Hunter College Libraries

The MaRLI (Manhattan Research Library Initiative)  pilot program–which allows CUNY faculty and graduate students to borrow items from the NYPL Research libraries, Columbia University, and New York University–has been extended through at least September 2012.  CUNY affiliates with MaRLI cards will not have to renew them as long as the pilot runs.  All CUNY faculty and graduate students are still invited to apply for borrowing privileges from all three research libraries through September 2012. More about MaRLI

(Thanks to Polly Thistlethwaite, Acting Chief Librarian, Graduate Center for this update)

Library Day 2012 has come and gone, but we would like to once again congratulate the winners of our two student competitions. We are proud of our students’ accomplishments!

The 19th Annual Paul LeClerc Competition for Best Research Papers

100-level undergraduate papers

1st place:

Julia Svitsky, “Still Not Thin Enough”

Instructor:  Prof. Howard Sage

Course:  English 120

2nd place:

Allison Glasgow, “Fear of the Push”

Instructor:  Prof. Wendy Hayden

Course:  English 120

200-level and above

1st place:

Kristan E. Melo, “Assessing the State Early Learning Guidelines for the Inclusion of Social and Emotional Development and Pretend Play”

Instructor:  Prof. Roseanne Flores

Course: Psychology 398

2nd place:

Lauren Manley, “Playing by the Rules:  Ideology, Performance, Dominance and Sanction”

Instructor:  Prof. Rosalind Petchesky

Course:  Women & Gender Studies 300

Graduate level

1st place:

Raoul E. Calleja and Lizz Kaune (co-authors), “Blogging and Autonomy in ESL Writing”

Instructor:  Prof. Christine Rosalia

Course:  Linguistics 704

The Charlotte Katz Millenson Book Review Contest

Undergraduate Level

1st place:

Evelen D. Hough, for the review Silver Blaze: A Gem’s Subtle Layers

2nd place:

Samsun Nahar, for the review The Power of Potter

Graduate Level

1st Place:

Madhu Narayanan, for the book review of A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry

2nd Place:

Giulua Zeni, for the book review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, by Patrick Suskind.

It’s that time of the year once again. The Wexler Library and the Schools of Social Work and Public Health Library will be open longer hours (even over night on occasion) for all your late-night and early-morning studying needs.

Extended hours start this Friday, May 11. Please visit our Hours page for the details: http://library.hunter.cuny.edu/about/hours

And, as always, our online resources and services are still available even if you aren’t in the library. You can access our online databases and even get help from a real, live person via Ask-a-Librarian.

Happy studying and good luck on your finals! Remember that we’re here to help.

If you happened to be in the Wexler Library on Tuesday, April 3 in the early evening, you may have witnessed a surprising event. A group of students from an “Introduction to the Visual Experience” class installed a work of art in our unique, triangular stairwell.

The students, Olivia Gauthier, Andrew Gayle, Mason Newton, and Mary Patton Dickson, installed the piece in the library shortly before their classmates and Professor Nicole Tschampel came over to have a look and discuss it.

The class assignment was to work collaboratively to create a piece of art “that deals with some element of the Hunter experience that is significant to [the] group.” Professor Tschampel told me that her class was being “introduced to working three-dimensionally while dealing with the theme of ‘Identity.’”

The work consisted of pages of discarded books strung together and tied to the railings of the triangular staircase within the Wexler Library, spiraling upward from floor B2 to floor 7.

One of the evening librarians remarked that it reminded her of old photographs she had seen of tenement buildings with laundry strung up between fire escapes. Professor Tschampel, commenting in an email, said “I was very proud of the work they created– I thought that it was both aesthetically lovely and thoughtful. I particularly liked the way the piece worked with the architecture of that difficult space.”

The group is being invited to re-install the work in the Wexler Library stairwell towards the end of the semester. So as you are studying for finals, be sure to take a break and look at something beautiful created by your fellow students.

Click here to access the New York City Municipal Archives Online Gallery of over 870,000 images. Selected from the world-class historical collections of the Archives, most of these unique photographs, maps, motion picture and audio recordings are being made accessible for the first time. Visitors are invited to explore and search the collections individually, or across all collections by keyword or any of the advanced search criteria. The gallery includes many complete collections; for others, only representative samples are currently on display. Visitors are encouraged to return frequently as new content will be added on a regular basis.

Patrons may order reproductions in the form of prints or digital files; most images can be licensed for commercial use. Please see the order page for further details.