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Did you know that, as a CUNY student, you can claim your FREE online account to The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, AND the Financial Times? Here's how to do it:

Claim your FREE New York Times Academic Pass with your Hunter email address today. It's good for a full year and allows you FREE online access to the New York Times. 

Visit this link to claim your pass: NYTimes.com/passes

All CUNY students also have access to the Wall Street Journal online. Visit wsj.com/Hunter for access, and sign up with your Hunter email address.

Financial Times (FT) is an international daily newspaper. It covers many topics including management, finance, the legal industry, politics, climate change and more. Newsletters and apps are included.

Users can sign up for their complimentary membership by visiting https://ft.com/hunter- Click on “Get Started” and create an account using your Hunter email address and follow the prompts.

 

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Posted Wednesday, February 17, 2021 - 9:54am under news, newspapers, free, The New York Times, wall street journal, Financial Times.

The Graduate Center’s Mina Rees Library invites the CUNY communty to attend virtual workshops on important and emerging Scholarly Communications topics. The workshops are especially well suited to faculty, graduate students, administrators, and others engaged in the discovery, production, or evaluation of research publications — including anyone concerned about how profit and the economy of prestige drive and distort the scholarly publishing industry.

Each workshop stands on its own — there is no need to attend one in order to attend another. Simply register for whichever one(s) speak to your interests or needs. And if there’s a workshop that interests you that you can’t make, register anyway. The presentations will be recorded and shared with all registrants.

“Predatory” Journals: How to Avoid the Shams and Scams

Friday, October 4 at 11am-noon (Zoom), Link to details and registration OR Tuesday, October 8 at 2-3pm (Zoom), Link to details and registration

As a researcher, you are eager to publish your work. But don’t let your eagerness allow you to be fooled by fake (often called “predatory”) journals. These low-quality outlets exist for the sole purpose of profit, not for the dissemination of peer-reviewed research. Indeed, they frequently lie about their peer review practices and engage in other forms of deceit. Come learn how to spot these bad actors, and how to critically evaluate any journal before submitting a paper. We'll also touch on "predatory" conferences and book publishers.

Open Access Explained: Best Practices for Finding Others’ Research and Publicly Sharing Yours

Friday, October 18 at 11am-noon (Zoom), Link to details and registration

You probably know that you can find open access (i.e., cost-free and publicly accessible) copies of many journal articles online. But do you know how to determine if a specific article is available open access? This workshop will clear up some common confusions about open access, highlight some sites where open access publications can be found, and demonstrate some tools for finding open access versions of articles. Further, we will cover a range of options for making your own scholarly work publicly accessible, and consider some reasons why you might want to. We’ll pay particular attention to CUNY’s own public access repository, CUNY Academic Works.

Impact Factor and Other Research Metrics: What They Mean and What They Don’t

Friday, November 1 at 11am-noon (Zoom), Link to details and registration

How important is a certain article? How influential is a certain scholar? How good is a certain journal? These are complex questions that require nuanced answers. Nevertheless, there is widespread interest in, and reliance on, research metrics that attempt to answer these qualitative questions with simple numbers. In this workshop, we will examine how Journal Impact Factor, h-index, and other metrics are calculated, and discuss what they do and don’t communicate about a work, a researcher, or a journal. We will also look at various problems with citation-based metrics, including the “gender citation gap.” Finally, we will touch on alternative approaches to assessment.

Questions? Contact us!

Posted Monday, September 9, 2024 - 3:49pm under scholarly communication, publishing, open access.

Currently on display at the Zabar Art Library (1608 Hunter North) is a selection of photobooks from our Special Collections. You can read more about each of these publications and artists below, or by visiting the Zabar Art Library. Our current hours are here: https://library.hunter.cuny.edu/hours/zabar-art-library 

Fall 2024

 

 

Posted Friday, August 30, 2024 - 11:39am under special collections, photography, Zabar Art Library.

