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Interlibrary Loan: Brief Service Interruption on March 12, 2019

Posted on March 11, 2019 | No Comments
We will be upgrading the Interlibrary Loan system on Tuesday, March 12. There should only be a short service interruption in the morning. If you have any difficulties accessing us on the web, please try again later in the day. We can be reached at ill@gc.cuny.edu if […]
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Don’t Miss March in the Library

Posted on March 8, 2019 | No Comments
This month may have come in like a very cold lion, and it may yet go out like a lamb, but in between there will be a few things to learn here at the Mina Rees Library. Take a look, check your calendar, and sign […]
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Where We Are Now and Where We’ve Been: Open Access and AIDS Activism

Posted on March 7, 2019 | No Comments
Below is the third in a series of posts by participants in the 2019 Open Pedagogy Fellowship. Fellows will share insight to the process of converting a syllabus to open or zero-cost resources, and/or review a workshop from the Open Educational Resources (OER) Bootcamp held in mid-January. […]
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Innovation and Burnout: Perspectives on Open Pedagogy from an Adjunct

Posted on March 5, 2019 | No Comments
Below is the second in a series of posts by participants in the 2019 Open Pedagogy Fellowship. Fellows will share insight to the process of converting a syllabus to open or zero-cost resources, and/or review a workshop from the Open Educational Resources (OER) Bootcamp held in […]
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Snow Closure: Monday, March 4

Posted on March 3, 2019 | No Comments
The Graduate Center and the Mina Rees Library will be closed on Monday, March 4, due to winter weather. All classes are canceled. Updates will be posted at www.gc.cuny.edu. Enjoy your snow day.
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Welcome Katelyn Angell: Adjunct Reference Librarian

Posted on February 26, 2019 | No Comments
The library is pleased to announce the appointment of our new Adjunct Reference Librarian, Katelyn Angell for the Spring 2019 semester. Kate comes to us as a tenured Associate Professor and First Year Success Librarian at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus. She received a Master of Library and Information Science […]
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Teaching Classics with Open Educational Resources

Posted on February 21, 2019 | No Comments
Below is the first in a series of posts by participants in the 2019 Open Pedagogy Fellowship. Fellows will share insight to the process of converting a syllabus to open or zero-cost resources, and/or review a workshop from the Open Educational Resources (OER) Bootcamp held in […]
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Open Pedagogy Blog Series

Posted on February 14, 2019 | No Comments
Beginning next week, the first in a series of posts by Open Pedagogy Fellows will appear on the Graduate Center Library blog. The Open Pedagogy Fellowship was made possible by generous state funding awarded to both SUNY and CUNY, over the course of two years. […]
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Temporary Issue with Finding Fulltext via Google Scholar

Posted on February 13, 2019 | 1 Comment
The Graduate Center version of Google Scholar is experiencing temporary difficulties; please try the library’s other online resources to find fulltext for scholarly articles and books: OneSearch Journals A-Z List Databases A-Z List You can find all of these resources on the library homepage, http://library.gc.cuny.edu/. Thank […]
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The GC Library Welcomes Mason Brown, Science Resources Librarian

Posted on February 8, 2019 | No Comments
The Graduate Center Library is pleased to welcome Mason Brown as Assistant Professor in the newly created role of Science Resources Librarian. Mason has worked as a science librarian for over 13 years, first at Harvard University, at Wheaton College, and most recently at Hunter […]
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