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Help fund the Library through Amazon

Posted on March 31, 2015 | No Comments
Do you use Amazon.com for purchases of books and products? If you do you, this is a great opportunity to help support the Graduate Center Library! For every purchase made through the GC Library’s Amazon link, located on the library website, you can help fund the […]
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April 14 Library Workshop: Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) and the Politics of Electronic Reading

Posted on March 30, 2015 | 4 Comments
Digital Rights/Restrictions Management (DRM) is a topic that is discussed in the media from time to time. You may have heard about recent breaches in reader privacy that came up with Adobe Digital Editions last October. Or farther back, you might have read about the restrictions that HarperCollins […]
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Library Workshops in April

Posted on March 26, 2015 | 4 Comments
Introduction to SPSS April 1 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm C196.02 This class will give a general overview of the SPSS statistical package: What is it? What can it do? What do you need to know to get started? Why Can’t I Download […]
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The Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle @ GC April 20

Posted on March 20, 2015 | 5 Comments
Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, will speak at the annual Graduate Center Friends of the Library event April 20, 2015. [A recording of the event is here.] Kahle (pronounced “Kale”) is a leader of digital stewardship for the world’s heritage. He founded the Internet Archive in 1996 to strive for “universal […]
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Service Disruption Sunday

Posted on March 20, 2015 | No Comments
Because of maintenance being performed by CUNY Computing and Information Services on Sunday, March 22, the CUNY Catalog, Find it!, Blackboard, CUNY Portal, and CUNYfirst are expected to experience disruptions between 6 am and 10:30 am.
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Finding Digital Dissertations

Posted on March 17, 2015 | No Comments
Having immediate access to thousands of dissertations and theses from institutions around the world from 1887 to the present can be immensely beneficial to Graduate Center researchers, especially those choosing topics for their research. Luckily, ProQuest Digital Dissertations & Theses provides such access. The full text […]
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Brief Library Site Outage Today @ 5pm

Posted on March 13, 2015 | 1 Comment
NOTE: The maintenance is complete, and all library services are back to normal. The library’s servers and website will be down briefly for maintenance around 5pm today. During the outage, you can access many library tools and services at http://gclibrarybackup.org/. You will also be able to access […]
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Graduate Center Research Impact: Pin Drops Keep Falling on My Map!

Posted on March 12, 2015 | 4 Comments
Germany. India. England. France. Canada. Poland. Iran. Sweden. China. Turkey. Netherlands. Egypt. Russia. Japan. Those are just a few of the countries where researchers are downloading the works of Graduate Center students and faculty! Academic Works, the Graduate Center’s new open access institutional repository, tells us […]
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Library Server Problems & Alternative Access

Posted on March 10, 2015 | 1 Comment
Note: As of 5:30pm on 3/10/2015, everything is back up and running! The Graduate Center Library is currently experiencing problems with its proxy server, which is preventing access to the library catalog and other databases. We’re working with IT to restore access, and in the […]
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Move It or Lose It: Transferring Email

Posted on March 6, 2015 | 4 Comments
As announced by IT, student email addresses are moving from @gc.cuny.edu to @gradcenter.cuny.edu. Once the migration is complete on June 1, 2015, your old account will be deleted and all the email messages and contacts in the account will be deleted along with it. What […]
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