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Scholarly Communication Essentials: Workshop Series

Posted on February 2, 2021 | No Comments
This spring, the Mina Rees Library is again offering a slate of workshops on scholarly communication topics. The workshops are clustered into two series: Scholarly Communication Essentials (in the first half of the semester) and Contracts & Copyright (in the second half). The Scholarly Communication […]
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Apply now! Open Pedagogy Fellowship – Spring 2021

Posted on January 29, 2021 | No Comments
Open Pedagogy Fellowship – Apply by 2/15/21 at 5:00pm EST The Library seeks applications for Open Pedagogy Fellows for Spring 2021, each carrying a $2000 stipend. What is the Open Pedagogy Fellowship? The Fellowship experience will provide interactive training about how to find openly licensed […]
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Welcome back to the Spring semester!

Posted on January 27, 2021 | No Comments
Welcome back to the Graduate Center in Spring 2021, for what we hope will be a productive and engaging semester. As we move into the Spring, I would like to share a few updates from the Mina Rees Library, as well as a recap of […]
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UPDATED: Save Your Interlibrary Loan Requests Before February 1, 2021

Posted on January 13, 2021 | No Comments
If you want to keep your past Inter-Library Loan (ILL) request history for future reference, please be sure to download it by Monday, February 1, 2021. At the Graduate Center Library, we do a periodic delinking (twice a year) of finished ILL requests so that […]
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Writing Openly and Freely: Open-Source Writing Software

Posted on December 24, 2020 | No Comments
You may be an old-school diehard who is pounding out that dissertation on a manual typewriter, or scratching it out with a fountain pen. But if you are like most of us, you’re doing the lion’s share of your work on a computer, and you’re […]
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Spring 2021 Course Reserves: New Year, New System

Posted on December 1, 2020 | 2 Comments
The Mina Rees Library is excited to announce our new reserves management system! Beginning with the Spring 2021 term, all course reserves items will be made available using our new E-Reserves system instead of the library catalog. Why? Managing our reserves materials outside of the […]
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Apply by 12/4 to be Part of This Year’s Data for Public Good Cohort

Posted on November 23, 2020 | No Comments
Call for Participation The Data for Public Good Project in partnership with the COVID Tracking Project 2020-2021 Applications due by 5:00 PM EST on Friday, December 4, 2020. For the third year, GC Digital Initiatives and the Mina Rees Library are accepting applications from Graduate Center students who have achieved […]
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Inside the Ebook Detective Agency

Posted on November 18, 2020 | No Comments
You may have heard about the Ebook Detective Agency – a team of librarians who are eager to help connect you with the title you’re seeking. They’ll navigate the often complex landscape of available resources to find exactly what you need. How it works: – […]
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Accessible Open Education

Posted on November 16, 2020 | No Comments
Below is the fifth post in a series by participants in the Summer 2020 Open Pedagogy Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows will share insight to the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their experiences in […]
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Languaging in the CUNY Academic Commons

Posted on November 9, 2020 | No Comments
Below is the fourth in a series of posts by participants in the Summer 2020 Open Pedagogy Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows will share insight to the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their experiences […]
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