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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.

Formerly known as Gale World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean, this database has been reorganized as Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century. Access it through the Library’s A-Z list of databases, at https://cityte.ch/az. You can head straight to this database at http://cityte.ch/wsl 

What can you find inside? Use this database to explore more than 1.3 million pages of historical material across 33 archival collections from the United States and Europe, including original manuscripts, signed letters, expedition records, reports, maps, diaries, descriptions of voyages, ephemera, and more from sources such as:

• Brazil’s Popular Groups, 1966-1986
• Colección de Documentos Inéditos Relativos al Descubrimiento, Conquista Y Organización de Las Antiguas Posesiones Españolas de America Y Oceania. — Madrid : M.B. de Quyros, 1864-1884
• Conquistadors: The Struggle for Colonial Power in Latin America, 1492-1825
• Despatches From U.S. Consuls in Havana, Cuba, 1783-1906
• Latin American History and Culture: An Archival Record, Series 1: The Yale University Collection of Latin American Manuscripts, Parts 1-7
• Latin American and Iberian biographies
• Latin American Independence: Nineteenth Century Political and Official Pamphlets
• Mexican and Central American Political and Social Ephemera
• Papers of Agustin de Iturbide, 1799-1880
• US State Department records on Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico and more

(See the website for more info)

If you used this database under its former name, Gale World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean, you may be looking for some of the periodicals and reference books included in that database. Those have been moved to Gale’s Dictionary of Literary Biography (http://cityte.ch/litbio) and Gale eBooks (http://cityte.ch/gvrl).

Questions? Feel free to ask a librarian!

Did you know that the library provides access to online encyclopedias? Wikipedia isn’t the only encyclopedia on the internet these days; check out Encyclopedia Britannica (http://cityte.ch/brit) as a great starting place for your research. (Remember: if you’re off campus, you’ll be asked to use your CUNYfirst login when clicking on the links in this blog post.)

In addition to giving topic overviews, Britannica is also a terrific source for biographies. Not sure why your professor keeps mentioning Freud’s work in your class? Read a quick biography to figure out what Freud’s deal was. Desperate to find a fashion designer to write a paper about? Browse biographies by profession (click under “known for”); you can even limit by nationality, time period, and gender, and then scan the results for some ideas.

A biography in Britannica doesn’t give you all the info (we’d love to add a few more paragraphs to Aaliyah’s, but it’s a great starting point for context and keyword that you can use for further research.

(BRB, we’re reading all about Hypatia now.)

While AI is an ever-evolving field and new technology is available at an increasingly rapid pace, some of the library’s electronic resources can provide a foundation for talking more about how we use AI and how it impacts our everyday lives. We’ve provided a few starting points below; note that all of the links provided will require you to log in with your CUNY ID if you’re not on campus internet.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context is a terrific database for overviews on major issues. Their Topic Overview on AI is a great place to start: in addition to a summary of key concepts and the history of the field, they’ve also provided some critical thinking questions.

Are you interested in some of the concrete impacts AI is currently having? A quick search for “artificial intelligence” in eMarketer pulls up very recent reports on ChatGPT and Generative AI for Social Media Marketing or ChatGPT and Generative AI in Media and Advertising, to name a few. These results also include charts compiling recent poll data on impressions and use of AI.

Looking for scholarly publications on AI? One place to dive deeper is IEEE Xplore. Start with a broad search of journal articles, or head straight to a publication specific to the topic — such as IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence.

For help navigating any of these resources or for taking your research on AI further, please get in touch! Chat with us any time via Ask a Librarian.