Author: Wanett Clyde

Assistant Professor Wanett Clyde is the Collections Management Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology, where in addition to managing the library’s collection she oversees the university archives. Her research seeks to explore the intersection of Black history and fashion history, drawing out under credited African-American contributors, their critical innovations and accomplishments, and other meaningful connections in the overlapping research spheres.
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The Fourth Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium, An Astounding 90 Years of Analog Science Fiction and Fact

City Tech’s annual Sci-Fi Symposium kicked off, as usual, with a beautifully crafted library exhibit which made great use of all four of our exhibition cases. The items featured brought together various City Tech contributors with works created by Analog magazine, this year’s symposium partner.

“The exhibits were a collaboration between City Tech and Analog Science Fiction and Fact. City Tech Student Design Intern Julie Bradford created the symposium poster, Prof. Ellis designed posters on the City Tech Science Fiction Collection and the history of the City Tech Science Fiction Symposium, Analog designed posters highlighting the symposium speakers, a timeline of the magazine’s long history, and Analog supplied the cover artwork that fills in the background of each display case. Artifacts in each case were pulled from the City Tech Science Fiction Collection, including the Jan. 1934 issue of Astounding. ” – Professor Ellis

Main Display case highlighting the 4th Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium in celebration of 90 years of Analog SF. Courtesy of Professor Jason Ellis.
Display case highlighting the City Tech Science Fiction Collection. Courtesy of Professor Jason Ellis.
Display case highlighting the published work of speakers at the 4th annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium. Courtesy of Professor Jason Ellis.
Display case highlighting the history of the annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium. Courtesy of Professor Jason Ellis.

On December 12, 2019 over 100 attendees, many of whom traveled from out of town to participate, gathered in the Academic Complex to celebrate Analog, their contributors and our historic Science Fiction collection.

Fourth Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium Poster by Julie Bradford.

Visit the collection’s OpenLab page to view the program of the day’s events, video of the readings and panel presentations, peruse the live finding aid, or to learn more about the collection.

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50 Years of African American Studies

This year marks the 50th Anniversary of African American Studies courses coming to college campuses across the country. The City Tech Library was proud to offer our support the African American Studies Department as they celebrated with a series of displays and events that took place during Black History Month.

The Department sponsored an exhibit of materials related to Zora Neale Hurston and her unique contributions to anthropology, literature, and folklore. There was an opening ceremony for the exhibit on February 5th and the exhibit ran through the month of February.

Professor Clyde participated in this years’ National African American Read-In event held at the City Tech Academic Complex on February 14th. City Tech students, faculty and staff read excerpts from seminal Africana texts.

The celebration of Black History Month ended with a keynote event featured author T.R. Simon and musician/composer Khuent Rose. City Tech students presented during the community conversation that focused on storytelling in Africana communities.

There was an incredible amount of academic innovation in the field over the last 50 years and this changed academia and the culture at large.  It is particularly exciting to
envision where the field will be in the next 50 years.

Visit African American Studies at City Tech online for course listings, student resources, and to learn how to qualify for the AFR Option on your Associate degree.

 

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Celebrating 50 Years of African American Studies

This year marks the 50th Anniversary of African American Studies courses coming to college campuses across the country. The City Tech Library is proud to support the African American Studies Department as they mark the occasion with a series of displays and events taking place during Black History Month. Our February book display was curated in support of their annual exhibit, Black History Month and in light of the events highlighted below.

“Please join African American Studies as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Discipline. Through the theme The Legacy of Storytelling: Celebrating 50 Years of African American Studies, the department will continue to recognize that it is a part of an intellectual tradition, whereby students, faculty and community members around the globe continue to engage in the rigorous study of the African Diaspora. During the 2018-2019 academic year, African American Studies will launch curricula and programming initiatives for the 50th Anniversary. One initiative includes a unified reading project. With support from the CityTech Library, the department has designed an OpenLab site, which gives AFR students and faculty easy access to W.E.B. DuBois’ book The Souls of Black Folk and Audre Lorde’s essay “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.” We encourage the entire CityTech community to celebrate with us by accessing the readings through this link: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/afr50years/.” -via AFR @ City Tech


Visit African American Studies at City Tech online for course listings, student resources, and to learn how to qualify for the AFR Option on your Associate degree.

Follow this link for Black History Month celebrations across CUNY.

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Read with PRIDE!

LGBTQ History Month, Read With Pride sign with rainbow backgroundThis June the City Tech Library is celebrating LGBTQ Pride month.  Near the library entrance there is a book display featuring books by LGBTQ authors and LGBTQ topics.

There are many CUNY resources available to support its LBGTQ community and to foster queer studies and research. Check out LGBT Life , a database with broad coverage of national and international LBGTQ publications.

Explore LBGTQ Studies at CUNY, the CUNY LGBTQI Student Leadership Program a year-long social justice training program, and the Free Queer CUNY: An Open Pedagogy Project a queer pedagogy initiative that seeks to encourage further queer studies course options at CUNY .

For happenings outside of CUNY, check out the Lesbian Herstory Archives, a local institution with a long history and commitment to collecting and protecting materials by and about lesbians and their community. Let other projects like the NYC LBGT Historic Sites Project, Mapping NYC’s Historic Queer Nightlife and StoryCorps Outloud bring you inside queer stories and locales.

Grab a book. Write a paper. Take a class. Explore a map. Listen to a story.

Happy Pride!

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