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Mina Rees Library Fall Hours 2025 | Closed on Indigenous Peoples’ Day (10/13)

Monday-Friday: 9am-10pm

Saturday: 10am-8pm

Sunday: 12pm-8pm

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Reserves for the Fall Semester

Teaching faculty should use this form to request books that they would like placed on reserve if they haven’t already: GC Library Course Reserve Request Form (google.com)

 

Teaching at Another CUNY?

Each CUNY campus library licenses its own set of resources, which means access varies from campus to campus. To ensure that your students are able to access the materials they need, please direct them to the library affiliated with their home campus. For example, if you teach at Brooklyn College, you and your students should use the Brooklyn College Library’s resources. Thank you!

 

Upcoming Events:

Drop-In Sessions:

Zotero Drop-In Help

Monday 9/29, 10/6, 10/20, and 10/27, 3:00pm – 4:00pm

Stephen Klein (Digital Services Librarian) holds one-on-one Zotero virtual office hours for drop-in video consultations on Mondays 3-4pm. Zotero is open-source citation software enabling users to easily collect, organize, cite and share.

 

Archival Research Virtual Office Hours

Wednesday 10/1, 10/15, and 10/29, 11:00am – 12:00pm

Have a question about archival research? GC community members are invited to stop by the library’s bi-weekly online office hours for one-on-one assistance with archives-related topics. Bring your questions about finding analog and digital sources, using archives, conducting background research, and more.

Have a question but can’t make the drop-in session? Contact Donna Davey at ddavey@gc.cuny.edu to discuss over email or set up a consultation.

 

Data Management Drop-In

Wednesday 10/8, 2:00pm – 3:00pm

Do you have reams of research data that you need to organize and document? Do you need to ensure that it is accessible to the public and/or preserved for the long term? Are you applying for a grant that requires you to create a data management plan? If so, then this drop-in session is for you.

Stephen Klein will help you navigate the world of data management during drop-in video consultations on the second Wednesday of each month from 2-3pm.

 

Scholarly Publishing Drop-In Hour

Thursday 10/9 and 10/23, 4:00pm – 5:00pm

This drop-in session is for any member of the Graduate Center community with questions about scholarly publishing or other aspects of scholarly communication.

Have a question but can’t make the drop-in session? Contact Jill Cirasella (Scholarly Communication Librarian and University Liaison) at jcirasella@gc.cuny.edu to discuss over email or set up a one-on-one consultation.

 

Workshops and Other Events:

Introduction to Library Research

Monday 9/29, 5:00pm – 6:00pm

Welcome to the fall semester! This online workshop will cover essential information about using the Mina Rees Library: searching for books, finding a journal, identifying useful databases, placing interlibrary loan requests, and more. Recommended for anyone who is new to the Graduate Center or SLU, or new to library research. Please bring your questions!

 

Science Workshop Series – Intro to Zotero for Citation Management

Monday 9/29, 6:00pm – 7:00pm  and Monday 10/6, 3:00pm – 4:00pm

This workshop will teach you how to use Zotero, free open-source software that can manage your research and create your bibliographies. These workshops will teach you how to create accounts, install the software, and get you started in using this time-saving tool.

 

Exploring Grants & Funding

Tuesday 10/7, 11:00am – 12:00pm

This workshop will cover the databases offered by the Library for finding grants and funding, Pivot and Grantforward. This workshop will also talk about useful tips and tricks, as well as resources and additional databases at NYPL (Foundation Center Directory Online). This is an excellent starting point for those interested in funding their academic research: feel free to bring questions.

 

Open Access Explained: Best Practices for Finding Others’ Research and Publicly Sharing Yours

Thursday 10/16, 6:30pm – 7:30pm and Friday 10/17, 2:00 pm – 3:00pm

You probably know that you can find open access (i.e., cost-free and publicly accessible) copies of many journal articles online. But do you know how to determine if a specific article is available open access? This workshop will clear up some common confusions about open access, highlight some sites where open access publications can be found, and demonstrate some tools for finding open access versions of articles.

Further, this workshop will cover a range of options for making your own scholarly work publicly accessible, and consider some reasons why you might want to. This workshop will pay particular attention to CUNY’s own public access repository, CUNY Academic Works.

 

Science Workshop Series – Advanced Web of Science Searching

Monday 10/20, 2:00pm – 3:00pm

This workshop will cover advanced searching skills in Web of Science. Topics covered will include:

• Fast and efficient searching
• Citation searching
• Grant funding information
• Setting up search alerts
• Author and affiliation searching

 

Introduction to Zotero

Tuesday 9/30, 2:30pm – 3:30pm and Tuesday 10/28, 2:30pm – 3:30pm

Stephen Klein (Digital Services Librarian) will demonstrate how to install and use Zotero.

Zotero is open source citation software enabling users to easily collect, organize, cite and share.

 

Additional Updates:

Updates to the Mina Rees Collections

The most recent new collections are:

• Docuseek, which includes streaming access to over 2,700 documentary, environmental, independent, and social-issue films, including titles from Collective Eye Films, GOOD DOCS, Icarus Films, and Women Make Movies.
• The De Gruyter Ebook Collection, which provides full-text access to e-books from De Gruyter imprints and other university presses

 

Featured Collections

The library has many featured collections of resources on different topics, such as Books on Academic Writing, Research Skills and Methods, and Books That Began as CUNY Dissertations. Browse them all on the Collections page.

 

Technology in the Library

The library has a brand new KIC Bookeye scanner on the second floor of the library, along with several flatbed scanners, digital studio equipment, computer monitors with HDMI cables, and of course Mac and PC desktop computers with a variety of software applications. Visit the circulation desk on the first floor to borrow headphones, laptops, phone chargers, HDMI to USB-C adapters, and more.

 

Interlibrary Loan

As always, the Mina Rees Library encourages everyone to submit InterLibrary Loan (ILL) requests! ILL is an excellent way to obtain materials beyond the Graduate Center Library, in the form of print books, electronic articles/Ebook chapters, DVD’s, microfilm and more. Find out more about ILL on the InterLibrary Loan FAQ page.

 

Set up a Consultation with your Subject Librarian

Visit the Library Directory to find the librarian for your program. Feel free to select a time/date from the calendar that works for you to meet with them.

The library is happy to make arrangements to meet with you at other times, so also feel free to reach out by email.

 

Grants and Funding

Visit the Grants and Funding guide for information on a wide range of opportunities and resources. For further information, see this article from the Office of Communications and Marketing on finding and maintaining grants in an uncertain world.