These are resources offered by Brooklyn College with an emphasis on Library References.

Link: Brooklyn College Library

If you’re just getting started with your research, check out these subject guides prepared by Beth Evans, subject expert and reference librarian at the BC Library.

Visiting a reference librarian helps students learn the full range of services offered by the library, develop sound research practices, and receive guidance from a subject expert.

BC Library Subject Guide: New York City – Gentrification

BC Library Subject Guide: New York City Demographics

https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/6074/2018/02/16170230/BC-Library_NYC-Demographic-Information.pdf

What is an Instructional technology Fellow (ITF)?

An ITF coaches student ideas and visions into reality through tech tools like multimedia production, data analytics and more.

Source: Instructional Technology Fellows – Personalized Tech Guidance at Macaulay Honors College

Links:

• Contact info for Alexis Carrozza, ITF for Seminar 2
• Brooklyn College ITFs

These resources include digital archives (great for primary sources!), a list of digital tools to make cool stuff for your final project, and Twitter Lists – a great way to find the latest info, topics, and convos about Seminar 2 topics.

If you want to learn more about any of these sites and/or how to incorporate the content or tools into your final project, please make an appointment with your ITF, Alexis!

Put together a timeline, an annotated map, or photo narrative using these free sites. These digital tools often combine mapping with images, demographics with cartography, media with historical narrative. Click the links to see examples, demos, and how-tos!

Which of these tools will help you create content for your final project’s site?

• Story Maps:  Esri Story Maps let you combine authoritative maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content. They make it easy to harness the power of maps and geography to tell your story.
  • View an ITF project created using Story Maps for Seminar 1 : Patti Smith & Just Kids, a story map created by Alexis Carrozza
• Social Explorer: Provides easy, visual access to demographic and economic data using maps, reports, and data downloads.
  • Login via Brookyn College Library for premium access to all features for free 
  • View an ITF project created as an example of using Social Explorer: Social Explorer & Paris Is Burning
• TimelineJS: Easy-to-make, beautiful timelines.
• History Pin: Historypin is a place for people to share photos and stories,
  telling the histories of their local communities.
• Palladio: Visualize complex historical data with ease.
• Chronos Timeline: Chronos allows scholars and students to dynamically present historical data in a flexible online environment.
• New York Public Library: Map Warper: The NYPL Map Warper is a tool for digitally aligning (“rectifying”) historical maps from the NYPL’s collections to match today’s precise maps.
• Twine: Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.

By no means definitive, these sites aggregate material that can be extremely useful for your research such as primary sources, old videos & media, and other information that adds historical and cultural context to your projects.

Ubuweb – avant-garde digital archives, video, music, interviews, etc.

New York Historical Society Museum & Library – includes Research Guides, archives, library help

OpenCulture.com – “the best free cultural & educational media on the web”

A list is a curated group of Twitter accounts. Viewing a list timeline will show you a stream of Tweets from only the accounts on that list. Source: Twitter. 

Each list is a general topic, “The People of New York” for example, and you can view the latest tweets by leading figures and institutions related to that topic. Twitter can be a great resource to let you “eavesdrop” on conversations or the accounts themselves point you to a person, resource, institution, that might be useful for your research.

Twitter List: The People of New York – ITF-curated list of Twitter accounts related to themes and concepts of Seminar 2.

Twitter List: Archives & Open Access – ITF-curated list of open access and digital archives available online.