Library Workshops & Events
Check the library calendar for workshops and events of interest, including Zotero trainings!
Featured Stories
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Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2025–26
02 June 2026 9:24 AM | 1 Comment -
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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Library Service Outage, Sunday, July 11th, 8am – 6pm
Posted on July 6, 2021 | No CommentsDue to scheduled IT maintenance, the library website, proxy, and blog will be intermittently unavailable on Sunday, July 11th between 8am and 6pm. When off-campus access to GC library databases is interrupted, some databases will still be available via the CUNY-wide list of databases using […] -
More Than Skills
Posted on July 1, 2021 | No CommentsThe experience I had in the workshop was far beyond my expectations. I thought I would learn some skills, mostly techniques and skills in how to find and prepare Open Education Resources. In fact, I learned a lot about the philosophy of education. -
An Art Historian’s Expedition: Visual Archives and Open Access
Posted on June 24, 2021 | No CommentsAs an art historian and instructor of art history, I look at hundreds of artworks on a weekly basis, but in a contemporary world increasingly mediated by images, nearly all of us come across pictures of some kind everyday. Yet, rarely do we understand where these images come from, who owns them, who has access to them, and if they can be used and shared freely. -
Open Access Takes to the Streets
Posted on June 17, 2021 | No CommentsBelow is the fourteenth and final post in a series by participants in the Winter 2021 Open Pedagogy Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows will share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their […] -
We Can Decide What OER Are For
Posted on June 10, 2021 | No CommentsThis is the first of a series of posts by participants in the Spring 2021 Open Pedagogy Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows will share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their experiences […] -
An Update from Emily Drabinski, Interim Chief Librarian
Posted on June 7, 2021 | No CommentsJune 7, 2021 Dear Graduate Center community, Today marks the first time students have returned to our library space to study, read, and write since we closed our doors in response to rising COVID-19 infection rates in March 2020. It seems both like another universe […] -
Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2020-21
Posted on June 3, 2021 | 5 CommentsToday is Commencement Day, and though we won’t be gathering to celebrate on Lincoln Center’s new lawn (“The GREEN”), the library’s tradition of celebrating the culminating works of our graduates through this year-in-review post continues unabated. Many of you have already had a glimpse through […] -
Unveiling of the CLAGSNews Collection
Posted on June 1, 2021 | No CommentsThis spring the Mina Rees Library and Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) celebrated the unveiling of twenty years of CLAGSNews, its quarterly newsletter, in CUNY Academic Works. Currently there are 141 articles – written by about 90 authors – over a period of 21 years, […] -
Open Educational Resources as the Soul of CUNY
Posted on May 28, 2021 | No CommentsBelow is the thirteenth in a series of posts by participants in the Winter 2021 Open Pedagogy Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows will share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their experiences […] -
Access, Resources, and Hip-Hop: A Story of Education
Posted on May 20, 2021 | 1 CommentBelow is the twelfth in a series of posts by participants in the Winter 2021 Open Pedagogy Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows will share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their experiences […]
