The �춹��Ƶ Libraries declare our opposition to the racial terror and state-sanctioned violence that shape the lives of Black people in the United States. Black lives matter. We share the sorrow and rage of our community and stand in solidarity with protests against police brutality.

The �춹��Ƶ community has a long history of supporting the movement for racial justice. In fact, the iconic Rosenthal Library clock tower is dedicated to the memory of three civil rights workers––who were murdered while helping organize voter registration efforts in Mississippi during the Summer of 1964. As the struggle for racial justice continues, we honor this history and stand against police brutality and white supremacy.��

This statement is adapted from the on Black Lives Matter, and is licensed under a Creative Commons license

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May is both �����Ի� . Professors and , our expert subject librarians in these areas, are kicking off this series with featured ebooks and other resources from their Research Guides.

Access to ebooks and most other featured resources requires a valid QCard: please�� if you have any issues logging in.

Asian/Pacific American and Jewish American Heritage Month

Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month was first declared in 1978. The month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. The majority of the workers who laid the tracks were Chinese immigrants ().

Jewish American Heritage Month’s history is more recent, as it was .

Two ebooks examine the intersections of Asian American and Jewish American experiences and are highly recommended:��

Temple University Press, 2011

University of Nebraska Press, 2016

Asian/pacific american heritage Resources

Professor Xu’s has a comprehensive array of ebooks and websites. Here are some highlights:

Featured Websites

��this guide, produced by the National Park Service, Library of Congress, and other federal partners, has extensive history and heritage information, and a special portal for educators.

��San Francisco’s official celebration site lets you virtually explore Asian food, literature, films, museums, and performances.

Featured ebooks

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Lillian detailed that experience in an , and I caught up with her recently to learn more about 3D printing, what Makers are doing to help fight COVID-19, and get her tips for students who want to get involved with the QC Makerspace.

Hi Lillian, thanks again for doing this! It’s been about a month since you first wrote about 3D printing PPE. What is the PPE situation like now at your stepmom’s hospital?

When we first started making the PPEs, the hospital was in critical condition. Thankfully, they finally have enough PPE to sustain themselves and even some extras.

You and your friend began making these after New York City, and CUNY, had��largely��shut down for social distancing. Without access to the Makerspace, what equipment did you use?��

We used a couple different printers we had access to at home: the Ender 3 Pro 3D printer and Monoprice Voxel 3D printer. You can purchase the Ender 3 Pro from any electronics store for roughly $220. You have to assemble it yourself, but it’s one of the cheapest 3D printers. The Voxel printer is around $350 and it is very simple to use.��

What are the PPEs made of?

We made these out of generic PLA filament, which you can find anywhere online.

How many protective face shields have you made? Are you making other items?��

We’ve made around 100 face shields, and only face shields, although I do wish we could have made a greater variety.

Are you still making face shields?

We stopped production of PPE because the hospitals have regained supply. If we are notified of the need for PPE, we will be able to quickly make more face masks.��

Were you able to speed up production as you learned more?

100% yes! As we kept printing, we kept finding better files that were easier to print and took less time, in order to print the maximum amount.

How much faster are we talking?

When we started, it took about 6 hours to produce one mask. We eventually got that down to about one hour.

That’s amazing! How did you do it?

The has an online forum, and that’s where we got the first mask design we used. Using the Ender 3 Pro printer, each mask took about 6 hours. We hoped to get that time down, so we started looking for new designs, new STL files.

The acronyms are really flying now, Lillian. Can you explain to a newbie what STL files are?

Sure! STL stands for “Standard Tessellation Language”. The main purpose of the STL file format is to encode the surface geometry of a 3D object. It encodes this information using a simple concept called “tessellation.”

So STL is a file format that can be ‘read’ by 3D printers?

Yes. Once you have a STL file, it’s ready to be sliced using a 3D printer specific slicer. Every different type of auto CADing software generates the same STL file.

And you found another STL file eventually, one that was faster to print?

Yes, we looked online and found a viable STL file that met two important criteria: it produced good, sturdy masks, with a fast print time. It took the Ender 3 Pro 2 hours to print the new design, and ��the Voxel printer did it in about 1 hour. The Voxel was faster because it printed at a higher rate.��

How did your experience in the QC Makerspace help you to get this project done?

The Makerspace allowed me to gain experience using a printer before I had one of my own.��

What is the Makerspace doing to support students now?��

Currently, Head of Makerspace and I are working towards having a fleshed out LibGuide for everything pertaining to the Makerspace. With this guide, students who want to come in and work on something will arrive with the knowledge they need to use whatever machine they want to.

What do you think the role of the Makerspace will be when students can return to campus?