The Tea & Talk Series (originally conceived as Conversation with Authors and Artists) “was designed to give students, faculty, and friends of Hunter College the opportunity to meet with outstanding authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults, and to hear from them about their inspiration and craft.” The program also encouraged dialogue between the authors and/or illustrators, and the audience.   Decisions about whom to invite was made by the committee and was based on the quality and popularity of each writer or illustrator. The programs were open to the public and were held each semester in the Teachers Central Laboratory of the former Education Library. The first speaker of the series was Ezra Jack Keats (November 3, 1965), whose book The Snowy Day won the Caldecott Medal in 1963 for the most distinguished picture book for children. Initially no prepared talks were given. Guests were interviewed by Florence B. Freeman and she willingly entertained questions from the audience. However, as the program evolved, subsequent guests did deliver prepared talks. Many of the presentations and interviews were recorded on audio cassette or reel-to-reel tapes and were later transcribed.      Some of the outstanding authors and illustrators that appeared in the series included Isaac Asimov, Pura  Belpre, John Ciardi, Don Freeman,  Lillian Hoban, Leland Jacobs, Ezra Jack Keats, John Langstaff, Arnold Lobel, John Steptoe, and Maurice Sendak among others. Virginia Hamilton was the last Honor Guest to appear in the series in 1987.

The Tea & Talk Series was conceived by Doris de Montreville, (former head of the Education Library from 1962 - 1972) and  by Florence B. Freedman, (former chair of the Library Committee of the Division of Programs in Education) in the early 1960's. The Tea & Talk Series Committee, chaired by Professor Eileen G. Cowe (1967 - 1983) consisted of members from the Education Library and the Division of Programs in Education. The series was sponsored by the Hunter College Library, the Division of Programs in Education, and the Graduate Student Association of Hunter College.   By the end of the 1980's it became increasingly time-consuming and expensive to continue the program. In total 36 authors and illustrators of children and young adult books presented talks or were interviewed as part of the series.

Visit the displays on the 4th floor in the Cooperman Library to view archival material from the Tea & Talk Series.

Promotion for Arnold Lobel talk - Tea & Talk Series - Archives

Posted Monday, August 19, 2024 - 4:45pm under Hunter College Archives, archives.

Perhaps you are wondering about the new flag you've been seeing in celebration of Pride Month. The 'Progress' flag was created in response to community demand. Recent redesign initiatives in Philadelphia in 2017 and Seattle in 2018 produced updated banners to be more inclusive of marginalized populations within the community. Revisions to the rainbow flag included adding horizontal black and brown stripes to represent communities of color and light pink, blue, and white stripes to represent people across the gender spectrum. Some also interpret the black and brown stripes to represent those who are living with or have been lost to HIV/AIDS. While these efforts to include historically marginalized communities were generally well received, lingering concerns inspired Daniel Quasar (who uses xe/xyr pronouns) to design the progress pride flag, which features a chevron of the new colors that points into the middle of the rainbow. The new design, which moves beyond inclusion to center previously marginalized identities within the community, “forces the viewer,” Quasar has said, “to reflect on their own feelings towards the original Pride flag and its meaning, as well as the differing opinions on who that flag really represents, while also bringing into clear focus the current needs within our community.”

Quasar’s flag instantly went viral, and xe has since released the design under a Creative Commons license, allowing organizations like CUNY to copy, modify, and distribute the design for non-commercial purposes. A 2024 CUNY Pridefest progress flag has made its way to Hunter College Libraries as a symbol of inclusion, pride, and a reminder “that progress [towards inclusivity] still needs to be made.”

For more on the history of pride flags and Daniel Quasar’s design, see The Progress Pride Flag from the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Progress flag designed by Daniel Quasar
Image permission details: Daniel Quasar released the file under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license.

While you're celebrating, why not include some books with relevant themes? We have a host of options at Hunter College Libraries. Here are a few suggestions:

The Stonewall Reader by Jason Baumann (ed.)

