Francis U. and Mary F. Ritz Library

Updated Computer Titles Available Now

noreply@blogger.com (Tina Kiernan) — Thu, 12 May 2016 15:08:00 +0000

Want to develop your own program code? Interested in computer software design? The Ritz Library has some new titles on software development:

Objective-C Programming: the Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 2nd ed. by Hillegass & Ward
Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript by Robin Nixon
Java: the Complete Reference, 9th ed. by Herbert Schlidt
JavaScript: the Definitive Guide, 6th ed. by David Flanagan
iOS Programming: Fundamentals with Swift by Matt Neuburg
Python Crash Course: a Hands-On, Project-based Introduction to Programming by Eric Matthes
Ruby on Rails: Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails, 3rd ed. by Michael Hartl

Stop by this summer and check them out!

Silent Study Space at the Ritz!

noreply@blogger.com (Tina Kiernan) — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 13:39:00 +0000

Hopefully by now students have discovered the room dedicated to silent study at the Ritz Library. Located on the second floor, south side of the library, there is a beautifully glassed in area dedicated to silence. So if you are looking for a place of total peace and quiet, check out our Silent Study area in the library!

If you're in need of a laptop, there are a couple of Chrome books available too!

Nursing info is just an app away!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 18:46:00 +0000

OvidToday is a simple to use app that allows you to retrieve articles from major nursing journals like AJN and Nursing on your iPad. Using the app you can browse through over 40 publications covering all major nursing specialties. Features include the ability to:

Access 6 months-worth of rolling content
Search by journal name or browse an A-Z title list
Select favorite journals to follow
Browse specialty categories and table of contents
Read the PDF of any article at home or at school
Add articles to a personal reading list for later use, even offline

This app is only available for the iPad and requires iOS 6.1 or later. Initial setup must be done while you are on the DCC WiFi network. OvidToday will prompt you to create a username and provide easy-to-follow steps on how to configure the app.

Ready to try it? Click here to download!

And if you need help send email or call 845.431.8634.

Spring Sports!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Tina Kiernan) — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 14:51:00 +0000

Spring has sprung! After a long, arduous winter, crocuses are in bloom and people are out an about, shaking off the lethargy of the winter. What better way to do so than by getting involved in one of your favorite sports? Baseball, basketball, golf, tennis, soccer, lacrosse - whatever it might be, now is a great time to get involved!

Need information about one of these sports or the many other sports available to play? Enjoy reading about them? Check out our book display next to the Reference Desk in the Ritz Library and help yourself to a title or two!

Mystery March Madness Display

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 19:47:00 +0000

Are you bored of reading the same genre books? Are you unsure on what book(s) to read next? Come check out our new book display for Mystery March Madness. They are located on the right-hand side of the reference desk (when facing the desk). Remember that all the books on the display along with others are available for check out.

FREE health info from the National Library of Medicine? YES PLEASE!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Tom) — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 19:35:00 +0000

A wealth of free information on health and health-related subjects has been made available from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NLM has created a series of mobile apps and websites for public use and the information provided in them is trusted and has been vetted by experts in the fields of health sciences.

Information that users will have access to includes details about identifying and effects of prescription drugs (Pillbox), information about the hazards of household products (Household Products Database) and access to MedlinePlus, a large database of articles, informational pamphlets and much more on health, wellness, diseases, conditions and other health-related topics.

To access the mobile site and apps, go to NLM's Gallery of Mobile Apps and Sites webpage.

The nooks are in

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:32:00 +0000

Oteni Dema
Our first Nook borrower

Ever used an eReader for school work before?

Well, here's your chance, The Ritz library has picked up ten Barnes & Noble Nooks, loaded them with commonly assigned works of literature and is now loaning them out to students.

These are the latest GlowLight models, ultra light in size and with the highest text resolution of any eReader out there.

Each Glowlight comes with a selection of classic plays, short stories, poetry, primary sources and novels, many of which are required reading assignments for English, History & Speech courses.

We are adding new books to the Nooks all the time, if you have a suggestion, see us at the Reference Desk, call 431-8634, or send email.

A GlowLight can be taken out for two weeks at a time. Sorry! No renewals.

Puttin' on the Ritz: Science Fiction Classics

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:42:00 +0000

The library has just updated its book collection to add some of most famous science fiction novels out there. Here's the list of books with links to our catalog so you can find out if a book is in or not.

