New York School of Interior Design Library

NYSID Library invites you to our new material discovery and resource platform: the Material Bank University Program! Material Bank is the world’s largest marketplace for design professionals and brands in the architecture and design industry, providing a fast and dynamic way to discover materials. Signing up for a virtual training session is required to gain free access to Material Bank. Our virtual training sessions will be offered via Zoom on Monday, October 12th at 3:00 p.m. and on Thursday, October 15th at 2:00 p.m. You can sign up with your NYSID email via the Library homepage (www.library.nysid.edu) at the bottom of the screen.

We’ve upgraded our Bloomsbury database. We are now offering access to the Fairchild Books on Interior Design. Through this, there are 67 titles dedicated to interior design, including some required textbooks. For more info and to access Bloomsbury, visit our Research Guide: https://libguides.nysid.edu/ebook/bloomsbury.

There’s still time to sign up for tomorrow’s online Library & Writing Center Joint Session from 10am-11am. To sign up, visit the Library’s homepage (library.nysid.edu) and click the slide. We’ll be walking students through how to best use the Library and Writing Center’s online resources.

Welcome back! NYSID Library and the Librarians are here to help you as we all come together, both virtually and in-person, for Fall Semester. Check back here in the coming weeks for more information on how to use new online resources, make reservations to use the library’s seating and equipment, & sign up for library instruction sessions.

We’ve upgraded our Bloomsbury database! We are now offering access to the Fairchild Books on Interior Design. Through this, there nearly 70 titles dedicated to interior design, including some required textbooks! For info and a list of the textbooks available, visit our Resource Guide: https://libguides.nysid.edu/ebook/bloomsbury. Promotion courtesy of Bloomsbury.

New summer hours begin tomorrow! In July, NYSID Library will be open virtually to help answer any questions Monday-Friday 9-5 (except Thursday July 2, closed at 2 p.m., and Friday July 31, closed the whole day), and in August, Monday-Thursday 9-5, and Fridays 9-2 (except Friday August 7, closed the whole day). Please visit the Library's homepage at library.nysid.edu to check out the latest hours and stay connected with the NYSID Library!

Sign-ups for Material Bank University Program training sessions are now open! Material Bank is the world’s largest marketplace for design professionals and brands in the architecture and design industry, providing a fast and dynamic way to discover materials. A free academic version of their platform is now being offered through their Material Bank University Program which provides an exciting materials knowledge base for material specification along with a variety of relat...ed tools and resources. To register for a free account, NYSID students, staff, and faculty are required to attend a one-time virtual training session. Our first 2 virtual training sessions will be offered via Zoom on Monday, June 29th at 12:00 p.m. and on Wednesday, July 1st at 1:00 p.m. Come sign up for a session via the slide at the bottom of the Library homepage (http://library.nysid.edu/ ), and explore the vast offerings of the Material Bank University Program! To learn more about the resource, check out our Material Resource & Research guide (http://libguides.nysid.edu/materialresources).

In recent months there has been a dynamic explosion of online resources dedicated to material specification as the industry moves away from physical product specification binders. This is especially helpful during these challenging times, as physical materials libraries are still temporarily closed. To help the NYSID community, we have subscribed to several new online material databases. Our new Material Resources & Research guide puts all our information about our physical... material collections and these new material databases in one place! With these online resources, students can find current specification and manufacturer contact info, create material boards, and upload their own visual content (floor plans, etc.) with easy integration with industry software, e.g., CAD and Revit. The guide is available on our Library’s homepage under Research Guides, and can be found directly at https://libguides.nysid.edu/materialresources.

Welcome back for the Summer Session! Though the physical Library remains closed, the NYSID Library Team wants to emphasize that we are still here to help virtually! We’ve implemented a live chat service, meaning that during the virtual hours posted on the Library's homepage, clicking the Chat Now! button on the Library’s homepage will connect you directly to a library team member who will assist you. You can always submit your question to us by clicking on the email links on the library website as well. We’re excited to chat with you!

It’s the last day of Spring Semester! Great job everyone!It’s the last day of Spring Semester! Great job everyone!

Did you know you can now create Artstor accounts remotely? NYSID users who access Artstor via the Library's homepage (found under our Other Resources tab) will have the ability to create accounts using their school emails right from home! Check out our newly updated Artstor Research Guide for more information on Artstor, using the collections, and creating your account!

Despite having to work remotely from the physical materials, NYSID’’s archivist/librarian Julie Sandy is still preparing a finding aid for one of our newest collections, the Emily Malino Collection, with a plan to make it accessible to students and researchers via our ArchivesSpace catalog by the fall. Malino was an exuberant, talented and prolific designer in the mid-to-late 20th century. Over the course of her career, she founded her own firm, Emily Malino Associates; wa...s a vice-president at Perkins and Will; designed contract interiors for hospitals, offices and universities; consulted and lectured across the country for Sears Roebuck & Co. and other corporations (and contributed to a do-it-yourself series Sears published called How to Decorate your Home); wrote a weekly syndicated newspaper column called Design for People for 15 years that appeared in the Washington Post among other papers, and authored a book in 1976 called Super Living Rooms. She was also the wife of U.S. Congressman James Scheuer (see photo), and raised four children, presumably in her spare time?! This exciting, large new collection is chock full of ideas and design inspirationalready this spring semester, Julie has been working with a NYSID student doing an independent study about Malino’s designs for hospitals, looking at how she used color and incorporated residential elements into institutional settings. Watch this space for the announcement about the finding aid launch in the near future! #nysid #nysidlibrary #archives

Thank you to all of the librarians out there! We’re amazed by your innovation and dedication. Happy end of National Library Week!Thank you to all of the librarians out there! We’re amazed by your innovation and dedication. Happy end of National Library Week!