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The library has a new on-demand streaming video platform called Kanopy with thousands of classic and contemporary films, educational shorts, and documentaries.
During national poetry month, we’d like to highlight two great films from the Kanopy collection:
Ferlinghetti is a feature film about Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a beat poet and the famous proprietor of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in San Francisco. Ferlinghetti served as a catalyst for and curator of the beat poetry scene and is one of the last surviving of the original beats. Ferlinghetti’s most well known book, A Coney Island of the Mind, remains one of the most popular books of American poetry ever published.

The film, Walt Whitman: An American Original uses “readings, critical insights, and biographical details” to create a portrait of Walt Whitman, the native Brooklynite and poetic visionary.

What better way to celebrate national poetry month than to take a poetry journey from New York to San Francisco? And what better way to celebrate Whitman’s vision of a life where,”all goes onward and outward, nothing collapses”?

Celebrate National Poetry Month at the #citytech ! Check out any of these poetry collections! #cuny

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The City Tech Library announces the Spring 2016 issue of its newsletter, Library Liaison.
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Sometimes the hardest part of a research project is getting started. Regardless of discipline, most successful research projects start with a compelling, specific question.
If you have an upcoming research project and want help developing a great research question, come to our upcoming workshop.
When: Tuesday, April 12, 2016
When: 12:00-1:00pm Club Hours
Where: Small Library Classroom (A443)
In this one hour workshop for students, we’ll cover what makes a good research question, research topics and subtopics, and some basic research strategies. Hope to see you there!

New York Times Historical and other ProQuest related electronic resources will be down for maintenance Saturday, March 19th, starting at 8PM.

Ron Schweiger, the official historian of the borough of Brooklyn, was here in the Ursula C. Schwerin library this week, speaking to a class about the history of Cadman Plaza. Mr. Schweiger is a lifelong resident of Brooklyn and has been Brooklyn Borough Historian since 2002. His visit was something of a homecoming. Mr. Schweiger attended City Tech in the early 1960s and was a student in what is now the Hospitality Management program. He met his wife working one summer at an Upstate New York hotel.

This faculty workshop will explore two social media platforms and how they can be used in the classroom. Instagram is a popular social media network that allows users to share photographs using their Smartphones or tablets. Twitter is a microblogging network where users can send “tweets,” which are 140-character long messages. Participants will learn how to use these platforms, searching, and the use of hashtags.
Conducted by Professors Junior Tidal and Nora Almeida.
Tuesday 1 March 2016
3:00-4:00 pm
Room: Library A441
Rsvp: kmuchowski@citytech.cuny.edu
Continue reading “Next Tuesday: A social media workshop just for faculty”

This week, February 22nd through the 26th, is Fair Use Week, a celebration of using copyrighted materials across classrooms in the United States and Canada. Many resources that instructors use with their students are copyrighted. Fair use allows them to be presented in the classroom without copyright permission.
Fair use allows images, book  excerpts, and even portions of film to be shown in classrooms. See the infographic below for some of the other uses of fair use, such as sparking innovation, developing creative works, and cultivating scholarship.  For further information, visit the Fair Use Week website.

Tomorrow, February 12th, is President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. To mark the occasion, here is a discussion filmed in May of 2011. Prof. Keith Muchowski (Library) and Prof. Matt Gold (English) discussed Lincoln’s impact on America.
As a reminder, the college and library will be closed in observance of Lincoln’s birthday, and closed on President’s Day, Monday the 15th.