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Featured Stories
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Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2021-22
09 June 2022 10:00 AM | No Comments -
Interlibrary Loan News – Make More ILL Requests!
22 November 2021 2:30 PM | No Comments -
The Value of Open Access…in the Words of Readers
25 October 2021 10:59 AM | No Comments -
A New Partner for the CUNY Digital History Archive
20 October 2021 1:13 PM | No Comments -
Summertime, and Submitting Scholarship is Easy
12 August 2021 11:10 AM | No Comments
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News & Goings On
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Shifting Out of Neutral into OER
Posted on November 30, 2022 | No CommentsI was eager to find ways to lessen the financial burden of being a college student in a university system that was once and should still be free to attend. I struggled to find resources that could make my courses a zero-cost experience and introduce students to critical traditions in psychology that are typically excluded in mainstream psychology textbooks and curricula. -
We’re Hiring an Electronic Resources Librarian!
Posted on November 29, 2022 | No CommentsWe’re delighted to be hiring a tenure-track Electronic Resources Librarian at the Instructor or Assistant Professor rank. Please share far and wide, and consider applying! Review of applications begins on January 3, 2023. Electronic Resources Librarian, Instructor or Assistant Professor The Graduate Center, CUNY is […] -
Increasing Engagement via Zero Cost
Posted on November 23, 2022 | No CommentsIt felt wrong, from the beginning, to require my students to find the money and spend so much on a book we would only read a few texts from, [made up of] classics of literature that largely belong to the public domain.... I needed to learn how to make this right and allow my students to engage with my course materials without having to go penniless for it. -
Now Hiring: Interlibrary Loan
Posted on November 7, 2022 | 1 CommentWe are hiring for a part-time (10-20 hours/week) position at the Interlibrary Loan unit of the Graduate Center library. Interlibrary Loan is an essential service for the GC community, facilitating access to a wide variety of physical and digital materials for our students, faculty […] -
Temporary Outage: A-Z list and Research Guides
Posted on November 3, 2022 | No CommentsThe platform which hosts our A-Z list and our Research Guides is experiencing a temporary and intermittent outages. While the vendor, SpringShare, attempts to resolve the issue and bring LibGuides back, we suggest you use the CUNY-wide list to access a subset of e-resources. […] -
Knowledge, Power, and OER
Posted on November 2, 2022 | No CommentsEncountering a paywall on my way to some piece of scholarship prompts me into critically questioning the systems of power that keep people in and out of the spaces where knowledge circulates and is transformed and grows, and in/out of the borders of peer-reviewed research in the various fields of specialized knowledge. -
Welcome Silvia Cho, as Resource Sharing Librarian
Posted on October 31, 2022 | No CommentsAfter nine years working in the GC Library as the GC Library’s interlibrary loan department Supervisor and Manager, we are happy to congratulate Silvia Cho, the newest member of the Library faculty. Silvia holds a Master’s in Library Science from Queens College, a M.A. in […] -
Exploring The New York Public Library
Posted on October 25, 2022 | No CommentsWhile we may all know about the New York Public Library (NYPL), and perhaps have visited or borrowed items, most of us have probably not made full use of the vast and extensive collections they maintain. Anyone who lives, work, or studies in NY State […] -
“Researcher first, teacher second”: Time-Saving Suggestions for Open-Access Teaching
Posted on October 19, 2022 | No CommentsWhenever I thought about exchanging my textbook for open access materials, I was cowed by the amount of time and effort I imagined such a process taking. I had spent years designing my slides, quizzes, lectures, and course schedules around my textbook—how could I square a complete course overhaul with the axiom of “researcher first, teacher second”? -
Find Books From Libraries Around the World with WorldCat: Same Tool, New Interface
Posted on October 19, 2022 | No CommentsNeed books from beyond CUNY? Want to search for books from libraries around the world, to see what’s out there, regardless of which libraries have what? And, then, get them delivered to you through our interlibrary loan service? WorldCat is the tool for you. WorldCat […]
