Blog Archive

Exploring the Carpenter Collection

Posted on January 23, 2024 | No Comments
The Mina Rees Library enjoys the support of an ongoing endowment from Ivor Kraft, a long-time member of CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies (founded in 1991 as the nation’s first university-based LGBTQ research center in the United States, located at The Graduate Center). Donated […]
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A New Way to Log In to Interlibrary Loan

Posted on January 16, 2024 | 1 Comment
On January 17th, CUNY Login (@login.cuny.edu username and associated password) was added as the new default option to log in to Graduate Center Library interlibrary loan (ILL) accounts. The login screen will look like this: If you have a CUNY login, click on the first […]
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Welcome, Alice Kallman – Adjunct Reference Librarian (Dissertation Office)

Posted on January 12, 2024 | No Comments
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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Apply now! Open Knowledge Fellowship

Posted on January 10, 2024 | No Comments
We are deeply excited to share that the Mina Rees Library will host its 10th cohort of the Open Knowledge Fellowship in Spring 2024. This 6-session program includes a stipend of $2000, paid via Financial Aid in Spring 2024. All fully enrolled students are encouraged […]
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Accessible Archives Unavailable

Posted on December 20, 2023 | No Comments
Update: as of December 27, Accessible Archives is back! The Accessible Archives database is currently unavailable. We are so sorry for the inconvenience and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Meanwhile, interlibrary loan may be an option to consider; check access privileges here.
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700,000 Interlibrary Loan Requests…and Counting! (updated)

Posted on December 12, 2023 | No Comments
As of five years ago, our interlibrary loan department had processed half a million “ILL” transactions using ILLiad software. (And, of course, we processed many before this, as well.) And now we are celebrating our 700,000th request. Every request is important to both us and […]
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Extended Library Hours for Finals

Posted on December 11, 2023 | No Comments
We are pleased to announce that the Mina Rees Library will offering extended hours for finals: Saturday December 16, 10am-10pm Sunday December 17, 12pm-10pm As always, you can find our Library hours here: https://gc-cuny.libcal.com/hours
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Now Hiring: Interlibrary Loan

Posted on December 4, 2023 | 1 Comment
We are hiring for a part-time (10-20 hours/week) position at the Interlibrary Loan unit of the Graduate Center library. Interlibrary Loan is an essential service for the GC community, facilitating access to a wide variety of physical and digital materials for our students, faculty […]
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Hathitrust Membership Cancellation

Posted on November 22, 2023 | No Comments
As a result of cuts to the library’s budget, we are sorry to report that our membership to Hathitrust will expire on December 31, 2023. This post is intended to help those who have been using Hathitrust make any needed preparations for this change in […]
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Interlibrary Loan: Save Your Request History by December 23, 2023

Posted on November 14, 2023 | No Comments
At the Graduate Center Library, we do a periodic delinking (twice a year) of finished ILL requests. To preserve library user privacy, we detach records of requests from the usernames of the requesters in our database. We’ll have statistics, but we (and you) will not […]
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