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Naxos Music Library: in the library and on your phone

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When it comes to researching music, nothing beats listening to the real thing. Whether you’re looking for western classical music, jazz recordings, folk music, or ethnographic recordings, NYU Libraries has several streaming audio databases to help you find high-quality sound recordings from world-class performers, along with detailed liner notes that you might not find through services such as Youtube or Youku.

Naxos Music Library (with an emphasis on Western classical music and selections of world music and folk recordings) and Naxos Jazz Music Library are rich resources for sound recordings that you can stream directly from your computer.

Whether you are listening for research or for pleasure, Naxos has a wealth of recordings that you can browse by genre, performer, or keyword. You can also create playlists of albums you need to come back to.

On the go? Take Naxos with you with the Naxos or Naxos Jazz mobile apps, available through iTunes and Google Play

  1. Download the app from your respective store:
    1. Naxos Music Library (iTunes, Google Play)
    2. NML-Jazz (iTunes, Google Play)
  2. If you have a Student Playlist account, your email address and password will also act as your login credentials for the NML mobile apps.
  3. If you do not have a Student Playlist account, sign up here or ask a librarian for help
  4. Complete the registration process by clicking the activation link in your email.
  5. The email address and password you assign will act as your login credentials for the NML mobile apps.

Congratulations! You’re now ready to save personal playlists, and enjoy NML everywhere through the mobile apps. Your login is now functional. Log in to the NML app and enjoy!
Please note that under certain rare circumstances, it can take up to 15 minutes for your registration to be completed.

 

Take part in Library Student Survey 2018

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What does the Library mean to you? A place for you to study with friends? A book bank where you can find a kindred spirit? A battlefield in times of essay dues and project deadlines?

Your story matters to us! Tell us about your experience now to give us an opportunity to improve your experience.

Take part in Library Student Survey 2018

Win attractive prizes

If you have completed the Library Student Survey, we would like to offer a small gift – come to our Library front desk. You can also take part in a lucky draw to win attractive prizes below by submitting your email address at the end of the survey.

FIRST PRIZE, 1 winner: 20″ trolley luggage (Minecraft themed)

SECOND PRIZE, 3 winners: Bluetooth Speaker

THIRD PRIZE, 5 winners: Earbuds

 

Manhattan

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Drs Santtila and Weslake present this film to prompt discussion about assessing the value of a creation, specifically, how that assessment iregards the creator’s character.  If a creator’s poor ethical choices are revealed over time, how do those affect criticism of the creation?

Movies prompt conversation, whether disagreement, emotion, or endorsement.

The list of titles and links below are a gateway to read about ethics, art, and criticism.  Later links also explore Manhattan’s history, architecture, or urban design.  Listen to more music by the movie’s composer.  Ask at the library for travelogues, memoirs, or novels about different boroughs.

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Planned Downtime of Online Resources

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Most online library systems will be unavailable starting at 17 March (Saturday) 5 AM. This outage is due to University work on Bobst Library’s power supply.

Services affected include library catalog (BobCat), ejournals, ebooks and databases. Please plan your research accordingly. In the meantime, our library website will still be available.

We are expecting the above systems to be restored and available by 18 March (Sunday) 3 AM. The exact restoration time may vary depending on any technical issues that may arise.

For the most up-to-date information about the system status during the outage, visit our Libraries’ System Status Update Page.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Recommended Titles on Data Visualization

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  1. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward R. Tufte
  2. The Elements of Graphing Data, by William S. Cleveland
  3. The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication, by Alberto Cairo
  4. The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios, by Steve Wexler, Jeffrey Shaffer, and Andy Cotgreave

I have four books to recommend for data visualization that combine depth of statistical reasoning with aesthetically appealing images, good writing, and ample examples.

The first two – The Visual Display of Quantitative Information & The Elements of Graphing Data – are all time classics. They are books that laid the foundations for the practitioners of the field; early works that are never outdated, even in the digital era. Edward Tufte has other great books which we left out of this list.

