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Wikicurious about NYC?

In collaboration with Wikimedia NYC, City Tech Library is hosting an event on November 6 from 4-8pm for anyone who is wikicurious—that is, new to Wiki-editing and eager to learn more. We’ll focus our energy on editing Wikidata items and Wikipedia articles for individuals and neighborhoods identified through Wikimedia NYC’s NYC400 campaign.

Are you new to Wikipedia? This is your opportunity to learn the ropes! Do you have a lot of experience as an editor? Spend time with us taking a deep dive into some of the NYC content that the NYC400 campaign has identified for improvement. Food and drinks will be provided.

Find more information and register online on the NYC 400 City Tech Edit-a-thon event page.

Accessibility Information

This event will be taking place in a classroom in City Tech Library. That classroom is accessed via a short flight of stairs; the wheelchair lift for those stairs is currently broken. Access can be provided to the room via another route if needed; please reach out to the event organizers and we will help you navigate access.

The OER Team at City Tech Library is seeking applications for the January Open Educational Practices Institute for Part-Time Faculty. (Chairs and full-time faculty, please recommend to your part-time colleagues!)

The Institute provides asynchronous and synchronous virtual training on using free and openly-licensed materials for courses and foregrounding student-centered pedagogical approaches.

More specifically, participants will learn and discuss:

• How to identify OER and other free and open resources
• How copyright, open licensing, and fair use works in the context of course materials
• How to make your course materials more accessible
• How to bring student-centered pedagogy into your open educational practices

As a culmination to the intensive, participants will redesign a class activity or assignment using free and open resources that incorporate student-centered pedagogical principles. To qualify as a zero-textbook cost OER, faculty can select course materials that are:

• Open educational resources that are Creative Commons (openly) licensed, including, but not limited to, open textbooks
• Public domain materials
• Freely available web resources that do not violate copyright
• Library-licensed digital resources, including articles and eBooks

Eligibility

Part-time faculty members at City Tech in any discipline with an active appointment are eligible to apply.

Faculty commitments/compensation

Participants will be compensated with a $1200 stipend for a commitment of 20 hours of project work, including asynchronous work and synchronous virtual training sessions. Participants will need to be available to attend all four synchronous sessions to receive the stipend. The final project, redesigning a class-assignment/activity incorporating open educational practices, must be completed by Friday, February 14, 2026.

Institute Dates

• Thursday, January 8th, 2026, 10:00-11:30am
• Tuesday, January 13th, 2026, 10:00-11:30am
• Thursday, January 15th, 2026, 10:00-11:30am
• Tuesday, January 20th, 2026, 10:00-11:30am  

Please fill out the OEP Institute application by December 1, 2025.

If you have questions about the Institute or application process, please contact Joshua Peach, OER Librarian at jpeach@citytech.cuny.edu

As the new semester begins, the Open Educational Resources team at City Tech Library would like to invite you to learn more about free and open educational resources (OER) and how they can support instruction and student access to course materials in your classes. From the basics of OER to more advanced topics, workshops will be offered over the Fall semester. Our first session of the semester will be:

Introduction to Open Educational Resources

Wednesday, October 8th, 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.

Register in advance for this meeting on Zoom. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Participants are encouraged to bring questions to the sessions; no level of familiarity with OER is required. Workshops will be conducted remotely over Zoom. Part-time faculty who participate will be compensated at their hourly non-teaching adjunct rate for attending.

If you have any questions about this workshop, please contact Joshua Peach at jpeach@citytech.cuny.edu

For questions about other OER initiatives at City Tech, email OER Librarian Cailean Cooney at ccooney@citytech.cuny.edu