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Foundation by Issac Asimov
A Canticle for Leibowitz by William Miller
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin
Neuromancer by William Gibson
The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Sirens of Titian by Kurt Vonegut
Four Novels of the 1960's (Man in the High Castle, Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ubik) by Phillip K. Dick
The Phillip K Dick Reader
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
I am Legend by Richard Matheson

Global Issues in Context

noreply@blogger.com (Tina Kiernan) — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:19:00 +0000

Interested in world issues and events? Need to write a paper that has a global focus? Just want to know what's going on in other countries? If so, then check out our new trial database, Global Issues in Context provided by Gale / Cengage Learning. Similar in concept to Opposing Viewpoints, Global Issues is designed to cover a broad range of social issues in detail and provide students and academics with accessible multimedia research resoures - video, audio and print. This pdf gives further information on the database.

For access to the database itself, click below the image.

Click here to access

For a video tour of Global Issues in Context, http://www.gale.cengage.com/media/training/GlobalIssues/HomeScreen/GlobalIssues_HomeScreen.htm

Feel free to send feedback to Tina Kiernan.

New Playaways Hit the Ritz!

noreply@blogger.com (Tina Kiernan) — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 19:10:00 +0000

Everybody's favorite audio players are back at the Ritz. With over 50 new titles, Playaways are a big hit. Portable and easy to use, these pocket size devices make listening fun! From history to comedy, there's something for everyone. If you've been thinking about learning a language, here's your chance to listen with Berlitz language programs.

Here are the latest titles purchased:

1775

1984

101 Secrets of Highly Effective Speakers

77 Love Sonnets

A Hustler's Wife

Adventures of Sam Spade Detective, The - Volume One

Affirmations for Change, Confidence and Success

Ah-Choo!

All Joy and No Fun

Art Forger

Astoria

Bark

Berlitz French Guaranteed

Berlitz German Guaranteed

Berlitz Italian Guaranteed

Berlitz Spanish Guaranteed

Black Lotus

Blogging for Business

Brilliant Blunders

Cancer Is Not a Disease

Celtic Poets

Change Your Words, Change Your Life

Chilling Ghost Stories

Crucial Conversations

Dave Barry's Money Secrets

Destroyer Angel

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

From Missouri

Grain Brain

Great Poets, The - William Wordsworth

Guided Mindfulness Meditation

How to Become a Rainmaker

Keep Quiet

Louis L'Amour's Desert Tales

New Yorkers: Short Stories

Seven Classic Plays, Vol. 1

Short Stories Volume I

The 10 Commandments of Money

The 250 Job Interview Questions You'll Most Likely Be Asked

The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown

The Astronaut Wives Club

The Collector

The Complete Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

The Funny Thing Is...

The Man Who Would be King & Other Stories

The Neil Simon Collection

The Power of Now

The Target

Tips For The Savvy Traveler

Twelve Angry Men

Voices of Poetry - Volume 1

Yoga Stretch for Fitness

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Stop in the Ritz Library today and pick up a title to listen to on your ride home!

BoardVitals: the NCLEX Prep Exam

noreply@blogger.com (Tina Kiernan) — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 19:23:00 +0000

In short, BoardVitals is a one-stop shopping place for NCLEX prep questions. Thousands of questions comprise a question bank accessible to DCC students. In order to access these questions, click on the link http://marketing.statref.com/lp/suny_nursing.html and create an account by hitting the Register button. To register, enter your name and email address. The email address you use MUST be a sunydutchess one. For instance, your.name@email.sunydutchess.edu. Once you register, you will get a verification email that you must respond to. Once this occurs, you're in.

Our purchased subscriptions allow you to access either the NCLEX-RN or the NCLEX-PN question bank. There are also a myriad of sample questions from other banks that can be played with. The beauty of BoardVitals is that you create your own review test by selecting how many questions and the topics you'd like to be quizzed on at any given moment. There are no restrictions on how long / short a quiz can be.

Log onto BoardVitals today and start making use of this test-prep resource!

New mobile app for ebrary

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:35:00 +0000

The Ritz's largest electronic book collection, ebrary, is in the process of enhancing mobile access to their over 100,000 titles. Part of that enhancement is the retirement of the current ebrary app, which is scheduled to occur of August 4.

If you have that app, or just want to access ebrary from your mobile device, it's time to change over to BlueFire app, the ebook reader that ebrary will be using from now on. As with the ebrary app, BlueFire allows you to download an entire book to read when Internet access is unavailable. Instructions on the entire process of using mobile devices and ebrary is here

More information on accessing the Ritz's resources from mobile devices is posted on the Mobile Access Ritz Research Guide.

