Faculty and Students: are your textbooks at the library?
City Tech Library is a great place for students to borrow textbooks. Faculty are welcome to request that their course textbooks be placed on Reserve, for students to easily access.
What does it mean when a textbook is on Reserve?
Reserve loans are for two hours, to be used within the library only. Students can check out Reserve loans with their City Tech ID at the Borrow & Return desk near the library entrance.
Two-hour reserve loans make it possible for more students to use a textbook.
Faculty: Request copies of your textbooks to be on Reserve
Get started by searching the library collection through our website, to check if we already have copies of the books you’ve assigned on your syllabus.
If the library doesn’t have a book — or hasn’t placed it on Reserve — please use our Course Reserve Request Form to request that the Library place a copy for reserve. We’ll respond to your request as soon as possible.
Please place requests as soon as possible; we purchase textbooks on a first-come, first-served basis and orders for new books may take a few weeks to be delivered.
Students: Check the library for your textbooks
Begin by searching the library collection through our website.
You may find copies of your textbooks on Reserve at City Tech. You can also change your search results to look for books at other CUNY Libraries, or across SUNY Libraries; see an example in the screenshot below.
You can request books from other CUNY and SUNY Libraries, to be delivered for you at City Tech Library. You’ll receive an email when they’re ready for you to pick up at the library.
Can’t find your textbook this way? Faculty and students are also welcome to request books through Interlibrary Loan. Read more about Interlibrary Loan on our website.
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City Tech Library has trial access to Art History resources from Oxford University Press
City Tech faculty, staff, and students have free access from August 5 through September 5, 2024 to a set of exciting Art History resources from Oxford University Press.
These online databases include the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, and Oxford Bibliographies for Art History and for Architecture, Preservation & Planning.
The Benezit Dictionary of Artists, one of the most comprehensive and definitive resources of artists biographies available. Revered for its global scope and its excellent coverage of European artists, Benezit is distinguished by its coverage of lesser-known artists, images of artists’ signatures, historical auction records, and lists of museum holdings.
Start using the Benezit Dictionary of Artists: Go to https://cityte.ch/benezit. If you are off campus, you will be prompted to log in with your CUNY login first.
Oxford Bibliographies for Art History and Architecture, Preservation & Planning
This series of guides—resembling an annotated bibliography or high-level encyclopedia—provides a path to the best available scholarship across a wide range of humanities subjects. Annotations from top scholars help you identify the most relevant issues for research in any field.
Read about the Art History collection and the Architecture, Planning, & Preservation collection.
Start using these bibliographies: Go to https://cityte.ch/oxbib. If you are off campus, you will be prompted to log in with your CUNY login first.
Questions about these databases? Please do not hesitate to Ask a Librarian.
Let us know what you think: We would love faculty feedback on how this database could support your teaching and research. Please share your thoughts through this form.
City Tech Library has trial access to Bloomsbury Visual Arts’ Design Studies Collection
City Tech faculty, staff, and students have free access from August 5 through September 30, 2024, to Boomsbury Visual Arts Design Studies Collection, a database that brings together scholarly material about design research, product design, interior design, furniture, sustainability, and marketing and advertising.
Access this database: Visit https://cityte.ch/bloomvis to start searching. If you are off campus, you will be prompted to log in with your CUNY login first.
More about what’s inside:
- this database spans topics across design research, product design, interior design, furniture, sustianability, and marketing and advertising.
- materials feature internationally renowned scholars. This content has been curated to feature titles that are essential for research and study.
- Title highlights include: Visual Culture and Decolonisation in Britain by Anandi Ramamurthy; The Culture of Nature in the History of Design by Kjetil Fallan; Thinking Design Through Literature by Susan Yelavich
Questions about this database? Please do not hesitate to Ask a Librarian.
Let us know what you think: We would love faculty feedback on how this database could support your teaching and research. Please share your thoughts through this form.
Updates to Naxos Music Library
City Tech Library provides students, faculty, and staff with access to Naxos Music Library, an online database of music recordings that range from classical and jazz to world music and folk.
Important new updates to this database include a responsive website design that works better on any device and that enhances accessibility, as well as a new search feature for searching only within the booklets of recordings.
To access Naxos Music Library visit http://cityte.ch/nml. If you are off campus or not using campus wifi, you will first be asked to log in with your CUNY login.
To explore the new booklet search, click “Search Booklet” at the top right corner of your screen:
You’ll then be able to enter search terms that will be used to find results only in the booklets that accompany recordings:
Results from this search will take you directly to PDFs of relevant recording booklets.
Naxos Music Library at City Tech Library has a limit of 3 simultaneous users. For any questions about using this or other databases, please Ask a Librarian.
Printing in the library is down, Tuesday, June 26th
The library is experiencing technical difficulties with the printers today.
Students may print on the ground floor of the Library Building, or the 2nd floor of the Voorhees Building.
This Juneteenth, Take an Audio Tour of Brooklyn’s Abolitionist History
The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission has announced “a new interactive audio tour exploring Brooklyn’s significant role in the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad,” entitled “More Than a Brook: Brooklyn Abolitionist Heritage Walk.” The walk is 4.5-miles and has 19 stops in Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, and Fort Greene. If you want to listen to the tour without the additional visual and interactive elements, the audio files are on Sound Cloud.
New York City College of Technology has a new open access publishing agreement with the American Chemical Society
While City Tech Library has had a subscription to ACS Publications for several years, we’re happy to share that our agreement with the American Chemical Society now allows CUNY authors to publish open access with no additional charges.
What does this mean? CUNY authors who submit manuscripts to an ACS publication will, after acceptance of their manuscript, be given the option to make their article available open access at no extra cost upon publication. Open access publishing sometimes incurs an additional charge to the author (an article processing charge or APC); this new agreement with ACS removes that fee for CUNY authors.
This agreement only applies to submitting corresponding authors who are affiliated with institutions listed on the agreement details page. See a full list of eligible ACS publications at this link.
This new publishing arrangement provides more City Tech faculty with options to share their research immediately upon publication and meet funder requirements for open access.