CUNY Academic Commons | Polly Thistlethwaite | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/pthistlethwaite/activity/ Activity feed for Polly Thistlethwaite. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 f7b388d980f587083bfef6089350af88 Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=13839 Thu, 14 Sep 2023 20:01:28 -0400 Emily Drabinski, ALA President & CUNY Professor, in the News The Graduate Center Library’s former colleague and interim Chief Librarian, Emily Drabinski, appeared on the New York Times’ Ezra Klein […]

]]> 15cade52489dd93c8fb0506884c3c391 Polly Thistlethwaite's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/769867/ Sat, 12 Jun 2021 14:13:40 -0400 f19fb53c3962a38849b07afc7856261b Polly Thistlethwaite and Susan Lago are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/763810/ Tue, 11 May 2021 19:56:25 -0400 bd89f13a04a40bbd3f9c129f46a51468 Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=11493 Thu, 07 May 2020 15:30:12 -0400 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 […]

]]> c3d124eeeff9e1f25544d0038a16186a Polly Thistlethwaite's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/669576/ Tue, 05 May 2020 18:14:41 -0400 07c377fcec1e85efc01b2f870751c21c Polly Thistlethwaite's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/654649/ Fri, 06 Mar 2020 03:41:15 -0500 dbb566e978b8be58c56f7e8d3a189ffd Polly Thistlethwaite joined the group CUNY Manifold Users https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/654646/ Fri, 06 Mar 2020 03:37:06 -0500 b6f4a606afc627bbb06bae962f2bcb88 Polly Thistlethwaite joined the group CUNY Council of Chief Librarians: Agendas & Minutes https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/654644/ Fri, 06 Mar 2020 03:36:28 -0500 23290102cc0fec8d227592f923d2a16f Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=11283 Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:06:49 -0500 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 […]

]]> 67ee52cac465c5d766fde74c5a0fdc9c Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=11101 Mon, 23 Dec 2019 23:21:15 -0500 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 […]

]]> 87278ee6287cd6157ecabcbc3bae0421 Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=10245 Thu, 09 May 2019 19:50:25 -0400 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 […]

]]> 9cecd820aee515ceeb88d3ea021bf056 Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=10262 Thu, 11 Apr 2019 19:16:07 -0400 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 […]

]]> 7dd4e65730e0f2a9fb22ac8d8d6cdfa2 Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=10370 Thu, 21 Mar 2019 19:30:35 -0400 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 […]

]]> 7274d5cf1c57b871a7def20cc24a182b Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=9917 Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:00:36 -0400 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 […]

]]> d4daf4272e34ae3d1da2dccc2c943102 Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=9888 Mon, 15 Oct 2018 19:53:56 -0400 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 […]

]]> 273d3cafb6784a05ccf4321e52e17650 Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=9648 Fri, 28 Sep 2018 19:33:03 -0400 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 […]

]]> 120ac0e06cdd4ee3e0caba7f883bfb26 Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=9527 Thu, 28 Jun 2018 17:50:36 -0400 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 […]

]]> 170eec33777021b0e07f4cb55d691071 Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=9265 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:25:14 -0400 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 […]

]]> c7bf747d0e4cc02f78ca2b7e50c1456a Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=9074 Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:48:03 -0500 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 […]

]]> f34770c97b1adf10fae1a452f9c9b08a Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=8691 Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:59:18 -0400 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 […]

]]> 06ba53248956eb131d9c813bb77a6110 Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=8483 Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:59:57 -0400 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 […]

]]> 25fb136640dd34539f6eb94e998bbbec Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=8271 Wed, 24 May 2017 13:30:14 -0400 The GC Library is pleased to announce the arrival of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies’ Latino Data series in the CUNY Academic Works open access repository. The 65 reports in the se […]

]]> 7ba040cc38e63384385dd0d0e0a6bc46 Polly Thistlethwaite commented on the post, Alumni Library Access Lets Grads Stay Connected, on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2017/05/19/alumni-library-access/#comment-8644 Tue, 23 May 2017 13:12:34 -0400 Glad you find it meaningful, Brendan! thanks for posting.

