Mina Rees Library Spring Hours 2026 | Closed on Memorial Day (5/25) 

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Upcoming Events

Drop-In Sessions:

Zotero Drop-In Help

Monday 5/4, 5/11, 5/18, and 5/25, 3:00pm – 4:00pm

Stephen Klein (Digital Services Librarian) holds one-on-one Zotero virtual office hours for drop-in video consultations on Mondays 3-4pm. Zotero is open source citation software enabling users to easily collect, organize, cite and share.

Archival Research Drop-In Hour

Wednesday 5/13, 11:00am – 12:00pm

Have a question about archival research? GC community members are invited to stop by our bi-weekly online office hours for one-on-one assistance with archives-related topics. Bring your questions about finding analog and digital sources, using archives, conducting background research, and more.

Have a question but can’t make the drop-in session? Contact Donna Davey at [email protected] to discuss over email or set up a consultation.

Scholarly Publishing Drop-In Hour

Thursday 5/14 and 5/28, 1:00pm – 2:00pm

This drop-in session is for any member of the Graduate Center community with questions about scholarly publishing or other aspects of scholarly communication.

Have a question but can’t make the drop-in session? Contact Jill Cirasella (Scholarly Communication Librarian and University Liaison) at [email protected] to discuss over email or set up a one-on-one consultation.

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Workshops and Other Events:

We Know It Well: Red Scare at CUNY and the Archival Politics of Dissent

Monday 5/4, 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Join archivists, activists, and scholars for an evening of study and strategizing for resisting the new McCarthyism on college campuses. This panel discussion features Mariame Kaba, Jeanne Theoharis, Marianne LaBatto, and Ted Schmiedeler, moderated by Shana L. Redmond, and is on the history of the Red Scare at CUNY, the importance of collecting and preserving our stories in times of political upheaval, and archival strategies for navigating the present conjuncture.

Throughout the 1930s, students and faculty from City College, Hunter College, Brooklyn College, and Queens College – the four senior colleges in New York City before their consolidation as the City University of New York (CUNY) – were part of a broad base of leftist intellectuals and dissidents responding to the economic conditions of the Depression, the growing threat of fascism, and political repression by their schools’ administrations. They demonstrated and organized against heightening militarism abroad, social and economic injustice at home, and fascism everywhere.

During World War II, fears of Communist subversion coalesced into a series of investigations into the personal beliefs and associations of New York City’s public school and municipal college teachers. The techniques used against New York State teachers and CUNY faculty were to find new life in the next wave of anti-communist investigations known as McCarthyism.

This event is organized to coincide with the publication of Red Scare at CUNY: A Research Guide, a comprehensive guide to archival collections documenting anti-communist repression of faculty, staff, and students at CUNY, and is co-sponsored by the CUNY Digital History Archive, the Mina Rees Library, the American Social History Project, the Center for the Humanities, PS2, and PSC/CUNY. Support for this program is provided by the Cultivating Archives & Institutional Memory project, a 3-year project to explore and strengthen archives across CUNY’s 26 campuses funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and The Radio in the Orchard (TRiO)— a radical rehearsal in scholarly and creative futures.

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Additional Updates:

24/7 Chat Reference

Our live chat service is available 24/7 and will be answered by a Graduate Center librarian, or another librarian at CUNY. During late-night hours, an academic librarian from one of our partner libraries may assist you, and we’ll follow up asap with additional information.

Interlibrary Loan

As always, we encourage everyone to submit InterLibrary Loan (ILL) requests! ILL is an excellent way to obtain materials beyond the Graduate Center Library, in the form of print books, electronic articles/Ebook chapters, DVD’s, microfilm and more. Find out more about ILL on our InterLibrary Loan FAQ page.

Set up a Consultation with your Subject Librarian

Visit the Library Directory to find the librarian for your program. Feel free to select a time/date from the calendar that works for you to meet with them.

We’re happy to make arrangements to meet with you at other times, so also feel free to reach out by email.

Grants and Funding

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