News from the City Tech Library
Students and faculty–are you curious about calligraphy and hand lettering? This in-person event sponsored by the City Tech Communication Design department is a unique experience for anyone who likes graphics or type—or just wants to check out something new.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.
I love Gothamist, especially their twice-daily roundup of links. Yesterday evening, I was unwinding, reading Gothamist’s evening link roundup, Extra, Extra. It was a long, challenging day that started early with my two-hour copyright workshop series taught by Kyle Courtney, a lawyer and librarian at Harvard University. Kyle is the co-founder of Fair Use Week.
A coincidence or not, Gothamist posted a link related to Fair Use Week. Fair use helps designers get creative but the jersey design below is a triple threat! Read more about this wacky celebration of the public domain for Fair Use Week by Jacksonville’s Triple-A baseball team, the Jumbo Shrimp. Thank you, Gothamist for a chuckle.
Fair Use Week 2024 runs from Feb. 26 to March 1.
Fair use helps balance the rights of a copyright owner with our right to reuse copyrighted materials to create new works. It is an aspect of copyright law that applies not only to creators and authors but also to faculty and students. Fair use touches everyone! Here are two infographics to introduce you to fair use:
“Fair Use Fundamentals” by Association of Research Libraries is licensed under CC BY 4.0
Click here to join on February 15th and 16th at 7pm
The library has updated it’s streaming collection through Swank.
The following Academy Award nominees and winners can be streamed to currently enrolled City Tech students:
August: Osage County
Barbie (restricted; contact Prof. Junior Tidal)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Brokeback Mountain
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Oppenheimer
Taxi Driver
The Godfather
There are many other films beyond these that are available for streaming.
For questions & more information, contact Prof. Junior Tidal.
Welcome to a new semester! We have a lot of great new things happening at the library and wanted to share some updates.
The library is open and all of our in person services are up and running. Come visit us on the 4th floor of the Library Building 9:00am-8:00pm Monday-Thursday, 9:00am-7:00pm Friday, 10:00am-5:00pm Saturday. We also have virtual reference support available 24×7 through our chat service: Ask us!
Books and More
As of January 18th, 2024, books can be borrowed from any CUNY library for 16 weeks plus 2 renewals (totaling 48 weeks each). The new loan time reflects the CUNY SUNY borrowing and lending partnership. You can search SUNY’s library collection in OneSearch and borrow books like you borrow CUNY books using CLICS.
Need something we don’t have? Interlibrary Loan(ILL) has expanded its services! Faculty, staff, and students can all request books not available at CUNY through ILL—this includes textbooks. We also fill article and individual book chapter requests and deliver them electronically. ILL is great for scholarly research and course assignments.
You may place textbooks, required readings, and films for your courses in the Library’s Reserve Collection for your students to use in the library. Please place your requests as soon as possible as we purchase on a first-come, first-served basis. Request materials to be placed on reserve using this form. Email us questions or your department textbook list of required textbooks: NYCCTCirculation@citytech.cuny.edu
Did you know that City Tech Library subscribes to current magazines? These are available for use during library open hours; read more on the library blog about what’s available and how to access these at our Periodicals Desk.
#CityTechSoundsGood #CityTechSuenaBien is here! We’re shopping for records and we want to hear your suggestions – let us know here. The library will soon be lending portable turntables and podcasting kits. Check LibraryBuzz to learn more.
New Electronic Resources
The library is thrilled to provide access to Fashion and Race, a database that provides access to an incredible collection of resources curated by Kimberly M. Jenkins, an expert in the fashion world who is known for her diversity and equity work. Access the database onsite or offsite at http://cityte.ch/fashion. You’ll be prompted to set up your own login the first time you sign in, and then you can use that any time you return to the database.
Don’t forget to use your City Tech email to sign up for (or renew) your free access to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Access expires after a period of time for both students and faculty, but you can always renew it by heading back to the links shared here for free access to the CUNY community.