ScienceDirect enhances mobile access

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:28:00 +0000

ScienceDirect, a collection of over 2,000 peer reviewed journals covering all aspects of the sciences, recently released a mobile version of its Web site that offers streamlined page layouts which significantly improves the readability of articles. And given the in-depth nature of the 11 million documents in ScienceDirect, this enhancement will make the database much more usable for those using mobile technology.

In conjunction with the roll-out of the enhanced Web site, ScienceDirect is retiring the mobile app that previously acted a a gateway to the database. To see the new Science Direct mobile site, take a look at this demo.

More information on accessing ScienceDirect from your tablet or smartphone is at the Ritz Mobile Guide.

Lookiing for videos on business or economics topics? Try this!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 13:03:00 +0000

For the next month, the Ritz has a trial to Global Business & Economics in Video a streaming service that uses videos to illustrate practical, real-life applications of business topics and skills. This service covers the following areas:

Corporate training
Case studies
Executive interviews
Expert lectures
Instructional films
Documentaries

Emphasizing video as a tool to support classroom presentations, as well as students' research needs, Global Business includes segment clips, many of which range from 2 to 10 minutes, as well as longer programs.

Try the service by clicking on the title link above. If prompted for a login, use your MyDCC username and password. The trial will end on May 25, and please send us your Feedback

GPO - US Government Printing Office : Keeping America Informed

noreply@blogger.com (Tina Kiernan) — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 17:47:00 +0000

As defined on their website, "The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is the Federal Government’s official, digital, secure resource for producing, procuring, cataloging, indexing, authenticating, disseminating, and preserving the official information products of the U.S. Government." As part of this initiative, there are a number of e-book titles that are available for download in 3 different formats: pdf, epub and mobi. To access the current electronic books supplied by the GPO, click here. To actually read the book, click on the URL on the right hand side and select the format that you want to access.

Streaming video trials from the Ritz

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:39:00 +0000

The DCC Library is trying out a couple of video streaming services put out by Alexander Street Press, a major academic multimedia producer. The trial products are:

American History in Video Containing more than 2,000 hours of streaming video, this service offers footage from as far back as the 1890's. It contains newsreels, documentaries & dramatic recreations that cover all aspects of the American experience. Producers of programs include PBS, the History Channel & CBS.
Filmmakers Online Contains more than 1,000 documentaries that present points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions worldwide.Among the topics covered are race and gender studies, human rights, globalization, the environment, and the arts

Take a look at these service by clicking on the links above. If prompted for a login, use your MyDCC username and password. The trial will end on February 21, so be sure to try them soon. Send your feedback to Reference

Hunting for literary criticism? Let Artemis be your guide!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 20:37:00 +0000

When researching literature the Gale family of databases is probably the best place to start, since Gale has the largest and most comprehensive collection of literary criticism out there. And now you can search all of the Gale databases the Ritz has using a single interface: Artemis Literary Sources.

Artemis allows you to search across many of Gale's secondary literature sources, including Short Story Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism & Scribner's Writers Online. The system's subject searching allows you to identify and search on such concepts as setting, characters & symbolism. As with all the library's databases, full citations for all documents are aavailable in PAP & MLA format. Questions? Contact the Refdesk!

Graphic Novels fan?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 15:38:00 +0000

Then you'll want to take a look at the Ritz' new online resource,Critical Survey of Graphic Novels. An ebook version of one of our reference encyclopedias, the Critical Survey consists of two parts:

Independents & Underground Classics
History, Theme, and Technique

The Survey covers over 200 classic graphic novels, including oftem studied titles like Maus, Love and Rockets, & Watchman. There's an in-depth essay on each comic's plot, themes, characters & volumes. Sixty additional essays contain both historical and social overviews of graphic novels from the medium's beginnings in ancient times to the latest works. These essays discuss Japanese manga and African graphic novels as well as traditional genres, such as Westerns, science fiction, and superheros.

Access to this title is available on and off campus from the Library's "Alphabetical List of databases" page. or directly through this link.

Big Read 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Tina Kiernan) — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:38:00 +0000

Poughkeepsie's Big Read for 2013 features Cynthia Oznick's novella, The Shawl. Comprised of two short stories, "The Shawl" and "Rosa", the novella captures the pain and devastation wracked on Rosa and her family from Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, commonly considered the beginning of the Holocaust. "The Shawl" is set in 1938 and "Rosa" is set 39 years later in Miami, FL.

Additional information, including links to events relating to the Big Read may be found by clicking here.

