Because of the expected weather emergency, the College will be closed tomorrow, March 14 and no classes will be held. Only designated emergency staff need should report. Please continue to watch the College website for updates, and please stay safe.
#BeBoldForChange on International Women’s Day
City Tech Library is celebrating International Women’s Day all month with a book display featuring books by and/or about women. This year’s IWD theme is Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030 with the hashtag #BeBoldForChange. The theme encourages everyone to take groundbreaking action that will drive change for true equality. Please feel free to join the conversation and hashtag what you have done or plan to do to promote equality.
Also, please check out our Kanopy videos on International Women’s Day and women’s rights in general:
Half the Road – The Passion, Pitfalls and Power of Women’s Professional Cycling
To Educate a Girl – Empowering Women and Girls in the Developing World
Quilts in Women’s Lives
New in the Library
As the new semester gets underway, we’d like to highlight some new resources, workshops, and programs being offered by the City Tech Library.
Resources and Support for your Students
We have lots of digital resources for use in and outside of the classroom; students and faculty might be particularly interested in signing up for a free digital subscription to the New York Times.
We are continually developing new virtual tools to support student research. We have an expanded collection of Library Research Guides that includes this Chemistry Guide developed by Prof. Cailean Cooney and the new Immigration Guide students that Prof. Junior Tidal adapted from the Bronx Community College Library.
We’ve also just launched a new 24/7 Chat Reference Service so students can get research help around the clock.
Want a course specific subject guide or library instruction for your courses? Reach out to the subject specialist for your department!
Workshops
This semester we’re offering several workshops for City Tech students and faculty. Join us!
Instagram and Twitter in the Classroom and Beyond
March 21st 3-4pm
Library classroom A441
When the Textbook Falls Short: Exploring Alternative Course Materials
Tuesday, April 25th, 2-3 PM
Library Projection Room A432
Digital Privacy Workshop
May 2nd 2-4pm
Library classroom A441
Additional Opportunities for Faculty
Academic Works Deposit parties
March 29th 3-4 pm
April 20th 2-3 pm
Library eclassroom A540
Author Rights workshop
April 26 4-5:30
Library Projection Room A432
Stay in Touch!
Keep up with new initiatives in the library by subscribing to our Library Buzz Blog and reading the Library Liaison Newsletter.
Research guides down for maintenance
The City Tech research guides are currently down for maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Our Science Fiction Collection is Out of this World!
The City Tech Library has a new Science Fiction collection that includes comics, serials, novels, and pulp classics. The materials, which Prof. Jason Ellis and Prof. Alan Lovegreen (English Dept.) helped acquire from a private collection in California, is comprised of over 4,000 items and is housed in the Library Archives.
This past fall, the Library Exhibition showcase featured items from this collection. The display was installed by Prof. Ellis , and highlighted books, magazines and research materials that are now part of the City Tech Archives. Several English faculty are using the collection in their courses already and this past fall, City Tech hosted a Symposium on Science Fiction. Here’s what Prof. Ellis had to say about the symposium:
Continue reading “Our Science Fiction Collection is Out of this World!”
Continue reading “Our Science Fiction Collection is Out of this World!”
24/7 Chat Research Help
Have a big research project coming up? Are you looking for help but have no time to visit the library?
ASK US!
Give our new Chat Reference service a try. Librarians are available twenty-four hours a day to answer your questions.
Library system downtime, Saturday February 25, 2017
On Saturday, February 25, 2017, between the hours of 9 AM and 7 PM, the CUNY Office of Computing & Information Services will be performing system-wide maintenance on its network.
There will be intermittent access to online library services, including account authentication and electronic article databases. This maintenance will affect both on and off-campus users.
Sporadic network connectivity on-campus today
Due to an emergency maintenance procedure, network connectivity will be sporadic today 2/16/2017, from 12:15pm – 1:30pm .
Breaking down barriers with Gene Yang
Graphic novelist Gene Yang wants more of us to read and become empowered. He’s started an initiative, Reading Without Walls. Learn more about Yang and how graphic novels tell immigrant stories.
Library system downtime today, 6pm to midnight UPDATE: Downtime will be postponed
UPDATE: The planned system outage will be postponed for a later date.
On Friday, February 10, 2017, between the hours of 6 PM and midnight, the CUNY Office of Computing & Information Services will be performing system-wide maintenance on its network. During this time, all CUNY services (including the CUNY Catalog, off-campus access to City Tech online article databases, and online journals) will be intermittently unavailable. Users will be able to use OneSearch to look up items but they will have difficulty connecting to electronic resources or getting real-time availability information from the CUNY Catalog.
