Important
reminder for Smith College School for Social Work students: When
you arrive at your placement, be sure to ask whether your agency has
its own library or whether it can arrange library privileges for you
at an area library. If not, then use the listing(s) below to identify
area libraries and their policies regarding access and borrowing.
Note that all policies described below are subject to change.
The information below is provided for Smith College School for Social
Work students. The policies listed do not necessarily apply to other
researchers.
If you want access to research information held in metropolitan academic
libraries, you may wish to check first with local public libraries
(New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, or Queens Borough
Public Library) to see if the desired information is available there.
If the public libraries do not have the title you need and they see
that an academic library does, they may provide you with a referral
in the form of a Metro card that cites the unique title you need.
NOTE:
Library access, especially in metropolitan New York can be expensive,
if not impossible. If needed, ask about a Metro referral card at one
of these public libraries: New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public
Library, Queensborough Public Library, or one of the libraries in
the Westchester Library System. The Metro referral card will offer
you access to selected academic libraries and will bypass access fees.
(Metro referral cards don't carry borrowing privileges, FYI.) It is
best to look at the metro directory at www.metro.org
and check to see if the cards are accepted at the library you wish
to use--and even to phone ahead to the library to which you want access.
NEW
YORK CITY AREA
Brooklyn
College
Brooklyn College
Library
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
circulation: 718-951-5335
reference: 718-951-5340
For access to the library, you must join the Library Associates for
$50/year; for access and borrowing privileges, the fee is $75/year.
You will not be eligible for interlibrary loan services.
Brooklyn Public Library
Central Library
Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238
phone: 718-230-2100
College
of Staten Island
Library
2800 Victory Boulevard
Staten Island, NY 10314
circulation: 718 982-4011
reference: 718 982-4010
You are welcome
to use the library upon showing a valid photo ID. For borrowing privileges,
please contact Pamela Skinner (pskinner@email.smith.edu); she may be
able to arrange borrowing for a nominal fee. You will not be eligible
to use the interlibrary loan service.
Columbia University
Social Work Library
1255 Amsterdam Ave., 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10027
phone: 212-851-2194
reference: 212-851-2196
Contact Columbia's Library
Information Office if you wish to purchase access to Columbia's
Social Work Library. Access costs $50/month, with no borrowing or interlibrary
loan privileges. (Please mention the agreement with Smith College that
affords this reduced rate.)
City University of New York
CUNY
Libraries
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10036
branch pages:http://libraries.cuny.edu/lib-guid.htm
No access is possible without a Metrocard referral from a public library.
Fordham University - Rose Hill Campus
Walsh Library
441 E. Fordham Road
Bronx, NY 10458
circulation: 718-817-5109
reference: 718-817-3586
It may be possible to arrange library access for $125/year. Please contact
Pamela Skinner (pskinner@smith.edu)
for a letter of introduction from the Smith College Libraries. The letter
will include your address, local phone number and social security number,
so please provide these when you contact her. You may also purchase
access and borrowing privileges for $250/year. By purchasing borrowing
privileges, you accept full responsibility for any fines or damage/loss
fees incurred. You are not eligible for interlibrary loan services.
Hunter College
School of Social
Work Library
129 East 79th Street & Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10021
reference: 212-772-4187
No access is possible without a Metrocard referral from a public library.
New York Public Library
Humanities and
Social Sciences Library
Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street
New York, NY 10018
reference: 212-930-0830
New York University
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012-1091
circulation: 212-998-2530
reference: 212-998-2500
privileges office: 212-998-2550
You may use the collection only by joining the Friends
of Bobst Library; the membership fee is $225/year (or $175/year
if you are an NYU alumna or curently reside between Canal Street and
14th Street, from the Hudson River to the East River. Borrowing privileges
are available for an additional $500/year.
DUTCHESS/ULSTER
COUNTY
SUNY - New Paltz
Sojourner Truth Library
75 S. Manheim Blvd.
New Paltz, NY 12561-2493
circulation: 845 257-3714
reference: 845 257-3710
You are welcome to use the collection. For borrowing privileges, you
may purchase a photo SUNY New Paltz ID for $15 and then apply for borrowing
privileges for $20/year. You will not be eligible for interlibrary loan
services.
Vassar College
Vassar College Libraries
124 Raymond Ave.
Poughkeepsie, NY, 12604-002
circulation: 845-437-5760
reference: 845-437-5766
You are welcome to use the collection. For borrowing privileges, you
may purchase a special borrower's card for $30/year. (You may be asked
to show your Smith ID and proof of Poughkeepsie-area residency when
you apply.) You will not be eligible for interlibrary loan services.
UPSTATE
NY
Cornell University
OlinLibrary
Ithaca, NY 14853
circulation: 607-255-4245
reference: 607-255-4144
You are welcome to use the collection. To obtain borrowing privileges
(20 books maximum at any one time), you may purchase a borrower's card
for $25/month or $250/year. You will not be eligible to use the interlibrary
loan service.
Ithaca College
Ithaca College Library
1201 Gannett Center
Ithaca, NY 14850
circulation: 607-274-3206
reference: 607-274-3890
You are welcome to use the collection. To obtain borrowing privileges,
you may purchase a community borrower's card for $50/year. You will
not be eligible to use the interlibrary loan services.
SUNY - Albany
University Library
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12222
circulation: 518-442-3569
reference: 518-442-3558
You are welcome to use the collection. To obtain borrowing privileges
(25 books maximum at one time), you may purchase a borrower's card for
$50/year. You will not be eligible to use the interlibrary loan service.
State
University of New York College at Cortland
Memorial Library
Cortland, NY 13045
circulation: 607-753-2526
reference: 607-753-2590
You
are welcome to use the collection. To obtain borrowing privileges, you
may apply for a community borrower's card (no fee) with proof of residency
in Cortland, Tompkins, Onondaga, Madison, Chenango, Broome, Tioga, or
Cayuga counties. You will not be eligible to use the interlibrary loan
service.
Syracuse University
E.S. Bird Library
222 Waverly Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13244
circulation: 315-443-2415
reference: 315-443-4083
You are welcome to use the collection upon showing valid ID and registering
at the library entrance. To obtain borrowing privileges (20 book maximum
at any one time), you may purchase a borrower's card for $25/month,
$50/semester, $100/year. You will not be eligible to use the interlibrary
loan service.
