(From the Open Access Week Blog, here)
Faculty: The Open Access movement has threaded its way into many avenues of human culture. Creators of literature, music, film and art are acknowledging the rich heritage that has enabled their own creative thinking and in turn are offering their productions to the greater community at no charge. Academic publishing has situated itself in the open access arena. The output, online, open-access scholarly literature, measures up to the same standards as other peer-reviewed and removes the economic and logistical barriers to access.
Throughout the week of October 18-24, 2010 we will be offering exciting programming at two locations to open your sensibilities to the benefits and practices of a open access information sharing. Read more below for a list of events happening here at City Tech, or check the blog for a comprehensive listing of all planned events.
Continue reading “Open Access Week is Here!”
We’re on Facebook!
It’s true! We’ll be posting over at City Tech Library. Join us for announcements about library events and services, links to items of interest, or log in to say hello or ask us a question. See you there!
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We love Graphic Novels
And so do you. We put out many of our newest graphic novels in the display under the bookcase and have noticed they’re being borrowed! And when they come back from you, they often go into the stacks, aka our regular books collection.
If you want to browse more graphic novels, go upstairs to the literature section of the library and browse call number PN6727. That’s where many of our graphic novels are located. You can also search CUNY+ using the keywords “Comic books” or “Graphic novels.”
Illustration source: J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah
Happy Birthday, P.G. Wodehouse!
Described by Douglas Adams in his introduction to Sunset at Blandings as “the greatest musician of the English language”. P.G. Wodehouse published 96 novels during his lifetime, and is the man we have to thank for introducing the world to Jeeves and Wooster, one of the most potent comedy pairings literature has ever known. He would have been 129 today. Cheers!
Research Appointments Available
Students!
Do you know that library faculty are available for research appointments? The end of the semester can be tough, but library faculty are here to help you! If you’d like to sign up for a session to develop a research question or search strategy, learn about available resources, or talk about how to incorporate research into your projects, you can sign up for individual appointments with library faculty who can help you get started or help you polish off your citations. To sign up for an appointment, just fill out the Research Appointments form.
European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750
New in the library: European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750
This database is not full-text. It indexes European works that relate to the Americas. Topics include the history of European exploration, portrayals of native American peoples, disease outbreaks and slavery. more information
10.10.10.
So, today’s date is 10/10/10. A binary number! Why is this one (101010) so lovely? Because in binary, 101010 translates into 42, which, according to Deep Thought, (the supercomputer in Douglas Adams’ Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), is the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything.
10.10.10 at BBC News
10.10.10 at io9
The Origins of Off-Campus Access
Accessing library materials from off-campus is one of the great conveniences of 21st century life. We should note that sending library materials to remote users is nothing new, check out this page from the Michigan Light House Conservancy about Traveling Light House Libraries, a book delivery service for 19th century lighthouse keepers and their families.
If you’re curious about other methods of document delivery, how about Biblioburro, a library that travels to users via donkey?
Of course, here at City Tech, our options include CLICS and ILL. Not as exciting as having your articles delivered to a mountainside, but we find them pretty useful.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-03
- 2010 PEN Literary Awards : http://bit.ly/d6gbB4 via @addthis #
- Twitter Test #
- Happy Banned Books Week! http://is.gd/fyg4t #
Faculty Workshop: Finding Scholarly Information with Google Scholar
Explore Google Scholar
Did you know that you can use Google Scholar to find conference papers, preprints, anthology chapters, journal articles and more? Come to the next Faculty Workshop to find out how you can customize your search preferences to get full-text access from your home or office computer.
This workshop is open to all City Tech faculty members.
Date: Wednesday, October 6 2010
Venue: Rm A540 on the 5th fl. of the City Tech Library, Atrium Bldg
Time: 1:00-2:00pm
RSVP is encouraged to Prof Maura Smale, msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 718-260-5748.
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