The Truthful Art is a very nice introductory reading to the general audience. It provides in-depth analysis & examination of pieces of visualizations, and interesting things like the same data presented in many ways. – Yun Dai, Educational Technologist for Data Services Continue reading →

Try BobCat Beta now!

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We are happy to announce the beta release of the new BobCat interface.

Click on ‘Try BobCat Beta’ tab on NYU Shanghai Library website

BobCat is NYU’s branded name for our Library discovery platform!

The new BobCat Beta interface has a modern look and feel, and offers new features in addition to all the features of the current interface (BobCat Classic). Both Classic and Beta will run simultaneously through the entire spring semester.

Watch a 5-minute walkthrough of the features of BobCat Beta. Continue reading →

Noteworthy Business Titles

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  1. Redirect: changing the stories we live by, by Timothy D Wilson
  2. The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats Are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas, by Daniel W. Drezner
  3. Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley, by Emily Chang
  4. Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World, by Melissa A. Schilling
  5. Fifty Million Rising: The New Generation of Working Women Transforming the Muslim World by Saadia Zahidi

This month, we have titles for improving yourself, as well as understanding groups of people. Drezner’s book on the ideas industry is an interesting take on what drives a large part of business – the ideas industry. This book was a recommendation from a fellow colleague.

Another book published by our NYU family: Melissa Schiling is the Herzog Family Professor of Management, and Professor of Management & Organizations at NYU Stern School of Business. It was a pleasant surprise to learn the January’s 5 noteworthy business titles were appreciated. Share this with someone you’re thinking of! –– Edward Lim, Reference & Research Services Librarian for Business

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The Big Short

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This movie makes me think about so many topics all at once.  There are the obvious categories of finance, markets, and regulation.  Then there are the issues of privilege and access, both to information and to money.  Or questions of personality and communication: who is working hard, quietly or alone, to explore the facts while others are loudly selling catchy phrases in ignorance?

I hope you are inspired to follow one of these lines of inquiry by watching a video or reading a book below.  If another idea sparks your interest, the library can help you locate diverse opinions for supporting your exploration.

What does the Big Short make you think about?

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R Resources for Self-paced Learning

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In the following weeks, we will continue to release a series of posts to introduce resources on statistical computing, data visualization and to help you catch up with the ever-changing industry trends.

We therefore present to you the Data Resources Mini Series – Not Just Buzzwords.

(Source: https://xkcd.com/1838/)

# secret recipes of learning R before we start

# Always read the R official documents first.

# Stack Overflow and Google are your friends.

# Do a project. Choose a complex one.

# Be a teacher. Explain something to someone else.

# Learn something even harder than you actually need but in related areas. Then return to your problems.

Wait, did I say “come to the Library workshops” in the secret recipes? If you did not make to the R workshops, here are the workshop notes.

Alright. Let’s take a look at some tutorials and blogs for learning R with general purposes. We have something for everyone from absolute beginners to more experienced users.

Next time we will share books and blogs on data visualization. Stay tuned!

01

the starting point

An introduction to R, CRAN project
Everything you need to know to get you started.

 

02

knowing enough to get by

RStudio Cheat Sheets

Cheat Sheets of using R for various purposes from the Base R all the way to deep learning with R.

Quick-R
A quick access to R, especially if you are from Stata, SAS, SPSS etc. 

03

using R in projects

R for Data Science, Garrett Grolemund and Hadley Wickham  

Don’t miss the exercises.

Advanced R, Hadley Wickham 

R programming.

04

Coursera online classes

Data Science Specialization, John Hopkins University

R programming + data analysis + research workflow.

Statistics with R Specialization, Duke University

Some people find the JHU courses too R heavy. This specialization focuses on teaching statistics while people learn to use R through projects.

05

blogs

Rbloggers

R news and tutorials for numerous topics.

The R Graph Gallery

R graphs and codes by chart types. Previously had a focus on visualization with ggplot2 but not limited to that.

Previously…

Stata Resources for Self-paced Learning

 

*Source of cover image: https://smbc-comics.com/?id=2613

presented by Yun Dai

 (yun.dai@nyu.edu)

 

edited by Scotty Sun