New York City: Resources For Instructors
Support for Instructors
This guide was created to support the HCD1020 courses and can be embedded in your canvas account. As different instructors develop their own styles and methods of teaching this course, we are here to help you find specialized resources that tie into your instruction. The boxes below are examples of resources from across the collection that can be used to support various pedagogical approaches. Looking for materials for your class? We're happy to help! Contact us at library@sva.edu.
Food Writing Resources
- The Buttolph Collection of Menus at NYPLMore than half of this collection of over 25,000 menus from 1890 to 1910 are from New York City restaurants.
- Kitchen Confidential byPublication Date: 2007
- How to Cook a Wolf byPublication Date: 1988
- A Day at ElBulli byPublication Date: 2010
Oral History Resources : Archives
ACT UP, founded in March of 1987, is a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals, united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis. The ACT UP Oral History Project is an archive of 187 interviews with members of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York.
The Lesbian Herstory Archives is dedicated to collecting and preserving history pertaining to the lesbian community. Their Audio/Visual Collection contains digitized copies of some of the 3,000 oral herstory cassettes in the Archives’ Spoken Word Collection and 950 videotapes in the Video Collection.
Our Streets Our Stories (OSOS) is an ongoing oral history project. We seek to explore the Brooklyn that is and the Brooklyn that was, from the words of the community that lives here.
The Poetry Project Archive offers one of the largest collections of recorded poetry and literature in the country featuring live readings by poets and writers from 1966 to the present ranging from Robert Lowell to John Cage, Amiri Baraka to Alice Walker, Allen Ginsberg to Billy Collins to Jessica Hagedorn.
Oral History Resources : Books
Licensing Streaming Films
Unlike Academic Video Online, which is a set package of films and videos that the library subscribes to, we purchase annual licenses on Kanopy and Swank. Swank's entire academic streaming collection is searchable, but Kanopy's is not. As annual per-film licenses are quite expensive, please only request content that is required for a class. Use this form to request that a film be added to our Kanopy or Swank libraries. Also, remember that these licenses expire (or are even removed from the services altogether). Please make a digital request ahead of each semester so we can make sure that the content will be available
Titles in Swank Available to License
Library Instruction Sessions
Would you like to meet one-on-one with a librarian to explore resources that support your course? Or have a librarian meet with your students to give them a tour of resources tailored to an assignment? Those are just two of the ways we're here to support your instruction. Follow this link to learn more about scheduling a library instruction session or contact us at library@sva.edu.
Helpful Additional Resources
- ProQuest Research Companion This link opens in a new window
The Proquest Research Companion is a self-guided information literacy course that focuses on information seeking behaviors as they relate to writing a research essay. Interspersing videos and short quizzes, the course takes students from topic selection to final revisions and includes sections on source evaluation and plagiarism. Students and instructors can take the course informally or you can choose to make it a requirement. If you make it a requirement, the library can add a module to your course in Canvas that includes an introduction and directions for submitting assessment data. Use our instruction form to make a request.
- Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new windowThe OED is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language.
- Oxford Grove Art Online This link opens in a new windowa scholarly art encyclopedia, offering global coverage of visual culture, composed and expanded regularly in collaboration with thousands of scholars and specialists around the world.
Maps & Data Sources from the Open Web
- Center for Urban ResearchThe CUR collects and analyzes large data sets from the U.S. Census Bureau and its partner agencies, and provide public access to their results through scholarly books and articles, public-facing reports, the visualization of spatial patterns through maps, and online applications.
- New York City TimelineA historical timeline of the city beginning in 1898 provided by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission.
- Urban Research MapsThis interactive zoomable map from the Center of Urban Research at CUNY compares changing race/ethnicity patterns from 2000 and 2010.
- NYC Street Map : The Status & History of New York City’s StreetsNYC Street Map is an app that uses official street records including information about width, name, and status of specific streets to see how the street grid has changed over time.
- OldNYCAn interactive map that geocodes photographs from the New York Public Library's photograph collection 'Photographic Views of New York City, 1870s-1970s' providing an alternative way of browsing the image collection.