Enjoy a New Playaway Audiobook!

noreply@blogger.com (Tina Kiernan) — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 19:25:00 +0000

New at the library are 22 Playaway titles, including all three titles of The Hunger Games Trilogy: The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay. Playaways are portable audio books, smaller than most iPods. They also plug into most car dashboards that have an audio jack. You can check out a wire from the Ritz Library if you would like to listen to one in your car.

If you need a good laugh, why not pick up Seriously... I'm Kidding by Ellen Degeneres or The Onion Book of Known Knowledge? Enjoy classical works? There's Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham. Working on a homework assignment? Perhaps, The Greatest Speeches of All Time or The Great Poets: Emily Dickinson would be useful. Some business titles that may be edifying are:
Primal Leadership by Goleman, Boyatzis & McKee and The 80/20 Principle by Richard Knoch.

Other titles that have just come in are:

Why Men Fake It by Abraham Morgentaler, M.D.
Zombiestan by Mainak Dhar
Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Self-Hypnosis by Edgar Cayce
Love the Work, Hate the Job: Why America's Best Workers are More Unhappy than Ever by David Kusnet
Sex Changes by Christine Benvenuto
The Art of Procrastination by John Perry
Trap of Gold and the Trail to Pie Town by Louis L'Amour
The Watch that Ends the Night by Allan Wolf
NPR Driveway Moments : Dog Tales

The Playaway collection has grown so much that it's now been relocated. It is now located in the stacks directly behind the Reference Desk, 3 stacks back, next to the Graphic Novel collection. If you have trouble finding them, please ask a librarian for assistance!

Digital Scholars Essay Contest

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 16:51:00 +0000

Cengage Learning, a major education publisher, is sponsoring an essay writing contest for anyone enrolled in a SUNY school during the Fall 2013 semester. Two $250 prizes will be handed out in the undergraduate category and submissions must be submitted electronically by December 15th.

The contest's purpose is to encourage students to use advanced databases like Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO), so Cengage is providing free access to those resources, as well as other digital collections of primary sources through its new search platform for the humanities, Artemis.

More information on the contest is at 2013 SUNY-wide 18th and 19th century digital scholars essay contest. Links to the databases are on that page.

Need clinical health info fast? Try STAT!Ref

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:58:00 +0000

Getting up to date and accurate clinical information is probably the most important part of doing research for nursing and allied health classes. To make that job easier, the Ritz now has STAT!Ref, a healthcare reference service which integrates core titles with evidence-based resources and innovative tools on one site.

Containing 27 ebooks covering nursing care plans, laboratory testing, nursing diagnosis and other medical topics, STATRef! contains links to nursing podcasts and medical news sources. Try it out here.

Apps to search STATRef! through tablets, smartphones & other handheld devices are available for Android, Apple & Blackberry products. Access is through username/ password combo. Initial authentication must be on campus. More info, including links to apps, is at STATRef! Mobile Access.

New databases at the Ritz

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:32:00 +0000

The library has gotten two new databases for you to try this summer. The first is Gannett Newsstand. It contains the full text of 85 newspapers from around the country. Many of the papers are from medium sized cities and they provide a good perspective on both local issues and how national and international events are reported locally. This databases contains a number of New York State newspapers, among them:

Poughkeepsie Journal,
Journal News (White Plains, N.Y.),
Ithaca Times
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Press & Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, N.Y.)

Coverage for most of these titles begins in 2001.

The second database is designed specifically for elementary school students. ebrary Elementary contains almost 400 magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts. The system also contains thousands of maps, images, educator-approved websites from Homework Central®, and audio/video titles, all selected as appropriate for elementary school studies.

Both of these databases are being supplied by NOVEL, a service of the New yor State Library.

Phoning in PDFs

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:40:00 +0000

Not that long ago scanners were big and bulky and required special software to tell text from photos. Now you can use your phone or tablet to scan items directly to PDF using a new app called Cam Scanner.

Available for both Android and IOS mobile devices, it features batch scanning, editing of images and easy uploading to DropBox or Facebook. Besides creating PDFs from scans , you can also save a scan as an image in jpg format.

Best of all, the producers of Cam Scanner will upgrade the free version of Cam Scanner to a full version of the app if you register with an .edu address.

For more info on this product, and to download the app, start at Cam Scanner

Watch 2013 graduation events live

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:39:00 +0000

Can't make it to graduation? Both the college's 2013 convocation & commencement are on the web this year this year. at 2013 DCC Graduation Live Streaming