Library Instruction Offerings
Are you assigning papers or projects that require library research? You can request a library instruction session for your in-person or online synchronous class.
Are you teaching asynchronously or want your students to learn research skills at their own pace? Share the library’s tutorials and research guides with your students. The library is automatically embedded in Blackboard courses and you can add library widgets to your OpenLab site. Contact your library subject specialist to find out more about subject-specific resources and support for your asynchronous class. For general questions about library instruction, contact Prof. Rachel Jones, library instruction coordinator.
Workshops and Events
The Library offers workshops for faculty, students, and other members of the City Tech community. Our workshops cover a wide range of topics, including basic research skills, finding articles in databases, using other libraries, open access journals, and evaluating websites.
Workshops are open to all City Tech faculty and staff! For a list of current offerings, and to RSVP, please check here.
Open Educational Resources
Identify open and free resources to support teaching, browse your colleagues’ contributions, and much more via the OER at City Tech site. Follow our blog for New & Noteworthy OER available in your discipline.
Questions about assigning OER and other zero-cost resources, creating, and sharing your OER with a wider audience? Contact Cailean Cooney at ccooney@citytech.cuny.edu. You can also request a tailored workshop by filling out this form.
Support for Scholarly Publishing
The library can support your research and scholarship—we regularly offer a publishing workshop series. This semester, learn: how to get evidence for your PARSE and CV to document the impact of your work; how to use Zotero, a free citation management tool that has many cool features; how to set up your ORCID author ID which helps funders and others easily find your scholarship and separates you from others who share your name. Our final workshop, part of the college’s Publication Support series, is on open publishing resources from CUNY and City Tech library that facilitate authoring preprints, open access monographs and journals, open textbooks, OER, and more.
In addition to our Scholarly Publishing Clinic, a monthly office hour for virtual consultations on the first Tuesday of the month at 3 PM, consultations are available on demand. Contact Monica Berger at monica.berger11@citytech.cuny.edu. Learn more about how the library supports scholarly publishing.
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City Tech library has a large comics and graphic novels collection, over 400 print books, which you can browse online before coming to the library. Our graphic novels are located under the central staircase on the 4th floor of the library (the floor where users enter). Graphic novels can be borrowed for the same 8 week period like other circulating books.
We also have a large collection available online in Underground & Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels. Log in with your CUNY ID and password from off-campus.
Is there a book you’d like us to buy? Just email me at monica.berger11@citytech.cuny.edu. Please include as much information as possible but feel free to send a link to Amazon or a publisher’s website if that’s easier for you. Note that we do not buy individual comic books that do not have a spine.
BRIC TV recently released Dollar Pizza Documentary, a short documentary that examines dollar pizza slice shops throughout New York. A few of the shops featured are nearby City Tech.
You can watch the documentary below.
Dollar Pizza Documentary from BRIC TV on Vimeo.
The New York City College of Technology (City Tech) Interdisciplinary Studies Committee will host a full-day conference, Common Ground: Making Connections in Interdisciplinary Place-Based Learning, on Friday, October 18, 2024. This conference invites individual presentations, panel presentations, short talks, and workshop proposals that include, but are not limited to, the following topics as they relate to interdisciplinary exploration of the latest educational strategies, innovations, and practices.
Innovative approaches to learning and learning environments (e.g., advanced technologies for education, augmented reality, game-based learning, simulations for learning, place-based and virtual place-based learning, virtual reality learning environments, etc.)
Collaborative learning (co-teaching, team teaching, project-based learning, place-based learning, problem-based learning, etc.)
Communities of practice and socially responsive learning (diversity, equity, and inclusion; digital divide issues, initiatives, and cases; education for sustainable development; climate change, sustainability, conservation; food security/urban agriculture/local food system; civic engagement)
Best practices in assessment and implementation
Educational policy and innovation
To submit a proposal, please complete the following form:https://forms.gle/7Tb9vK4NqKG5iCK47
Please note that the proposal submission deadline is February 1, 2024.
Email us at ids@citytech.cuny.edu if you have any questions.
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