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September 10, 2012

Faculty Workshop: Harnessing the Power of eBooks for Research and Instruction

Harnessing the Power of eBooks for Research and Instruction

Did you know the City Tech Library has over 270,000 eBooks? They’re all available 24/7 and can be accessed using your computer, smartphone, e-reader, or tablet. Learn how to find eBooks in the library, discover how easy it is to download and use them, and find out how eBooks can be assigned as reading material for your students.
Workshop is open to all City Tech faculty and staff.
DATE: Wednesday, September 12, 2012
VENUE: Rm A441 in the City Tech Library, Atrium Bldg.
TIME: 1.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m.
RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale, msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 718-260-5748.
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February 23, 2012

Faculty Workshop: Maximizing minimally

The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to a library workshop: Maximizing minimally: Keeping current using RSS, alerts, and more. Discover how to set up RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds and alerts in your favorite databases and internet sources to keep track of the latest research in journals, news sources, associations, and blogs.
This workshop will be held on Wednesday, February 29, 1-2pm in Rm. A540 (library classroom). RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 260-5748.

October 5, 2011

Faculty Workshop: Copyright and Fair Use in the Digital Teaching Environment

The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to a library workshop. Do you know how copyright and fair use applies to online courses, class blogs and other web-based teaching tools? Are you interested in making material available to students online, but aren’t sure how to do so legally? Do you have questions about intellectual property and the responsibilities and rights that you and your students have when posting class work online? In this workshop we’ll discuss these issues and look at some of the tools and guidelines available for your use.
This workshop will be held on Wednesday, October 12, 1-2pm in Rm. A540 (library classroom). RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 260-5748.

May 2, 2011

Choose Privacy Week begins today!

This week is Choose Privacy Week, an event sponsored by the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and designed to raise awareness about privacy and our freedom to read, search, and learn.
Here at the City Tech Library we’ll be blogging all week about all kinds of privacy-related topics: how to protect our privacy, strategies for making sure we only reveal the information we want to reveal, and lots of other privacy issues we face today.
To kick things off, here’s a list of organizations and people who are participating in the conversation around privacy, as well as videos of folks like authors Cory Doctorow and Clay Shirky and organizations like Google and the ALA discussing various privacy concerns.
Feel free to add your favorite privacy-related links in our comments, below.

April 6, 2011

Photoshop Workshop for Faculty

Faculty, come to a workshop in the City Tech Library! Are you interested in creating graphics for your class? Would you like to learn how to resize your digital photographs? This workshop will focus on the basics of Adobe Photoshop. Participants will have a better understanding of the toolbar, layers, cropping, image filters, text, special effects, and more.
Date: Wednesday, April 13th
Time: 1 – 2 pm
Workshops are open to all City Tech faculty and staff. All workshops are held in our small classroom (Rm A441) on the 4th Fl. of the City Tech Library, Atrium, unless otherwise noted. RSVP is strongly suggested to Prof. Maura Smale, msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 718-260-5748.
For more information, view our full list of faculty workshops.

March 30, 2011

RefWorks Workshop for Faculty

Faculty, come to a workshop in the City Tech Library and learn how to streamline your research with RefWorks, a bibliographic citation management tool available to all City Tech faculty. Import references from online databases, organize your references into folders by topic or project, and generate a bibliography formatted in a variety of citation styles.
Date: Wednesday, April 6th
Time: 1 – 2 pm
Workshops are open to all City Tech faculty and staff. All workshops are held in our small classroom (Rm A441) on the 4th Fl. of the City Tech Library, Atrium, unless otherwise noted. RSVP is strongly suggested to Prof. Maura Smale, msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 718-260-5748.
For more information, view our full list of faculty workshops.

March 3, 2011

Faculty Workshop: Good Googling

Faculty, come to a workshop in the City Tech Library and learn about encouraging your students to practice good Googling. There are millions of websites out there on the internet. How can we help students learn to distinguish the good from the bad (or the ugly)? In this workshop we’ll discuss strategies to boost students’ evaluation skills and help them find credible information on the internet.
Date: Wednesday, March 9th
Time: 1 – 2 pm
Workshops are open to all City Tech faculty and staff. All workshops are held in our small classroom (Rm A441) on the 4th Fl. of the City Tech Library, Atrium, unless otherwise noted. RSVP is strongly suggested to Prof. Maura Smale, msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 718-260-5748.
For more information, view our full list of faculty workshops.

February 21, 2011

PubMed Workshop for Faculty

Faculty, come to a workshop in the City Tech Library and learn about using the PubMed database to find biomedical information. In this workshop we’ll provide an overview of PubMed from the National Library of Medicine, including its scope and content (e.g., how it differs from MEDLINE); building a search using keywords, MeSH terms, and other search tools; and accessing full-text articles in PubMed Central and City Tech Library databases.
Date: Wednesday, February 23rd
Time: 1 – 2 pm
Workshops are open to all City Tech faculty and staff. All workshops are held in our small classroom (Rm A441) on the 4th Fl. of the City Tech Library, Atrium, unless otherwise noted. RSVP is strongly suggested to Prof. Maura Smale, msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 718-260-5748.
For more information, view our full list of faculty workshop.

November 29, 2010

Faculty Workshop: Using RefWorks for Citation Management

The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to a workshop. Streamline your research with RefWorks, a bibliographic citation management tool available to all City Tech faculty. Import references from online databases, organize your references into folders by topic or project, and generate a bibliography formatted in a variety of citation styles.
This workshop will be held on Wednesday, December 1, 1-2 pm in the Library, Rm. A540 (eclassroom). RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 260-5748.

October 1, 2010

Faculty Workshop: Finding Scholarly Information with Google Scholar

Explore Google Scholar
Did you know that you can use Google Scholar to find conference papers, preprints, anthology chapters, journal articles and more? Come to the next Faculty Workshop to find out how you can customize your search preferences to get full-text access from your home or office computer.
This workshop is open to all City Tech faculty members.
Date: Wednesday, October 6 2010
Venue: Rm A540 on the 5th fl. of the City Tech Library, Atrium Bldg
Time: 1:00-2:00pm
RSVP is encouraged to Prof Maura Smale, msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 718-260-5748.
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