All City Tech faculty are invited to attend a library workshop on finding books in other libraries and Google Books. This workshop will cover the use of Google Book Search, other e-text collections, and the many other options available for getting books that are not available in this library, including Interlibrary Loan and CLICS (CUNY Libraries Inter-Campus Services). Explore the bibliographic universe beyond the shelves of the City Tech library!
This workshop will be held on Wednesday, September 17, from 10-10:45am in the library classroom, A540. Please RSVP to Anne Leonard at aleonard[at]citytech.cuny.edu
The complete schedule of faculty workshops for the Fall 2008 semester can be found here.
The Library's hours for the Fall semester
Effective on the first day of the new semester, the library’s regular semester hours have resumed:
Monday – Thursday 9 a.m. – 10 p.m.
Friday 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Sunday closed
Complete details about the library’s hours, including closures for holidays, are available here. The library is closed this Saturday, August 30 and Monday, September 1 for Labor Day weekend.
April is Poetry Month
The Academy of American Poets features a new poem on its website every day during April.
Cherry Tomatoes by Sandra Beasley Little bastards of vine. Little demons by the pint. Red eggs that never hatch, just collapse and rot. When my mom told me to gather their grubby bodies into my skirt, I'd cry. You and your father, she'd chide--
[read the rest at poets.org]
April is Poetry Month
The Enkindled Spring by D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930)
Spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green,
Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes,
Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between
Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes.
I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration
Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze
Of growing, and sparks that puff in wild gyration,
Faces of people streaming across my gaze.
And I, what fountain of fire am I among
This leaping combustion of spring? My spirit is tossed
About like a shadow buffeted in the throng
Of flames, a shadow that’s gone astray, and is lost.
find more online verse at bartelby.com
New Books at City Tech Library
Selected new books that we have just added to our collection are available to browse and to check out. The New Book Shelf is near the circulation desk in the library. The books that appear there are just a sampling of the many new books we add to the collection every year. More new books will appear on the new book shelf regularly, so check back whenever you visit the library.