On Tuesday, March 25th, the library will have a screening of the PBS documentary, Freedom Riders in the Multimedia Resource Center projection room (A432) at 11:30am. Prof. Dionne Bennett of the African-American Department will facilitate this discussion for not only its historical significance, but also to highlight women’s contribution to the Civil Rights Movement. March is Women’s History Month.
Refreshments will also be served.
httpv://youtu.be/d8CAKAXR-AM
All City Tech community members and the public are invited to participate in our film and discussion series tracing the history of the Civil Rights movement in the United States. The Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle grant is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
Freedom Riders and the other films part of the grant, The Abolitionists, Slavery By Another Name, and The Loving Story are all available in the library’s multimedia collection.
Prof. Bennett holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles where she studied in the Psychocultural Studies and Medical Anthropology Program.She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in Anthropology and Literature from Yale University. She was previously the Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of Detroit Mercy and an Assistant Professor of African American Studies and a Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies at Loyola Marymount University. She has been a fellow of Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, the Ford Foundation, and the UCLA President’s Office. She has been an associate of the The Hiphop Archive at Harvard University since its founding in 2002 by Marcyliena Morgan. She is the author, with photographer Matthew Jordan Smith, of Sepia Dreams: A Celebration of Black Achievement through Words and Images, co-editor ofRevolutions of the Mind: Cultural Studies in the African Diaspora Project 1996-2002 (CAAS Publications, University of California Los Angeles, 2003), and a contributor to Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities (NYU Press, 2010).
For more information about the screening please contact Prof. Junior Tidal – jtidal@citytech.cuny.edu
Slavery by Another Name discussion, Wednesday Feb. 26
httpv://youtu.be/5s8ccKepCms
Please join the Ursula C. Schwerin Library for a clip screening and discussion of the film Slavery by Another Name on Wednesday, February 26th at 2:30 PM. The screening and discussion will take place in the recently renovated Multimedia Projection Room in the Library, Rm. A432.
Slavery by Another Name is a PBS documentary based on the book by Douglas A. Blackmon. The film tells the stories of men charged with crimes like vagrancy, often guilty of nothing, who were bought and sold, abused, and subjected to sometimes deadly working conditions as unpaid convict labor.
The discussion will be led by Prof. Dionne Bennett, Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Department at New York City College of Technology. Bennett holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles where she studied in the Psychocultural Studies and Medical Anthropology Program.She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in Anthropology and Literature from Yale University. She was previously the Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of Detroit Mercy and an Assistant Professor of African American Studies and a Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies at Loyola Marymount University. She has been a fellow of Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, the Ford Foundation, and the UCLA President’s Office. She has been an associate of the The Hiphop Archive at Harvard University since its founding in 2002 by Marcyliena Morgan. She is the author, with photographer Matthew Jordan Smith, of Sepia Dreams: A Celebration of Black Achievement through Words and Images, co-editor of Revolutions of the Mind: Cultural Studies in the African Diaspora Project 1996-2002 (CAAS Publications, University of California Los Angeles, 2003), and a contributor to Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities (NYU Press, 2010).
Faculty/Staff Workshop: Using Photoshop to Create Graphics for Instruction
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty and staff to a library workshop. Are you interested in creating graphics for your class or resizing your digital photographs? Learn how to use Photoshop, including the toolbar, layers, cropping, image filters, text, special effects, and more.
Our workshop will be held on Wednesday November 13, 1-2pm in Rm. A441 in the Library, Atrium 4th Fl. RSVP to Prof. Junior Tidal at jtidal@citytech.cuny.edu.
Faculty/Staff Workshop: Finding Scholarly Information with Google Scholar
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty and staff to a library workshop. Explore the resources found in Google Scholar (conference papers, preprints, journal articles, etc.). We’ll also customize Scholar preferences to facilitate full-text access from home or office computers.
Our workshop will be held on Wednesday November 6, 1-2pm in Rm. A441 in the Library, Atrium 4th Fl. RSVP to Prof. Monica Berger at mberger@citytech.cuny.edu.
Faculty/Staff Workshop: Open Access For the Arts
Come enjoy wine & cheese with your colleagues at our Open Access Happy Hour!
Using or producing creative works online requires artists and scholars to work with a nuanced (and
complicated) copyright, license, and use guidelines. Find out ways to use public domain
and open access resources in your creative work, and how to protect the rights of artists
in online environments.
Our workshop will be held on Thursday October 24, 4:00-5:30pm in the Faculty Lounge, Atrium 632. RSVP to Prof. Bronwen Densmore at bdensmore@citytech.cuny.edu.
This workshop is being offered as a part of Open Access Week (October 21-27). For more information about open access publishing visit http://openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu/.
Faculty/Staff Workshop: What Are the Problems with Textbooks?
Why do students sometimes resist buying and reading textbooks? How is the landscape of textbook publishing changing, and how can we take advantage of new strategies and platforms to ensure that our students have access to high quality curricular materials? Come to this Open Access Week workshop to learn more about open educational resources! You’ll hear from faculty across the college who use these materials in their courses, and learn more about library resources and support for open educational materials.
Our workshop will be held on Wednesday October 23, 1-2pm in the Faculty Commons, Namm 227. RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu.
This workshop is being offered as a part of Open Access Week (October 21-27). For more information about open access publishing visit http://openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu/.
Faculty/Staff Workshop: Advanced Search Techniques
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty and staff to a library workshop: Advanced Search Techniques for Library and Internet Sources. Improve your research skills and go beyond the basics with Boolean operators, truncation, limiters, and other sophisticated search strategies in library databases, Google, and more.
Our workshop will be held on Wednesday October 9, 1-2pm in Rm. A441 in the Library, Atrium 4th Fl. RSVP to Prof. Keith Muchowski at kmuchowski@citytech.cuny.edu.
Faculty/Staff Workshop: Encouraging Good Googling
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty and staff to a library workshop. How can we help students learn to evaluate internet sources, and to distinguish the good from the bad (or the ugly) online? We’ll discuss strategies to boost students’ evaluation skills and help them find credible information on the internet.
Our workshop will be held on Wednesday September 25, 1-2pm in Rm. A441 in the Library, Atrium 4th Fl. RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu.
Faculty Workshop: Introduction to Citation Managers
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to a library workshop. Looking for a way to streamline and manage the research you do using internet or library sources? Looking for a tool that your students can use to keep track of their research? Learn about how citation managers can help organize and cite references as well as share and discuss scholarship with colleagues at City Tech or beyond. In this workshop we’ll introduce you to 4 solutions for citation management: RefWorks, EasyBib, Zotero, and Mendeley.
Our workshop will be held on Wednesday April 24, 1-2pm in Rm. A441 in the Library, Atrium 4th Fl. RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or Prof. Keith Muchowski at kmuchowski@citytech.cuny.edu.
Faculty Workshop: Introduction to Photoshop
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to a library workshop. Are you interested in creating graphics for your class? Would you like to learn how to resize your digital photographs? This workshop will focus on the very basics of Adobe Photoshop. Participants will gain hands-on experience with the toolbar, layers, cropping, and text.
Our workshop will be held on Wednesday April 10, 1-2pm in Rm. A441 in the Library, Atrium 4th Fl. RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu.
For more information, or to schedule a workshop by request, visit our website.