Receive New Posts via Email
Join 1,336 other subscribersLibrary Workshops & Events
Check the library calendar for workshops and events of interest, including Zotero trainings!
Featured Categories
Featured Stories
-
An Archives Center for the Library
24 June 2025 11:37 AM | No Comments -
Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2024-25
10 June 2025 1:30 PM | No Comments -
New Access to The Chief: A Voice for Workers
24 February 2025 4:06 PM | No Comments -
Remembering Helga Bravmann Feder, with Gratitude
02 December 2024 2:21 PM | No Comments -
New and Featured Streaming Film Databases: Docuseek and Electronic Arts Intermix
23 October 2024 5:39 PM | No Comments
-
Related Blogs
library loan periods Archive
-
NYCT Library Responds to Extended Loan Proposal
Posted on March 8, 2014 | 2 CommentsAre CUNY library books more valuable in scholars’ hands? Or are books more valuable on library shelves? This debate rages among CUNY librarians in response to a MALS, DSC, and Graduate Council Library Committee proposal to extend CUNY book loan periods for all borrowers to match those […] -
The Case for Longer CUNY Library Book Loans
Posted on May 13, 2013 | 3 CommentsCUNY’s library book loan lengths for grad students are shorter than those offered by any university, anywhere: 3 weeks for Master’s level students, coded “GRAD” in the CUNY+ catalog; 6 weeks for “DOC” students in PhD programs; and 6 weeks for CUNY faculty borrowing from outside […]