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Teaching Political Science with OER This piece is part of a series by participants in the Winter 2025 Open Knowledge Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows […]

Teaching Theatre with OER This piece is part of a series by participants in the Winter 2025 Open Knowledge Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows […]

Friends of the Library Event Dr. Asheesh Kapur Siddique, assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, will speak on his recent book, The […]

Extended Library Hours for Finals We are pleased to announce that the Mina Rees Library will offering extended hours for finals: Saturday May 10, 10am-10pm Sunday […]

Open access education and soap operas This piece is part of a series by participants in the Winter 2025 Open Knowledge Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows […]

Teaching Political Theory with OER This piece is part of a series by participants in the Winter 2025 Open Knowledge Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows […]

The Importance of Two-Factor Authentication Credit: Niels Andersen on Flickr (cc) Our development team is spending the early part of 2025 making a series of under-the-hood improvements […]

New Access to The Chief: A Voice for Workers 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 […]

Apply by 2/24/25 at 9am! Open Knowledge Fellowship – Summer Cohort The Mina Rees Library will host the 12th cohort of the Open Knowledge Fellowship in Summer 2025 (May and early June, see dates below!). […]

Queering the Collection: The Carpenter Endowment This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Carpenter Endowment at the Mina Rees Library, an ongoing fund for the purchase of books and […]

CUNY Academic Works: New Look! You may be familiar with CUNY Academic Works, the online repository where members of the CUNY community can share their scholarly, […]

Some Oxford Resources Temporarily Unavailable Across the CUNY Libraries, the following Oxford resources are temporarily unavailable: Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford Reference Online, […]

Commons 2.5: Registration, Reimagined Happy holidays, Commons community! After we closed out our major redesign project with the overhaul of Groups last spring, we turned our […]

Hosting Migration Complete! “five-thirty pm” by Sophia Lucero on flickr (cc) We are very pleased to announce that the Commons has fully migrated to Reclaim […]

Hosting Migration Downtime “LED tunnel” by Yves Sorge on flickr (cc) The hosting migration that we announced last month will begin at 10:30am Eastern on Wednesday, […]

Scheduled Weekend Downtime Photo Credit: R.A. Killmer on flickr (cc) We wanted to let our users know that the Commons will be unavailable starting at 8am Eastern this […]

Two Fellowship Opportunities: CLAGS and Student Newspapers Digitization Projects The Mina Rees Library has two graduate student funding opportunities for the Spring 2025 semester to assist with digitization projects in […]

Extended Library Hours for Finals We are pleased to announce that the Mina Rees Library will offering extended hours for finals: Saturday, December 14, 10am-10pm […]