After 17 years at the City Tech Library, Tess Tobin is retiring. We sat down with Tess to talk about fake news, her work as an advocate for Latino populations in professional library organizations, and how the library has changed during the course of her tenure at City Tech. We’ll miss you, Tess!
What made you first become interested in being a librarian?
As a child I spent a lot of time in my local library. It was a beautiful Carnegie built library and seemed palatial at the time, but the reading rooms were full of activity and it was a place to get lost among the stacks. There was never a library school or librarian at any of my high school career fairs, and for some reason, I never thought of librarianship as a viable profession.
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As a child I spent a lot of time in my local library. It was a beautiful Carnegie built library and seemed palatial at the time, but the reading rooms were full of activity and it was a place to get lost among the stacks. There was never a library school or librarian at any of my high school career fairs, and for some reason, I never thought of librarianship as a viable profession.
Continue reading “Librarian Profile: Tess Tobin”
The City Tech Library is commemorating the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a landmark piece of legislation that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. The act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on August 6, 1965. The primary purpose was to eliminate state and local laws that prevented large numbers of African Americans from exercising their constitutional right to vote. 
TECHNE is the annual publication of student and faculty work from the Department of Architecture at the New York City College of Technology. You can find back issues archived in 
