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New Access to The Chief: A Voice for Workers

Posted on February 24, 2025 | No Comments
We are happy to announce a new collaboration that has brought access to The Chief to all Graduate Center affiliates. The Chief is a New York City-based newspaper that has long focused on municipal government, civil servants, and the issues affecting New York State and […]
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Apply by 2/24/25 at 9am! Open Knowledge Fellowship – Summer Cohort

Posted on February 10, 2025 | No Comments
The Mina Rees Library will host the 12th cohort of the Open Knowledge Fellowship in Summer 2025 (May and early June, see dates below!). This 6-session program includes a stipend of $2000, paid via Financial Aid in Spring 2025. We are proud to share that […]
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Queering the Collection: The Carpenter Endowment

Posted on February 7, 2025 | No Comments
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Carpenter Endowment at the Mina Rees Library, an ongoing fund for the purchase of books and other materials relating to LGBTQ lives, and scholarly works on gender/sexuality. A History of the Carpenter Endowment In 2000, Ivor Kraft, […]
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CUNY Academic Works: New Look!

Posted on February 3, 2025 | No Comments
You may be familiar with CUNY Academic Works, the online repository where members of the CUNY community can share their scholarly, creative, and pedagogical works with the public. CUNY Academic Works launched in 2015, and until last week it looked like a website from, well, […]
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Some Oxford Resources Temporarily Unavailable

Posted on January 29, 2025 | No Comments
Across the CUNY Libraries, the following Oxford resources are temporarily unavailable: Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford Reference Online, Grove Art Online, and Grove Music Online. Meanwhile, you can access these resources via New York Public Library. We are so sorry for the inconvenience.
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Two Fellowship Opportunities: CLAGS and Student Newspapers Digitization Projects

Posted on December 20, 2024 | No Comments
The Mina Rees Library has two graduate student funding opportunities for the Spring 2025 semester to assist with digitization projects in the Graduate Center’s institutional archives: CLAGS Digitization Fellowship Student Newspapers Digitization Fellowship Working with library faculty, the digitization fellows will select archival materials to […]
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Extended Library Hours for Finals

Posted on December 10, 2024 | No Comments
We are pleased to announce that the Mina Rees Library will offering extended hours for finals: Saturday, December 14, 10am-10pm Sunday, December 15, 12pm-10pm As always, you can find our Library hours here: https://gc-cuny.libcal.com/hours
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Save Your Interlibrary Loan Request History (by December 23, 2024)

Posted on December 9, 2024 | No Comments
In order to keep information about library requests private, we periodically “delink” finished interlibrary loan requests from library users’ names. This will happen next in January 2025. After this, you will only see the last six months of information in your ILL account. If you […]
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Remembering Helga Bravmann Feder, with Gratitude

Posted on December 2, 2024 | No Comments
This past summer, the librarians of the Mina Rees Library were pleasantly surprised to learn that the Library had been included in the will of a former Graduate Center librarian, Helga Bravmann Feder (1927-2022). Helga Bravmann was born in Würzburg (Bavaria), Germany, in 1927. Her […]
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Graduating Soon? Attend a Dissertation Office Info Session in December

Posted on November 5, 2024 | No Comments
Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash The Dissertation Office has a number of upcoming online events that will answer any questions you have about depositing your dissertation or thesis. General info sessions will touch on citations, embargoes, copyright and the submission process. There are also […]
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