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Ground Floor Library Work Summer 2018

Posted on June 28, 2018 | 2 Comments
Part of the ground floor of the Mina Rees Library — specifically, the space running along our Fifth Avenue and 34th Street frontage — will be under construction over the summer as we develop more flexible use of the space, explore new flooring possibilities, and […]
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If Facebook were run by librarians this would never happen.

Posted on March 23, 2018 | No Comments
It is as if the Joker and his villainous pals switched on Gotham’s giant search engines to churn results that foil rational thought. Cambridge Analytica heisted political culture with misbegotten Facebook data to differentiate and to direct covert advertisements and made-up news to personal web […]
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HathiTrust Digital Library @ the GC

Posted on February 13, 2018 | No Comments
Six million volumes from the HathiTrust Digital Library are now available for PDF download by Graduate Center affiliates. Downloadable titles include books and journals published in the US before 1923, works published outside the US before 1878, US federal government documents, and Creative Commons licensed open works. […]
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NYPL’s New Shared Collection Catalog

Posted on October 10, 2017 | No Comments
The New York Public Library’s new shared collection catalog is live with a new user-friendly interface. Use it to explore NYPL’s collection as well as the holdings shared by NYPL, Columbia, and Princeton in the ReCAP storage facility. Requests for items in the shared catalog […]
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Buy Books on Amazon, Support the GC Library

Posted on August 23, 2017 | 1 Comment
Will you buy books this term on Amazon.com? If you do, you can also support the Graduate Center Library by using a special link. For every purchase made using the GC Library’s Amazon link, you fund the Library for between 4% and 8.5% of the purchase price, with […]
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CLACLS Latino Data Reports in CUNY Academic Works

Posted on May 24, 2017 | No Comments
The GC Library is pleased to announce the arrival of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies’ Latino Data series in the CUNY Academic Works open access repository. The 65 reports in the series are posted to gain maximum exposure to the widest public readership, with […]
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Alumni Library Access Lets Grads Stay Connected

Posted on May 19, 2017 | 3 Comments
Graduation day has one reliable disappointment: saying goodbye to library database and journal access. Grads’ off-campus access to library databases ends weeks after graduation, as soon as IT closes your student GC network account. But do not despair, GC grads! You enjoy lifetime on-campus access to the […]
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Now Open: The Library Lounge

Posted on March 27, 2017 | No Comments
The Graduate Center Mina Rees Library staff are pleased to bring you a new space for conversation, collaboration, and group study: the Library Lounge. The Lounge is on the library 2nd floor in room 2300, right behind the printing area. The Library Lounge will be […]
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Visiting Scholar Laurent Pérat

Posted on February 27, 2017 | No Comments
We welcome Laurent Pérat, a visiting scholar at the Graduate Center Library February – April, 2017. Laurent is in the midst of his course of study at ENSSIB, in Lyon, France. While librarians in the US obtain master’s degrees in library and/or information science, Laurent will […]
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Asst. Prof. Roxanne Shirazi, Dissertation Research Librarian

Posted on February 2, 2017 | No Comments
Roxanne Shirazi is a familiar face at the Graduate Center Library, but this spring we welcome her to a full-time Assistant Professor tenure track position. Prof. Shirazi will coordinate the library’s archiving and distribution of electronic theses and dissertations (known in the trade as ETDs), as well as […]
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