New Guide to Fair Use in Education

Copyright, designed to protect the legal rights of creators of ideas, texts, images and other media, can be confusing, and fair use of materials for educational purposes can be difficult to assess. A new guide to fair use of all types of media for education was released earlier this month by the Center for Social [...]

City Tech Sixth Annual Poster Session

The library recently participated in City Tech’s Sixth Annual Poster Session. Our display, entitled Partners in Scholarship, Teaching, and Pedagogy, presents how the library supports faculty and student research. Tools such as the website, electronic resources, CLICs, and Interlibrary loan are useful for both scholarship and research.

Faculty Poster Session

HighWire Journals in Ebsco Databases

Links to the 326 journals in Stanford’s open access HighWire are now available in Ebsco databases. Many of these journals are in science but there are a considerable number of titles in the social sciences, humanities, and other areas. HighWire offers 2,029,167 articles free of charge.
In Ebsco, look for “Check Highwire Press for Full Text.” Note [...]

Obama Profiled in Oxford African American Studies Center

To mark a very special moment in our nation’s history, the Oxford African American Studies Center has been updated to commemorate Barack Obama’s groundbreaking victory in this year’s presidential election. In a moving essay that examines President-Elect Obama’s historic achievement alongside other watershed moments in African American history, Editor in Chief Henry Louis Gates celebrates and honors [...]

Springer Architecture Ebooks Trial

We are trialing an architecture/design ebook collection from SpringerLink through 12/8/08. There are entire ebooks as well as book chapters and the collection can be browsed by architect and other subjects. Please send comments to Monica.

Student Workshops @ the Library

City Tech students: come to the library and learn research strategies to help you complete your college assignments better and faster!
Good Googling: How to Evaluate Websites
November 19, 5-5:45pm
Research without Tears
November 20, 1-1:45pm
Finding Newspaper and Magazine Articles in LexisNexis
December 3, 5-5:45pm
Finding Journal and Magazine Articles in EBSCO
December 4, 1-1:45pm
Workshops are open to all City Tech students, [...]

Shelly Silver’s in complete world

In case you missed Shelly Silver’s screening of in complete world, the independent artist and filmmaker has graciously donated a copy of the film to the City Tech library’s multimedia collection. The film is a provocative series of vignettes, shot on the streets of New York, asking New Yorkers about the state of their lives, [...]

Using RefWorks to Manage References – A Workshop for Faculty

All City Tech faculty are invited to attend a library workshop on RefWorks, a bibliographic citation management tool available to all City Tech faculty. With RefWorks it’s easy to import references from online databases, organize your references into folders by topic or project, insert references into your documents, and generate a bibliography formatted in a [...]

New! Pop Culture Universe

Check out our new resource, Pop Culture Universe. It covers [from the publisher's website] ”new technology (iPods, gaming, gadgets)…Internet memes and chatspeak…movies, TV, radio…music…comics and graphic novels…sports and pastimes…fads, fashion, and fast food.” And it has tools for instructors to incorporate popular culture into the classroom as well as resources for student work.

Bananas, Rum, Buildings, and Stories: New Books at the City Tech Library

Selected new books in the library’s collection are featured on the new bookshelves that wrap around the staircase to the 4th floor. And yes, you can check out any of the books in the new books display. You’ll also find fiction and other leisure reading in this section, including new titles in Spanish and Russian. [...]