See this Hunter College collection of video interviews with artists available as a Public Collection on Artstor - guests include Peter Saul, Joan Semmel, Fred Wilson, and many more: http://ow.ly/q9qp30l6tsy
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Posted Monday, September 17, 2018 - 2:19pm under Kossak Painting, Hunter College, artists, interviews, painters.
In a world where education and career opportunities are more competitive than ever, the need for you to obtain broader perspectives on a variety of global business issues is a necessity. Which is why The City University of New York has joined The Wall Street Journal in a collaboration that will provide students and faculty full access to the Journal. The Journal provides career advice and ties real-world examples into what you learn, giving you the opportunity to enhance your educational experience and stay ahead .
You can use your school-sponsored WSJ membership to:
• Research topics relevant to your courses and careers
• Save and share pertinent articles with other students
• Follow companies and industries that interest you
• Track real-time stories and trends
• Enjoy the most engaging coverage of arts, culture and life
Activate your school-sponsored Journal membership by going to: www.wsj.com/Hunter
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2018 - 2:30pm under newspapers, wall street journal, online access.
The Hunter College Libraries acquired a new database called The HistoryMakers (login required), "an archive of filmed oral history interviews of contemporary African Americans who have shaped modern history and made significant contributions to history, politics, education, law, arts, science, business, the military, and sports."
It is now available for use by Hunter College faculty, staff, and students - find it in the Databases list on our website.
Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - 9:17am under databases, new databases, oral history, history, african americans.
We now have access to the full Life Magazine archive online. Find it in our Databases list under the letter L. It includes full page scans from the magazine from 1936-2000, with all the advertisements and all context indexed and searchable.
Visual researchers, take note! This is an excellent place for 20th Century American research.
A search for SPAM yielded this gem from 1940:
Posted Friday, June 2, 2017 - 9:00am under magazines, life, online, new databases, databases.
image by flickr user A L, https://flic.kr/p/6f8t8e
Start finding those overdue library books! From November 14-23, CUNY Libraries are offering an Overdue Book Amnesty period. What does that mean? It means you can bring back your overdue books without having to pay your fines!
Be aware that amnesty does not apply to all library fines and fees. It applies only to books from the circulating stacks and does not include any of the following:
- Recall fines (i.e., fines for late return of a recalled book)
- Existing/outstanding fines (i.e., unpaid overdue fines from books returned in the past)
- Lost book replacement fees
- Damaged books
- Reserve books
- Equipment (laptops, audio recorders, etc.)
Not sure if you have overdue books? Check your account now!
Log in to your OneSearch account with your CUNY Login credentials.
by Dr. Louise Sherby, Hunter College Archives & Special Collections
On May 19, 1887, the Queen of Hawai'i, Queen Kapi'olani, was on a trip from Hawai'i to London for Queen Victoria's celebration of her golden jubilee. On her way, she stopped in New York City and visited the Normal College (what we now know as Hunter College).
Photo by J.J. Williams, Hawai'i State Archives
Prof. Colette Higgins, Professor of History at Kapi'olani Community College, is using her sabbatical this year to "travel in her footsteps" and on Friday, May 13, 2016, she and her husband visited our Archives & Special Collections. We actually found very little in our archives on her visit but were able to give her some pictures of what the buildings would have looked like in 1887.
Prof. Higgins is blogging about her trip across America and her voyage on the Queen Mary to England. If you would like to see what she is writing about as she and her husband travel by train and ship on this trip, here is a link to her blog entry about her visit to Hunter College: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/colette.higgins/1/1463248890/tpod.html
She's trying to reacquaint Hawai'i with the history of Queen Kapi'olani and her importance to the islands and how this trip influenced her. Below is a copy of a description written by one of the Queen's travel companions of her visit to NY and Normal College and a couple short newspaper articles reporting on her trip. Enjoy!
Excerpt taken from pages 19-10 in A Short Description of QUEEN KAPIOLANI’S Voyage to England to Attend THE JUBILEE CELEBRATION OF QUEEN VICTORIA OF ENGLAND In The Year 1887 By James W. L. McGuire, Copied from the original in the possession of his daughter, Mrs. Friedricka A. Barringer, Kaneohe. March, 1957; this typed copy is at the Hawaii State Archives).
Posted Thursday, May 19, 2016 - 10:00am under archives, hawaii, history, normal college.
By Cheryl Branche, MLS, MD and Ajatshatru (A.J.) Pathak, MLS, MPH, Health Professions Library
On Friday, April 15, 2016, approximately 15 members of the Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY) toured the Dag Hammarskjöld Library at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. Dr. Kanu Nagra of the Borough of Manhattan Community College and Alexandra de Luise from Queens College organized the tour. Six Hunter College librarians attended. In addition to Hunter College, Borough of Manhattan Community College, Bronx Community College, LaGuardia Community College and Queens College were represented. Ramona Kohrs, the United Nations library outreach and development coordinator, led the guests on a very interesting, useful and informative tour of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library.
The Dag Hammarskjöld Library is dedicated to serving the information needs of the member states’ delegates and the Secretariat staff. The Dag Hammarskjöld Library offers:
- Professional information research support to the United Nations community, especially the United Nations member state missions and delegates. (No members of the public are allowed to use the library facility at the United Nations. There was a little let down as we learned that the United Nations was under much more security since 9/11 and that public access was very severely restricted as was access to the library and its holdings.)
- The Dag Hammarskjöld Library offers a comprehensive collection of United Nations documentation since 1945, including print and e-resources related to the work and interests of the United Nations. The major database and the online catalog,UNBISnet, contains United Nations’ documents, speech citations since 1983 and voting records for both the Security Council and the General Assembly.
