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Featured Stories
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Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2025–26
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An Archives Center for the Library
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New Access to The Chief: A Voice for Workers
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Remembering Helga Bravmann Feder, with Gratitude
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New and Featured Streaming Film Databases: Docuseek and Electronic Arts Intermix
23 October 2024 5:39 PM | No Comments
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Latest Headlines
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Temporary Outage: A-Z list and Research Guides
Posted on November 3, 2022 | No CommentsThe platform which hosts our A-Z list and our Research Guides is experiencing a temporary and intermittent outages. While the vendor, SpringShare, attempts to resolve the issue and bring LibGuides back, we suggest you use the CUNY-wide list to access a subset of e-resources. […] -
Knowledge, Power, and OER
Posted on November 2, 2022 | No CommentsEncountering a paywall on my way to some piece of scholarship prompts me into critically questioning the systems of power that keep people in and out of the spaces where knowledge circulates and is transformed and grows, and in/out of the borders of peer-reviewed research in the various fields of specialized knowledge. -
Welcome Silvia Cho, as Resource Sharing Librarian
Posted on October 31, 2022 | No CommentsAfter nine years working in the GC Library as the GC Library’s interlibrary loan department Supervisor and Manager, we are happy to congratulate Silvia Cho, the newest member of the Library faculty. Silvia holds a Master’s in Library Science from Queens College, a M.A. in […] -
Exploring The New York Public Library
Posted on October 25, 2022 | No CommentsWhile we may all know about the New York Public Library (NYPL), and perhaps have visited or borrowed items, most of us have probably not made full use of the vast and extensive collections they maintain. Anyone who lives, work, or studies in NY State […] -
“Researcher first, teacher second”: Time-Saving Suggestions for Open-Access Teaching
Posted on October 19, 2022 | No CommentsWhenever I thought about exchanging my textbook for open access materials, I was cowed by the amount of time and effort I imagined such a process taking. I had spent years designing my slides, quizzes, lectures, and course schedules around my textbook—how could I square a complete course overhaul with the axiom of “researcher first, teacher second”? -
Find Books From Libraries Around the World with WorldCat: Same Tool, New Interface
Posted on October 19, 2022 | No CommentsNeed books from beyond CUNY? Want to search for books from libraries around the world, to see what’s out there, regardless of which libraries have what? And, then, get them delivered to you through our interlibrary loan service? WorldCat is the tool for you. WorldCat […] -
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 […]
