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Borrowed item is due? Renew online!

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Some of you asked if the library loans are due to return. While we warmly welcome you to visit the new library, there is also a choice to renew your items.

If you currently have a semester-long loan book(s), follow these steps to renew. It takes less than 2 minutes:

  1. Login to your Library Account.
  2. Click “Renew” before the due date.
  3. After you renew the new book(s), the new due date will be 05/19/2023.

Visit our New Website!

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Along with moving to the new campus, our Library designed a new website for you.

What’s new?

  • A New Layout

The new website will help you to navigate our resources and services more easily. With its clear, simple layout, you will be able to quickly get the information needed.

  • Mostly used functions first

“Bookmark These Resources” list a few most popular links for your study and research.

How to get around the new space?

The new campus is much bigger than the Academic Building and I understand how easy it is to get lost in it. So, we prepared a new Floor Map to help you navigate the new library. It can be found in “Room & Space” under “About” on the top banner.

Is the library open today?

Or will the library open next Saturday?

We updated Open Hours to make it accurate every day. Go to the left side, stroll down, and find “Today’s Hours.”

Click “See More Hours” for a future schedule.

Look for course materials?

Click Course Reserves – Login – to see the course you select and its required materials.

Question about a source in your paper?

Another change is the popular service Chat with us. Now it is a floating button on your right side. Click it to pop up a chat window.

Ask questions to a librarian (not a robot, a real librarian.)

A shortcut to Brightspace

And don’t miss our upcoming events and workshops!

If you have any feedback about the site’s content, navigation and layout, please send it to shanghai.circulation@nyu.edu

Bloomberg and Wind Access Availability during Big Move

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Dear all,

Bloomberg and Wind physical access will be unavailable after 10:30 PM, Dec 21, 2022. Wind virtual access will be unavailable after 6 PM, Dec 23, 2022.

If you plan to use the financial terminals during campus moving, including Bloomberg (physical) and Wind (physical and virtual), please reserve the time slot and download data beforehand.

If you have any questions, please email us at shanghai.librarian@nyu.edu.

Best,
NYUSH Library

Library Course Reserves (ARes) Maintenance

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Dear all,

Due to system maintenance, the course reserves system will be unavailable starting at 9:00 PM (CST) on November 22nd.

We expect ARes will be down until approximately 12:00 AM (CST) on November 23rd. We apologize for any inconvenience. For questions and assistance, please email shanghai.reserves@nyu.edu.

Best,
NYU Shanghai Library

New Look for Library Account!

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We just launched a brand new interface of “My Library Account”. It will help you to browse your loans and requests more easily.

  • Or log in and access My Library Account via library catalog (BobCat)

  • New landing page:

Key functions:

1. Loans 

View current and historical loans, and renew eligible items. 

2. Requests

View and cancel current holds placed on locally available items. 

You may also see hold requests on interlibrary loan (ILL) items that have already been received and are being processed for delivery. Please visit your My Requests page to see additional options, including managing scan requests and pending ILL requests. 

3. Fines and Fees

You may check your library fines and fees, and complete the payment by following the instructions.

Important Notice on Ending Bloomberg Virtual Access

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According to Bloomberg’s global policy for all academic and corporate clients, Bloomberg terminal will no longer be accessible remotely after June 30th, 2022. When remote access ends, all NYU Shanghai students, faculty and staff will need to use Bloomberg at the physical terminal. It is located on the 4th floor of our academic building.

Important Notice

  • If you are in Shanghai

NYU Shanghai Library will not accept new applications for remote access after 5 pm on June 23rd, 2022.

  • If you are in NYC

For any of you currently in NYC, you can also use the physical terminals at Bobst Library:

  • 3 terminals situated in the south wing of the 5th floor;
  • 1 terminal located on Lower Level 1 (24/7 access);
  • Additional terminals will be placed at NYU Libraries in Midtown (Brause) and Brooklyn (Dibner) over summer ’22;
  • Information for School Owned Bloomberg Terminals can be found here, including Stern, FRE, Courant, and BRE.
  • If you are in Abu Dhabi

For any of you currently in Abu Dhabi, you can Contact the Abu Dhabi Library for more information about physical access:

  • 15 terminals available in the Digital Studio lab; 
  • 5 additional terminals for faculty-only.

Alternative Choice

We recommend Refinitiv Workspace (requires account creation) as the best “access from anywhere” alternative to Bloomberg. 

  • You don’t need to make a booking to use the terminal after your individual account has been approved. 
  • You can log in via the web platform, or optionally via Refinitiv’s Mac and PC software.
  • Refinitiv Workspace, also known as Eikon, provides access to fundamental financial data on public companies, merger and acquisitions, financial market data and quotes, analyst reports, and private equity and venture capital. It features powerful screening and charting capabilities.
  • Training Recordings: https://training.refinitiv.com/workspace-training/

Note for VPN

Before you access library databases, including remote access to Bloomberg, Wind and Refinitiv Workspace, please turn on your VPN “vpn.shanghai.nyu.edu” first, because the VPN includes NYU Shanghai’s IP address ranges and can give you access to library databases without hitting a paywall.

Library Loans Extended

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Dear faculty, students and staff,

We are happy to announce that we have successfully extended your library loans to September 5, 2022 if they were originally due on May 20, 2022. Please hold onto any library loans you currently have and return them when the library reopens. Any fines accrued during the lockdown period will be waived when these items are returned.

Feel free to review your checked-out library materials and their due dates by logging into your library account.

