Yes, even the library at Trinity College in Dublin! (Photo by Tony Webster via flickr, CC2.0)
The Graduate Center Library brings expanded access to university and museum libraries around the region and around the world this summer research season: We are now an OCLC SHARES consortium member. SHARES membership allows entry and on-site use of resources at libraries in New York City and across the country—indeed, across the world—though not borrowing.
A second benefit of SHARES membership for the GC community is lower-cost interlibrary loans from SHARES member libraries. Savings on interlibrary loans alone will cover the institutional cost of SHARES membership.
Your current GC photo ID is valid to enter these SHARES member libraries.
| Local SHARES Reciprocal Access Members | |
| Bard Graduate Center | Princeton University |
| Cornell University Weill Medical Library | Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
| Frick Collection and Art Reference Library | Rutgers University |
| Fordham University | Stony Brook University |
| Hebrew Union College | Yale University |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | Yeshiva University |
| Global SHARES Reciprocal Access Members | |
| American University in Cairo | Swarthmore College |
| Art Institute of Chicago | Syracuse University |
| Binghamton University | Temple University |
| Boston College | Trinity College Dublin |
| Boston University | Tufts University |
| Brandeis University | University of Arizona |
| Brigham Young University | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Brown University | University of Chicago |
| Bryn Mawr College | University of Delaware |
| Carnegie Mellon University | University of Edinburgh |
| Clark Art Institute | University of Glasgow |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | University of Iowa Law Library |
| Cornell University Library | University of Kansas |
| Emory University | University of Leeds |
| George Washington University Law Library | University of Liverpool |
| Getty Research Institute | University of Manchester |
| Hagley Museum and Library | University of Michigan |
| Haverford College | University of Minnesota |
| Montana State University | University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | University of Pennsylvania |
| National Library of Australia | University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art | University of Texas at Austin |
| Northeastern University | University of Texas at Dallas |
| Northwestern University | University of Toronto |
| Ohio State University | University of Warwick |
| Pennsylvania State University | University of Washington-Law Library |
| Royal Library, National Library of Denmark | Washington University |
| Saint Louis Art Museum | Winterthur Museum |
| Stanford University Law Library |
CUNY doctoral faculty and retirees may obtain GC photo IDs with a request from their program Executive Officers to the GC Provost’s Office.
Columbia University and New York University exclude Fordham and Graduate Center members from their libraries following SHARES governance that allows exclusion of members from institutions within a 25-mile radius.
Any SHARES member may enter the Graduate Center Library with current photo ID from their institutions. We hope that the Graduate Center’s welcome to Columbia and NYU will one day open those library doors to all NYC SHARES members.
As always, GC PhD students and faculty are invited to apply through MaRLI for year-long borrowing from NYU and Columbia University Libraries.
Do call ahead to SHARES institutions to announce your visit and to arrange for staff to meet you as may be necessary. Questions? [email protected]
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Prof. Polly Thistlethwaite is CUNY's Interim University Dean for Library Services. 
