by Prof. Monica Berger
For Open Access Week 2015, we highlighted City Tech’s own Open Access journal, NANO: New American Notes Online http://www.nanocrit.com/. NANO‘s mission is to “invigorate humanities discourse by publishing brief, peer-reviewed reports with a fast turnaround enabled by new technologies.” Issues are themed and articles often incorporate multimedia. Sean Scanlan, English Department, is NANO‘s founder and editor. We recently asked Sean to tell us more about NANO. Continue reading “An Interview with Sean Scanlan, English Department, On Open Access and More”
City Tech Library Faculty Scholarship and Research
Nora Almeida
Nora Almeida has been researching and writing about pedagogy and information literacy. This past semester her article “Librarian as Outsider” appeared in Hybrid Pedagogy and her book chapter, “Podcasting as Pedagogy” is forthcoming in The Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook (ACRL press, 2016). Continue reading “City Tech Library Faculty Scholarship and Research”
Bridging the Digital and Information Gap: Libraries and the United Nation 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
by Prof. Tess Tobin
Half of the world’s population lacks access to information online. As trusted established networks, libraries are in the position to offset this information gap. Libraries can work across regional and cultural barriers to empower communities to become better informed and understand data that is critical to sustainable development. Continue reading “Bridging the Digital and Information Gap: Libraries and the United Nation 2030 Sustainable Development Goals”
Kanopy Streaming Video at City Tech
The City Tech library has recently subscribed to the Kanopy Streaming service. This database provides students and faculty access to more than 26,000 films. Many films and documentaries from the Criterion Collection, First Run Features, Kino Music and Kino Lorber are available in a Netflix-like streaming format.
For more information, feel free to contact Junior Tidal, Web Services and Multimedia Librarian at jtidal@citytech.cuny.edu.
