NYU’s Digital Library Technology Services is digitizing and captioning decades’ of episodes of the Soul of Reason broadcast, hosted by former Tuskegee Airman and NYU Professor Dr. Roscoe Brown, Jr.
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Seven Tips to Help Wrap Up the Semester
NYU IT wants to help you across the fall finish line with useful IT services for that final paper, project, or exam. Here are seven tips and services that will help finish that final paper or project.
Vintage Texts, Modern Tech: How NYU Digitally Preserves the Past
Digital Library Technology Services is at the forefront of digitizing and archiving rare materials for scholars. From Arabic books to a photo history of the Village, here’s a look at what they do.
VR, 3D Printing, and Storytelling at 2019 NYU Research Day
The 2019 Research Day showcased the ways data science and research technology can benefit students and instructors in nearly every field of academic study. This included demonstrations of augmented and virtual reality, data visualization, 3D scanning and printing, and more.
Audio/Visual Resources at Bobst’s Avery Fisher Center
The Avery Fisher Center was recently redesigned to create a state-of-the-art environment to house and deliver its collection of film and audio recordings to the NYU community.
3D Printing and Maker Resources for NYU Langone Nursing Students
The field of nursing requires active, hands-on interactions with patients, which frequently call for new solutions to unique challenges. NYU Langone’s Lapidus Health Sciences Library is stocked with digital medical resources, a computer lab, and the 3D Printing Service, enabling students and providers to get creative with their studies and gain practical experience.
RETUR(N)INGS: A Sound Installation at Bobst Library
On September 9th, RETUR(N)INGS, a permanent electroacoustic sound art installation, opened in Bobst library’s atrium. Every day around sunset, two loudspeakers on the 4th- and 8th-floor catwalks will emit a one-to-two-minute soundscape algorithmically-programmed from Bobst’s turnstile data.
Updates on NYU Digital Library Technology Services Research and Grants
The NYU Library and Digital Library Technology Services have received a number of grants from charitable organizations which further the mission of cataloging, digitizing, and making available a wealth of information, including recent projects around academic “Git” services and university press monographs.
Digital Humanities + Data
In the 1800s, Colden’s Liquid Beef Tonic was sold as a cure for alcoholism. It’s primary ingredient? Alcohol. This may not be the sort of thing one expects to learn at an event dedicated to discussing data visualization and research. DH+Data Day is a testament to the expansions in who uses data, what they use it for, and how it’s analyzed.
Navigating Fair Use
Watch this 2-minute video narrated by NYU Libraries Scholarly Communications Librarian April Hathcock, which breaks down the basics of fair use and factors to consider when determining whether educational works qualify as fair use. You can also read April’s Connect article about fair use.