Polly Thistlethwaite

Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Library Professor at The Graduate Center; CUNY Interim University Dean of Libraries March - December 2020; Chief Librarian at the Graduate Center prior to that. An advocate for open scholarship in the service of the public good.

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    Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 3 years ago

    This is a tardy announcement that Emily Drabinski has taken on the position of Interim Chief Librarian at the Graduate Center. Her appointment began March 16, coincident with the upturn of the coronavirus outbreak […]

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    Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 3 years, 3 months ago

    In March, after over 17 years of service at the CUNY Graduate Center, I will join the CUNY Office of Academic Affairs to head the Office of Library Services (OLS) as Interim University Dean for Library […]

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    Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 3 years, 5 months ago

    MaRLI 2020

    In-person NYPL application & vetting for NYU and Columbia borrowing  
    The New York Public Library (NYPL) has tightened its policy for the MaRLI program, short for the Manhattan Research Libraries N […]

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    Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 4 years ago

    The Graduate Center Library brings expanded access to university and museum libraries around the region and around the world this summer research season: We are now an OCLC SHARES consortium member. SHARES m […]

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    Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 4 years, 1 month ago

    Silvia Cho and Diana Teeter, both in interlibrary loan, conducted twice-daily occupancy surveys of the Mina Rees Library over two weeks in November and December 2018. They did this to see how many people use […]

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    Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 4 years, 2 months ago

    This week Emily Drabinski joins the Graduate Center in the role of Critical Pedagogy Librarian, supporting the GC community, particularly the CUNY School of Labor & Urban Studies (SLU) affiliated with the Graduate […]

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    Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 4 years, 7 months ago

    The Graduate Center Mina Rees Library welcomes a new constituency: the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies (SLU). Formerly the Murphy Institute, founded in 1984, SLU offers graduate and undergraduate degree […]

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    Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 4 years, 7 months ago

    365 Things is the inaugural project of the Object Library, the new installation on the first floor of the Mina Rees Library. Participatory in nature, 365 Things invites all comers to contribute one object, no […]

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    Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 4 years, 8 months ago

    The Graduate Center Library is named to honor a key figure in CUNY’s history. As we close in on sixty years of graduate education, it’s time to take an appreciative look back at the remarkable woman whose name the […]

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    Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 4 years, 11 months ago

    Part of the ground floor of the Mina Rees Library — specifically, the space running along our Fifth Avenue and 34th Street frontage — will be under construction over the summer as we develop more flexible use […]

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    Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 5 years, 2 months ago

    It is as if the Joker and his villainous pals switched on Gotham’s giant search engines to churn results that foil rational thought. Cambridge Analytica heisted political culture with misbegotten Facebook data to […]

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    Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 5 years, 3 months ago

    Six million volumes from the HathiTrust Digital Library are now available for PDF download by Graduate Center affiliates. Downloadable titles include books and journals published in the US before 1923, works p […]

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    Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 5 years, 7 months ago

    The New York Public Library’s new shared collection catalog is live with a new user-friendly interface. Use it to explore NYPL’s collection as well as the holdings shared by NYPL, Columbia, and Princeton in […]

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    Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 5 years, 9 months ago

    Will you buy books this term on Amazon.com? If you do, you can also support the Graduate Center Library by using a special link.

    For every purchase made using the GC Library’s Amazon link, you fund the Libr […]

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