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An Archives Center for the Library

Posted on June 24, 2025 | No Comments
We are delighted to share that the New York City Council and Manhattan Borough President’s office has awarded funds to the Graduate Center for the creation of an archives center for the Mina Rees Library! Head to the press release to learn more about this […]
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Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2024-25

Posted on June 10, 2025 | No Comments
Today is Commencement Day for the Graduate Center, which means it’s also time for the annual round-up of dissertations, theses, and capstone projects submitted to the library this academic year. For those keeping track, this marks the 10th year that I’ve had the privilege of […]
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Friends of the Library Event

Posted on April 29, 2025 | No Comments
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

Posted on April 28, 2025 | No Comments
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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New Access to The Chief: A Voice for Workers

Posted on February 24, 2025 | No Comments
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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Queering the Collection: The Carpenter Endowment

Posted on February 7, 2025 | No Comments
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!

Posted on February 3, 2025 | No Comments
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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Some Oxford Resources Temporarily Unavailable

Posted on January 29, 2025 | No Comments
Across the CUNY Libraries, the following Oxford resources are temporarily unavailable: Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford Reference Online, Grove Art Online, and Grove Music Online. Meanwhile, you can access these resources via New York Public Library. We are so sorry for the inconvenience.
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Two Fellowship Opportunities: CLAGS and Student Newspapers Digitization Projects

Posted on December 20, 2024 | No Comments
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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Extended Library Hours for Finals

Posted on December 10, 2024 | No Comments
We are pleased to announce that the Mina Rees Library will offering extended hours for finals: Saturday, December 14, 10am-10pm Sunday, December 15, 12pm-10pm As always, you can find our Library hours here: https://gc-cuny.libcal.com/hours
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