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.
Explore poetry as performance in the library
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.
April is National Poetry Month
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:
- visit the book display under the staircase in the library (remember, you may check out and borrow any of the books you see there!)
- use the library’s catalog to browse the library’s collection of books and ebooks (search the word poetry as a subject keyword, or search for the name of a favorite poet as an author keyword)
- search for poems by author’s name, first line, or any keyword in the Columbia Granger’s Poetry Database. Find poems by your favorite Carribean poets in Carribean Literature.
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.
Library Hours During Spring Break
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 Library Website Down
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.
Firefox 3.6 Is Not Compatible with LibX
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.
Spring semester begins today
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.
No Free Lunch for arXiv?
The Chronicle of Higher Ed reports that Cornell University Library announced today that it wants the top institutional users of arXiv.org to help pay for the online scientific repository.
New Email System for Students
From CIS
The College has now migrated to a new Student Email system: Microsoft Windows Live. The old student email system will be brought completely off line January 27th. The new Live account is to be the official means of electronic communication with all students. Blackboard, SIMS and other centralized systems will utilize the new email addresses.
Students must activate their new account before use. Information on how to do this has been disseminated and continues to be disseminated to students through our Student Computing Helpdesk. In general, a student’s new email address will be their firstname.lastname@mail.citytech.cuny.edu. However, students can obtain their actual email address by going to the following link: http://mail.citytech.cuny.edu/
Winter Intersession 2010 Hours
The library has the following hours during the winter intersession:
January 4-January 27
Monday – Friday
9:00am – 5:00pm
Multimedia Resource Center
January 18-27
Monday – Friday
12:00pm – 4:00pm
Internet Lab
January 25-27
Monday – Wednesday
12:00-4:00pm
