Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center

In order to meet the varied information needs and research interests of the The Graduate Center community, all of us in the Library work to connect you to needed information in a variety of ways. Our interlibrary loan specialists, for example, have filled over one thousand borrowing and lending requests per month in the last year. And, we are always happy to work with you so that we can connect you to even more information.... https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu//did-you-know-inter/

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 Essentials offerings are listed below, along with a few honorary members of the series. Each workshop stands on its ownthere is no need to attend one in order to attend another.... https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu//scholarly-communic/

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 resources to use in the courses you teach, no matter your field. Open materials can include lab manuals, Open Access journal articles, Creative Commons-licensed works, and many other types of content.... https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu//apply-now-open-ped/

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 our services in Fall 2020. We continue to focus on remote services and resources, while we navigate a pandemic that we all wish was over.... https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu//welcome-back-to-th/

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 we can keep information about library requests private. This means we detach records of requests from the usernames of the requesters in our database.... https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu//save-your-interlib/

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 wrestling with Microsoft Word or Google Docs. Both of those are fine solutions, and Word in particular has all the bells and whistles you’ll ever need to craft a beautifully designed manuscript (more, probably, than you really want). ... https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu//writing-openly-and/

January 2021 | Open Pedagogy Fellowship Apply by 12/21/20 at noon! The Library seeks applications for fifteen Open Pedagogy Fellows for January 2021, each carrying a $2000 stipend. The Fellowship experience will provide interactive training about how to find and use openly-licensed resources. We will discuss the economics of the scholarly landscape; how to broaden the reach of your own work as a scholar; how to integrate concepts of critical/open pedagogy into your teaching practices.... https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu//apply-for-the-janu/

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 library catalog will allow us to incorporate e-books that are licensed for all CUNY campuses, in addition to GC-only materials.... https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu//spring-2021-course/

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 an introductory fluency with the Python programming language to participate in a collaborative project designed to provide experience working with public-facing data and programming to produce a collaborative project for the public good.... https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu//apply-by-12-4-to-b/

Starting today, it's possible to schedule an appointment to visit any of The New York Public Library's four Research Libraries - the nearby Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Performing Arts, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, or the Business Center at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (formerly the Science and Business Library, or SIBL). Before doing so, you'll need to meet virtually with an NYPL librarian, in advance of your visit - so be sure to plan ahead, and schedule enough time in advance for your research needs. [ 149 more words ] https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu//expanded-nypl-reso/

Below is the third 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 in the Fellowship. Anna Carroll is a 3rd year student in the Art History PhD Program at The Graduate Center, with a specialization in Early Christian and Byzantine Art. [ 1,146 more word ] https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu//the-art-of-open-pe/

A Mid-Semester Update by Emily Drabinski, Interim Chief Librarian Dear Graduate Center community, I want to share a brief mid-semester update on library operations during the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. Like you, we long to be back in our quiet scholarly oasis in midtown Manhattan. As we wait for pandemic conditions to lift, we continue to operate remotely. Our commitment to the teaching, learning, and research that happens at the Graduate Center remains, and we hope all of you are taking advantage of our online resources and services: workshops and instruction in tools like Zotero, Scrivener, and OneSearch; robust interlibrary loan; the hundreds of ebooks added to our collections since March; ongoing [ 327 more words ] https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu//a-mid-semester-upd/

Below is the first 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 in the Fellowship. Amy A. Martinez is a PhD Candidate in Criminal Justice at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice CUNY Graduate Center. [ 767 more words ] https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu//10/21/why-open-acc/

Researching LGBTQ history can be complex, interdisciplinary, and with primary source materials categorized in many different ways. In this post, we'll take a look at some of the archival collections that are available online. Using the search tool ArchiveGrid is a great way to start exploring related materials about a person or a topic in a broad sense - keeping in mind that individual collections may not be digitally accessible, and are likely be found in multiple geographic locations. [ 428 more words ] https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu//lgbtq-archives-pri/

The Mina Rees Library offers access to scores of databases that contain primary sources. Formats include manuscripts and archives, historical newspapers and magazines, comics, zines, government documents, maps, data, film and video, audio, images, artworks, literary texts, printed ephemera, and more. Using these databases, you could read ancient Greek poetry or peruse the diaries of people who lived through the American Civil War [ 123 more words ] https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu//primary-source-dat/

How do scholars formally engage in conversation with each other? What kinds of works do scholars produce beyond books and articles? How can research impact be measured? What about journal quality? What are some easy ways to find open access versions of others' works, and some recommended ways to make your own work open access? When you sign a publication contract, which rights do you keep and which do you give away? [ 616 more words ] http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu//fall-scholarly-comm/

CUNY's Office of Library Services is collaborating with CUNY's Office of Research and the Research Foundation's Office of Award Pre-Proposal Support to offer Faculty Funding Fridays, a new webinar series for the CUNY community. The series, which features one webinar per month, kicks off this Friday: Selecting a Venue for Journal Publication September 25, 12:00-1:00 PM Led by Megan Wacha (Scholarly Communications Librarian, Office of Library Services) and Tracey Revenson (Professor of Psychology at Hunter College and Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of Behavioral Medicine) [ 120 more words ] http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu//cuny-webinar-series/

A common misconception about library collections is that everything is online. Actually, however, although there are millions of digitized primary sources online and more content is added every day, the vast majority of unpublished archival material that exists in libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies around the world has not been digitized and is not available online. That said, in-depth research is still possible because libraries have made whole collections available online where once they could offer only highlights. [ 261 more words ] https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu//why-digitize-this-/

No matter your field, you almost certainly use copyrighted works in your teaching and research. Perhaps you've wondered how much of a book you can share with students. Or how much of a poem you can excerpt in an article you're writing. Or whether you can reproduce a recent photograph of an ancient sculpture in your dissertation. Although I'm not a lawyer and can't provide legal advice, I can offer some information and connect you with helpful resources. [ 584 more words ] http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu//fair-use-of-copyrig/

Finding demographic information can be tricky - luckily, there are a few projects that make it a little easier. When looking for data about women and gender (broad topics!), let's take a look at some of the options for how to search. International Data & Statistics on Gender The World Bank offers The Little Data Book on Gender, an up-to-date look at demographic trends - sex-disaggregated data for more than 200 economies in an easy country-by-country reference. If you’re feeling more adventurous, you can [ 400 more words ] https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu//finding-demographi/

As the semester begins, it's a good time to update our accounts - triple-check that we have all the correct CUNY logins, and that we can easily log into the Library's numerous databases from off-campus. We can also take a moment to update our name in CUNYFirst - the portal that you'll use to register for classes, access financial aid, grades, and HR tools. [ 407 more words ] https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu//whats-in-a-name-ad/