PERIODICALS

• 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 with some holdings dating back to the nineteenth century.
  

• The Library keeps periodicals in three different formats-each in a different location.
  

  • Current issues are kept in the LaGuardia Reading Room, shelved alphabetically by title. The time span for "current" varies from title to title but it is generally the last two years.
    

  • Bound journals are in the second floor stack area, 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 an area outside the stairwell on the second floor shelved alphabetically by title.
    

• 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.

Finding a Periodical Using CUNY+

2. Type cho dpac on the command line and hit the enter key, or, if the menu is already on the screen, just type dpac.

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. Pick the one marked SERIAL if there is more than one.

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

Hint:
Periodicals are marked with the city of publication. Books have the year of publication after the title.

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:
  LaGuardia reading room.
• Brooklyn Periodical Stacks:
  Second floor stacks. You will need the call number to find these journal issues.
• Shelved Under title:
  Microfilm cabinets arranged alphabetically by title.