]]> 3aa35f02ec65afaf91e7942b1840b616 Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=8242 Fri, 19 May 2017 14:01:35 -0400 Graduation day has one reliable disappointment: saying goodbye to library database and journal access. Grads’ off-campus access to library databases ends weeks after graduation, as soon as IT closes your […]

]]> 9070d99eb982c4f4572be1858799979d Polly Thistlethwaite and Indira Skoric are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/463671/ Wed, 10 May 2017 18:16:09 -0400 ee44caf90b17ee1f9cb922aed6794652 Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=8002 Mon, 27 Feb 2017 20:27:53 -0500 We welcome Laurent Pérat, a visiting scholar at the Graduate Center Library February – April, 2017. Laurent is in the midst of his course of study at ENSSIB, in Lyon, France. While librarians in the US obtain m […]

]]> 84e4ddcb77fc43cf81eb7a90cf8bd68f Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=7735 Thu, 02 Feb 2017 18:34:08 -0500 Roxanne Shirazi is a familiar face at the Graduate Center Library, but this spring we welcome her to a full-time Assistant Professor tenure track position. Prof. Shirazi will coordinate the library’s archiving and […]

]]> 77e9f9a3d25f0b6890396f7d864bfee4 Polly Thistlethwaite and Jean Eddy Saint Paul are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/451156/ Wed, 28 Dec 2016 18:01:15 -0500 1d2eeed9315be18f64cebcbc23b56f79 Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=7418 Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:30:02 -0500 Audre Lorde famously asserted that “for women . . . poetry is not a luxury.” Artistry and lived experience shared, while valued less than dominant notions of thought and process, is “a vital necessity of our […]

]]> 871681512e736dd86f1be32f152a16a6 Polly Thistlethwaite commented on the post, HIV/AIDS and Being a Scholar in the Digital Era, on the site Graduate Center Library Blog http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/09/hiv-aids-and-being-a-scholar/#comment-7124 Mon, 14 Nov 2016 20:11:11 -0500 Thanks, Jessie. Commercial markets are ill-equipped to manage fair access to both health care and to scholarly work. Open public access to both are essential, and still elusive.

]]> 7cce0f7db06c11b0283356681d8d2832 Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=7070 Wed, 26 Oct 2016 18:01:43 -0400 GC Sociology Prof. Jessie Daniels’ second book Cyber Racism appeared in 2009, published by a reputable academic publisher that sold books mostly to academic libraries in paper and ebook formats that were ent […]

]]> 6088a5cda89a876cd7bd77f15abce977 Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=7077 Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:00:09 -0400 Securing a book contract for promotion and tenure is a goal in itself for academic authors. Scholarly book contracts tend to favor the publisher, however, and the terms often work against the author over the lon […]

]]> 2c7c2291d37d1bb81af3b7d5993ccb23 Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=7167 Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:22:38 -0400 The Library is pleased to introduce two group study tables immediately inside the GC Library entrance. This offers library users a place to hold quiet conversation, away from the 1st floor dissertation r […]

]]> 084e7d683b987c71f8bc4cbec767bcd4 Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=7024 Mon, 26 Sep 2016 21:13:55 -0400 The New York Public Library’s Rose Main Reading Room and the Bill Blass Public Catalog Room will reopen for full service Wednesday October 5. These grand, adjacent rooms on the library’s 3rd floor will be s […]

]]> 349eca9ed08eea0552971c66a9ed7e44 Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=6647 Wed, 03 Aug 2016 14:00:19 -0400 The Graduate Center Library is pleased to offer the CUNY community a new collection: CUNY GC Legacy (Retrospective) Dissertations, 1965-2014. This database is open for use by any current CUNY Library user on […]

]]> cca273cff190e8259d01c7752d702d0f Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=6571 Wed, 01 Jun 2016 13:39:38 -0400 The Graduate Center Mina Rees Library is pleased to offer GC alumni a suite of online resources – including JSTOR, Project MUSE, SAGE publications, Vault Career Intelligence, and Versatile PhD – available off- […]

]]> 806dbe8c5f1ee0cb7153ebbbb8162f3d Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=6444 Wed, 11 May 2016 20:17:10 -0400 Eighteen new New York Public Library Readex archival collections are now available to Graduate Center users through the Graduate Center Library’s A-Z List of Databases. These rich collections of newspapers and e […]

]]> acee8da9e5013dc422f3cb7abd0d6cbd Polly Thistlethwaite started the topic Whose Knowledge is it Anyway? Innovations in Traditional Knowledge Protection in the forum Futures Initiative http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/futures-initiative/forum/topic/whose-knowledge-is-it-anyway-innovations-in-traditional-knowledge-protection-4/ Wed, 24 Feb 2016 23:49:36 -0500 Thursday, March 3, 2016
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Faculty Study, Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South

Whose Knowledge Is It Anyway? will focus on the project entitled Local Contexts and its application from both tribal and institutional perspectives. Professor Jason Schultz (Professor of Clinical Law) NYU School of Law, will moderate the d…[Read more]