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Hijab Butch Blues : A Memoir.  by Lamya H

Queer Career : Sexuality and Work in Modern America by Margo Canaday

The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser

Bi: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Nonbinary Youth by Ritch C. Savin-Williams

Nonbinary : Memoirs of Gender and Identity by Micah Rajunov and A. Scott Duane, editors.

I Heard Her Call My Name: A memoir of transition by Lucy Sante

Or, try a search on your own in OneSearch. Simply enter LGBTQ, or another appropriate term or keyword, and hit search. Use the filters on the left to select a Topic/Subject and/or Resource Type.  If you want print books only, Limit to Currently on Shelf. If you have a book in mind but you are not able to find it at Hunter, Ask a Librarian. If you are sure it is not at Hunter, expand your search to SUNY collections (Advanced Search), or request a book through Interlibrary Loan.

Posted Monday, June 10, 2024 - 4:45pm under Pride Month, Pride 2024, Progress flag.

Hunter College Libraries' materials are on display around campus! For a list of publications currently on display, click here.

Zabar Art Library Special Collections

The Zabar Art Library (1608 Hunter North) houses a small but mighty Special Collections of rare, valuable, or unique materials related to art and art history. We have a rotating display in the front window of featured items from our Special Collections. If you wish to view or use any Special Collections items, ask at the front desk and we'd be happy to pull them for you - but they are for in-library use only. Follow this link to browse all items in the Zabar Special Collections.

Cooperman Library 3rd Floor Reading Room

Jennifer Newman, English & Humanities Librarian, creates a book cover display on the 3rd floor of the Cooperman Library. Currently on display is a collection of new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, all of which you can find to check out in our Libraries. In addition, Professor Newman created a guide to leisure reading materials in our collections, for those times when you need a non-academic book!

Leubsdorf Gallery

The Leubsdorf Gallery at the 68th Street campus has a current exhibition - Cosmic Shelter: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida’s Private Cosmococas. Art Librarian Sarah Ward and Reserves Manager Jeanne Yan worked with the curators to create a reading room of books related to this exhibition. The complete list of titles is available on the online guide and a selection from the list will be at the gallery when the show is open. The remaining titles will be on Reserve at the Cooperman Library for the duration of the show, and then all the books will be added to the Hunter College Libraries circulating collections.

 

 

Posted Thursday, September 28, 2023 - 10:51am under exhibitions, reading lists, books.

Artstor — the digital library of high quality images from leading museums, photo archives,scholars, and artists around the world — is now part of JSTOR, joining scholarly literature, primary sources, and helpful tools on one platform to strengthen the depth of your teaching and research.

Learn about the Artstor experience on JSTOR below, or visit the full playlist on YouTube for more detailed tutorials: Artstor on JSTOR YouTube playlist

Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2023 - 11:37am under databases, images, JSTOR, Artstor.

Feminist, artist, experimental documentary filmmaker, and poet Lynne Sachs’ donation of DVDs to Hunter College Libraries completes the Libraries’ collection of  Sachs’ films on DVD. The films are available for CUNY students, staff, and faculty to borrow. Scroll down to see the list.

I asked Lynne about her teaching experience at Hunter College. Here is her reply:

“I started at Hunter in September 2001, and of course you know what happened that month.  My relationship to the school has been consistent and meaningful for all of these years.  In that first semester, I witnessed the way that the school became a real home and place of solace for the students, especially the international ones.  Every class was like a therapy session, blending the emotional and intellectual into a single impactful experience (or at least that's how it is in my memory). I was also at Hunter for the very first conversations around their IMA Grad program which has turned into a deeply respected and supportive community.”

Lynne taught the follwing classes:

Graduate courses in the Integrated Media Arts MFA program
The Accident that Pricks: Family and Photography
Day Residue: Hybrid Media and Performance
Film as a Collaborative Art
Frames and Stanzas: Film and Poetry
Non Fiction Graduate Seminar

Undergraduate Courses
Introduction to Film and Media
Developing the Documentary
Sound for Film and Video
Film 1

“What I do in the world when I'm in the act of shooting film is ask myself how and if I can work in concert with something that exists in reality.”  - From an interview with the poet Paulo Javier in Bomb Magazine, March 2014.

