News from the City Tech Library
The Ursula C. Schwerin Library at New York City College of Technology will host an exhibit of the photography of English Professor Carole K. Harris from October 8 through November 8, 2008, in the library showcase windows, Atrium 4th floor, 300 Jay Street (at Tillary), Downtown Brooklyn. Admission is free.
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The Library Exhibits Committee has approved the following exhibit proposals for the 2008/09 academic year. The current Brooklyn Bridge exhibit will remain up until the end of August 2008.
September 2008 – Banned Book Month display
October 2008 – Photographs by Prof. Carole Harris (English)
November 2008 – Photographs by Barbara Kitai (English)
December 2008/January 2009 – Toy/model trains from Professors Nicholas Manos and Robert Russo
February 2009 – African American History Month (theme to be announced) + quilts from Prof. Marta Effinger
March/April 2009 – Brooklyn in the later decades of the 20th century, from Brooklyn College’s Archives
May/August 2009 – The plays of August Wilson
In addition there will be smaller displays in the interior display cases, such as the Italian American History Month display from Prof. Phil Russo in October 2008.
Join your faculty and staff colleagues on Wednesday, May 21 from 10:00 to 11:30 in the A632 faculty lounge for an informal program celebrating the 125th anniversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. Coffee and other light refreshment will be served.
Our featured speaker is Prof. Robert Zagaroli, Chair, Architectural Technology, who will use graphics to illustrate his talk on the architecture and history of “The Great Bridge” and Brooklyn in the late 1800s. This will be followed with discussion, short readings “from the floor” (e.g. from Walt Whitman or Hart Crane), and the usual end-of-semester revelry. (Click here for the flyer).
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The library has a new exhibit called Living Off the Land in Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos. Read below for more information.
C. Bangs, who served as a NASA Faculty Fellow in 2002-04, created the art in this exhibition. Living in the Land in Space, which Ms. Bangs coauthored with her husband, Prof. Gregory Matloff of the NYCCT Physics Department and NASA manager Les Johnson, was publisher by Springer-Copernicus in 2007. Living Off the Land in Space demonstrates how future space pioneers and explorers might utilize the resources of the solar system, just as terrestrial pioneers and explorers used the resources of the Earth in spreading human settlement aroudn the globe. Space is not about individual heroics or national pride. Ultimately, it deals with the survival of the human species and other terrestrial life forms.
This exhibit will be on display in the Library during the months of March and April, 2008.
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