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Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post, Emily Drabinski Becomes Interim Chief Librarian Under Worst Possible Conditions, on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 5 months, 2 weeks 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's profile was updated 5 months, 3 weeks ago
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Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post, Chief Librarian Thistlethwaite Departs for CUNY Central, on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 8 months, 1 week 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, Patience. Fortitude. MaRLI 2020., on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 10 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, SHARES Access to Research Libraries, on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 1 year, 5 months 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, Assessing GC Library Space, on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 1 year, 6 months 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, Emily Drabinski Joins the Mina Rees Library, on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 1 year, 7 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, Welcome CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 2 years 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, 365 Things Launch Event, Oct 16, 6-8pm, on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 2 years 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, Mina Rees: Network Visionary, on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 2 years 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, Ground Floor Library Work Summer 2018, on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 2 years, 3 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, If Facebook were run by librarians this would never happen., on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 2 years, 7 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
Interim University Dean for Library Services
Interim University Dean since March 2020; Chief Librarian at the Graduate Center prior to that. An advocate for open scholarship in the service of the public good.
