Tag: Newsletter: Spring 2016

by Prof. Junior Tidal

Kimberly Abrams

Electronic Resources and Cataloging Librarian

What is your academic and library background?

by Prof. Maura Smale
Hello and welcome to the City Tech Library’s Spring 2016 newsletter. As I write this we are in midterms at the college and the library is full of folks taking advantage of the resources and services we offer for all of our 17,000 City Tech students as well as faculty and staff. Continue reading “The Chief Librarian’s Corner”

by Prof. Monica Berger
Increase the readership of your scholarship and how often your work is cited! CUNY Academic Works is a new platform to make your scholarship available to a wider audience of scholars and the general public. Continue reading “Showcase Your Scholarship and More with CUNY Academic Works”

by Prof. Cailean Cooney

“We could all pay $25 and share the textbook”
– Heard in the Atrium on the second day of Spring classes, 2/2/16

The beginning of the semester is an exciting and crucial point in the year. It demands heightened patience and attention from the whole college community as we adjust to the swell of students and a surge in academic activity. Continue reading ““We could all pay $25 and share the textbook””

by Prof. Monica Berger
For Open Access Week 2015, we highlighted City Tech’s own Open Access journal, NANO: New American Notes Online http://www.nanocrit.com/. NANO‘s mission is to “invigorate humanities discourse by publishing brief, peer-reviewed reports with a fast turnaround enabled by new technologies.” Issues are themed and articles often incorporate multimedia. Sean Scanlan, English Department, is NANO‘s founder and editor. We recently asked Sean to tell us more about NANO. Continue reading “An Interview with Sean Scanlan, English Department, On Open Access and More”

Nora Almeida

Nora Almeida has been researching and writing about pedagogy and information literacy. This past semester her article “Librarian as Outsider” appeared in Hybrid Pedagogy and her book chapter, “Podcasting as Pedagogy” is forthcoming in The Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook (ACRL press, 2016). Continue reading “City Tech Library Faculty Scholarship and Research”

by Prof. Tess Tobin
Half of the world’s population lacks access to information online.  As trusted established networks, libraries are in the position to offset this information gap. Libraries can work across regional and cultural barriers to empower communities to become better informed and understand data that is critical to sustainable development. Continue reading “Bridging the Digital and Information Gap: Libraries and the United Nation 2030 Sustainable Development Goals”