News from the City Tech Library
The library is having is bi-annual book sale this Thursday, May 13th from 12:45pm to 2:30pm. The sale is located outside of the library. All are welcome. For more information, please feel free to contact Prof. Junior Tidal at jtidal@citytech.cuny.edu or by phone, x5481.
The Library Department is pleased to announce that our new course: LIB 1201 – Research & Documentation for the Information Age — will be offered during the Fall 2010 semester. This 3-credit course will run on Tuesday/Thursday 10:00am – 11:15am, and may be taken to satisfy Core requirements in Communications (COMM) or as an Elective (ELECT). The prerequisite is ENG 1101.
Course Description:
In this course students will explore issues in research and documentation for text (in print and online), images, sound, and multimedia. We will investigate where information comes from and how it is organized in both traditional and emerging media. Students will examine the ethics of information use and determine how to critically evaluate sources. Throughout the course, students will create and present research and documentation projects using traditional and emerging media and technologies.
For more information, please contact Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 718-260-5748.
PubMed has been set up as a SFX source for City Tech library.
With this setup, PubMed places a SFX link (via Find it! icon) on every PubMed record. By clicking the Find it! icon, one will be able to open the SFX menu and link to available full text article or City Tech ILLiad service login page if no full text article is available.
This short video explains how it works:
During the Spring semester examination period at NYU Poly, the Dibner Library will not permit ALB card holders or other non-Poly users to access the library. The exam period at NYU Poly runs from April 29 to May 13. More information on ALB (Academic Libraries of Brooklyn) is available here.
In observance of National Poetry Month, and in anticipation of next Thursday’s Literary Arts Festival, here are some highlights from the library’s book collection that feature spoken word:
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The Literary Arts Festival will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 29 in City Tech’s Klitgord Auditorium at 285 Jay Street in downtown Brooklyn. The Festival is free and open to the public.
Every April since 1996, the Academy of American Poets leads a nationwide celebration of poetry. You can explore the City Tech library’s poetry collection several ways:
Today’s Poem of the Day is A Story by Philip Levine:
“Everyone loves a story. Let’s begin with a house…”
visit http://bit.ly/aT63zX to read the rest, or to sign up to get the Poem of the Day delivered to your inbox each day during April.
The City Tech Library is OPEN during Spring Break! Our hours are:
Monday, March 29th through Friday, April 2nd: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Monday, April 5th: 9:00am – 5:00pm
The library is CLOSED on Saturday, April 3rd.
We return to our regular schedule on Tuesday, April 6th.
Have a great break!
Forms on our website are not working. Students and faculty cannot use Ask a Librarian, reserve the projection room, use the troubleshooting form for the databases, request workshops, make a research appointment, and submit comments about the website.
Please note that interlibrary loan services via ILLIAD is working.
As soon as this is fixed, we’ll update the City Tech community.
Please be advised that the current version of City Tech LibX is NOT compatible with the most current version of Firefox 3.6.
LibX has to be rebuilt to be compatible with Firefox 3.6, according to the LibX developer.
If you want to continue to use the current LibX, please DO NOT upgrade to Firefox 3.6 until a compatible version is released.
Welcome back, students and faculty! Beginning today the library resumes our normal semester hours:
Monday-Thursday: 9am-10pm
Friday: 9am-7pm
Saturday: 10am-4pm
For exceptions and hours in the Internet Lab and Multimedia Resources Center, visit our website.
The OpenLab is an open-source, digital platform designed to support teaching and learning at City Tech (New York City College of Technology), and to promote student and faculty engagement in the intellectual and social life of the college community.
