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August 5, 2024September 9, 2024

City Tech Library has trial access to Bloomsbury Visual Arts’ Design Studies Collection

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:

this database spans topics across design research, product design, interior design, furniture, sustianability, and marketing and advertising.
materials feature internationally renowned scholars. This content has been curated to feature titles that are essential for research and study.
Title highlights include: Visual Culture and Decolonisation in Britain by Anandi Ramamurthy; The Culture of Nature in the History of Design by Kjetil Fallan; Thinking Design Through Literature by Susan Yelavich

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.

August 1, 2024

Updates to Naxos Music Library

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.

June 26, 2024June 26, 2024

Printing in the library is down, Tuesday, June 26th

The library is experiencing technical difficulties with the printers today.

Students may print on the ground floor of the Library Building, or the 2nd floor of the Voorhees Building.

Learn more about City Tech’s print and go service.

June 11, 2024June 10, 2024

New York City College of Technology has a new open access publishing agreement with the American Chemical Society

While City Tech Library has had a subscription to ACS Publications for several years, we’re happy to share that our agreement with the American Chemical Society now allows CUNY authors to publish open access with no additional charges.

What does this mean? CUNY authors who submit manuscripts to an ACS publication will, after acceptance of their manuscript, be given the option to make their article available open access at no extra cost upon publication. Open access publishing sometimes incurs an additional charge to the author (an article processing charge or APC); this new agreement with ACS removes that fee for CUNY authors.

This agreement only applies to submitting corresponding authors who are affiliated with institutions listed on the agreement details page. See a full list of eligible ACS publications at this link.

This new publishing arrangement provides more City Tech faculty with options to share their research immediately upon publication and meet funder requirements for open access.

May 16, 2024

Your library is here for you!

Columbus Park in the Spring, Brooklyn. — Nandi Prince, Columbus Park in the Spring, Brooklyn, 2024. Author source.

We know that the week of finals can be stressful. During Finals week the City Tech Library has lots to offer:
Calculators that can be checked out and taken to class.
Extended hours.
Ask – A – Librarian 24/7 reference help, no commuting, speak to a librarian from where you are.
Free scholarly articles to complete end-of-semester projects.
Free workshops each day of finals 5/16 -5/22. They all start at noon, no registration required, join now from where you are!
5/16, 5/20, 5/22 are Unstructured Workshop Days – the learning activity is built around the attendees’ reference and research needs!
Additional details regarding workshops at the library can be obtained by emailing Prof. Prince –Nandi.Prince25@citytech.cuny.edu

Free scholarly articles to complete end-of-semester projects
Free workshops each day of finals 5/16 -5/22. They all start at noon, no registration required, join now from where you are!

5/16 – Unstructured Workshop Day
The learning activity is built around the attendees’ reference and research needs!

GET 1-2-3 ARTICLES NOW LIBRARY WORKSHOP
Don’t let last minute projects stress you out, login to today’s library workshop and leave with 2 articles!
May 17 @ noon

Database Searching Made Easier than Google
Learn how to click around a database and leave with relevant articles for your writing project.
May 18 @ noon

Library and College Jargon
Heard these terms and unsure of what they mean: Abstract, Boolean, Catalog, DOI, Peer-Review, Primary Source, Scholarly Source, Work Cited, Journals. Sign on and leave sounding like an academic library glossary.
May 19 @ noon

5/20- Unstructured Workshop Day
The learning activity is built around the attendees’ reference and research needs!

All about Newspapers
How to find local,regional and international newspapers. Citing Newspapers. Primary & Secondary Sources.Reviews.
May 21 @ noon

5/22 – Unstructured Workshop Day
The learning activity is built around the attendees’ reference and research needs!

May 8, 2024

Use Artstor? It’s time to move to JSTOR!

Smiling Figure. 7th-8th century. Ceramic, H. 18 11/16 x W. 11 3/4 x D. 6 1/4 in. @metmuseum. https://jstor.org/stable/community.18660180.

Artstor is now available in its new home on JSTOR! When you search JSTOR, you will find Artstor’s 2+ million licensed images and more than 1,700 additional primary source collections alongside JSTOR’s vast collection of books, journal articles, and research reports. And, with JSTOR’s unique Workspace tool, you can easily save, organize, and teach with Arstor images alongside other JSTOR content in one convenient workflow.