I think the Makerspace will have a similar role as last year, where students can go through orientation and then gain access to basically make anything they want. The students just have to be willing to do the research and put in the time to learn to use the machines they’re interested in.

Are there resources you’d recommend for other makers who are interested in supporting our health care workers?��

3D Universe has a lot of new posts with tutorials on how to make different kinds of face masks. They have public STL files you may download and use, like this one:

Some other good sources for STL files are �����Ի�

Besides PPE, what other maker projects are you working on now?��

We are designing and planning on building “Fish and the Furious”. It will be a fish tank planted on a chassis with wheels equipped with distance sensors and a camera. The camera will detect where the fish is inside the tank and relative the center of the tank, it will determine which way the tank will drive. This will essentially allow the fish to travel in a room autonomously!

There will be sensors all around the tank allowing it to safely travel and not drive into a wall or into a person. We will be using Raspberry PI, Arduinos, OpenCV, Ultrasonic sensors, Motors, a lot of servos, and a lot of other technologies. Our slogan is “Giving the fish the freedom to travel on land”

That’s awesome! I have one last question for you: how do you think students can benefit from getting involved with the Makerspace when campus reopens? What’s unique about it compared to learning in regular classes?

I think students can benefit from getting involved because by picking up the knowledge obtained from learning how to create things, they learn how to come up with creative ways to solve problems. It’s unique because unlike regular classes, it’s a hands-on way of learning.��

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Teaching with Open Educational Resources (OER) and zero-textbook-cost (ZTC) materials makes college more affordable. Especially in the current economic climate, high textbook costs can make it difficult for CUNY students to meet their potential: students report failing or dropping classes because they can’t afford the textbook, or going into debt or going without basic necessities to buy expensive books. This workshop will present concrete strategies you can use to make your course more affordable and accessible.��

Please contact Jeremy Czerw, Outreach Communication Librarian, with any questions: Jeremy.czerw@qc.cuny.edu

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Parks & Nature

• Friday, May 29 at noon: Green-Wood Cemetery has lots of upcoming online programming. Today’s offering is “Zooming in on fungi: learning how to identify common mushrooms:” (

Theater & Dance

• Saturday, May 9 and Sunday, May 10 at 11AM: Lincoln Center’s is inspired by Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Led by New York City Ballet dancer Ralph Ippolito, this will be great for young ones!
• Monday, May 11 at 5:30PM: Lincoln Center brings the San Francisco Ballet to our homes in a performance of Prokofiev’s .
• Thursday, May 21 at 7:30PM: will be releasing Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot.
• Thursday, May 21: as part of their ADAPT program. You can sign up to be invited to the whole program.
• Friday, May 22 at 7:30PM: presents Mozart’s classic comedic opera, Don Giovanni.
• Wednesday, May 27 at 5PM: NYC Ballet’s Wendy Whelan takes audiences of all ages and levels through classic repertoire. See it on the
• Streaming: Alfred Molina stars as Mark Rothko in , a dramatization of creating the murals for New York’s Four Seasons Hotel. Available until May 27th.
• Streaming:��Shakespeare’s , recorded during Shakespeare in the Park 2019. Available through May 27th.
• Streaming: Each evening, beginning at 7:30PM, The Metropolitan Opera presents a from its��Live in HD��series.

Music

• Wednesday, May 6 at 4PM: Lincoln Center at Home’s Concerts for Kids ��has Latinx ensemble . Fun sounds and effects incoming
• Thursday, May 7 at 2PM: presents several artists and collaborations “bringing audiences together, no matter where they are.”��
• Thursday, May 7 at 4pm: Bill Frisell performs the��music of Rev. Gary Davis at
• Sunday, May 24 at 11AM: bring a blend of fun grooves and science straight to your screen.
• Friday, May 29 at 2:30PM: from her home!��
• Saturday, May 30 at 3PM: for Royal Albert Hall.
• Ongoing: Wednesdays at 8PM: Each week, Dave Matthews Band will from their archives.
• Ongoing: Saturdays at 7pm: Pianist, songwriter, and bandleader Ben Folds presents a weekly show, Saturday Apartment Requests.

