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Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2020-21

Posted on June 3, 2021 | 5 Comments
Today is Commencement Day, and though we won’t be gathering to celebrate on Lincoln Center’s new lawn (“The GREEN”), the library’s tradition of celebrating the culminating works of our graduates through this year-in-review post continues unabated. Many of you have already had a glimpse through […]
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Spring 2021 Course Reserves: New Year, New System

Posted on December 1, 2020 | 2 Comments
The Mina Rees Library is excited to announce our new reserves management system! Beginning with the Spring 2021 term, all course reserves items will be made available using our new E-Reserves system instead of the library catalog. Why? Managing our reserves materials outside of the […]
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Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2019-20

Posted on June 2, 2020 | No Comments
Each year, as we close out the spring semester and celebrate our GC graduates, the library’s Dissertation Office produces a round-up of dissertations, theses, and capstone projects to highlight the incredible work being done by our students. In a semester marked by disruption, by the […]
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Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2018-19

Posted on May 31, 2019 | No Comments
Today is Commencement Day at the Graduate Center! Which, for the Dissertation Office, means it’s time for our annual look back at the dissertations, theses, and capstone projects that our graduating students deposited with the library. But first, what is this “deposit” business, anyway? It […]
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May 2019 Grads: Deposit Your Dissertation or Thesis by April 30th

Posted on March 15, 2019 | No Comments
Planning to graduate this May? The library’s Dissertation Office is holding information sessions and workshops in advance of the April 30 deposit deadline. Click on the dates below to view event details and RSVP. Depositing a dissertation, thesis, or capstone project with the library is […]
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Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2017-18

Posted on May 30, 2018 | No Comments
It’s Commencement Day here at the Graduate Center! And that means it’s time to look back at the dissertations, theses, and capstone projects submitted to the library in the past academic year. For many of us, this was a year of survival. We even survived […]
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Meet ZoteroBib

Posted on May 18, 2018 | No Comments
Which means we're thrilled about yesterday's announcement of ZoteroBib, a free service to quickly create properly formatted bibliographies without creating an account or installing any software.
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Dissertation Office Drop-In Hours

Posted on April 6, 2018 | No Comments
CUNY Graduate Center students: are you planning to deposit your dissertation or thesis for the May 2018 degree? Appointments are no longer required as part of the deposit process, but if you have a burning question or are just looking for some reassurance, come to […]
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Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2016-17

Posted on June 2, 2017 | 1 Comment
Today is Commencement Day at the Graduate Center! As we celebrate our graduates from the 2016-17 academic year at the 53rd annual commencement exercises, I’d like to offer this round-up in celebration of the works submitted to the library during that time. This was, no […]
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Open Education and OERs: Moving Beyond the Jargon

Posted on October 21, 2016 | 10 Comments
Even as it becomes clear that higher education may, in fact, survive the great MOOC threat of the 2010s, there continues to be a mixture of anxiety and misconceptions around the notion of open education. So what do we mean by open education? Personally, I […]
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