Category: libraries

  • On the Town

    Welcome to New York City! The Fashion Institute of Technology is primarily a fashion and business school. However, we have many other departments as well, such as Illustration, Fine Arts, Packaging Design, Interior Design, Toy Design, Communication Design, Fabric Styling, Menswear, Photography, Home Products Development, to name just a few. See one of the common…

  • Do over! Welcome to Fall 2018 Semester!

    Hi, all! Welcome back to school! The fall 2018 semester has begun. By this time, most FIT students have had the first session of all of their new classes. To get you warmed up for fall, I thought I would list some resources available to FIT students here in the library. The Library at FIT…

  • Needles in the Stacks: Sewing with Nancy Zieman, pt.1

    It’s been a while since we’ve put out a Needles in the Stacks issue, so it’s time. The library has a lot of “how-to” sewing books. Many women (and a few men) have converted their passion for sewing into publishing businesses, video performances, and workshops. One well known such teacher was Nancy Zieman. Zieman died…