2. Getting to Know your Resources
Jerry Reisig
Asst. Prof Information Literacy
Director of Library Services
New York Theological Seminary
475 Riverside Drive, Suite 500
Monday-Thursday; 11am to 4pm, or by appointment
Phone (212) 870-1213
jreisig@nyts.edu
The Burke Library– 1st Floor Reference Desk
3041 Broadway
Tuesday and Thursday, 4– 7pm
Phone (212) 851-5606
3. Required Publications
Jerry Reisig, Access: Unlocking the Power of
Research, A Guide to Library Resources and
Information Literacy, 2nd ed. New York Theological
Seminary, 2012.
Research skills at Columbia, NYTS and the Internet
Available at the front desk at NYTS
Kate Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Research
Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 7th ed.
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).
ISBN 022682337
Formatting and footnote
4. Library Services
NYTS students have full checkout privileges.
Library Card is free and valid for one year, and
can be renewed yearly as long as the patron is
a current student, faculty, or staff member.
Library hours for all of the Columbia libraries
are available on the Columbia University
Library website at
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/services/hour
s/.
5. Services not Provided
Access to Teacher's College, the Law Library,
or the Medical Library.
Alumni/ae Access.
Off-site access to the Columbia online
databases and e-books.
Inter-library Loan (ILL).
6. Three Things Needed to Begin
Available from NYTS
Regsitrar
NYTS ID with current semester sticker
Available at Butler Available at any
Library NYTS Library
7. Obtaining a Columbia Card
Get a current semester sticker for your NYTS ID
from the NYTS Registrar.
Go to the Library Information Office (LIO) at the
Butler Library on the Columbia Campus, Room
201.
The LIO office is the first door to the left as you enter
the library and before you pass through the security
station.
After you show your NYTS ID, your picture will be
taken and a Columbia Library ID will be created in
your name.
Make sure that you are given a UNI ID.
8. UNION
RIVERSIDE
CHURCH
Burke
Library
NYTS
ADMIN
COLUMBIA
Barnard
Library
BARNARD LIO
Office
Butler
Library
9. Partnering with the New York
Public Library
Students do not have access to the Columbia
Databases from Home
NYTS students are required to get an NYPL card
Will allow access to essential databases such as
ATLA Religion Database
Available to all students who live, work in, go to
school or pay taxes in New York state
Go to any Branch or research library and apply for
one
Closest Branch on Broadway and 113th
10. The Burke Library
During your graduate education, the most useful
library for your research will probably be the Burke
Library
Housed on the Union Seminary Campus
Largest theological Library in North America
Theological Librarian on staff on 3rd Floor until
5pm
I am the reference librarian Tuesdays and
Thursdays from 4pm-7pm
Students should visit me there so that I can help
them develop their research projects
11. Types of Research Information
Primary Sources
Writing from experience, biograpies, letters, novels,
original works
Secondary Sources
Writing that analyzes other work, most important of
which are Journal articles
Tertiary Sources
Data that a general analysis or which points to other
data: dictionaries, encyclopedias, wikis, databases
Many professors do not permit its use in research papers
12. Accessing CLIO
The Library Catalog of the
Columbia, CLIO, can be accessed on the
internet
The Library Catalog contains only books and
bound journals.
Itpoints to books but does not contain the text
from them.
Web site www.columbia.edu
Access: Unlocking the Power of Research
provides step by step procedures for
accessing and searching on this site.
29. Searching on Subject for Paper
You have heard a great deal about same sex
marriage and are bothered by it.
What does the church believe about it?
What does the Bible say about it?
We are going to research this, not by
searching for the word, but searching for
categories of writings about it.
30. We will begin with a
simple search on the
Keyword homosexuality
31. The number of hits is far
too large to investigate,
so we need to limit the
search
Since we are asking a question
that concerns the bible and
church, we will reduce our
search to the Burke Library, the
theological library of the
Columbia System
32. The number of hits has
reduced to 517
Since this is a time sensitive
topic, we will limit the search to
the last 5 years
33. The number of hits has
further reduced to 137
The books found are clearly
more related to theology and
the bible than the first search
The first title seems
promising. To look at
it, click on the title.
34. Although this book may be
interesting, we will not look
at it. We are interested in
its LC subject(s)
One subject is of especial
interest to our research:
Homosexuality—Biblical
teaching
To see all books in the
Burke Library that have
that subject, select the
subject
35. 38 Titles share the same
LC category
To view the entries,
select the subject
category
36. We will use the results to create
a Bibliography
Check page to select all
entries on the Page
Select email to send
these entries
43. Paste into your
Document
Title: Jesus, the Bible, and homosexuality : explode the myths, heal the
church / Jack Rogers.
Author: Rogers, Jack Bartlett.
Published: Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, c2006.
Bibliographic Entry Format for Book
Lastname, Firstname. Title: In Title Case. Publication Information
Bibliographic Entry
Rogers, Jack Bartlett. Jesus the Bible, and Homosexuality: Explode the Myths,
Heal the Church. Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, 2006.
44. USING THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Searching on the ATLA Religion Database
45. Databases at NYPL
Because students cannot use Columbia
Databases from home, they will access them
through the New York Public Library.
The ATLA Religion Database is the largest
database of theological and biblical secondary
literature in the western world.
Password to these databases is the 14 digit
code on the back of your NYPL library card
Access to and Usage of ATLA explained in
Access: Unlocking the Power of Research.
46. On the Internet go to the
New York Public Library
at www.nypl.org