- Member States on Record includes documents related to the action of each member state at the United Nations and maybe accessed here.
- Business intelligence and journals may be found online also.
- The self-service research guides describe United Nations’ documents of the General Assembly and Security Council and include special chapters on human rights, international law, peacekeeping, environment, disarmament, and the United Nations’ budget.
Ramona Kohrs, the outreach and development coordinator of the U.N. Library, showed us the different floors of the library and explained the collections and resources of the library. First, we were introduced to the main floor of the library (i.e., second floor of library building). The main floor of the library has computer terminals, study tables, an information desk, and a rich collection of books, periodicals, and documents concerning international affairs. Materials are available in all six official languages of the United Nations (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish).
Photo 1: View of the second floor of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library
Photo 2: Ramona Kohrs (facing the camera), the outreach and development coordinator of the U.N. Library, speaking to CUNY Librarians about collections and resources of the 2nd floor of Dag Hammarskjöld Library.
Afterwards, we went to the map collection. The Dag Hammarskjöld Library’s map collection is extensive. The collection contains historical, contemporary, and digital maps. Many maps are government issued, some are created by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and others are National Geographic maps. More than 80,000 maps from countries around the world and in different languages are stored here.
Next, we went to the basement area, which holds more than 10 million documents, including League of Nations treaties and other older items. Ramona shared that the U. N. has a photo library, an audio visual library, and an archive library. Ramona informed us that the U.N. documents after 1980 are available via online catalog. The documents before 1980 may be searched using the card catalog.
Photo 3: Ramona Kohrs showing a book to CUNY librarians in the basement floor of the library
Photo 4: Ramona Kohrs showing a picture book to CUNY librarians in the basement floor of the library.
Later, we went to the library computer lab to attend presentations given by members of U.N. library staff. The presentations were focused on client services units, research guides, Ask DAG, and the digitization features of the library. The U.N. Library is digitizing documents from 1945 to 1992 in the six official languages of the U.N. Three million of the 17 million documents have been digitized. (The library is looking for interns, who can assist with the digitization project). The presenters represented a cross-section of the world’s population. One presenter was from Norway; another from Israel, another from the United States and one from Germany. Light refreshments were served.
Finally, we went to a reading room of the U. N. Library, which housed the original card catalog.
Photo 5: A view of a Dag Hammarskjold Library reading room.
Photo 6: Photo of Hunter College librarians taken in a Dag Hammarskjold library reading room. (see card catalog behind the librarians).
Afterwards, several librarians visited the bookstore.
The tour of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library was well organized, educational, interesting and enjoyable. Many thanks to LACUNY and the United Nations library staff.
N. B.: Political science students at Hunter College may benefit greatly from a tour of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library at the United Nations.
Library E-mail: library-ny@un.org
Telephone: 212-963-3000
URL: Askun.org
Hours:
M-F pAM-5:30PM
From mid-September to December: M-F 9am -6PM
Address:
First Avenue at 46th Street
Reading Room: #L-105
New York, New York 10017
Factoid: In 1959, the Ford Foundation made at $6.3 million grate for the establishment of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library.
Posted Tuesday, May 17, 2016 - 2:06pm under UN, librarians, field trip.
You can now view a complete list of publications by our faculty members online here: http://libguides.library.hunter.cuny.edu/FacultyPublications
Thanks to all who attended, signed their books, and helped make Library Day 2015 a memorable experience. We appreciate all your hard work and enjoy celebrating our accomplishments together.
Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 8:51am under library day, faculty, publications.
Please join us this Thursday, April 16 at 2pm on the 3rd Floor of the Cooperman Library for our Annual Library Day Celebration!
We will celebrate faculty, staff, and student accomplishments and our libraries during National Library Week.
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Posted Monday, April 13, 2015 - 12:24pm under library day.
Thanks to the CUNY Council of Chief Librarians, anyone with a valid CUNY email address can receive unlimited access to the New York Times in digital and mobile formats.
Here are the steps to follow to sign up for access:
- Go to nytimes.com/passes.
- Click on "Register" to create a NYTimes.com account using your Hunter email address.
- At the bottom of the Welcome page, click "Continue."
- You will then see a "Check Your Email" message. Look for a "Confirm Your Email Address" message, which should arrive to your Hunter email within 15 minutes.
- Click on the link in the confirmation email. This will simultaneously verify your eligibility and grant your Academic Pass, which will provide access to NYTimes.com for your campus's designated period.
- If you don't get a confirmation email, check your spam filter. If you still do not receive it, send an email from your Hunter email account to edu@nytimes.com.
Once you've created an account, access will simply require your Hunter New York Times login--you will not have to authenticate it through the library's website. You will see your subscription as being for "one year," although it will be renewed as the subscription continues.
Restrictions:
- Each day of their pass, users may access up to five free articles published between the years 1923 through 1980. Access is unlimited to archived articles outside that 1923–1980 date range. (Our Hunter College Libraries webpage however, has full access to New York Times articles, with digitally reproduced pages, from every issue starting in 1851).
- Academic Passes do not include tablet apps. To use your pass on a tablet, use a web browser to go to nytimes.com.
- Academic Passes do not include print copies, e-reader editions, Premium Crosswords, or the NYTimes Crosswords app.
If you already have an annual subscription to the New York Times with your Hunter email address, you can cancel it and receive a refund. If you wish to continue your own access (for example, If you get the print edition with online access), but also want to use the Hunter version, we suggest you move your original subscription to a personal email address.
Posted Thursday, August 28, 2014 - 3:28pm under .