News from the City Tech Library
City Tech Library has access to AVON (Academic Video Online), which now includes a Legal Series channel featuring short films that cover the basics for students pursuing legal and paralegal careers.
All of these films are less than 11 minutes long; explore them by clicking on this link. If you are off campus, you’ll be prompted to log in with your CUNYfirst ID before getting started.
City Tech Library has trial access to Archival Films & Newsreels, a database from Films on Demand, for 30 days. This streaming video collection contains over 1000 films released from the late 19th century through the 21st century. Each film contains a transcript as well as a link to related films. Browse by subject or search for your favorite film!
Getting started: head to https://cityte.ch/arcfilms and use your CUNY login if prompted in order to access the database. From the landing page, click “Archival Films & Newsreels Collection”.
Note: You may be taken directly to a Health & Medicine sub-collection of only 6 films. If that happens, click the “Films on Demand” logo at the top of your browser to go back to the homepage.
Browse the collection: An expandable menu at the top left of your screen will allow you to browse by time period or by subject.
Let us know what you think: We would love faculty feedback on how this database could support your teaching and research. Please share your thoughts through this form.
City Tech Library is a great place for students to borrow textbooks. Faculty are welcome to request that their course textbooks be placed on Reserve, for students to easily access.
What does it mean when a textbook is on Reserve?
Reserve loans are for two hours, to be used within the library only. Students can check out Reserve loans with their City Tech ID at the Borrow & Return desk near the library entrance.
Two-hour reserve loans make it possible for more students to use a textbook.
Faculty: Request copies of your textbooks to be on Reserve
Get started by searching the library collection through our website, to check if we already have copies of the books you’ve assigned on your syllabus.
If the library doesn’t have a book — or hasn’t placed it on Reserve — please use our Course Reserve Request Form to request that the Library place a copy for reserve. We’ll respond to your request as soon as possible.
Please place requests as soon as possible; we purchase textbooks on a first-come, first-served basis and orders for new books may take a few weeks to be delivered.
Students: Check the library for your textbooks
Begin by searching the library collection through our website.
You may find copies of your textbooks on Reserve at City Tech. You can also change your search results to look for books at other CUNY Libraries, or across SUNY Libraries; see an example in the screenshot below.
You can request books from other CUNY and SUNY Libraries, to be delivered for you at City Tech Library. You’ll receive an email when they’re ready for you to pick up at the library.
Can’t find your textbook this way? Faculty and students are also welcome to request books through Interlibrary Loan. Read more about Interlibrary Loan on our website.
City Tech faculty, staff, and students have free access from August 5 through September 5, 2024 to a set of exciting Art History resources from Oxford University Press.
These online databases include the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, and Oxford Bibliographies for Art History and for Architecture, Preservation & Planning.
The Benezit Dictionary of Artists, one of the most comprehensive and definitive resources of artists biographies available. Revered for its global scope and its excellent coverage of European artists, Benezit is distinguished by its coverage of lesser-known artists, images of artists’ signatures, historical auction records, and lists of museum holdings.
Start using the Benezit Dictionary of Artists: Go to https://cityte.ch/benezit. If you are off campus, you will be prompted to log in with your CUNY login first.
Oxford Bibliographies for Art History and Architecture, Preservation & Planning
This series of guides—resembling an annotated bibliography or high-level encyclopedia—provides a path to the best available scholarship across a wide range of humanities subjects. Annotations from top scholars help you identify the most relevant issues for research in any field.
Read about the Art History collection and the Architecture, Planning, & Preservation collection.
Start using these bibliographies: Go to https://cityte.ch/oxbib. If you are off campus, you will be prompted to log in with your CUNY login first.
Questions about these databases? Please do not hesitate to Ask a Librarian.
Let us know what you think: We would love faculty feedback on how this database could support your teaching and research. Please share your thoughts through this form.
City Tech faculty, staff, and students have free access from August 5 through September 30, 2024, to Boomsbury Visual Arts Design Studies Collection, a database that brings together scholarly material about design research, product design, interior design, furniture, sustainability, and marketing and advertising.
Access this database: Visit https://cityte.ch/bloomvis to start searching. If you are off campus, you will be prompted to log in with your CUNY login first.
More about what’s inside:
Questions about this database? Please do not hesitate to Ask a Librarian.
Let us know what you think: We would love faculty feedback on how this database could support your teaching and research. Please share your thoughts through this form.
City Tech Library provides students, faculty, and staff with access to Naxos Music Library, an online database of music recordings that range from classical and jazz to world music and folk.
Important new updates to this database include a responsive website design that works better on any device and that enhances accessibility, as well as a new search feature for searching only within the booklets of recordings.
To access Naxos Music Library visit http://cityte.ch/nml. If you are off campus or not using campus wifi, you will first be asked to log in with your CUNY login.
To explore the new booklet search, click “Search Booklet” at the top right corner of your screen:
You’ll then be able to enter search terms that will be used to find results only in the booklets that accompany recordings:
Results from this search will take you directly to PDFs of relevant recording booklets.
Naxos Music Library at City Tech Library has a limit of 3 simultaneous users. For any questions about using this or other databases, please Ask a Librarian.
The OpenLab is an open-source, digital platform designed to support teaching and learning at City Tech (New York City College of Technology), and to promote student and faculty engagement in the intellectual and social life of the college community.
