Library Workshops & Events
Check the library calendar for workshops and events of interest, including Zotero trainings!
Featured Stories
-
New Access to The Chief: A Voice for Workers
24 February 2025 4:06 PM | No Comments -
Remembering Helga Bravmann Feder, with Gratitude
02 December 2024 2:21 PM | No Comments -
New and Featured Streaming Film Databases: Docuseek and Electronic Arts Intermix
23 October 2024 5:39 PM | No Comments -
Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2023-24
07 June 2024 3:30 PM | No Comments -
Adrienne Rich: Teaching at CUNY, 1968–1974, Now Available on Manifold
28 April 2024 1:06 PM | No Comments
-
Latest Headlines
-
Defending Music Appreciation Against Its Devotees
Posted on September 28, 2022 | No CommentsA music appreciation course, even one centered on the traditional body of European literate music, can have an emancipatory effect. [This effect], however, is limited in starkly practical terms by the availability of its pedagogical materials. -
Digitized Primary Sources
Posted on September 20, 2022 | No CommentsDigitization has revolutionized the way we do research. We can consult obscure sources from far flung repositories without traveling the globe to see the originals. And there are countless primary source collections online that contain digital copies of every type of item imaginable. -
OA/OER is a Liberatory Political Act
Posted on September 14, 2022 | No CommentsThis is the tenth in our current series of short essays by participants in the Open Knowledge Fellowship coordinated by the Mina Rees Library, these from Fellows in the Spring 2022 cohort. Fellows share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or […] -
Apply by 9/28 to the Open Knowledge Fellowship
Posted on September 12, 2022 | No CommentsThe Library seeks applications for the Open Knowledge Fellowship, which provides a $2000 stipend for participating Graduate Center doctoral students. Apply by Wednesday 9/28/22 at 5pm EST! We look forward to hearing from you. Feel free to reach out with any questions: [email protected] The Fellowship […] -
Performing History with OER
Posted on August 26, 2022 | No CommentsWith so much knowledge and information hidden behind paywalls, the vital cultural work that humanities scholars do will struggle to have a significant impact on the world beyond the walls of academia. -
Try Interlibrary Loan Today
Posted on August 25, 2022 | No CommentsWelcome from all of us in the Interlibrary Loan office to all new and returning members of the GC community! As we begin the new semester (and at all times!) we encourage you to use our interlibrary loan services to make requests for any information […] -
Welcome to the Mina Rees Library
Posted on August 23, 2022 | No CommentsWelcome to the Mina Rees Library! We’re excited to work with you, and we can be reached in a variety of ways. If you have a general or research question, email us at – [email protected]. We’re also available via live, 24/7 chat reference and one-on-one […] -
Mixing & Matching Open Educational Resources
Posted on August 19, 2022 | No CommentsI soon found that not one text fits all. Some excluded prominent musical traditions and genres, while others contained outdated embedded YouTube links. I wondered if I could mix and match supplementary resources while keeping everything open (and how I could do so legally!). -
Opening Music
Posted on August 10, 2022 | No CommentsMy favorite newly-discovered resource is the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive, maintained by the University of Massachusetts, Boston. This archive houses hundreds of tapes made by locally-known emcees active in and around Boston during the 1980s. -
Reading at the Margins of Open Access
Posted on August 5, 2022 | No CommentsThe workshops introduced me to resources I had no idea existed and with that, to the immense possibilities of OA and OER to enrich our courses not only in terms of public access but also our own imagination as scholars and instructors.
