Welcome to a new semester! And welcome new students, staff, and faculty.
Need a book, a quiet place to study or work on a project, or research help?
Come visit us on the 4th floor of the Library building Mondays-Thursdays from 9am-8pm, Fridays from 9am-7pm, and Saturdays 10am-3pm. Learning or teaching online? We’ve still got you covered.
Get virtual help 24X7
If you’re off campus or up late working on a project and need help Just Ask us!
You can chat with (real human!) CUNY Librarians on weekdays and librarians from other institutions on evenings and weekends.
Access Library Resources from Off-Campus
Use your CUNY login to access library databases, research articles, movies, and ebooks from off campus. Login to “My Library Account” on the library website to see your loans, renew books, and check on requests for books from other CUNY campuses.
If your preferred name isn’t associated with your library account, you can change that!
Maybe you didn’t already know…
City Tech students, faculty, and staff have free access to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal! Use your City Tech email to sign up (or renew your subscription).
The library lends podcasting equipment! Check out a podcasting kit from our multimedia lab. And while you’re at it…check out one of our portable turntables and our extensive vinyl record collection.
Course Reserves
You can place textbooks and required readings for your courses in the Library’s Reserve Collection for your students to use in the library.
Please place your requests as soon as possible as we purchase on a first-come, first-served basis. Request materials to be placed on reserve using this form.
Questions? Email us: NYCCTCirculation@citytech.cuny.edu
Need Something We Don’t Have?
CUNY students, faculty, and staff can request books from other CUNY AND State University of New York (SUNY) Libraries! Through this partnership with SUNY, the CUNY community has access to over 12 million items from 52 campuses. Delivery times take anywhere from 3 to 15 business days.
Faculty, staff, and students can also request physical books not available at CUNY or SUNY through Interlibrary loan (ILL). We are also continuing to fill article and individual book chapter requests and deliver them electronically. ILL is great for scholarly research and course assignments. We can also request multimedia materials and have a new reader for research on microfilm!
Your CUNY login is connected to your ILL account, so you’ll have one less password to remember! Questions? Email us: interlibraryloan@citytech.cuny.edu
Library Instruction Offerings
Are you assigning papers or projects that require library research? You can request a library instruction session for your in-person or online synchronous class. We also offer tutorials and research guides to support asynchronous courses and for students who want to learn at their own pace.
Contact your library subject specialist to find out more about resources and support for your asynchronous class.
For general questions about library instruction, contact Prof. Anne Leonard, library instruction coordinator.
We’re thinking about Wikipedia!
The library is organizing a series of events related to Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other Wikiprojects over the coming year, through support from the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit cityte.ch/wiki to check out what we’ve planned. Up next on our calendars in November 2025: we’re excited to host Wikicurious about NYC.
Support for Scholarly Publishing
The library can support your research and help you throughout the publication lifecycle.!
We offer a workshop series every semester. This fall, learn how Academic Works can make your publications more visible, increasing readership and citation, at our Academic Works Demystified (November 6) workshop. Want to save time and energy on your literature review? Come to our Get Organized: Zotero Basics (December 4). Zotero is software that helps you manage your citations and more.In addition to our Scholarly Publishing Clinic, a monthly office hour for virtual consultations on the first Tuesday of the month at 3 PM, consultations are available on demand Contact Prof. Monica Berger to set up a consultation and learn more about how the library supports scholarly publishing.
Open Educational Resources
Funding Opportunity: 2025-2026 OER Fellowship
The Library seeks applicants for the 2025-26 OER Fellowship program. Begun in 2015, this funded program runs in conjunction with the CUNY-wide initiative funded by New York state to “engage faculty in the redesign of courses through the replacement of proprietary textbooks with open educational resources to reduce costs for students, accelerate their progress, and better connect curriculum and pedagogy to student learning outcomes.” Review full details and apply online by Thurs. September 18th.
Questions about seeking funding to create OER, assigning OER and other zero-cost resources? Contact Prof. Cailean Cooney, OER coordinator.
Workshop: Introduction OER
Date and Time: Wednesday October 8, 11AM – 12PM
This workshop will provide an introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) and related topics such copyright, Creative Commons licensing, Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC), and where to find free and open materials in your discipline.
Participants are encouraged to bring questions to the sessions; no level of familiarity with OER is required. Part-time faculty who participate will be compensated at their hourly non-teaching adjunct rate for attending.
Dedicated Resources
Identify open and free resources to support teaching, browse your colleagues’ contributions, and much more via the OER at City Tech site. Follow our blog for New & Noteworthy OER available in your discipline.
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