Poetry & Literature

• Friday, May 8 at 12PM: Poets House features Major Jackson for a
• Saturday, May 9 at��6AM: Rise and shine for ! Paul Jennings’s classic children’s tale of a man’s quest to create an enormous jelly mold of the Royal Albert Hall! Read by actor Samuel West. Prefer to sleep in? The show will also be available after its premiere.
• Wednesday, May 20 at��12PM: Brian Teare is . He will be reading from his award winning book Doomstead Days.��
• Thursday, May 21 at��5PM: I am deliberate/ and afraid/ of nothing: Poetry, Protest & Climate Change Activism. With Ed Roberson, Joan Kane & Brian Teare.��
• Thursday, May 21 at 7PM: The hosts : performances and talks exploring the intersection of language and technology. Tonight’s presenters are and .
• Friday, May 22 at 7:30PM: Queens Theatre hosts . Be sure to get your free ticket!
• Wednesday, May 27 at��12PM: A from Yanyi.��
• Friday 5/29 at��12PM: Poets House hosts .
• Saturday, June 6: The Bronx is reading! presents a full day of online events.
• Ongoing: Thursdays at 7 PM: Music legend (and QC Libraries staff favorite) Dolly Parton��reads a book from the Imagination Library over at . Great for all ages!

Museums, History, and Community

• Thursday, May 21 at 7PM: Incoming ��in conversation with Tenement Museum president Morris Vogel.
• Tuesday, May 26th at 2:30PM: The Queens Historical Society�� going back more than a century. Learn how to use the census to track down ancestors and see its impact on our past and future.

Culture Watch is compiled by Michael Deering with the assistance of QC Libraries faculty and staff.

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Is your Netflix queue looking a little picked over? Not sure where you’ll find the next concert, play, or exhibit to inspire you? We have you covered! Here are some cultural recommendations, selected by QC librarian Leila Walker.

• The Hawtplates with Charlotte Braithwaite (originally broadcast April 19: streaming now): . From the creators: “Selections from a song cycle exploring social distance and the American Dream in changing urban communities.”
• Twelfth Night (April 23-April 30): . The National Theater’s production of Shakespeare’s comedy of mistaken identity features ��as Malvolia. Streaming on YouTube at 2 Pm Eastern time. See the Theater’s website for other productions available to stream anytime.
• HOMEMADE: Poetic Remedies for the Times (May 1, 7-9pm EST) . An online poetry reading series offering “literal herbal remedies as well as medicinal poems.”

Finally, a personal recommendation I found (promptly disappearing down an internet rabbit hole), while compiling this post:

• . To understand the current pandemic in a broader historical context, spend some time with the ��revisiting of this 2018-2019 project, which addressed the topic of infectious disease through a variety of cultural programming. New York institutions involved in the project include the CUNY Graduate Center, The New York Public Library, and the Museum of the City of New York.

Wishing you enjoyable, incisive listening, viewing, and reading!

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This borough-wide archiving campaign, initiated by �춹��Ƶ Library and Queens Public Library, will collect first person stories and documentation of life in the epicenter of the pandemic. The public can submit testimony, photographs, and documents , powered by our tech partner, the Urban Archive.

It will become a permanent archive, open to researchers.

In addition to collaborating on the borough-wide outreach campaign, archivists at the Rosenthal Library are conducting long-form interviews with �춹��Ƶ faculty, staff, and students, to ensure that our unique perspectives are recorded. For more information or to get involved, contact Queens Memory Outreach Coordinator Lori Wallach at lori.wallach@qc.cuny.edu.

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We still love print materials, too.

As you may know, library staff are working remotely, just like our students and colleagues throughout QC. We’ve been improving our digital presence, connecting with classes, and supporting student and faculty research. And at the end of each day, we’re browsing our shelves at home, looking for distraction, solace, and inspiration through books. Perhaps some of you are, too. We’re excited to have this newsletter to share what’s going on in our work, and hope you enjoy this peek at what our staffers might read or listen to next.

Can you spot the library book? Someone tell our Chief to get that returned!

We’ll use this newsletter to remind all our users of the various ways the library can help. Our puts answers you’re looking for in one place, along with all the avenues for asking us questions online.

We have connected with so many of you through , showing off our pet coworkers (so many good girls and boys!) and sharing important updates as our services continue to change and new resource become available. We will continue to update you there, , and here on our website.

Our super-organized Head of Makerspace keeps a pretty tidy bookshelf at home, too.

This is a confusing and stressful time for all members of the QC community, but we feel very proud of our students, faculty, and staff for all of their hard work and perseverance this semester. We hope you stay in touch with us and let us know what we can do to best support your teaching, learning, and scholarship.

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• Test your remote library access! Our proxy server is accessed through your library barcode on the back of your �춹��Ƶ ID. Unless you have changed it, this number is also your password. Please test this from your home or any place off campus to make sure it is working. Problems logging in? View our guide to off campus access at or email QC_ask_Circ@qc.cuny.edu.
• Our Course Content Reserve Center can help you provide students easy, online access to course materials, including streaming video. Visit us online at for help managing your course, adding materials, and other questions.
• Librarians are ready to answer your questions via phone, chat, and email. Contact us anytime: .

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