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Sept. 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Batten down the hatches and shiver my timbers!
 
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The library hours for today are 9:00 am – 5:00 pm. The college and library are closed tomorrow.

The Multimedia Resource Center is undergoing a renovation. Until its completion, we are not accepting reservations for classes film screenings.  If you need equipment for your classroom, please contact Media Services, in AG35.
For more information please contact Prof. Junior Tidal at jtidal@citytech.cuny.edu.

Albert Murray passed away on Sunday August 18, 2013 in Harlem. The New York Times has a substantial obituary and notes that Murray opposed black separatism.
In the library, we know him largely as a cultural critic who wrote on music. The library has seven books by Murray, two of which are digital. Please go to the CUNY Catalog and search by author, Murray, Albert.
Murray, Albert. From the briarpatch file [electronic resource] : on context, procedure, and American identity / Albert Murray. New York : Pantheon Books, c2001. CUNY WEB Resource Access: for all CUNY Users eBook
Basie, Count, 1904- Good morning blues : the autobiography of Count Basie / as told to Albert Murray. New York : Random House, c1985. NYCCT Stacks ML422.B25 A3 1985 Regular Loan
Murray, Albert. The omni-Americans; new perspectives on Black experience and American culture. New York, Outerbridge & Dienstfrey; distributed by E. P. Dutton [1970] NYCCT Stacks E185 .M9 1970 Regular Loan
Jones, Jo, 1911-1985. Rifftide [electronic resource] : the life and opinions of Papa Jo Jones / Papa Jo Jones as told to Albert Murray ; edited by Paul Devlin ; afterword by Phil Schaap. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011. CUNY WEB Resource Access: for all CUNY Users eBook
Murray, Albert. South to a very old place. New York, McGraw-Hill [1971] NYCCT Stacks F216.2 .M87 Regular Loan
Murray, Albert. The spyglass tree / Albert Murray. New York : Pantheon Books, c1991. NYCCT Stacks PS3563.U764 S69 1991 Regular Loan
Murray, Albert. Train whistle guitar / Albert Murray. New York : Vintage International, 1998. NYCCT Stacks PS3563 .U764 T7 1998 Regular Loan

from the WALDO blog :: Access NCCO (Nineteenth Century Collections Online) via NYCCT

Gale Expands “Nineteenth Century Collections Online” and Transforms 19th Century Research

June 21, 2013 at 2:35 pm
Gale has announced the launch of the next four archives in its Nineteenth Century Collections Online program, a multi-year global digitization and publishing program that brings together rare primary source materials from the nineteenth century and beyond.  The launch of the new archives brings the total number available in the NCCO program to eight, and the total number of collections within the resource to more than 170.  Gale partners with more than 80 institutions from around the world to bring NCCO to life, and the list is growing. Continue reading “19th Century Collections Online–New Content”