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  • Deadline Extended: GIS Data Services College Assistants

    ***Deadline Extended**** Baruch’s Geospatial Data Librarian Frank Donnelly seeks two new part-time employees Baruch Library’s GIS lab for the 2015-16 academic year. The Data Services College Assistants will process and document geospatial data sets and provide assistance with geospatial workshops. Applicants should be currently enrolled as CUNY graduate students. Application deadline […]

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  • The Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle @ GC April 20

    Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, will speak at the annual Graduate Center Friends of the Library event April 20, 2015. [A recording of the event is here.] Kahle (pronounced “Kale”) is a leader of digital stewardship for the world’s heritage. He founded the Internet Archive in 1996 to strive for “universal […]

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  • February 2015 Grad Center Grads

    The Graduate Center’s winter 2015 deposit period ended Monday, February 2, with 115 PhD and 18 master’s students depositing with the library Dissertation Assistant, Judy Waldman. On January 22, Judy called for this photographer when she spotted Mary Frances Zawadzki’s particularly spectacular t-shirt worn to mark the […]

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  • Student-Trustee Caroline Urvater Loves the GC Library

    Caroline Urvater is a beloved library denizen, a GC trustee, and a philanthropist who, as she says, “puts her money where her mouth is.” Thank you, Caroline, for talking the talk and walking the walk!  

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  • Long Tails and Low Humidity: ReCAP Research Collections and Preservation Consortium

    Research libraries embrace two primary missions: to preserve the world’s intellectual culture, and to distribute it as widely as possible. ReCAP, the state-of-the-art book storage facility in Princeton, is central to both these missions. ReCAP began in 1999 as a collaboration among Columbia University Libraries, Princeton University, and New York […]

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  • GC Library Celebrates Fall 14!

    What did the GC Library’s hard-working visionaries accomplish in Fall 2014? On top of the reference service, the instruction, and the purchasing, organizing, describing, and shelving we do all the time, here’s a short list of projects we knocked off: Rolled out a new library web site and tweaked it to […]

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  • Library Quiet Spaces

    Image is CC-BY from Amanda Hirsch. Students need space to concentrate and to work. For graduate students, a distraction-free place to read, think, and work is even more important than it is for undergraduates. The researcher’s hunt for a “peaceful corner of their world, even inside of one’s own […]

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  • MediaCamp Workshops Nov 5, 7, 14

    MediaCamp Workshops are free and open for scholars, faculty, staff, graduate students, administrators, activists, and others to build traditional media and digital media skills. Still open: Blogging (Nov 5), Analytics & Metrics (Nov 7), Communications for Social Justice Advocates (new! Nov 7), Podcasting 101 (new! Nov 14), and Op-Eds: Pitching […]

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    Library Closed Monday October 13

    The Graduate Center building and the library are closed all day Monday, October 13, in observance of the Columbus Day holiday. The library and the building will re-open for regular hours Tuesday, October 14.

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    GC Library Site Slow Mon Oct 6: Restored!

    The GC’s network problems have been repaired. Thanks for your patience.

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