Advice

We have e-book on e-reserve of our Newman Library. However, we don’t have all the books which are on shelf on e-reserve. We always see students are waiting in front of the reference desk for borrowing books. There is only one quantity of one kind of book on shelf; students need to wait two hours for borrowing the returned book. If our library can scan all books on e-reserve, books will be more accessible to students.

Currently, students and professors are using Baruchmail which is Hotmail. I recommend using Gmail which has larger storage than Hotmail. The speed of search is also faster. We can tag emails with Gmail, but not with Hotmail. I can set Gmail in iPhone and iPod touch directly; and I need to enter the website and log in for Hotmail. I can also use Gmail account to make phone calls which is free to U.S. and Canada.  

The follwing two suggestions are for better utilizing the existing new media in Baruch.Our Baruch students should take at least one course about using database. Our Baruch database has very comprehensive accesses to different websites, such as ABI/INFORMS Global, JSTOR, American Accounting Association, Business Source Complete, CIAO, Credo Reference, and etc.  Those websites provide business, scientific, international policy, news and all other scholar or non-scholar information to students. Most of those databases are not free if we access them off campus. Therefore, it is better for students to learn how to use those databases . It makes us to utilize the exsting new media better.

We have standing computers on almost every floor of the Vertical Campus, and some are outside of Library cafeteria. There are no many people using them. People rather go to the third floor of library or computer labs for using computers which takes longer time to wait, and need to go further. The big difference between the standing computers and others is their keyboards. The keyboard is hard for typing, sometimes they stuck. It is also hard to use the ball mouse; the direction of the arrow is hard to control. It is easy to click wrong link with the ball mouse. The keyboards make the standing computers useless.  If I am hired by Baruch, I would like to change the keyboards to regular ones; I think the use of standing computers will be more effectively and efficiently. Even though keyboard is not new media, but it helps us to access new media better.