Stephen Real

Banned Books and Rights for the Incarcerated: Martin Sostre's Afro-Asian Bookshop in Exile Each year, libraries and affiliated organizations raise awareness about banned books and legislative attacks on the freedom to read by […]

Upcoming Workshops about Scholarly Publishing This fall, the Graduate Center’s Mina Rees Library is offering three online workshops about scholarly publishing and research evaluation. […]

Redux: NYC Book Donation Centers This blog is an update of one that was published 10 years ago and, over time, the information became dated. This information is current […]

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 […]

Commons 2.1.14I’ve just released version 2.1.14 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release includes the following fixes: Updated the Graduate […]

Service Alert: Interlibrary Loan Notifications to Gmail ILL emails seem to not be delivering to gmail accounts. If you have recently missed […]

Major plugin and theme updates for September 26, 2023As part of the 2.1.15 release, WordPress will be updated to the latest release series, 6.3.x. The following plugins will receive major updates […]

Now Hiring! Adjunct Reference Librarian The Graduate Center Library seeks an Adjunct Reference Librarian to work about 10 – 15 hours spread out over 2-3 days per week. This is a […]

Making the Impossible Possible: The Story of Puerto Rican Studies in Brooklyn College We’re excited to announce that CUNY now has streaming access to the film “Making the Impossible Possible: The Story of Puerto Rican Studies […]

Elevator Undergoing Repairs Our historic elevator is undergoing repairs and we’re sorry for the inconvenience. However, an alternate elevator is a […]

Commons 2.1.13I’ve just released version 2.1.13 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release includes a fix for BuddyPress notification URLs. For complete details, visit the 2.1.13 milestone.

A New Login Option In our continual pursuit to improve our users’ experience, the library is happy to announce that we have added CUNY Login as a new […]

Commons In A Box 1.5.0Commons In A Box is now available. Read more at https://commonsinabox.org/archives/9201

Commons 2.1.12I’ve just released version 2.1.12 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This is a maintenance release. For details, visit the 2.1.12 milestone.

Major plugin and theme updates for August 22, 2023The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 2.1.12 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for August 22, […]

Commons 2.1.11I’ve just released version 2.1.11 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release includes the following fixes: New support for […]

Teaching English with Open Resources This is the latest in our current series of short essays by participants in the Open Knowledge Fellowship coordinated by the Mina Rees […]

Teaching General Chemistry with Open Resources This is the latest in our current series of short essays by participants in the Open Knowledge Fellowship coordinated by the Mina Rees […]

Commons 2.1.10I’ve just released version 2.1.10 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release fixes a bug in TablePress that prevented access to the Dashboard settings. For complete details, visit the 2.1.10 milestone.