Category: General News

City Tech Library provides access to Academic Videos on Online (AVON), and we’re thrilled that our subscription now includes a new channel: Clinical Nursing Skills in Video.

To access this channel directly: click here.  If you are off campus (or off City Tech wifi), you’ll be asked to log in first with your CUNYfirst login.

This channel contains 5 videos as of March 2024, with more to be added soon.

More about Clinical Nursing Skills in Video: (from their website) Clinical Nursing Skills in Video is a new and growing collection of regularly updated demonstration and training videos produced by ProQuest to help students improve their clinical skills. This ongoing resource will grow over the coming years and allows your patrons anytime, anywhere access to the latest resources available for nurse training so they can provide the best possible patient care. The skills demonstrated in this collection were selected and reviewed by an advisory board of licensed nurses, nursing educators, researchers, and librarians to ensure students are accessing videos displaying current best practice and meet current standards of clinical judgement and videos are peer-reviewed and accredited by the ANCC (American Nurses Credentialling Center). Whether a nursing student preparing to enter the clinical environment or an instructor looking to integrate a pediatric assessment video into their lesson on assessing special populations, Clinical Nursing Skills in Video offers essential visual examples for supporting the curriculum at all levels from undergraduate to professional.

City Tech’s Graduate School Fair will be held on Thursday, April 11 from 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM in the Academic Complex Lobby.

Over 100 graduate programs from more than two dozen graduate schools will be represented (e.g., New York University, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,  Southern California Institute of Architecture, University at Albany, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, Fordham University, Binghamton University, SUNY).

“Clock” by Simon Shek is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

The library will be open from 9:00AM – 5:00PM on Friday, March 29th, and closed on Saturday, March 30th.

Join City Tech Library in the Library Building on Thursday, April 4 between 12:30 and 2pm for a vinyl listening party!

We’ll bring the record players, headphones, and a selection of the library’s vinyl record collection. All you need to do is show up, choose your favorite tunes to listen to, and spend a few minutes hanging out with good music.

Look for us in the Library Building, ground floor.

Can’t make it to our table during club hour? You can learn about the library’s #CityTechSoundsGood initiative, borrow a turntable and records from the library’s Multimedia Resource Center, or even recommend a something for the collection!

We’re excited to edit wikipedia with the new LGBTQIA collections at City Tech Library! Join us in person on April 11th to learn about these great new materials at City Tech Library; to learn about editing Wikipedia; and to help increase representation of LGBTQIA individuals and issues online.

Event Details:

• Date: Thursday, April 11, 2024
• Time: Editing: drop in from 12:30-3:30pm, followed by a reception to celebrate the library’s LGBTQIA collection from 4-5pm
• Location: City Tech Library Multimedia Screening and Meeting Space (L432), 300 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
• Technology: Feel free to bring your own device; we’ll also have laptops and tablets available for use.

What We’ll Do Together

We’ll kick this event off with a short talk by Anthony Amiewalan, whose books we’re excited to have in our LGBTQIA collection.

Following that, we’ll give a brief introduction to editing Wikipedia and an overview on how attendees can get started.

We’ll spend time editing Wikipedia until 3:30pm; please feel free to drop in and edit any time between 12:30 and 3:30pm.

Afterwards, attendees are welcome to join us from 4 to 5pm for a reception celebrating the library’s new LGBTQIA collection — and celebrating all our hard work editing Wikipedia!

More Info

Interested in attending, but not a CUNY student or faculty? Please get in touch

All attendees will be subject to Wikimedia NYC’s Code of Conduct and the Technical Code of Conduct. Check out the page for this event on Wikipedia.

Participation in this Pride event is made possible due to generous funding from the New York City Council Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual Caucus and the Office of the Mayor, and supported by The LaGuardia and Wagner Archives.

City Tech Library is excited to now subscribe to Critical AI, an interdisciplinary journal rooted in critical methods from the humanities, social sciences, and arts. Access this online journal now by clicking on this link to our library catalog; you can then click a link for online access that will allow you to log in with your CUNYfirst ID as City Tech faculty, staff, or student.

As stated on their website:

Critical AI works with technologists, scientists, economists, policy makers, health professionals, teachers, community organizers, legislators, lawyers, and entrepreneurs who share the understanding of interdisciplinary research as a powerful tool for building and implementing accountable technology in the public interest. Open to ideas born of new interdisciplinary alliances; design justice principles; antiracist, decolonial, and democratic political practices; community-centered collaborations; experimental pedagogies; and public outreach, Critical AI functions as a space for the production of knowledge, research endeavors, teaching ideas, and public humanities that bears on the ongoing history of machine technologies and their place in the world. Critical AI is legible to scholars across disciplines as well as to interested readers outside the academy. At the broadest level, its mission is to widen circles of scholarship across disciplines and national borders, encourage informed citizens, and activate a democratic culture through which the research, implementation, and evaluation of digital technologies is undertaken in dialogue with scholars, students, citizens, communities, policy makers, and the public at large.

The first issue of Critical AI came out in October 2023. Read it now through City Tech Library!

Our former colleague, Emilie Boone, African American Studies, currently, New York University, was nominated for an award from the National Book Critics Circle for best first book. Her book on twentieth-century Harlem photographer James Van der Zee “considers James Van Der Zee’s photographic work over the course of the twentieth century, showing how it foregrounded aspects of Black daily life in the United States and the larger African Diaspora.” You can read this book online and a hard copy is available for a two-hour loan.

Do you have concerns about digital surveillance, the security of your personal data, or who can view your information online? Wondering why virtual advertisements and algorithms follow you around? Worried about how to make secure passwords and not always forgetting them? Confused about social media privacy settings or what information the apps you use might be collecting about you?

Join Prof. Junior Tidal on Friday, March 1st in the library at 10:30AM in the Multimedia Screening and Meeting Space across the hall from the media lab.

Learn more about privacy and take control of your digital identity! In this hand-on workshop, City Tech faculty, students, and staff will learn how to protect themselves against surveillance and unwanted data collection. Specific topics covered will include: password security, social media privacy, browser settings, and alternative search engines.