Featured Stories & Articles
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Radical Interlibrary Loan: A Manifesto
21 May 2013 2:19 PM | 1 Comment -
The Case for Longer CUNY Library Book Loans
13 May 2013 9:39 AM | 3 Comments -
Digitized Museum Catalogs
12 May 2013 9:00 AM | No Comments -
DSC Spring Comfort Stations in the Library
03 May 2013 1:03 PM | 3 Comments -
QuestionPoint Virtual Reference at the Graduate Center
22 April 2013 12:02 PM | 1 Comment
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Goings-On
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Gioia Stevens Joins the Mina Rees Library
The Mina Rees Library welcomes Gioia Stevens who was just appointed to the library faculty at the Instructor level. Ms. Stevens earned her M.L.I.S. with Archival Certificate from Pratt Institute... -
Prof. Jill Cirasella Joins the Graduate Center Library
The Graduate Center Library welcomes Jill Cirasella, Associate Professor, as its Associate Librarian for Public Services and Scholarly Communication. Jill will coordinate reference, circulation, and interlibrary loan services, and she... -
Shawnta Smith Joins the Graduate Center Library
The Graduate Center Library is pleased to announce that Shawnta Smith has been appointed to the library as a permanent, full-time Instructor with specialization as a reference and instruction librarian....
Featured Stories & Library News
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Radical Interlibrary Loan: A Manifesto
Posted on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 | 1 CommentThe information needs of the Graduate Center community are deep, varied, and potentially even limitless. The respect for, and use of, information among our patrons both inspires and challenges all of the librarians and staff members at the Mina Rees Library. Every day, as we... -
The Case for Longer CUNY Library Book Loans
Posted on Monday, May 13, 2013 | 3 CommentsCUNY’s library book loan lengths for grad students are shorter than those offered by any university, anywhere: 3 weeks for Master’s level students, coded “GRAD” in the CUNY+ catalog; 6 weeks for “DOC” students in PhD programs; and 6 weeks for CUNY faculty borrowing from outside... -
Digitized Museum Catalogs
Posted on Sunday, May 12, 2013 | No CommentsSeveral museums have released e-book versions of museum publications free on the web! Updates will be added to the ‘E-Books‘ section of the ‘Books’ tab on the Art History Subject Guide. Guggenheim Museum: Select exhibition catalogs from 1937-1999 Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA):... -
The Grad Center: CUNY’s Hub
Posted on Wednesday, May 8, 2013 | No CommentsWhat’s the relationship between CUNY and the CUNY Graduate Center? Under the leadership of Prof. Mina Rees the CUNY Graduate School and University Center was established in 1969, drawing on CUNY doctoral faculty with home appointments at other CUNY campuses. Today the CUNY Graduate Center hosts about 150 distinguished core-appointed... -
DSC Spring Comfort Stations in the Library
Posted on Friday, May 3, 2013 | 3 CommentsSPRING COMFORT STATIONS Meditation | Massge | Naps | Stretching | Yoga | Comfort Monday, MAY 6th – Friday, MAY 10th MINA REES LIBRARY – First Floor (near the elevators) Last semester, it was the end of the term, middle of winter, and students around... -
American Journal of Public Health Is Suddenly Less Public
Posted on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 | 14 CommentsOn April 27, the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) informed its recent authors of plans to close a portion of its backfile, which is currently open access on the journal website. Until now, all AJPH articles more than two years old have been freely... -
QuestionPoint Virtual Reference at the Graduate Center
Posted on Monday, April 22, 2013 | 1 CommentThe Graduate Center has participated in the QuestionPoint electronic reference service, also known as Ask-a-Librarian, since the fall of 2002. When we began, we offered only email reference, but during the spring 2004 semester, we added a chat service, allowing Graduate Center students, faculty, and... -
Mina Rees Librarians Celebrate DPLA Launch
Posted on Thursday, April 18, 2013 | 2 CommentsThe librarians at Mina Rees are excited about the launch of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). In addition to coordinating on a regional/hub basis the ingestion of many digital collections, the DPLA hopes to extend libraries’ traditional orientation around access, by using Creative... -
Robert Darnton & DPLA @ the Grad Center April 29, 2 pm
Posted on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 | 3 CommentsThe Friends of the Mina Rees Library welcomes Robert Darnton, founder of the Digital Public Library of America and Harvard’s Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian, in conversation Monday afternoon April 29 with GC President William P. Kelly and Professor William Kornblum of Sociology and... -
Multi-Database Search
Posted on Monday, March 25, 2013 | 1 CommentWhen you need to search for articles in scholarly journals, sometimes the choice of database is obvious. You would search Art Full Text and perhaps Art Index Retrospective if your subject is art, American Chemical Society Journals if your subject is chemistry, PsycInfo if your...
