Need help citing your sources?
The MLA/APA Help-A-Thon
WHAT: Get help with your Works Cited list. Bring in your questions or problem citations and meet one-on-one with a librarian for how-to advice. No appointment necessary!
WHEN: Drop in anytime during one of these two hour sessions:
- Tuesday, November 24th 11 AM-1 PM
- Monday, November 30th 2-4 PM
- Thursday, December 3rd 2:30-4:30PM
- Monday, December 7th 3-5PM
WHERE: Library Lab (E101-B)
MLA style is used in English and the Humanities. Whether you are new to MLA or if you have used it in the past you may want to take advantage of one of these drop-in sessions to get help or to verify your citations.
APA style is used in Allied Health, Psychology, and the Social Sciences. It is very different from MLA and you may want to get some one-on-one assistance completing your APA bibliography. We're here to help and answer your questions!
Are you backing up your files?
Check out this great Lifehacker posting on ways to back up your files. Data redundancy is important and necessary: "Your files should exist in at least two places, or it's no longer a backup - and your data is at risk."
There's also a comparative review of newer online backup/file-syncing tools like Dropbox and Mozy.
Here's a quick video description of Dropbox:
Short Takes on Literature: Amina Gautier and David Wong Louie
Short Takes on Literature: Amina Gautier - "Dance for Me" and David Wong Louie - "Cold Hearted"
Thursday, November 19, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m., Library Conference Room
Read and discuss Amina Gautier and David Wong Louie with us on Thursday, November 19 from 2:30 to 4:30 in the Library Conference Room.
For details, click the Programs & Workshops link on our home page, or visit http://library.laguardia.edu/services/programs.
Short Takes on Literature: Hisaye Yamamoto and Stephanie Vaughn
SHORT TAKES ON LITERATURE: HISAYE YAMAMOTO - "SEVENTEEN SYLLABLES " AND STEPHANIE VAUGHN - "ABLE, BAKER, CHARLIE, DOG"
Thursday, November 12, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m., Library Conference Room
Read and discuss Hisaye Yamamoto and Stephanie Vaughn with us on Thursday, November 12 from 2:30 to 4:30 in the Library Conference Room.
For details, click the Programs & Workshops link on our home page, or visit http://library.laguardia.edu/services/programs.
Hisaye Yamamoto, who was born in 1921, was interred in a Japanese camp along with thousands of others during World War II. With that in mind, her touching story of poetry and her mother, written in 1949 is a great introduction to this writer who says: "the way I fell into writing was that I contracted the disease of compulsive reading…all kinds of junk. One day I wrote… (and it was) printed in its entirety, and I must say, to see my very own words in print, it was like some heady wine. I was hooked for life."
Our second author, Stephanie Vaughn, writes about her father, an uncompromising military man whose rules and education inspire and confuse her, yet lead her to understand how complex a father’s love is.
The Future of Textbooks
Fabulous Fall Workshops from the Library
30 Minute Workshop: Finding the 'e' in Textbooks
Textbook options and future possibilities will be discussed. We hope to have an informative conversation about new developments like textbook rentals, e-book reader pilot projects and the future of textbooks themselves. Come by and share your experiences and opinions. Presented by Dianne Conyers and Ann Matsuuchi.
Wednesday, November 11, 11:00 - 11:30am, Library Conference Room, E101-B
No need to pre-register - just stop by. Open to faculty, staff and students. Two 1-GB flash drives raffled at each workshop!
Short Takes on Literature: Sandra Cisneros and Junot Diaz
Read and discuss Sandra Cisneros and Junot Diaz with us on Thursday, November 5 from 2:30 to 4:30 in the Library conference room.
Short Takes on Literature: Sandra Cisneros-"Never Marry a Mexican" and Junot Diaz-"Fiesta"
For details, click the Programs & Workshops link on our home page, or visit http://library.laguardia.edu/services/programs.
Gish Jen’s “Who’s Irish”
Read and discuss Gish Jen with us on Thursday, October 29 from 2:30 to 4:30 in the Library conference room.
Short Takes on Literature: Gish Jen - "Who's Irish" and "Birthmates"
For details, click the Programs & Workshops link on our home page, or visit http://library.laguardia.edu/services/programs.
Don’t just look at Wikipedia, learn how to edit
Fabulous Fall Workshops from the Library
30 Minute Workshop: So, Whats the Big Deal with Wikipedia?
Learn how to become an editor and participate in making Wikipedia a better, more trustworthy tool. Presented by Ann Matsuuchi.
Wednesday, October 28th 2:00 - 2:30pm, Library Lab, E101-B
No need to pre-register - just stop by. Open to faculty, staff and students. Two 1-GB flash drives raffled at each workshop!