Lynne Sachs' films have been featured in a number of retrospectives, including one at The Museum of Moving Image, Lynne Sachs: Between Thought and Expression, organized by assistant curator Edo Choi. In a review of the retrospective, Kat Sachs (no relation), highlights themes of Sachs’ work and the personal and experimental approach the filmmaker takes to communicate through the medium of film.

“A Reality Between Words and Images: Films by Lynne Sachs,” a program screening in October, 2022 at e-flux Screening Room featured six of the filmmaker’s works. In a review of the program on Screenslate.com, the author discusses the filmmaker’s exploration of  the subjects.

A retrospective of Lynne Sachs’ work was included in the Ghosts and Apparitions section of the virtual Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2020. Reviews of the retrospective appeared on Hyperallergic and ubiquarian. In an interview in Modern Times Review, the filmmaker discusses her films in the Sheffiled Doc/Fest. Two of the films in the Festival, The Washing Society (co-directed with playwright Lizzie Oleskar) and Your Day is My Night, investigate the experiences of immigrants working in service jobs, a timely subject during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Reviews of Lynne Sachs’ Film About a Father Who can be found on Cineaste, and was a Critic's Pick on the New York Times.

A two-part interview with the experimental filmmaker is available on A Masters Edition episode of Docs in Orbit. "In part one of the conversation, Lynne Sachs discusses how feminist film theory has shaped her work and her approach to experimental filmmaking. We also discuss her collaborative process in her films, including her short documentary film A MONTH OF SINGLE FRAMES (for Barbara Hammer). Part two discusses her latest feature-length documentary film, FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO (2020).”

 

Highlight Image: Lynne Sachs (top bunk) shooting her film Your Day Is My Night. Photo by Rojo Robles. (Bomb Magazine)


 

Films by Lynne Sachs available at Hunter College Libraries

Film about a father who
Sachs, Lynne, film director, director of photography, narrator, on-screen participant.; Sachs, Ira, Sr., interviewee, on-screen participant.; Sachs, Ira, cinematographer, on-screen participant.; Shapass, Rebecca, editor of moving image work.; Vitiello, Stephen, composer (expression); Allen, Kevin T., remix artist.; Cinema Guild, publisher.
2021?

The washing society
Olesker, Lizzie, filmmaker.; Sachs, Lynne, filmmaker.; Hanley, Sean (Film producer), director of photography.; Katz, Amanda, editor of moving image work.; Vitiello, Stephen, composer (expression); Holloway, Jasmine, actor.; Santa, Veraalba, actor.; Ching, Valdes-Aran, actor.; Torn, Tony, actor.; Canyon Cinema Foundation (Firm), film distributor.
2019

Tip of my tongue
Katz, Amanda.; Sachs, Lynne, film director, author, participant.; Cinema Guild, film distributor.
2018

Your day is my night = 你的白天是我的黑夜 / Argot Pictures ; a film by Lynne Sachs ; produced by Lynne Sachs and Sean Hanley ; directed by Lynne Sachs. ; Your day is my night = Ni de bai tian shi wo de hei ye
Argot Pictures (Firm), film production company.; Cinema Guild, publisher.; Sachs, Lynne, film director, film producer, screenwriter.; Robles, Rojo, screenwriter.; Hanley, Seán, film producer, editor of moving image work, director of photography.; Cao, Yi Chan, performer, interviewee (expression); Chan, Linda, performer, interviewee (expression); Che, Chung Qing, performer, interviewee (expression); Ho, Ellen, performer, interviewee (expression); Huang, Yun Xiu, performer, interviewee (expression); Lee, Sheut Hing, performer, interviewee (expression); Santa, Veraalba, performer, interviewee (expression); Tsui, Kam Yin, performer, interviewee (expression); Mass, Ethan, editor of moving image work.; Vitiello, Stephen, composer (expression)
2013

