It’s Banned Books Week! A time to honor books that challenge ideas and fight censorship. These stories make us think and unite us. What’s your favorite banned book? Tell us below! #BannedBooksWeek #ReadFreely #FreedomToRead #BooksNotBans #aasl https://bit.ly/3XXdrFi
UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.
Orientation Day at the GC today! (And Orientation week in general) It is always lovely and energizing to meet new students 🙌 🎉
Welcome (back) to the GC!
Mina Rees Library welcomes new and returning students!
Visit our website:
library.gc.cuny.edu
#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary
Honored to be featured and looking forward to welcoming folks to the library for the Fall semester! 😊
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The National Archives safeguards our collective history, protects the public's right to know, and ensures transparency and accountability in government.
action.everylibrary.org/nationalarch... follow @everylibrary.bsky.social to support libraries.
📚 “Small but mighty” — and essential.
On the latest "Thought Project" podcast, Maura Smale, chief librarian at the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social, discusses how the Mina Rees Library champions research, intellectual freedom, and democratic values in an era of disinformation and censorship.
We value libraries. We value democracy. We value YOU. We write now not from defeatism but from hope, not from resignation but from inspiration.
With belief in a better future, we offer THE BLUE SKIES STATEMENT from Library Futures.
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Building Library Capacity Grant: $10,000 grants to libraries assisting New Americans (immigrants and refugees).
The third year of the ALA's Building Library Capacity Grants will provide up to sixteen $10K grants to public libraries assisting New Americans (immigrants and refugees).
The deadline to apply is April 9.
Attend the information session on March 10 to learn more.
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The USPS—among many of their functions—is essential for library delivery and interlibrary loan services too, to get materials to readers who need them. Especially for those isolated, or have mobility issues. It is essential infrastructure for our democracy. Support #USPS #libraries
Missed our data preservation event yesterday? We've uploaded the entire discussion on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/hiZuKA-o4V4
I was a student member of the Society of Women Engineers in the early 2000s, and knowing that I was a part of something—and that I had a right to be there, and that I was wanted there— really made a difference in how I felt when I was often the only or one of two female students in my classes. #SWE
In light of Rubio taking over National Archives, the deletion of the January 6 database, Trump’s old “Wall” and general efforts towards book banning and “patriotic” education, I keep thinking about Borges’ “The Wall and the Books.” If you need a meditative reflection today, worth your time.
Mina Rees Library. CUNY Graduate Center. Upcoming Workshop. see caption for full details.
Upcoming Workshop: Introduction to Library Research 🔎
Tuesday February 18, 4-5pm
Register @ tinyurl.com/yjm968dn
Thank you! 😊
Happy #LunarNewYear to all our writers @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social who are celebrating today!
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It wasn’t pitch dark when I came out of work! Finally, and at least that’s something. #nyc #livinginanordicplace
Folks in LA who need N95 masks —
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
It’s why I’m mostly here now, in The Good Place.
I have no words, just 🙏 for folks in California
The copyrights of thousands of 20th-century films, books, compositions and sound recordings expire on Jan. 1, making them free for anyone to share and adapt. Here are some of the highlights.
If you’re a lawyer who loves libraries, consider participating in Lawyers for Libraries.
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Protesters erupted into cheers the moment the impeachment vote passed:
