News from the City Tech Library
Faculty, come to a workshop and learn strategies for searching the LexisNexis database more effectively for articles from news sources from around the world.
DATE: Wednesday, March 24th
TIME: 1-2pm
LOCATION: Rm A441, Library (4th Floor, Atrium Building)
Workshops are open to all City Tech faculty members. RSVP is strongly suggested to Prof. Maura Smale, msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 718-260-5748.
Is there a place for Wikipedia in the classroom? What’s on Wikipedia, and how did it get there? The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to come enjoy wine & cheese with your colleagues and discuss this popular online encyclopedia. Joining us for this panel discussion is David Goodman, Vice President, Wikimedia NYC and retired Princeton librarian.
DATE: Tuesday, March 16, 5:30-7pm
LOCATION: Faculty Lounge, A632
RSVP to Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 260-5748.
Faculty, come to a library workshop this week to learn about RSS (Really Simple Syndication). We’ll discuss setting up RSS feeds and alerts in your favorite databases to keep track of the latest scholarship from news sources, journals, and blogs.
DATE: Wednesday, March 10th
TIME: 1-2pm
Workshops are open to all City Tech faculty members. All workshops are held in our electronic classroom (Rm A540) on the 5th Fl. of the City Tech Library, Atrium Bldg (unless otherwise noted). RSVP is strongly suggested to Prof. Maura Smale, msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 718-260-5748.
ILLiad is the library’s new Interlibrary Loan system for faculty to request books not available here or in another CUNY library and journal articles not available from our subscription databases.
Workshop attendees will learn how to set up ILLiad accounts, how to place requests for articles & books, how to request articles directly from library databases, and how to retrieve requested items that are delivered electronically.
The workshop will take place on Thursday, March 4 from 4-5 p.m. in the library’s electronic classroom, A540. RSVPs are encouraged to Maura Smale at x5748.
Facilitated by the Ursula C. Schwerin Library and Writing Across the Curriculum
In this cut-and-paste world where words and images are so accessible, often students do not fully understand the implications of plagiarism. In this workshop, we’ll discuss academic honesty and strategies for helping our students avoid plagiarism in their work. Topics covered will include how assignment design can discourage plagiarism, how to teach students to correctly use citation and paraphrasing, and how to respond when plagiarism is discovered.
Workshops are open to all City Tech faculty members.
DATE: Wednesday, March 3, 2010
–rescheduled from the earlier snow-canceled date!
VENUE: Namm 227, Faculty Commons
TIME: 1.00 p.m.- 2.00 p.m.
Lunch will be served
RSVP is encouraged to facultycommons@citytech.cuny.edu.
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to attend a workshop on using RefWorks for citation management. With RefWorks it’s easy to import references from online databases, organize your references into folders by topic or project, and generate a bibliography formatted in a variety of citation styles. In this workshop we’ll cover the basics of using RefWorks from both on- and off-campus.
This workshop will be held on Wednesday, February 24, 1-2pm in the library classroom, A540. RSVP to Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 260-5748. For more information, visit the Faculty Workshops page on our website.
ILLiad is the library’s new Interlibrary Loan system for faculty to request books not available here or in another CUNY library and journal articles not available from our subscription databases.
Workshop attendees will learn how to set up ILLiad accounts, how to place requests for articles & books, how to request articles directly from library databases, and how to retrieve requested items that are delivered electronically.
The workshop will be held on Wednesday, February 3 from 1-2 pm in A540, the library’s e-classroom. It will be repeated on Thursday, March 4 from 5-6 pm. RSVPs are encouraged to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu.
Visit the library website for the Spring 2010 schedule of faculty workshops.
Web 2.0 Happy Hour :: flyer
for City Tech Faculty
Come enjoy wine & cheese with your colleagues and learn about Firefox: the highly customizable web browser.
Programmers all over the world have created thousands of plug-ins to add functionality to the Firefox browser. We’ll highlight several useful Firefox plugins including the LibX plugin which provides access to library resources from the browser toolbar. Workshops are open to all City Tech faculty members.
DATE: Tuesday, December 8, 2009
VENUE: Rm A632, Faculty Lounge (Atrium Building)
TIME: 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
http://library.citytech.cuny.edu
RSVP is encouraged to Prof. Maura Smale, msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 718-260-5748.
Students, sharpen your website evaluation skills at our Good Googling workshop today @ 5:15pm in Rm A540. For more info: http://bit.ly/RfZ2o
Faculty, come to a library workshop on using PubMed today @ 1pm in Rm A540. For more info: http://bit.ly/akzcY
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