This site is designed to help you get your research projects off the ground. The library at City Tech has lot of resources that you can use to explore your topic, and the librarians are available to support you throughout the research process.

Each post on this site is designed to introduce you to a research skill or collection that you will use throughout the research process. Please take advantage of the comments sections to ask questions about the research projects.

You can explore all of these topics in more depth on the tutorials page at the City Tech Library.

Use our New York City Research Guide to explore resources that will help you to locate information about your topic.

Open search engines like Google.

You can fine-tune your results by adding keywords or using the “advanced search” option. There is a lot of great information out there, but it can take a while to sort through irrelevant or poor-quality results.

Library Catalogs and Databases.

Libraries offer a wide variety of print and online resources. Using academic library collections can be helpful, because those are designed to support the kind of research that students are asked to do. Most libraries require you to have a library card in order to borrow books or use online collections.

Library CATALOGS tend to point towards books, ebooks, and mulitimedia.  Learn more about using the CIty Tech Library catalog here.

Library DATABASES let you search large collections of online information. Learn more about using City Tech Library databases here.

City Tech Library

Brooklyn Public Library

New York Public Library

Research is a skill that you will apply both in and out of the classroom. This site focuses on the tools that are most likely to serve in writing a research paper, but being able to locate the information you need to learn about a topic or solve a problem is a skill that you will use in many parts of your life. Being able to search efficiently and effectively will save you time and help you to organize your writing.

Use the posts below as guidance during the research process. The Research Starter is designed to help you to outline your research in a way that will help you think about incorporating your sources into a written paper. Print it out so that you can take notes along the way.

Questions? Feel free to use the discussion feature to ask questions (or share tips!) about fine-tuning your research question, finding and evaluating information, creating citations, and more. If you prefer to contact the librarian directly, you can send a note directly to the librarian.

The Research Starter