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Please join us on Wednesday, April 26 from 2:30- 4:00pm for our annual Library Day event, to be held in person this year in the Cooperman Library, 5th Floor. Falling during National Library Week, Library Day is a chance to celebrate the services and staff of the library as well as the students and faculty who we support.  

For this year's program, we are excited to announce the following:

• Opening remarks by John Pell, Interim Chief Librarian
• Featured speaker, President Jennifer Raab
• Award presentation and panel discussion featuring the winners of this year's Student Research Papers contest
• Award winner announcement for the Libraries Sticker Design contest
• and more

We hope to see you on April 26!

Have you dreamed of seeing your very own design in print? HCL needs YOU to help us design a 2023 libraries sticker. All Hunter students are encouraged to submit a sticker design by April 16th. Finalists will be voted on, and the winning sticker will be announced on April 26th at Library Day 2023, and professionally printed! Visit this guide for submission instructions and the chance to have your design printed for the Hunter College Community!

Need help with finding resources through the Library? Have a research question? Wondering if you can use the Library to study? Hunter Librarians are available to meet with you, remotely or in person, to help answer these kinds of questions.

While we have always been available to students in person and through our Ask A Librarian chat service, Librarians are also here to help through one-on-one research consultations. We can meet with you through Zoom, in person, or over the phone to help you with any part of your research process. Think of this the same way you might meet with your professor during office hours, or seek help from a Writing Center tutor - only we're here to help with your research.

You can use this service as many times as you need to while you are a Hunter student. To schedule an appointment, simply visit the Help tab on the Library website and select Ask a Librarian from the drop-down menu. Once you are there, choose "Schedule a Research Consultation" and fill out the online form so we can pair you with a Librarian who is best suited to help you with your questions and can match your desired time to meet, even during evening and weekend hours.

Help is only a click away! We look forward to meeting with you! 

Primary sources- which may include newspaper articles, photographs, letters, posters, and more- are an exciting way to experience history. The databases listed below allow you to search and browse primary sources reaching back to the 17th century, including books, photographs, audio files, and more. 

To access from off-campus, simply enter your Hunter NetID and password when prompted. 

• ArtStor- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library) This collection, which is openly available to anyone via ArtStor, makes available "more than 2,000 images from the Schomburg Center, one of the world’s leading cultural institutions on the African American experience." Of particular interest is a 1922 photograph of medical students at The Meharry Colleges titled, "Solving Dental Problems." If you look closely, you see that each student is concentrating on a set of handheld teeth!

• Black Thought and Culture "Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history." Select "Browse by Content type" and discover 23 different types of materials available- including Advertisements, Poems, and Oral Histories. 

• The African American Experience This database provides access to to the WPA Slave Narrative Collection. "From 1936 to 1938, the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted interviews with more than 2,000 people who were formerly enslaved. These interviews are known collectively as the "Slave Narrative Collection of the Federal Writers' Project of the WPA." The collection features transcripts, audio, and photographs from the project. When reading and working with these materials, it is important to think critically about their origin and remember that these interviews took place during the Jim Crow era. 

Check out more primary sources available through Hunter College Libraries here!

Highlight Image Citation: (Issued: 1922). The Meharry Colleges; Solving dental problems.. Retrieved from https://library.artstor.org/asset/31816476