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Welcome back students!

Welcome back, City Tech students to the new 2024 fall semester!

The Ursula C. Schwerin library and library faculty are here to support YOU in your academic pursuits. If you are trying to find a quiet place to study, getting together for a group project, or utilizing our numerous resources or books, our dedicated library staff and faculty are here to help.

New fall offerings

We have a new podcasting kits available for loan, and includes everything you need to create your own podcast, including a Mac Airbook, a microphone, and headphones.

The library now offers portable turntables as well as a selection of newer vinyl LPs focusing specifically on Hispanic and LatinX artists.

The library also has plans to schedule workshops to help you learn outside of the classroom. Check back regularly on this blog for those events and other library news.

– Junior Tidal
Chief Librarian & Department Chair

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New Database Alert! Gale Business: Entrepreneurship

New in City Tech Library’s database collection, check out Gale Business: Entrepreneurship, a comprehensive database that covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. It combines authoritative periodical and reference content to support prospective and current entrepreneurs as well as business students. Experience an easy-to-browse interface mapped to four key stages—plan, fund, start, and manage—to fit your research needs at any point in your business’s development.
To access the database, City Tech faculty, staff, and students can click on https://cityte.ch/entrepreneur. If you are off campus or off campus wifi networks, you’ll be asked to log in with your CUNY login before proceeding to the database website.
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship is a good compliment to Gale OneFile: Entrepreneurship, which provides access to 500 subject-appropriate, active, full-text periodicals, including: Beverage Industry, Black Enterprise, Economist, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, HR Magazine, Real Estate Weekly, Restaurant Business, Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, and more.
Questions? Need a hand getting started? Don’t be shy to Ask a Librarian.
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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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New Database Alert! Gale Legal Forms

City Tech Library now has access to Gale Legal Forms, a database providing a wide selection of essential state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms that can be customized for the most common legal procedures. These forms are used by attorneys and law firms. They include real estate contracts, wills, premarital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant, and many others.
Additional tools in the database include legal definitions, a law digest, and legal Q&A to build your understanding of key areas of law.
To access the database, City Tech faculty, staff, and students can click on https://cityte.ch/legalforms. If you are off campus or off campus wifi networks, you’ll be asked to log in with your CUNY login before proceeding to the database website.
Questions? Need a hand getting started? Don’t be shy to Ask a Librarian.
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New Database Alert! Pederson’s Test & Career Prep

Get free access to Pederson’s Test & Career Prep through City Tech Library.
This database provides test prep materials for a wide range of learning including:
High School:
Advanced Placement (AP), High School Equivalency, STEM
College Entrance:
Undergraduate: ACT, CLEP, DSST, SAT
Graduate School: GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT
Vocational:
find materials to prepare for certification, credentialing, and licensing exams from more than 15 career categories:
Accountant/Auditor
ACT WorkKeys
American Foreign Service Officer
Aviation and Transportation
Clerical
Cosmetology
Firefighter
Hospitality
Information Technology
Journeyman Exam Prep
Law Enforcement Careers
Medical/Nursing, including the EMT exam and NCLEX-PN and NCLEX-RN practice tests
Military
Postal
Real Estate
Social Work
Teaching
International:
U.S. Citizenship
English as a Foreign Language: TOEFL, TOEIC, IELTS
How to access: City Tech faculty, staff, and students can click on https://cityte.ch/testprep. If you are off campus or off campus wifi networks, you’ll be asked to log in with your CUNY login before proceeding to the database website.
Browse a menu of testing materials by clicking “browse menu” on the main page. Sign up for your own individual account to get started with online courses and test prep tools.
Questions? Need a hand getting started? Don’t be shy to Ask a Librarian.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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This Juneteenth, Take an Audio Tour of Brooklyn’s Abolitionist History

More Than a Brook audio tour of Brooklyn's African American historyThe 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.

Read more about “More Than a Brook” on Brownstoner. 

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