]]> 8fdf7d7faf4dc1309a90786daba47ef8 Polly Thistlethwaite started the topic Whose Knowledge is it Anyway? Innovations in Traditional Knowledge Protection in the forum Digital Humanities Initiative http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/digital-humanities-initiative/forum/topic/whose-knowledge-is-it-anyway-innovations-in-traditional-knowledge-protection-3/ Wed, 24 Feb 2016 23:49:35 -0500 Thursday, March 3, 2016
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Faculty Study, Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South

Whose Knowledge Is It Anyway? will focus on the project entitled Local Contexts and its application from both tribal and institutional perspectives. Professor Jason Schultz (Professor of Clinical Law) NYU School of Law, will moderate the d…[Read more]

]]> 8fdf7d7faf4dc1309a90786daba47ef8 Polly Thistlethwaite started the topic Whose Knowledge is it Anyway? Innovations in Traditional Knowledge Protection in the forum CUNY Digital History Project http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cuny-digital-history-project/forum/topic/whose-knowledge-is-it-anyway-innovations-in-traditional-knowledge-protection-2/ Wed, 24 Feb 2016 23:49:35 -0500 Thursday, March 3, 2016
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Faculty Study, Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South

Whose Knowledge Is It Anyway? will focus on the project entitled Local Contexts and its application from both tribal and institutional perspectives. Professor Jason Schultz (Professor of Clinical Law) NYU School of Law, will moderate the d…[Read more]

]]> 050aeeafe8e77113f683b201f695675f Polly Thistlethwaite started the topic Whose Knowledge is it Anyway? Innovations in Traditional Knowledge Protection in the forum Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gcdi/forum/topic/whose-knowledge-is-it-anyway-innovations-in-traditional-knowledge-protection/ Wed, 24 Feb 2016 23:49:35 -0500 Thursday, March 3, 2016
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Faculty Study, Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South

Whose Knowledge Is It Anyway? will focus on the project entitled Local Contexts and its application from both tribal and institutional perspectives. Professor Jason Schultz (Professor of Clinical Law) NYU School of Law, will moderate the d…[Read more]

]]> d945f323c0c5123ca87fc2b8ccab89fc Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=6046 Tue, 09 Feb 2016 17:00:45 -0500 You may have already met Adriana Palmer. She has worked at the GC as an adjunct librarian since 2014. But now we are additionally thrilled that Adriana Palmer joins our team as a full time l […]

]]> 9f39b3591ef98835604e5923697a83f0 Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=5996 Fri, 29 Jan 2016 16:57:30 -0500 Roxanne Shirazi has been working as Adjunct Reference and Digital Outreach Librarian at the Graduate Center Library since fall 2013, and she has been pursing her MALS degree at the Graduate Center since a […]

]]> 9314922ac08274aa2cf822487a3cd6cd Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=5822 Fri, 11 Dec 2015 08:00:59 -0500 With new staff and procedures in place, the GC Library happily reopens for deposit of graduate work Monday, December 14, 2015. Students anticipating a February 2016 degree should register their intent to deposit […]

]]> dbb176ea890e6fd33cb327a1511174b3 Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=5643 Thu, 03 Dec 2015 18:54:06 -0500 Judy Waldman retires from the Graduate Center December 4, 2015, almost exactly 28 years after she started as Assistant to the Chief Librarian and Dissertation Assistant. Judy’s dedication has shaped and […]

]]> 8d73817f01a2733d010471bbd9d10dcf Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=5613 Wed, 04 Nov 2015 21:57:12 -0500 Judy Waldman, the Graduate Center’s Dissertation Assistant, will retire after 28 years of service on December 4, 2015.

Please join Graduate Center librarians, students, faculty, and staff in wishing Judy […]

]]> f8888354dadbaee1ded5225fbc5c0f15 Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=5574 Fri, 23 Oct 2015 17:19:06 -0400 What contractual terms are best for scholarly authors?
How can authors regain copyrights from publishers to distribute out-of-print work?
Why would authors want to make any work open access?

Authors A […]

]]> 6af6902e1f08351037fef60e808deb1b Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=5494 Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:52:40 -0400 The GC Library website and proxy server were restored today around noon after being down since Friday afternoon, October 9th. We thank our colleagues in IT for their efforts to restore the server.

If you were […]

]]> fa77647a1dfcda37d8f4d603246584ad Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=5446 Fri, 09 Oct 2015 21:49:05 -0400 Update, October 13, 2015: The library website and proxy server are still down, but work to restore them is ongoing. We hope that everything will be functioning again shortly; stay tuned for further announcements. […]

]]> b0d3ffa3a2f33b8417b5dbdbe6d1c277 Polly Thistlethwaite wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4948 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:00:00 -0400 The Graduate Center’s Second Annual Early Research and Scholarship Conference (formerly the Archival Research Conference) features student recipients of one of several different fellowships funded by the Provost’s […]

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