Maura Smale 😷💉

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Upcoming Online Workshop: Introduction to Zotero 🗒️
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
2:30pm - 3:30pm

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

Join @ tinyurl.com/464aje4u

#academiclibraries #zotero #cunylibraries #citationmanagement

Tips! From Mina Rees Library

Did you know? You can check out books from most CUNY campuses? You can also request books from across the globe through Interlibrary Loan.

Visit:
tinyurl.com/4v7mu7kk

#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Hey NYC pals, early voting starts on 10/25! Find yr poll site here: www.nycvotes.org/how-to-vote/... Also you can vote by mail! Info: requestballot.vote.nyc 🗳️👍🏻

CUNY requires in person work for these positions (a system requirement).

Welcome (Back) to the Mina Rees Library!

Check out a round-up blog post about how to get started with all the library has to offer

tinyurl.com/46bkdj8a

#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary

Academic librarians, come join us in the CUNYverse! We have a few jobs open in CUNY libraries:

cuny.jobs/queens-ny/in...

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

I’m not at these campuses but happy to answer questions!

Alexandra E. LaGrand Wins 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize Alexandra E. LaGrand has won the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for her archive documenting Shakespearean breeches actresses over the long 19th century.The annual prize, which rewards American...

Alexandra E. LaGrand Wins 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

Learn about the Library!
Ask-a-Librarian.

If you have a library or research-related question, there are several ways to get help.

Our live chat service is available 24/7.

Chat with us:
libguides.gc.cuny.edu/ask-a-librarian

#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary

Bending The Arc August 2025 Back in the saddle! Well, the carousel has turned a few more times and many of us find ourselves back in our starting positions, prepared to embark on the next ride of a school year. How do you fee…

The August edition of BTA was also concerned with shoring up our resistance to gen AI. Please, help yourself.

bendingthearcnewsletter.blog/2025/08/07/b...

Halloween decorations on a brownstone building that read Climate Deniers House of Horrors

Happy Climate Week Eve from my favorite house in midtown on this 83 (!) degree mid-September day.

You know what else is being affected by the tariffs on parcels worth less than $800? International interlibrary loan. I'm hearing reports of libraries overseas that won't lend to the US anymore. (That's in addition to the libraries here that have shut down their ILL b/c of lost IMLS funding.)

Congratulations Cathy!

Any Staten Island residents #onhere who want to set up meetings with your City Council members about our local public libraries? How about people in the Bronx and Queens?

Learn about the Library!
Ask-a-Librarian. If you have a library or research-related question, there are several ways to get help. You can submit a question & receive an email response
To submit a question:
libguides.gc.cuny.edu/ask-a-librarian
#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary

Yes, so amazing! 😍

2,000 Asteroids and Counting: CUNY Joins a Cosmic Treasure Hunt Scientists at the Graduate Center and CUNY are among the first to explore massive snapshots of space from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has opened a new window to the universe — and Graduate Center scientists @saavikford.bsky.social and @emilylrice.me are among the first to peer through it www.gc.cuny.edu/news/2000-as... @cunygcastro.bsky.social @joshuatan.bsky.social

The Literary Afterlives of Labyrinth “You have no power over me!” When Jim Henson’s musical fantasy film Labyrinth released in 1986, no one could have predicted its lasting cultural impact that keeps people watching nearly forty years…

@authorlogankarlie.bsky.social explores the literary afterlives of Labyrinth and the liminal space between dreams and reality.

Letter from the Editor v2 2025 updates from the editor of DisLIS.

Call for submissions - We are now open to academic articles, notes from the field (briefer and less formal than full articles), and creative works!

cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/dislis/vol2/...

Women’s Studies Quarterly invites proposals for new editors.
A forum for emerging perspectives on women, gender, and sexuality. The journal showcases scholarship, fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, book reviews, and visual arts.

For more information:
centerforthehumanities.org/call-for-new...

Learn about the library!

Mina Rees Library offers a number of resources including: subject librarians, ask-a-librarian chat, email, and in-person or virtual introductory sessions.

Visit:
library.gc.cuny.edu

#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary

Save Our Signs: Let’s Get It Done Help us finish strong with #SaveOurSigns this Labor Day. Plus, if you’re in NYC, come see us in person!

Looking for something to do this Labor Day weekend? It's a great time to head out to a #NationalPark and #SaveOurSigns!

www.datarescueproject.org/save-our-sig...

#digitalproject#digitalhumanities#datavisualization
Carousels of NYC🎠

What’s your first memory of carousels?
Carousels evoke joy and nostalgia, drawing people across diverse backgrounds, yet their placement is often restricted to wealthier neighborhoods, limiting accessibility for many communities.

And a there is a line for NYPL library card signups! Be still my librarian heart! Tysm to our #nypl colleagues for tabling at @minareeslibrary.bsky.social today!

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Welcome (back) to the GC!

Mina Rees Library welcomes new and returning students!

Visit our website:
library.gc.cuny.edu

#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary

Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now.

www.weherepress.org

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Upcoming Workshop: Introduction to Library Research 🔎

Tuesday August 26, 3-4pm
Register @ tinyurl.com/ycyv8yc8

Welcome to the fall semester! 🍂🧵

We Here Press

@wehere.bsky.social are starting to publish paper books!

We Here Press begins with @dorothyjberry.bsky.social’s “The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities” (October 2025).

I can’t wait. 📜📚

www.weherepress.org

Also just want to shoutout the fantastic blog team, my ACRLog colleagues have been on fire lately, so many thought-provoking amazing posts. 💚