“All I have to do in life is mind my brother Raymond, which is enough.”
Read and discuss Alice Walker and Toni Cade Bambara with us on Thursday, October 22 from 2:30 to 4:30 in the Library conference room. Pick up a copy of the stories at the Library Reference Desk.
Short Takes on Literature: Alice Walker-"Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self" and Toni Cade Bambara-"Raymond's Run"
For details, click the Programs & Workshops link on our home page, or visit http://library.laguardia.edu/services/programs.
Guerrilla Pedagogy
Information 2.0: Knowledge in the Digital Age - lecture series
Join us for an exciting presentation on technology and pedagogy with Dr. Matthew K. Gold, New York City College of Technology and the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program at the CUNY Graduate Center
Friday, October 16, 2009 : 9:30am - 12:00pm [Room E500]
Guerrilla Pedagogy: A Hit-and-Run Guide to Mobile, Open-Source, Aggregated Course Design; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Internets
This presentation will consider the practical and theoretical implications of using the ethos of the open-source software movement as a guiding force for classroom pedagogy. Embracing the principles of open-source in the digital classroom involves distinct notions of openness, transparency, sharing, and student-centeredness that are, in many ways, anathema not just to corporate content management systems such as Blackboard, but also to deeply ingrained ideas concerning the role of higher educational institutions in public life. Responding critically and creatively to the possibilities opened up by new communications technologies can and should entail a reexamination of the assumptions regarding the ways in which students and teachers relate to course materials and to each other.
Presenter Biography
The first speaker in the Information 2.0 series is Dr. Matthew K. Gold an Assistant Professor of English at New York City College of Technology and a faculty member in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. His teaching and research interests center on the digital humanities, multimodal writing, open-source pedagogy, and new-media studies. Matt is Project Director of Looking for Whitman: The Poetry of Place in the Life and Work of Walt Whitman, an experiment in online multi-campus pedagogy funded by two Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants from the NEH Office of Digital Humanities. He is also Project Director of the CUNY Academic Commons, a new academic social network dedicated to building community across the 23 campuses in the City University of New York system. For more information on Dr. Gold's research and teaching, visit: http://mkgold.net/.
Register here: http://digitalageknowledge.eventbrite.com/
Wonder Bread and Curry
Read and discuss Jhumpa Lahiri with us on Thursday, October 15 from 2:30 to 4:30 in the Library conference room. Pick up a copy of the stories at the Library Reference Desk.
Short Takes on Literature: Jhumpa Lahiri - "A Temporary Matter" - Interpreter of Maladies
For details, click the Programs & Workshops link on our home page, or visit http://library.laguardia.edu/services/programs.
Smart phones, smart people
Fabulous Fall Workshops from the Library
30 Minute Workshop: Smart Phones, Smart People: Research on the GO!
Drop in and learn about new ways of using mobile technologies. Albert Neal will present a look at mobile research applications (apps) available for use with smartphones (iPhone, G1, Android, etc.)
Wednesday, October 14th @ 3:30 - 4:00 in the Library Lab
Short Takes on Literature Resumes!
Short Takes on Literature Resumes Friday, October 9 and every Thursday through November 19.
ALL SESSIONS WILL BE HELD IN THE LIBRARY CONFERENCE ROOM
Oct 9 (FRIDAY) 2:30- 4:30 - We'll be reading and discussing two stories by Sherman Alexie- "The War Dances" and "What You Pawn I Will Redeem"
For details, click the Programs & Workshops link on our home page, or visit http://library.laguardia.edu/services/programs.
Watching Films Online
The Library's Streaming Media Project is continuing to be successfully used to view and screen films/programs in the library and on-campus. Be sure to check out new additions: http://media.laguardia.edu/search/
If you're at home, off-campus, you can turn to a free database that indexes free and legal sources to watch feature-length films online. No login necessary.
Speedcine indexes feature length movies - by their definition at least 60 minutes long and not television shows - they currently have 16,000 movies in their database, with a total of 25,000 planned for the end of 2009. Most are not free, but viewing options are given. When you search for a movie, you're provided with multiple ways to watch the movie. Free titles include: Spike Jonze's Adaptation, Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, Werner Herzog's Enigma of Kasper Hauser, and the documentary, The Life And Times Of Allen Ginsberg.
(via Lifehacker)
Free software, free access events
Some free software community-building events are happening in NYC this week:
- September 19 - Software Freedom Day
- September 22 - OneWebDay - Free events/symposia to promote community advocacy for universal and equal access to the Internet. Also available via webcast.
Last September, the Free Software Foundation posted this explanation of free software from British polymath, Stephen Fry (aka Jeeves):
