Thanks to the help of NYU Shanghai’s Writing Program, the library is able to have its new 2017 Literary Reading Series.
The Literary Reading Series or the Spotlight collection in the Library’s Main Collection, is a series of books that range from poems to novels written by writers that have come to our campus or will come to introduce their new creations.
Some authors who you can expect to come across are the British-Chinese novelist Peter Ho Davies, who wrote The Fortunes,
and Sandra Simonds, whose poems have been included in the Best American Poetry 2015 and 2014.
If you are interested in reading any of these books that have been or will be presented on campus by more authors, you can easily find their works on our library’s very own Spotlight shelf.
If you want to know more about the authors or their works, feel free to check out the books!
Remember, you can keep the book up to two weeks and renew once.
Do you have loans?
Do you need to request a book from interlibrary loan, but do not know how to do it?
Do you need to pay fines?
If your answer is yes to at least one of these questions, then you should access your own library account.
There are two ways:
1. From Library’s official WeChat account
Find—My Account—Login to your account and check the records.
2. Through NYU Shanghai homepage
Library—My Accounts—Library Account—Log in to your account and check the records.
Now, you are able to view things such as:
Is your deadline for a book fast approaching? Are you feeling scared and anxious about the fines and fees? Do not fear because you can also renew your loans straight from home by clicking the loans tab on your library account.
If you are unable to find a book in NYU Shanghai’s library please feel free to request a book from “My interlibrary loan (ILL),” which is a tab located on the far left of your library account. The interlibrary loans allow you to request many different sources such as:
Because the interlibrary loan takes much longer for you to obtain the physical copy of the book, there is also the option to requests scanned sections of the book, and you can view your requests in processing.
If you have any other question, please feel free to email shanghai.circulation@nyu.edu
Have a look into the digital studio, and find out how it can be used for faculty to create instructional video modules.
The Digital Studio provides the space and facility for faculty to create video modules (around 3-5 minutes) to support teaching and learning.
The production process includes five easy steps that focus on identifying learning objectives, instructional design techniques, and storyboarding to diminish lengthy post-production workflows.
For more information, email us at shanghai.library@nyu.edu to arrange a personal consultation.
Canva is a great piece of software for you to create graphics, presentations, flyers, posters and so on.
Canva is a great online graphic design platform you can use to create graphics that look nice, and the best thing is, it’s really simple and user-friendly. Go to www.canva.com and you’ll get access to it.
To begin with, Canva first offers you a bunch of sizes, with generic ones like a square to more specific ones, like a Facebook header or a Pinterest graphic. And if that wasn’t what you wanted, you could also go with your own custom dimensions.
2. Creating
So after choosing what you need, and you’ll reach the page as shown below. There’s a column on the left, in which there are different sections: LAYOUTS, ELEMENTS, TEXT, etc.
If all that blank space is intimidating you, never fear, because you got LAYOUTS! There are lots of options that you can use to build your design upon. Just you click on one of them, and the design will be imported into your work area. And you can simply edit it—change the font, change the color scheme, move elements around, and so on. And if you find something in the ELEMENTS tab that you like, just drag it on to what you’re working on.
You don’t need to go through a hard learning process to make something nice in Canva, and the layouts are a great starting point. And if you know your way around designing things, you can also use Canva. You can easily upload your own photos or icons, and Canva’s library of elements and shapes make designing from scratch much easier.
All your works are automatically saved on the website. Once you finish designing and want to download your work, simply click Download at top right corner and then you can choose whatever format you want. NOTICE that you can download your work for free ONLY when ALL elements you used are labeled with “FREE” in Canva’s library. Otherwise you’ll have to pay accordingly.
Enough said, now you can be your own designer and create your work with Canva!