Library

Library (1L)

Chief Librarian, Associate Professor Wilma L. Jones

The Library is the focal point of the South Academic Quadrangle. The building, with its distinctive rotunda, is the home of five central services: a study center for the campus community, a broad collection of books and journals in the liberal arts and sciences, computer facilities and online services and databases that serve as points-of-access to informational resources beyond the walls of the Library, an instructional facility for the teaching of information retrieval and information literacy; and media distribution services in support of instruction.

Seventy-five computer workstations for student use are available throughout the building. The general reference area is located on the first floor, as is the faculty Center for Excellence in Learning Technology. The second floor leads to the elegant archives facility, the distance-learning center, the microform area, the Library instruction facility, the group study rooms, the Document Center, and the Media Services unit. The circulating book collection and the print journal holdings are housed on the third floor.

Hours of Service:

Hours of service during summer session, intersession, and holidays are posted at the Library entrance and on the Library homepage, www.library.csi.cuny.edu.

Borrowing Privileges: Students and faculty from CSI and other CUNY colleges must present current ID cards in order to borrow books. Students and faculty may obtain ID cards from the College Office of Public Safety. Overdue books, lost books, or unpaid fines may result in the suspension of borrowing privileges.

The Collection: The holdings include 229,000 bound volumes of books, 96 online databases (of which more than 30 are full text), 900 current print journal subscriptions, 800 titles in microform, 3,000 videos and films, and over 4,000 sound recordings.

The Online Catalog: The CSI Library is a member of the CUNY-wide integrated library system. Access to CUNY+, the online union catalog portion of the system, is available throughout the campus as well as from offsite.

Reference librarians provide service at the General Reference Desk on the first floor at all times when the Library is open. The Library instruction service includes orientation tours, open workshops, presentations to classes by reference specialists in connection with specific course assignments, and the compilation of bibliographic aids.