If for any reason you still have to return the books or have any questions regarding your library account, please contact shanghai.circulation@nyu.edu so that we can work with you individually.

Best,

NYU Shanghai Library

Renewing Library books during COVID-19 lockdown

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Dear faculty, students and staff,

We understand that you are concerned about returning library materials during the lockdown period. We are sending this notice to assure you that the Library is working on a solution to extend the renewable loans on your account on your behalf as soon as possible. Please hold onto any library loans you currently have and return them when the library reopens. Any fines accrued during the lockdown period will be waived when these items are returned.

Alternatively, you may check your library loans and renew the renewable ones by yourself during the week of May 16th by accessing your library account: http://library.nyu.edu/patron?vid=NYUSH.

If for any reason you still have to return the books, please contact shanghai.circulation@nyu.edu so that we can work with you individually.

If you are graduating this May, you will receive an email from us with options to renew or return your library books.

Best,

NYU Shanghai Library

22.3.14 Library Service Update

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Dear faculty, students, and staff,

In responding to the new changes of COVID regulation, our Library is here to support your learning, teaching and research. Contact us whenever you have any questions. We are available during regular working hours at shanghai.library@nyu.edu. For 24/7 assistance, you could also use the “Ask a Librarian” chat box on the website to receive instant responses to your questions. Through this instant chat service, librarians can assist you with a range of questions, including complex research questions, citation help, using e-resources, and guidance using ILL request forms.

Research and Instructional Technology Services

RITS has gathered some resources useful for online teaching and assessments to respond to the new changes in campus access and online instructions.
Should you need any support, please get in touch with RITS at shanghai.RITS@nyu.edu. We would offer consultation remotely by request.

Financial Terminals Remote Access

NYU Shanghai Library will open the financial terminals remote access to those who need to use them for course assignments and research projects during the remote teaching period, starting from March 14th, 2022.

Important Note:

  • You should use financial terminals only for the purpose of course assignments or scholarly research, with the knowledge that for-profit and/or personal uses are forbidden.
  • Please only log on to the terminal after reserving your time (China Standard Time). Only one user can use the Bloomberg/Wind service at a time. We ask our users to be attentive to their booked slots. Anyone who violates the policy will be banned from using the terminal until the end of the semester. 
  • Each Bloomberg/Wind terminal has a download limit through Excel Add-In (also known as API). When the terminal is at its limit, you will see an error message when loading data and wait for a week (for Wind) or a month (for Bloomberg) before it resets. Please remember to be considerate to fellow users – only download what you need or export data from the terminal interface directly which doesn’t count in the download limit of Excel Add-In.
  • If all the time slots for Bloomberg are booked, consider using Refinitive Workspace, also known as Eikon and the successor product to Thomson ONE. You can log in via the web platform, or via Refinitiv’s Mac and PC software on your own computer without booking a time slot. Individual account creation is required before you can log in. Librarians at Bobst Library process the requests once a week.
  • Please turn your VPN (vpn.shanghai.nyu.edu) on before you access Bloomberg, Wind or Refinitiv Workspace remotely. If you have any questions on VPN, please contact IT for help through shanghai.it.help@nyu.edu.

    To apply for remote access, please fill out applications online

    Bloomberg: https://forms.gle/L8dVmrf1SMzdczND6
    Wind: https://forms.gle/9RyjYQvKKTrUgvC9A 

Access & Borrowing

If you need help with acquiring library materials, or have any concern regarding your loaned items, please contact us at shanghai.circulation@nyu.edu.
For materials not available to you immediately, we highly recommend you to request scanned copies of a book chapter or journal article through our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service.

Meanwhile, we encourage you to access millions of e-resources through the Library website, which covers databases, ebooks, and multimedia resources.

Library Service Update in the Evolving COVID-19 Situation

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Dear faculty, students and staff,As NYU Shanghai moves to swiftly adapt to the evolving COVID-19 situation, our Library is similarly preparing to accommodate this changing situation.We understand that access to library resources and the research services our librarians provide is essential to your learning, teaching and research.To better support you during this period of upheaval, the NYU Shanghai Library has updated our online and on campus services.

Research & Instructional Technology Services

For Faculty who teach online for the first time, you could refer to the Teaching with NYU Zoom guide and other recording resources we had on the Digital Teaching Toolkit site to get prepared.For Students who are going to take class with NYU Zoom for the first time, please follow the guideline before class to get prepared.It is recommended to join the Zoom session 15 mins prior to the class in case any technical issues arise.

Access & Borrowing
For materials not available to you immediately, we highly recommend you to request scanned copies of a book chapter or journal article through our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service.Meanwhile, you can access millions of e-resources through the library website, which covers databases, ebooks, and multimedia resources.Our Library staff team is available to help you with any question that you might have. You could also contact us by phone (21) 20595615, email shanghai.library@nyu.edu or the “Ask a Librarian” chat box on the website. You will receive instant responses to your questions (from human, not a robot!).

Introducing New Study Room Reservation System

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Are you looking for a simple way to book group study rooms at Academic Building and Shinmay in the library? In collaboration with campus IT, we are rolling out the new study room reservation system.

Please click on the big purple “Study Room” button on our website to reserve a room. Or bookmark it for the computer or scan the QR code on the door to book through your mobile device

Please kindly note more than half of the room’s max capacity must check-in within the first 15 minutes of the booked time. Otherwise, the room will be released and become available for other users to reserve.

Watch this one-minute video for tips on how to reserve and check in to the study room.