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Open access education and soap operas

Posted on April 23, 2025 | No Comments
This piece is part of a series by participants in the Winter 2025 Open Knowledge Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows will share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their experiences teaching undergraduate […]
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Teaching Political Theory with OER

Posted on April 14, 2025 | No Comments
This piece is part of a series by participants in the Winter 2025 Open Knowledge Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows will share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their experiences teaching undergraduate […]
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Planned Service Outages on 4/6, 4/12 and 4/17

Posted on April 2, 2025 | No Comments
Due to scheduled IT maintenance on the Graduate Center network, the following library resources & services will be intermittently unavailable: Library website, Interlibrary loan system Proxy (no remote access to GC databases and e-journals) Library Blog On the following dates: Sunday, April 6th, starting at […]
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New Access to The Chief: A Voice for Workers

Posted on February 24, 2025 | No Comments
We are happy to announce a new collaboration that has brought access to The Chief to all Graduate Center affiliates. The Chief is a New York City-based newspaper that has long focused on municipal government, civil servants, and the issues affecting New York State and […]
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Apply by 2/24/25 at 9am! Open Knowledge Fellowship – Summer Cohort

Posted on February 10, 2025 | No Comments
The Mina Rees Library will host the 12th cohort of the Open Knowledge Fellowship in Summer 2025 (May and early June, see dates below!). This 6-session program includes a stipend of $2000, paid via Financial Aid in Spring 2025. We are proud to share that […]
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Queering the Collection: The Carpenter Endowment

Posted on February 7, 2025 | No Comments
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Carpenter Endowment at the Mina Rees Library, an ongoing fund for the purchase of books and other materials relating to LGBTQ lives, and scholarly works on gender/sexuality. A History of the Carpenter Endowment In 2000, Ivor Kraft, […]
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CUNY Academic Works: New Look!

Posted on February 3, 2025 | No Comments
You may be familiar with CUNY Academic Works, the online repository where members of the CUNY community can share their scholarly, creative, and pedagogical works with the public. CUNY Academic Works launched in 2015, and until last week it looked like a website from, well, […]
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Some Oxford Resources Temporarily Unavailable

Posted on January 29, 2025 | No Comments
Across the CUNY Libraries, the following Oxford resources are temporarily unavailable: Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford Reference Online, Grove Art Online, and Grove Music Online. Meanwhile, you can access these resources via New York Public Library. We are so sorry for the inconvenience.
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Two Fellowship Opportunities: CLAGS and Student Newspapers Digitization Projects

Posted on December 20, 2024 | No Comments
The Mina Rees Library has two graduate student funding opportunities for the Spring 2025 semester to assist with digitization projects in the Graduate Center’s institutional archives: CLAGS Digitization Fellowship Student Newspapers Digitization Fellowship Working with library faculty, the digitization fellows will select archival materials to […]
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Extended Library Hours for Finals

Posted on December 10, 2024 | No Comments
We are pleased to announce that the Mina Rees Library will offering extended hours for finals: Saturday, December 14, 10am-10pm Sunday, December 15, 12pm-10pm As always, you can find our Library hours here: https://gc-cuny.libcal.com/hours
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