Newman Library

Friends of the Newman Library and the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health (PCMH) present the fifth annual Evening in the Oak Room, celebrating the affiliation of the PCMH with the Newman Library and featuring guest speaker and acclaimed author Siri Hustvedt. The relationship between psychoanalysis and literature is explored. Ona Lindquist, Chair, Community Relations, Postgraduate Center for Ment...

Friends of the Newman Library and the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health (PCMH) sponsor the third annual Evening in the Oak Room to celebrate the affiliation of the PCMH with the Newman Library. The event features a reading by Danielle Ofri followed by a dialogue with the audience led by psychoanalyst and author Dale Mendell, PhD. Dr. Ofri, an attending physician at Bellevue and editor-in-chief...

A discussion of the relationship between psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism with featured speakers Mark Finn and Barrry Magid. The speakers are introduced by Arthur Downing, Baruch's Chief Librarian and Head of Information Technologies. The moderator is Ona Lindquist.

Jane Kinney Meyers, a librarian and founder of the Lubuto Library Project, which builds libraries in Zambia for street children, talks about the project and her aspirations to Baruch students and librarians on May 4, 2011.

Kannan Mohan, Professor of Computer Information Systems (CIS), demonstrates the use of Amazon Kindle for course textbooks.

Bruce Rosenstein, author of Living in More Than One World: How Peter Drucker's Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life , published by Berrett-Koehler (2009), speaks to Baruch community members about Peter Drucker, the father of "modern management." Professor Rita Ormsby, Information Services Librarian at Newman Library, introduces the speaker and moderates the event. Donald Vredenburgh, Head of...

"Professor David Cane, Brown University, speaks about his father Lawrence Cane (CCNY ’35) who served in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Professor Cane is the author of a book about his father called Fighting Fascism in Europe . Professor Sandra Roff introduces the speaker. The event takes place on November 4, 2009, at the Baruch Newman Conference Center, Room 763."

"The Newman Library and the Baruch College Computing Center for Visually Impaired People (CCVIP) co-sponsor a lecture by Mike Mellor, the writer of the authoritative biography of the Louis Braille. This event marked the library’s official opening of the traveling exhibition on loan from the National Braille Press. The twenty-panel display, in print and Braille, celebrates the 200th anniversary of...

Larry Josephs, Professor of Advanced Psychological Studies at Derner Institute, Adelphi University, speaks on relational theory implications for psychoanalytic techniques. Margaret Yard, President, Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society, introduces the speaker and moderates the event. The event takes place on April 17, 2009, in the Oak Room of the Baruch College Newman Library.