Periodicals HOURS

• The Library subscribes to both scholarly journals and popular magazines. The chief criteria for selection is relevance to the Brooklyn College curriculum or to faculty research. The Library currently subscribes to approximately 4200 titles.

• The Library keeps periodicals in three different formats and in three locations.
• Current issues and bound volumes from 1980 to the present are kept in the Periodicals/Reserves room on the 4th Floor of Roosevelt Hall.  Current Periodicals are shelved alphabetically by title. Check CUNY+ for exact location. Bound journals from 1980 to the present are also in the Periodicals/Reserves room on the  the 4th Floor of Roosevelt Hall, shelved by call number. The call number arrangement brings all periodicals on the same subject together the same way call numbers for books do.

 
• Microfilm journals and newspapers are in the Documents and Microforms area at the opposite end of the hall on the 4th Floor of Roosevelt Hall and are shelved alphabetically by title.

 
• Pre 1980 issues of periodicals in both paper and microform are currently stored off campus. For articles prior to 1980 submit an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) request in the Periodicals/Reserves room  or at the Circulation Desk in the Field Library.

• If you need a journal, you must first search CUNY+
• To find out if Brooklyn College has the journal, volume, and issue you want.
• To find out where the journal is located and in what format it is held.

1. After you have the citation (author, article title, name and date of the journal), go to the CUNY+ terminals.

2. Type dpac on the command line and hit the enter key. To go to dpac from another part of CUNY+ type cho dpac on the command line.

3. Type T=name of the journal and hit the enter key.

EXAMPLE: T=EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN

4. You will get a list of holdings with this title. If there is more than one with this title, pick the one marked SERIAL.

1. Psychology today <New York> SERIAL (BC)
2. Psychology today <1989> (BC)

If there are many matches for the title, a list with the title on top and other similar titles beneath it will come up. Type 1 and hit the enter key. On the next screen the periodicals are listed first.

At the next screen if more than one CUNY location (library) receives the journal, pick the one that has (BC) at the end of the line. Type the line # and hit the enter key.

EXAMPLE:
EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN

1. <NEW YORK> SERIAL (BB)
2. <NEW YORK> SERIAL (BC)
3. <NEW YORK> SERIAL (CC)

5. When the record for the journal is on the screen, type hol and hit the enter key to see holdings information for the Brooklyn College Library. There may be more than one screen. Look at all the screens by hitting the enter key until no new screens appear.

HOW TO READ LOCATION INFORMATION

• CURRENT ISSUES: Periodicals/Reserves Room--4th Floor Roosevelt Hall. Current issues are arranged alphabetically by title.

• BROOKLYN PERIODICAL STACKS: Periodicals/Reserves Room--4th Floor Roosevelt Hall. You will need the call number to find these journal issues. If the date is prior to 1980 submit an ILL request.

• SHELVED UNDER TITLE: Documents & Microforms Room--4th Floor Roosevelt Hall. Microfilm is arranged alphabetically by title. If the date is prior to 1980 submit an ILL request.