In honor of Pratt Institute’s Green Week, March 19-22, we’ve created a display of books on environmental issues and sustainable design. Come by and take a look! Here’s a sample of what’s included: 
UPDATE: Laena Mccarthy, Library Clerk at the Pratt Manhattan Library, has created a guide to library research on sustainable design (pdf). The guide includes recommended books, internet resources and article databases, as well as tips on generating keywords for searches.
Categories: Library Announcements
The Pratt Institute Libraries will stay open for limited hours during Spring Intersession, returning to our regular hours on Monday, March 19.
Brooklyn Library Hours
Saturday, March 10th – Sunday, March 11th, 2007: Closed
Monday, March 12th – Friday, March 16th, 2007: 9am-5pm
Saturday, March 17th – Sunday, March 18th, 2007: Closed
Manhattan Library Hours
Saturday, March 10th – Sunday, March 11th, 2007: Closed
Monday, March 12th – Friday, March 16th, 2007: 10am-6pm
Saturday, March 17th – Sunday, March 18th, 2007: Closed
Categories: Library Announcements
We are very excited to announce that the Pratt Institute Library on the Brooklyn campus is now offering access to the digital Sanborn Maps for the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The maps are available via a desktop icon on the two Dell PCs near the entrance to the library. Our Computing Systems Manager, Terence McLeod, has installed an excellent image viewer on these computers, so you can zoom, crop, print, and save the maps in a variety of formats. Come try them out, and be sure to stop by the Reference Desk if you have questions or comments.
UPDATE: A quick start guide to using the digital Sanborn Maps is now available at the carousel next to the Reference Desk.
Categories: Library Announcements · Tools & Resources
We’ve had a little rash of zebra abuse in the Library lately. Someone has been tearing the barcode stickers out of our books! Maybe the culprits just really want to add to their sticker collections. It seems more likely, though, that they are hoping to steal the books and believe that the zebras hold the key to our security system.
Let’s get that assumption about what the barcodes do out of the way: barcode stickers are simply our way of keeping track of books. They help us quickly and easily check books in and out so that you and your fellow library users can use them as much as possible. Whenever a barcode gets ripped out of a book, it has to get repaired and have a new barcode assigned. This process takes the book off the shelf, out of sight, where nobody can use it until it’s fixed. Please, be considerate of your fellow library users and help us make sure library resources are available for everyone; leave the zebras alone.
Thanks to Marieke Kuijpers for the zebra photo.
Categories: Library Announcements
