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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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Save Your Interlibrary Loan Request History (by December 23, 2024)

Posted on December 9, 2024 | No Comments
In order to keep information about library requests private, we periodically “delink” finished interlibrary loan requests from library users’ names. This will happen next in January 2025. After this, you will only see the last six months of information in your ILL account. If you […]
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New and Featured Streaming Film Databases: Docuseek and Electronic Arts Intermix

Posted on October 23, 2024 | No Comments
Introducing The Docuseek Complete Collection Docuseek streams essential independent, social-issue and environmental films to colleges, universities and K-12 schools, providing exclusive access to content from renowned leaders in documentary film distribution, including Icarus Films, Women Make Movies, and Kartemquin Films. We have access to the […]
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Interlibrary Loan: Access the World’s Library Resources from the GC

Posted on April 19, 2024 | No Comments
When you need information and cannot access it through our library’s print collection or online resources, interlibrary loan is here to help. We encourage you to make ILL requests directly from library databases or from the library’s website. Interlibrary loan is free and easy…just make […]
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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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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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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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Banned Books and Rights for the Incarcerated: Martin Sostre’s Afro-Asian Bookshop in Exile

Posted on October 3, 2023 | No Comments
Each year, libraries and affiliated organizations raise awareness about banned books and legislative attacks on the freedom to read by celebrating Banned Books Week (already underway, Oct. 1-7, 2023). As libraries face the toughest year for book bans in recent memory, NYC’s public libraries are […]
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