Con viento en el pelo = Wind in our hair
Sachs, Lynne.; Gallisá, Sofía.; Molina, Juana.; Peroni, Lena.; Peroni, Chiara.; Street-Sachs, Maya.; Street-Sachs, Noa.; Cortázar, Julio.
2011

The last happy day : with 4 short films
Sachs, Lynne. film director.; Mass, Ethan, director of photography.; Lenard, Hansgerd. interviewee (expression); Lenard, Andrietta. interviewee (expression); Gerendas, Israel John. actor; Moss, Donald. actor; Fagen, Lucas. actor; Reade, Isabel. actor; Street-Sachs, Maya. actor; Street-Sachs, Noa. actor
2011

10 short films. Vol. 3
Sachs, Lynne. ; Microcinema, Inc.
2008

Which way is east
Sachs, Lynne.; Sachs, Dana.
2007

States of unbelonging : a film
New Day Films.; Sachs, Lynne.; Zats, Nir.; Reichman, Ted.
2006

Films of Lynne Sachs
Charming Hostess (Musical group); Sachs, Lynne.; Z, Pamela, 1956-
2005

Sermons and sacred pictures
Sachs, Lynne.; Taylor, L. O., 1900-1977.; Center for Southern Folklore.; First Run/Icarus Films.
2004

Investigation of a flame : a documentary portrait of the Catonsville nine
Sachs, Lynne.
2003, 2001

Posted Monday, July 24, 2023 - 5:15pm under .

Thank you to everyone who took our library feedback survey at the end of the Spring semester. We opened the survey on April 17 and received 151 responses as of this blog posting. We saw some of what we expected among the survey responses and we also saw some surprises. The responses came from a self-selecting group who were willing to follow QR codes to our online survey. The survey was not designed to reveal how the entire Hunter College community uses our libraries. We asked to hear from you, and you obliged. So we are sharing some of what we heard:

Your number 1 reason to visit the library is to study.



We were happy to see that the library stands for studying among this group of survey takers. This tendency to view the library as a place for study may explain some of the most frequently left comments. More on that further down.

Your favorite floor to visit is B1.



This floored us (Ha?). We know that B1 receives its share of visitors, but we did not know that they were such passionate survey-takers. Note that this does not mean that B1 is overall the most popular floor among all our library users. It just means that most of our survey-takers, for whatever reason, happened to spend most of their time on this quiet floor full of book cases.

Your top concerns are noise, outlets, and seating.  


We might have guessed something similar based on what we hear at our service desks. Only a small group of survey takers left additional comments, so we want to be cautious about interpreting these results. We plan to follow up to hear more about how significant these issues are for our library visitors in the coming academic year.

Still want to leave us feedback? We are leaving the survey open through the end of this academic year. We would love to hear from you: https://forms.office.com/r/yKBDsAB0cC

Posted Tuesday, May 16, 2023 - 3:43pm under surveys.

It's finals time!  To help you prepare, the Cooperman Library at the Hunter Main Campus will offer special extended hours from Friday, May 12 through Tuesday, May 23. See the library’s extended hours below.  

  • Friday 5/12: 8:00am- 11:00pm 
  • Saturday 5/13: 11:00am-11:00pm 
  • Sunday 5/14: Opens at 11:00am 
  • Monday 5/15- Thursday 5/18: Open Continuously (24 Hours) 
  • Thursday 5/18: Closes at 2:00am (next day) 
  • Friday 5/19: 8:00am- 11:00pm 
  • Saturday 5/20: 11:00am-11:00pm 
  • Sunday 5/21: 11:00am- 10:00pm 
  • Monday 5/22: 8:00am- 2:00am (next day) 
  • Tuesday 5/23: 8:00am- 10:00pm

For hours at library branches other than the main campus, please see here. Good luck with your finals! 

 

Image: Students Studying The Wistarion, p. 143, 1973, Archives & Special Collections, Hunter College Libraries, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York City. For more information: library.hunter.cuny.edu/archives-special-collections

Posted Monday, May 15, 2023 - 2:21pm under .

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