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  • An Update from Emily Drabinski, Interim Chief Librarian

    Welcome to the Spring semester from the Mina Rees Library! We are excited to welcome you back and have some highlights to share. Haven’t been here in awhile? Sign up for an in-person tour of the Library, Introduction to the Library workshops, and kickstart Zotero […]

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    Expanded Hours Coming Soon

    Dear Graduate Center community, I am pleased to share the good news that effective Monday, November 15th, the Mina Rees Library building will be open from 9am to 9pm Monday through Friday and noon to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday. In-person reference services will continue […]

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  • Welcome back to the Spring semester!

    Welcome back to the Graduate Center in Spring 2021, for what we hope will be a productive and engaging semester. As we move into the Spring, I would like to share a few updates from the Mina Rees Library, as well as a recap of […]

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    Welcome back to Fall 2020

    Dear Graduate Center community, As the fall semester begins, your library faculty and staff are excited to welcome you back to (virtual, for now) campus. We have been working hard since March to facilitate teaching, learning, and research even as we all continue to work […]

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    Fall semester library services update

    As we look forward to the fall semester, we’d like to share an update with the community about our plans for supporting teaching this fall. We know that Graduate Center faculty and students rely on our resources and services. We remain committed to working with […]

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  • Welcome Elvis Bakaitis, Interim Head of Reference!

    We’re happy to announce that Elvis Bakaitis has been recently appointed Interim Head of Reference at the Graduate Center Library. In their previous role at the Graduate Center Library as an Adjunct Reference Librarian, Elvis worked with Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz to develop the Open Pedagogy Fellowship. […]

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    Critical librarianship beyond borders

    Critical librarianship is concerned with structures and remnants: how do the systems we build and meticulously maintain produce and reproduce inequities, and how do librarians navigate what gets left behind? I have written about what some of us call “critlib” in relation to the cataloging […]

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    The Labor of Open: Report from Triangle SCI

    Open scholarship is a lot of work. As a librarian, writer, and editor, I’ve spent a lot of time working on open access. I was part of a team that flipped the journal Radical Teacher to an open access model in 2012, a project that […]

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  • Teaching Dante on the Commons

    Below is the twelfth in a series of posts by participants in the 2019 Open Pedagogy Fellowship. Fellows will share insight to the process of converting a syllabus to open or zero-cost resources, and/or review a workshop from the Open Educational Resources (OER) Bootcamp held […]

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  • Searching for Open Educational Resources

    Below is the eighth in a series of posts by participants in the 2019 Open Pedagogy Fellowship. Fellows will share insight to the process of converting a syllabus to open or zero-cost resources, and/or review a workshop from the Open Educational Resources (OER) Bootcamp held […]

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