Library Workshops & Events
Check the library calendar for workshops and events of interest, including Zotero trainings!
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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Opening Music
Posted on August 10, 2022 | No CommentsMy favorite newly-discovered resource is the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive, maintained by the University of Massachusetts, Boston. This archive houses hundreds of tapes made by locally-known emcees active in and around Boston during the 1980s. -
Reading at the Margins of Open Access
Posted on August 5, 2022 | No CommentsThe workshops introduced me to resources I had no idea existed and with that, to the immense possibilities of OA and OER to enrich our courses not only in terms of public access but also our own imagination as scholars and instructors. -
Slowness, Limits, and Open Play
Posted on July 29, 2022 | No CommentsI found myself slowing down. The labor of building just one syllabus+website with legitimate OER materials forced this slowness. -
Opening Up
Posted on July 22, 2022 | No CommentsWhen I stepped inside, trying to put together an open version of the Freshman Composition class that I teach most often, I realized how much nuance there was to pay attention to (there were ethical and legal distinctions to keep in mind), and how much I’ve been relying on resources for students that were free and accessible but still shadowy, still closed behind paywalls or legality. -
Interlibrary Loan System Outage: Tuesday, July 26th, 11am-6pm
Posted on July 21, 2022 | No CommentsDue to scheduled maintenance, the Interlibrary Loan System, ILLiad, will intermittently not be available on Tuesday, July 26th between 11am and 6pm. Folks can reach us at ill@gc.cuny.edu if they have any questions or need any immediate help. The library apologizes for this possible inconvenience. -
STEM Without OER: Inaccessible or Not Credible
Posted on July 15, 2022 | No CommentsThis is the third in our current series of short essays by participants in the Open Knowledge Fellowship coordinated by the Mina Rees Library, these from Fellows in the Spring 2022 cohort. Fellows share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or […] -
The Mystery of the Archive and the Performance of the Open Future
Posted on June 24, 2022 | No CommentsWhile the Open Access movement is an explicit response to the increasingly redundant barriers that copyright protection puts to knowledge in the digital age, the political issue that it surfaces is an entrenched mechanism of enclosure. -
Requesting Interlibrary Loans With DOIs
Posted on June 17, 2022 | No CommentsNow you can both auto-complete the request form and search for an immediately available open access version of a resource by using the digital object identifier, or DOI. -
Happy Pride, from the Mina Rees Library
Posted on June 14, 2022 | No CommentsThe Mina Rees Library wishes everyone a safe and enjoyable LGBTQ Pride month. We’d also like to share some of the queerly-aligned work taking place within the Library – and beyond! In Spring 2022, we developed the LGBTQIA Consortium Fellowship, in partnership with CLAGS: The […] -
Contributing to Open Access
Posted on June 10, 2022 | No CommentsI was surprised when many of [my students] asked me the first week where they could buy the book I assigned. I don’t think textbooks are a good investment—at least not in my field, philosophy—and I didn’t intend for them to buy the book.
