Posted on December 19, 2008 by Monica
ARTstor Collections Summary 2008
In 2008, the community continued to contribute important and unique collections to the ARTstor Digital Library. ARTstor released 22 new collections, added content to 21 existing collections, and reached agreements with 33 new museums, photoarchives, libraries, scholars, professional photographers, and artists and artists’ estates. The ARTstor Digital Library collection now totals 890,000 [...]
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Posted on December 15, 2008 by Maura Smale
City Tech Students: take the iSkills Information & Communication Technology Literacy Test and enter to WIN $200!!!
Every student who takes iSkills enters a drawing for one 1st prize of $200 and five 2nd prizes of $100. Chances of YOU winning are 1 in 33 – those are great odds!
Extra bonus: You’ll get a customized report [...]
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Posted on December 3, 2008 by JT
The Ursula C. Schwerin Library at New York City College of Technology will host an exhibit in its showcase windows of Lionel trains from the collections of Professors Nicholas Manos, Restorative Dentistry, and Robert Russo, Vision Care Technology, from December 9, 2008, through January 31, 2009, 300 Jay Street (at Tillary), Atrium 4th Floor, Downtown [...]
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Posted on December 1, 2008 by Monica
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to attend a workshop on Open Access publishing and digital libraries. The Open Access movement is revolutionizing scholarly communication–scholars are making their research freely available on the Internet. Many Open Access journals are published online only and are peer-reviewed. [...]
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Posted on December 1, 2008 by Monica
We’ve upgraded to Black Drama, Second Edition, which adds 110 plays (for a total of 1310 plays) from 210 playwrights to the collection. New and notable additions to the second edition include plays written by Pearl Cleage (American), Maryse Conde (Guadeloupean), Alice Childress (American), Femi Euba (Nigerian), James Weldon Johnson (American), Adrienne Kennedy (American), Anna [...]
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