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November 2024 is International Games Month. Come to the CSI Library on Tuesday November 5 and Thursday November 7, 2024 from 12:30pm-4:30pm in the library rotunda for Open Games Week. Board games will be available. Come to the CSI Library rotunda to de-stress and play games! 
CUNY VOTES - check your voter registration and find links to voting resources
The CSI Library purchased a record player for students, faculty, and staff to play these records. The vinyl record collection is housed on the 1st floor of the Library near the reference desk. Patrons may borrow headphones at the circulation/reserves desk and listen to a record. Learn more at https://library.csi.cuny.edu/blog/vinyl-record-collection
International Education Week (IEW) is November 18 through 22, 2024 this year. Join the CSI Library for a film screenings of the following 2 films during Club hours. Both films are CLUE events and will be held in the library theatre, room 1L-103. Black Girl (1966, 59 minutes) from Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène tells the story of a a young Senegalese woman who becomes a maid for a French couple, but is mistreated and made aware of her race. This film will be shown on Tues Nov 19, 2024 from 2:30pm-3:30pm. On Thurs Nov 21, 2024, we will show a screening of the film On The Roof : El Techo (2017, 1 hr. 15 min), a film by Cuban director Patricia Ramos Hernández. The film is about three young Cubans who are crowded in a decaying neighbourhood of Havana who imagine prosperous futures for themselves as they struggle to meet the demands of everyday life.
Come Hang Out with Schuyler, The Therapy Dog! Sky is visiting the CSI Library this fall during Club hours on Tuesdays Sep.10, Oct.22, Oct.29, Nov.26, and Dec.10 2:30pm-3:15pm, room 1L-110
Sign Up for a New York Public Library Card Tuesday Club Hours 2:30pm-4:30pm CSI Library Rotunda Fall 2024 dates! Sep.10 Oct.22 Oct.29 Nov.26 Dec.10
Re-Charge at the CSI Library ! We now have phone charging stations! Charging cables for phones and laptops are also available for loan at the Circulation /Reserves Desk!
Check out the New Generative AI Faculty Guide at https://library.csi.cuny.edu/ai or use slide link to visit guide.
New library research guide: On Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Racism. Visit guide at library.csi.cuny.edu/islamophobia
Open Educational Resources (OER) saved CSI students $1,621,135 in textbook costs from 2017 to 2023. Click this slide to learn more about OER and Zero Textbook Courses (ZTC).
New online resource from the library: America's News by NewsBank A comprehensive collection of 3700 U.S. news sources, including the Staten Island advance! Click to access (CSI login required if connecting from off-campus).
Introducing Gale Primary Sources - Archives Unbound, a new database at the CSI Library! Use it to find primary source materials in American History and related fields. Click to access (CSI login required for off-campus users). (Images in slide include: FBI File on Eleanor Roosevelt; Federal surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984; American Indian movement and Native American Radicalism; Liberation Movement in Africa and African America; and International Climatic Changes and Global Warming.)
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Stop AAPI hate (Illustration by @amberchia12)
CSI Library's website on Race Matters and Social Justice
Need help with your research? Chat with a Librarian online through our ask-a-librarian service.
Check out our Digitized Student Publications!
Take our online CC Clue library tutorial now! Click this slide to take the tutorial.
National Geographic Virtual Library Magazine Archive Browse the full text of magazines, or search a variety of images such as maps, charts, portraits, engravings, or diagrams Learn more here! URL: https://library.csi.cuny.edu/blog/ngvl
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Citation Help Guide
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Internet Archive Scholar searches over 25 million research articles preserved in the Internet Archive, from digitized copies of 18th century journals to Open Access conference proceedings and pre-prints. Click for more info.
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Explore Our FDLP Government Documents Collection

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