On August 1, 2024, the legacy Artstor website will be retired. If you use Artstor, you’re invited to get started on JSTOR now – check out the Artstor on JSTOR welcome page for everything you need to make your move. If you’ve never used Artstor before, now is a great time to try it out. Visit the Artstor on JSTOR LibGuide, or jump right in with an image search.

Visit City Tech Library’s JSTOR subscription to get started.

Interested in more info about teaching with visual material? Explore JSTOR’s Learning to Look blog and check out their YouTube playlist for getting started with Artstor images in JSTOR.

April 30, 2024April 24, 2024

May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

May is designated as Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage (AANHPI) Month. In 2021, it was previously known as Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. It started when Jeanie Jew, a Capitol Hill staffer, shared the idea with Rep. Frank Horton who introduced the legislation in 1992.

City Tech and the Library will be celebrating AANHPI Month in various ways. On Thursday, May 2nd, there will be a panel discussion how to combat Anti-Asian hate at the Academic Complex, Rm. A105 at 2:00PM. According to Stop AAPI Hate, there have been over 11,000 reported instances of violence against Asian Americans since 2020. Learn more about the panel.

The library will also host weekly films to celebrate the month from the library’s collection in the Multimedia Screening and Meeting Space:

Thursday, May 9, 2:30PM – Asian American Stories of Resilience and Beyond Parts 1 & 2 (58 minute runtime)
A series of short PBS documentaries that highlight Asian American life and experiences

Thursday, May 16, 2:30PM– Rising Against Asian Hate: One Day in March (54 minute runtime)
“Following the aftermath of the March 2021 mass shootings at three spas in Atlanta, this film chronicles how the Asian American community came together to fight back against hate.”

Wednesday, May 22, 2:30PM – Breaking the Model: Asian American Shorts Collection “Breaking the Model: Stories of Asian American History and Presence brings together four different short documentaries exploring immigration, genealogy, gentrification and resilience within America.”

Can’t make the screenings? You can access these through the library’s subscription to Alexander Video Online (AVON).

For more information, contact Prof. Junior Tidal – jtidal@citytech.cun.edu

April 19, 2024April 18, 2024

Bachata Sounds Good! The History of Dominican Music

Dominican folk bachata musicians - Amargue Bachata Quintet — By Mobilus In Mobili – https://www.flickr.com/photos/mobili/22092585435/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57302460

Bachata is a famous style of Latin music from the Dominican Republic. CUNY’s Dominican Studies Institute at City College created an exciting, interactive website devoted to the history of Dominican Music in the US.

Students: are you interested in Dominican culture in general or want to do some related research? The Institute created a library guide.

This post is part of the library’s #CityTechSoundsGood/#CityTechSuenaBien grant. We have some exciting musical news related to the grant to share soon!

April 18, 2024March 9, 2024

Faculty Workshop, 5/2: Author Identifier (ORCID) for Publishing and Grantsmanship

Author Identifier (ORCID) for Publishing and Grantsmanship
Thursday May 2, 3:00-4:00 PM
ORCID IDs are author identifiers. They are especially helpful to authors with names that are more common but they have other benefits including speedier registration in systems for submitting articles, reviewing, and grant applications. Grantees who use their ORCID when applying for a grant help to assure that funders connect your funding program to your scholarship. ORCID also helps potential funders to efficiently review your publications.
Registration

April 12, 2024

Editing Wikipedia at City Tech Library

On Thursday, April 11th, City Tech Library hosted a Wikipedia editathon to celebrate our new LGBTQIA collection and increase representation of this subject area on Wikipedia. With the support of City Tech’s Gender & Sexuality Studies program and the Pride Club, we welcomed guest speaker Anthony Amiewalan, whose books can be found in our library collection. Anthony spoke about his art and gave a short reading from his latest book, Eddie & Alan, which he also donated a copy of to the library.

We were joined by members of Wikimedia NYC for a few hours of editing. Over the course of the afternoon we created 5 new Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items; we made 105 edits to a total of 17 articles; we added 20 references to the encyclopedia; and we contributed almost 6000 words. Using material from City Tech’s online databases and our print LGBTQIA collection, we edited articles about Ma-Nee Chacaby, Samuel Levi Jones, Tsweng Kwong Chi, GenderFail, D’Angelo Lovell Williams, and more. We created wikidata items about Alteronce Gumby and about Anthony Amiewalan and his creative work.

This event was organized by librarians Kel Karpinski and Jen Hoyer with support from Professor Laura Westengard and intern Jaida Clouden of Gender & Sexuality Studies. Participation in this Pride event was 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.

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