Departments ◽  
Laboratory Evidence ◽  
Patient Interviews ◽  
First Year Of Life

Abstract Background Our goal was to characterize the epidemiology and clinical significance of congenital Zika virus (ZIKV) exposure by prospectively following a cohort of infants with possible congenital exposure through their first year of life. Methods We included infants born in New York City between 2016 and 2017 who had or were born to a woman who had laboratory evidence of ZIKV infection during pregnancy. We conducted provider/patient interviews and reviewed medical records to collect information about the pregnant women and, for infants, clinical and neurodevelopmental status at birth and 2, 6, and 12 months of age. Results Of the 404 infants who met inclusion criteria, most (385 [95.3%]) appeared well, whereas 19 (4.7%) had a possible ZIKV-associated birth defect. Seven had congenital ZIKV syndrome, and 12 were microcephalic without other abnormalities. Although infants with congenital ZIKV syndrome manifested clinical and neurodevelopmental sequelae during their first year of life, all 12 infants with isolated microcephaly were normocephalic and appeared well by 2 months of age. Laboratory evidence of ZIKV was detected for 22 of the infants, including 7 (31.8%) with a birth defect. Among 148 infants without a birth defect and negative/no laboratory results on ZIKV testing, and for whom information was available at 1 year, 4 presented with a developmental delay. Conclusions Among infants with possible congenital ZIKV exposure, a small proportion had possible ZIKV-associated findings at birth or at follow-up, or laboratory evidence of ZIKV. Identifying and monitoring infants with possible ZIKV exposure requires extensive efforts by providers and public health departments. Longitudinal studies using standardized clinical and developmental assessments are needed for infants after possible congenital ZIKV exposure.

PEDIATRICS IN THE PAST

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-145
Author(s):  
Alfred J. Vignec
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The United States ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
First Year ◽  
The North ◽  
A Site ◽  
Modern Building

The New York Foundling Hospital, now located in a new, modern building (Fig. 1) has been in continuous operation for over 90 years. The New York Foundling Asylum, as it was originally known, opened its doors on October 11, 1869; it was the first institution in the United States devoted exclusively to the care of abandoned, neglected or dependent infants, regardless of race or creed. It preceded, by only 2 years, Chicago's Foundling Home, which was organized in 1871 by Dr. George Elias Shipman, a well-known New York physician who had migrated to Chicago. The New York Foundling Asylum was founded by the Roman Catholic Order of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul; it had, as its primary objective, the reduction of the appalling rate of infanticide in New York City, most of these deaths being attributable to exposure. In the first year of operation, 61% of the infants admitted were in extremis. While it may be an exaggeration to say that the streets of New York were covered with dead and dying infants, it certainly would not be an exaggeration to say that it was commonplace. Indeed as late as 1892, according to Thomas Knox, 200 foundlings and 100 dead infants were found in New York City streets. The first residence of the New York Foundling Asylum was a modest, 4-story brownstone building at 17 East 12th Street (Fig. 2). This building was situated on the north side of the street between Fifth Avenue and University Place—a site now occupied by the Aristocrat Garage. The adjoining building, No. 15, partially visible in the photograph, is still standing and in use.

Alpheus Henry Snow (1859-1920)

1920 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Brown Scott
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
International Law ◽  
York City ◽  
First Year ◽  
American Society

In the death of Mr. Alpheus Henry Snow in New York City on August 19, 1920, the American Society of International Law has lost a friend of long standing and a valuable co-worker. Mr. Snow had been a member of the Society since the first year of its organization in 1906.

scholarly journals Amplify Your Impact: An Interview with Mark Aaron Polger, Editor of Marketing Libraries Journal

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 251
Author(s):  
Nicole Eva ◽  
Erin Shea
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
User Experience ◽  
York City ◽  
Planning Committee ◽  
First Year ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
User Experience Design ◽  
Library Marketing

Mark Aaron Polger is the First Year Outreach Librarian at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York (CUNY), where his responsibilities include promoting library services and resources as well as providing instruction to first year students. Polger is also an Information Literacy Instructor at ASA College. His research interests include library marketing, outreach, and user experience design. He is active in LLAMA as the chair of the PR XChange Committee as well as the co-chair of the Annual PR XChange Awards Competition. Regionally, he is an active executive board member of ACRL/NY (Association of College and Research Libraries, Greater Metropolitan New York Area), where he serves on the planning committee of the annual symposium and co-chairs the User Experience Discussion Group. Locally, he co-chairs meetings in New York City for ACRL National’s Library Marketing and Outreach Interest Group. He is also a member of the planning committee of the annual Library Marketing and Communications Conference (LMCC). He is co-chair of the LACUNY (Library Association of the CUNY) Library Marketing and Outreach Roundtable Discussion Group.Currently, Polger is the founder and editor-in-chief of the new open-access, peer-reviewed Marketing Libraries Journal, which was launched in fall 2017.Originally from Montreal, Canada, Polger holds a BA in Sociology from Concordia University (1999), an MLIS from the University of Western Ontario (2000), an MA in Sociology from University of Waterloo (2004), and a BEd in Adult Education from Brock University (2009). He is currently a third-year PhD student in the Curriculum, Instruction, and the Science of Learning Program at SUNY University at Buffalo. He moved to New York City in 2008.The first issue of Marketing Libraries Journal was published in fall 2017. We wanted to ask Mark about his inspiration to create this new publication.—Editors

An Important Armenian MS. with Greek Miniatures

1942 ◽  
Vol 74 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 155-162
Author(s):  
H. Kurdian
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Christian Iconography

In 1941 while in New York City I was fortunate enough to purchase an Armenian MS. which I believe will be of interest to students of Eastern Christian iconography.

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