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-9pm and Fridays from 9-7pm. 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!
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.
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 Tours
Library tours are for anyone–students, staff, and faculty–wanting an orientation to the physical library and overview of in-person and online library services and resources. Tours meet just outside the library entrance and last about 30 minutes.
Upcoming tours:
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- Tuesday, February 25, 5pm
- Thursday, February 28, 1pm
Library Research Workshops
Research workshops are for any students who want to learn more about conducting academic research and using the library’s electronic and print resources. Workshops take place during club hour in L540, start at 1pm sharp, last 1 hour.
Research Workshops this Spring:
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- Thursday, March 6
- Thursday, March 13
- Thursday, March 20
- Thursday, April 3
- Thursday, April 10
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.
Teaching asynchronously or want your students to learn research skills at their own pace? Share the library’s tutorials and research guides with your students. The library is also automatically embedded in Brightspace courses (under “Tools”) and you can add library widgets to your OpenLab site.
Contact your library subject specialist with questions or for support for your asynchronous class.
For general questions about library instruction, contact Prof. Anne Leonard, library instruction coordinator.
Support for Scholarly Publishing
The library can support your research!
We offer a workshop series every spring including: Get Evidence (April 8), a PARSE-related workshop on how you can find quantitative and qualitative data to document the impact of your work and Get Organized: Zotero Basics (May 5).
This semester the library will host a panel discussion on Art and Alternative Scholarship (April 4). The panel will explore the shifting landscapes of socially engaged and experimental art and research practices and how these shifts have the potential to transform institutional paradigms around scholarly impact.
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
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.
We also offer workshops on zoom. Upcoming workshops include:
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- Intro to Open Educational Resources, Wednesday, February 19 from 11-noon (register in advance)
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- Accessibility Tune-up, Wednesday, March 5 from 11-noon (register in advance)
Questions about assigning OER and other zero-cost resources, creating, and sharing your OER with a wider audience? Contact Prof. Anne Leonard, interim OER coordinator.
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.
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