In honor of Black History Month, the Research Center has featured several books and DVDs that deal with African American journalists, journalism and culture. Please consider stopping by and checking out one today. These materials are featured on our homepage via our goodreads page.
These featured books are located in our display cases and shelves around the library. Please ask for assistance, if you’d like to view one.
The Spring semester started today. Starting on February 1st, we will begin our extended hours again. We will be opened from 9 am-9 pm Monday-Thursday, 9 am – 5pm on Friday and Saturday. We’ll remain closed on Sunday. For other closing, please visit on our Hours and Schedule link on our About Us page.
Things got a little busy in preparation for the Spring 2010 semester, causing us to skip a few weekly twitter roundups. If you’ve been following on Twitter (@cunygsjresearch), these tweets will be a refresher, if not, here are the latest tweets from 1/11/2010-1/28/2010
Also, don’t forget to add our blog’s RSS feed to your readers to timely updates: http://blogs.journalism.cuny.edu/researchcenter/feed/
There’s a surprising amount of free resources out there for you to take advantage of. We’ll start to feature some of these resources here on the Research Center’s blog. We’ll start with the New York Public Library and New York State Library.
Starting with the New York Public Library (NYPL) you can find articles, facts, statistics, news, images, and more by accessing this link:
http://nypl.org/collections/articles-databases
All you need to access most of these databases is a NYPL library card, here’s the information on how to sign up for a library card:
http://nypl.org/help/library-card
In addition to NYPL, the New York State Library (NYSL) offers free resources; you will need a NYSL library card and NYS driver’s license to obtain most of these resources listed below:
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/gate/esubject.htm
Here’s the information on how to sign up for NYSL library card:
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/apply.htm
Additionally, check out our blog post on finding films, videos and DVDs at NYPL:
http://blogs.journalism.cuny.edu/researchcenter/2008/09/03/want-more-films-videos-and-dvds/
If you have any suggestions on free resources you’d like to see featured here, please let us know!
-research by Kate Zhao
Congratulations to Glenn Lewis and Consuella Askew here at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism for receiving an honorable mention for their work on The Encyclopedia of Journalism!
For more information, please check out this blog post: http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2010/01/17/2010dartmouth/
Also, come take a look at The Encyclopedia of Journalism in the Research Center’s Reference collection. An electronic version will also be available.
A delayed Happy New Year to all! The Research Center is open and ready to help with your research needs during January Academy. Please note, our hours are Monday-Friday, 9-5 pm, and we are closed on the weekends. We will resume extended weekend/weeknight hours on Feb 2nd, 2010.
We are still tweeting away at @cunygsjresearch, and here are the latest from 12/28/2009-1/8/2010:
The Research Center will be closed from December 24-27. We’ll be back on Monday, December 28. In the meantime, here are some tweets that go well with egg nog 
Here are the latest from December 8-December 23, 2009 from @cunygsjresearch:
Whether you are tweeting or not, we’ve been… here’s the roundup of the latest tweets from 11/30-12/4/2009 for your convenience:
And, as always, if you haven’t done so already, please follow us on Twitter: @cunygsjresearch
The Research Center will be closed over the Thanksgiving break from Thursday, November 26-Sunday, November 29, 2009. We will re-open on Monday, November 30, 2009, with our regular hours of 9 am to 9 pm.
Here are the latest research tweets to catch up with during the Thanksgiving break. 
These tweets were posted during 11/16-11/25/2009:
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Yesterday, Google announced that they would enable people to “find and read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts using Google Scholar.” By clicking on the radio button “Legal opinions and journals” in Google Scholar, you can search by case or topic.
For more information, check out the Official Google Blog: http://bit.ly/4sPiA0
Here’s the latest from the Research Center’s twitter feed for your convenience. The following tweets are from 11/9/2009-11/13/2009:
And if you aren’t following us, please do: @cunygsjresearch.