New York City is determined to become a top-ranked "Digital City" based on internet access, open government, citizen engagement and digital industry growth. You can read more about the city's Road Map for the Digital City in today's article in Mashable:  How New York City Is Going Digital in 2011.

NYU-Poly is helping NYC achieve its digital dreams by partnering with the City to support tech start-ups with advice, space and other resources through its business incubators.  The latest incubator is set to open in DUMBO this fall and will play an important role in establishing Brooklyn as a high-tech hot bed.

NYU-Poly also recently launched its new Center of Innovation for Technology and Entertainment, which fosters collaboration between academia and industry in the development of ground-breaking new media technologies. In another initiative to encourage collaboration between industry, the city, and academic institutions, NYU-Poly hosts the NYC Media Lab.

Want to learn more about new media and how to help shape New York City's digital future? Take advantage of the library's resources:

Research Guide: this interdisciplinary, multimedia Digital Media Guide covers a wide realm of new media topics including computer graphics, gaming, human-computer interaction, mobile technologies, and more.

E-books: Check our computer and digital media oriented e-book collections - Safari and Books24x7

Print Books: We have a wide range of books covering interests related to the digital age. Here are a few examples:

• Divining a digital future: mess and mythology in ubiquitous computing
• The big switch: rewiring the world, from Edison to Google
• Personal connections in the digital age
• What technology wants
• Alone together: why we expect more from technology and less from each other
• Digital media ethics
• The master switch: the rise and fall of information empires
• Coming attractions? Hollywood, high tech, and the future of entertainment