One of the most unexpected challenges of doing archival research today is keeping track of all of those digital photos taken in the reading room. Where do you keep them? (iPhoto? Lightroom?) How are they named? (Hopefully something more memorable than IMG2046.jpg or Box1.jpg.) Wouldn’t […]

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The following is a guest post by Shea’la Finch, Managing Editor of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. The project publishes chapbooks of “genre-bending works by important 20th century writers” that have been unearthed and edited by doctoral students at the Graduate Center. […]

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Wikipedia is a fine way to start your research and get a quick overview of a topic outside your comfort zone. Eventually, though, you’ll want to consult a reference source with a little more weight behind it. But how? Our stalwart reference librarian Donna Davey […]

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Come to the Schwartzman Building on Sept. 29th at 5:30pm to meet the curators and research librarians of the New York Public Library, learn about the collections, and find out how the Library can make your graduate career a little easier. Along with brief presentations from staff from NYPL's four research libraries (the Library for the Performing Arts, the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Science, Industry and Business Library), there will be the chance to ask questions and meet others doing related research.

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Data for Social Research Workshop Series Room C196.02 The Graduate Center Library offers a series of workshops on data mapping and GIS sources, taught by librarian Margaret Smith. All workshops take place on Wednesday evenings at the Graduate Center Library in room C196.02 (concourse level). […]

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Introduction to Library Resources   Two dates available: February 3rd, 1-2pm February 11th, 4:15-5:15pm Room C196.05  Learn the basics of library resources from Professor Michael Adams. This overview of the Graduate Center Library will introduce: the library website, subject specific databases, resources beyond the GC […]

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Beyond Leaflets One of the hallmarks of being on a university campus is the proliferation of flyers and leaflets. I remember sitting in Sproul Plaza as an undergrad at Berkeley and marveling at the thickness of the layers and layers of flyers posted on those big […]

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Pay attention to that due date! Beginning January 27, 2014, all CUNY doctoral faculty, GC Retirees and faculty research assistants will be subject to fines for overdue library materials. This decision was made by the CUNY Board of Trustees at their June meeting in order […]

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