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    Two Fellowship Opportunities: CLAGS and Student Newspapers Digitization Projects

    The Mina Rees Library has two graduate student funding opportunities for the Spring 2025 semester to assist with digitization projects in the Graduate Center’s institutional archives: CLAGS Digitization Fellowship Student Newspapers Digitization Fellowship Working with library faculty, the digitization fellows will select archival materials to […]

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    Graduating Soon? Attend a Dissertation Office Info Session in December

    Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash The Dissertation Office has a number of upcoming online events that will answer any questions you have about depositing your dissertation or thesis. General info sessions will touch on citations, embargoes, copyright and the submission process. There are also […]

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    Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2023-24

    Today is Commencement Day for the Graduate Center, which means it’s time for the Library’s celebration of all of the dissertations, theses, and capstone projects that were deposited this academic year. Our concern, of course, is with preserving and making accessible the original research contributions that our students have created in their academic pursuits. The creation of new knowledge, whether through advancements in science or new explorations of the human condition, is the bedrock of graduate study and these culminating works represent an enormous achievement. The Graduate Center sits at the crossroads of CUNY’s research enterprise and our students—today’s graduates—are at the forefront of initiatives that re-energize our studies, revolutionize our methods, and sustain our communities.

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    Adrienne Rich: Teaching at CUNY, 1968–1974, Now Available on Manifold

    We are pleased to announce a digital edition of poet Adrienne Rich’s teaching materials from her time at the City College of New York, now freely available online. View on Manifold: Adrienne Rich: Teaching at CUNY, 1968–1974, Parts I & II Rich was one of […]

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  • Welcome, Alice Kallman – Adjunct Reference Librarian (Dissertation Office)

    The Mina Rees Library is excited to formally introduce Alice Kallman, who has recently joined the Dissertation Office as an adjunct reference librarian. Alice Kallman recently served as a Scholarly Communications Fellow with CUNY’s Office of Library Services, where she developed expertise in scholarly publishing […]

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  • Banned Books and Rights for the Incarcerated: Martin Sostre’s Afro-Asian Bookshop in Exile

    Each year, libraries and affiliated organizations raise awareness about banned books and legislative attacks on the freedom to read by celebrating Banned Books Week (already underway, Oct. 1-7, 2023). As libraries face the toughest year for book bans in recent memory, NYC’s public libraries are […]

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  • Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2022-23

    It’s Commencement Day for the Graduate Center, which has become a time for the library to celebrate all of the dissertations, theses, and capstone projects that we received this academic year. By now, you’ve heard about the awards and listened to the speakers at the […]

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    Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2021-22

    Today, the Graduate Center is gearing up for the first in-person Commencement since June 2019, a ceremony that will celebrate graduates from three academic years. It has been a long time coming. We now have a new president, a new provost, and new leadership across […]

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  • Book cover of Debates in Digital Humanities (2012)

    Introducing the Debates in DH Digital Project Index

    This semester, GC librarians Steve Zweibel and Roxanne Shirazi, in collaboration with the M.A. Program in Digital Humanities, have initiated a project to help make digital scholarship more visible in library collections. We’ve begun working with Patricia Belen, a master’s student in the DH program, […]

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    A New Partner for the CUNY Digital History Archive

    The Mina Rees Library is pleased to announce ongoing support for the CUNY Digital History Archive, in partnership with the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning (ASHP/CML) at the Graduate Center. The library will assume a lead role in developing and sustaining the […]

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