Workshops are open to all City Tech faculty and staff!
All workshops are held in the library in A441 unless otherwise noted.
RSVP: Prof. Maura Smale, Information Literacy Librarian, msmale@citytech.cuny.edu, x5748
Encouraging Good Googling: Helping Students Learn to Evaluate Internet Sources
Wednesday September 25 @ 1-2pm
How can we help students learn to distinguish the good from the bad (or the ugly) online? We’ll discuss strategies to boost students’ evaluation skills and help them find credible information on the internet.
Advanced Search Techniques for Library and Internet Resources
Wednesday October 9 @ 1-2pm
Improve your research skills and go beyond the basics with Boolean operators, truncation, limiters, and other sophisticated search strategies in library databases, Google, and more.
Textbooks: Why is there a problem? What are some solutions?
Wednesday October 23 @ 1-2pm (held in the Faculty Commons N227)
What are the problems with textbooks? Why do students sometimes resist buying them? Come to this Open Access Week workshop to discuss open educational resources. Hear from faculty across the college who use them, and learn more about library resources and support for open educational materials.
Open Access Happy Hour: Open Access for the Arts
Thursday October 24 @ 4-5:30pm (held in the Faculty Lounge A632)
Using or producing creative works online requires artists and scholars to work with a nuanced (and complicated) copyright, license, and use guidelines. Find out ways to use public domain and open access resources in your creative work, and how to protect the rights of artists in online environments.
Finding Scholarly Information with Google Scholar
Wednesday November 6 @ 1-2pm
Explore the resources found in Google Scholar (conference papers, preprints, journal articles, etc.). We’ll also customize Scholar preferences to facilitate full-text access from home or office computers.
Using Photoshop to Create Graphics for Instruction
Wednesday November 13 @ 1-2pm
Are you interested in creating graphics for your class or resizing your digital photographs? Learn how to use Photoshop, including the toolbar, layers, cropping, image filters, text, special effects, and more.
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I was drawn to librarianship because I’m always interested in learning something new. While conversing with other librarians, it occurs to me that a great many of us are generalists, and I’d have to class myself as one, too. But I’ve always loved the history of art and architecture. People’s passions often come alive when they are able to create memories around their interests. I love to travel and experiencing the art and architecture of another place is a big part of what makes travel so exhilarating to me.
What book (or other source) would you recommend to others from City Tech Library’s collection, and why?
I’m really enthusiastic about our subject guides! They are succinct, easily navigable web pages designed to direct students to a broad scope of resources among different disciplines. Often, it can be difficult to find a springboard when tasked with research because there is so much information to sift through. I find the subject guides especially practical because they steer the student toward developing a research plan, and provide a welcome jumping off point.
What do you like to do outside of work?
I like to be surrounded by as much green as possible in my free time. I frequent the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on a weekly basis and have most recently taken advantage of the CUNY summer schedule to make trips to New England during the extended weekends. As much as I love being in the great outdoors, I am also a huge visual consumer of New York’s cityscape; I try to look up and around me constantly. It’s the best way for me to relax!
