Blog Archive

  • John D. Frank

    Teaching Political Science with OER

    This piece is part of a series by participants in the Winter 2025 Open Knowledge Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows will share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their experiences teaching undergraduate […]

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  • Yael Horowitz

    Teaching Theatre with OER

    This piece is part of a series by participants in the Winter 2025 Open Knowledge Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows will share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their experiences teaching undergraduate […]

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  • Book cover for The Archive of Empire by Asheesh Kapur Siddique (Yale Univ Pr)

    Friends of the Library Event

    Dr. Asheesh Kapur Siddique, assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, will speak on his recent book, The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World (Yale University Press, 2024). Dr. James Lowry, Director of the Graduate […]

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    Extended Library Hours for Finals

    We are pleased to announce that the Mina Rees Library will offering extended hours for finals: Saturday May 10, 10am-10pm Sunday May 11, 12pm-10pm Saturday May 17, 10am-10pm Sunday May 18, 12pm-10pm As always, you can find our Library hours here: https://gc-cuny.libcal.com/hours

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  • Open access education and soap operas

    This piece is part of a series by participants in the Winter 2025 Open Knowledge Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows will share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their experiences teaching undergraduate […]

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  • Teaching Political Theory with OER

    This piece is part of a series by participants in the Winter 2025 Open Knowledge Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows will share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their experiences teaching undergraduate […]

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  • New Access to The Chief: A Voice for Workers

    We are happy to announce a new collaboration that has brought access to The Chief to all Graduate Center affiliates. The Chief is a New York City-based newspaper that has long focused on municipal government, civil servants, and the issues affecting New York State and […]

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  • Apply by 2/24/25 at 9am! Open Knowledge Fellowship – Summer Cohort

    The Mina Rees Library will host the 12th cohort of the Open Knowledge Fellowship in Summer 2025 (May and early June, see dates below!). This 6-session program includes a stipend of $2000, paid via Financial Aid in Spring 2025. We are proud to share that […]

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  • Queering the Collection: The Carpenter Endowment

    This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Carpenter Endowment at the Mina Rees Library, an ongoing fund for the purchase of books and other materials relating to LGBTQ lives, and scholarly works on gender/sexuality. A History of the Carpenter Endowment In 2000, Ivor Kraft, […]

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    CUNY Academic Works: New Look!

    You may be familiar with CUNY Academic Works, the online repository where members of the CUNY community can share their scholarly, creative, and pedagogical works with the public. CUNY Academic Works launched in 2015, and until last week it looked like a website from, well, […]

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