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OER in Action: The GC Music Teaching Hub

Posted on March 21, 2023 | No Comments
This is the latest in our series of short essays about Open Educational Resources (OER). The GC Music Teaching Hub is organized by current and former graduate teaching fellows of the CUNY Graduate Center Music Department, and is now receiving OER funding through the Mina […]
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Welcome, Ingrid Conley-Abrams – Adjunct Reference Librarian

Posted on March 14, 2023 | No Comments
The Mina Rees Library is excited to formally introduce Ingrid Conley-Abrams, who has recently joined us as an Adjunct Reference Librarian. Ingrid Conley-Abrams, a Queens College MLS graduate, is a librarian with over 15 years of experience working in both public and school libraries in […]
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Teaching Spanish Language and Gender with Open Resources

Posted on March 6, 2023 | No Comments
This is the latest in our current series of short essays by participants in the Open Knowledge Fellowship coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their experiences teaching […]
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New Data Resource: TRACFed

Posted on March 3, 2023 | No Comments
The Mina Rees Library is pleased to announce that we have acquired TRACFed, a source of information about the US federal government that provides our researchers, educators, and students with a comprehensive collection of federal data, information primarily obtained through the Freedom of Information Act […]
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Readex databases outage

Posted on February 9, 2023 | 4 Comments
Our Readex databases available via NYPL are temporarily inaccessible via your GC credentials. We apologize for the outage. Alternative access is available remotely via NYPL.
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Apply now! LGBTQIA Consortium Fellowship

Posted on January 30, 2023 | No Comments
We’re excited to announce the second annual LGBTQIA+ Consortium Fellowship, made possible in partnership between the Mina Rees Library, CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies, and LaGuardia Community College’s Wagner Archives. In 2021, LaGuardia Community College established the CUNY-wide LGBTQIA+ Consortium – making available City […]
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Scholarship for the Public Good: Paths to Open Access

Posted on January 24, 2023 | No Comments
Update: The recording of the Paths to Open Access event is now available on YouTube. The Graduate Center’s Mina Rees Library is partnering with the Provost’s Office on an event series exploring the idea of scholarship for the public good—what it means, how it can […]
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Now Hiring! Library Student Worker

Posted on January 23, 2023 | No Comments
[Please note: This position is now filled. Thank you for your interest!] We’re excited to share that the Mina Rees Library seeks a Graduate Center student worker for approximately 11 hours per week during the Spring 2023 semester (1/25-5/31). An individual in this role will […]
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Library Service Outage, Sunday, January 8th, 8am – 6pm

Posted on January 4, 2023 | No Comments
Due to scheduled IT maintenance, the library website, proxy, and blog will be intermittently unavailable on Sunday, January 8th between 8am and 6pm. When off-campus access to GC library databases is interrupted, some databases will still be available via the CUNY-wide list of databases using […]
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Save Your Interlibrary Loan Request History Before January 13, 2023

Posted on December 19, 2022 | No Comments
In order to keep information about library requests private, we periodically “delink” finished interlibrary loan requests from library users’ names. This will happen next in January 2023. After this, you will only see the last six months of information in your ILL account. If you […]
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