SSW Placement: New York

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.

Needs Attention

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 Dutchess/Ulster County Upstate NY

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@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
Olin Library
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.