Rockefeller University Library is Officially Open!

It is with pleasure that we share that the Markus Library has reopened its doors as their renovation project has come to an end!  The TRI-I Community, which includes MSK staff, is welcome back to the Library in Welch Hall, Monday to Friday, between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm. The double doors to the main reading room and door to the B level study/book collection room are controlled by ID badge readers, but they will be off during business hours.  The library is now located on the second and third floors of Welch Hall.

MSK staff will have access to the book collections, computers, and study spaces.   Should you require any research support or if you would like a mediated-search conducted on your behalf, please continue to Ask-Us!

Keeping the MSKCC Journal Collection Relevant

While we have a small and dynamic print collection, our focus over the years has been to deliver content to our user community via our Website.  With our user community spread across several locations, providing a digital collection makes good business sense. In fact, in early 2010, we discovered that our electronic resource collection surpassed our print offerings. Continue reading

Ask Us About Our Customized Library Workshops – A Recent Success Story

Late last year we delivered a series of lectures on how to conduct and publish a systematic review to pre- and post-doctoral fellows at the MSKCC Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences.

 This opportunity would normally never have taken place, but it did, and it happened because someone asked us about the possibility of developing a workshop to support their interest on this topic.

Antonio DeRosa, Marisol Hernandez, Sarah Jewell, Isabel Sulimanoff, and Donna Gibson worked to develop four workshops that were given each Friday in October 2012. The sessions built on one another and included:

  • Overview: History, Structure, and Characteristics of a Systematic Review
  • Formulating the Question and Developing the Search Strategy
  • Conducting the Research
  • Investigator’s Analysis and Assessment of Literature

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