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 […]

Commons 2.5.5I’ve just released version 2.5.5 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release includes an update to the WordPress 6.7 series, as well as […]

Commons 2.5.4I’ve just released version 2.5.4 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release includes the following fixes: Fixed bug that caused […]

Commons 2.5.3I’ve just released version 2.5.3 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This is a major-update release for plugins and themes. We had planned to update to […]

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 […]

Commons 2.5.2I’ve just released version 2.5.2 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release includes the following fixes: Improve behavior of […]

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 […]

Major plugin and theme updates for February 25, 2025The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 2.5.3 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for February 25, […]

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 […]