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:
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!
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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).
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:
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.
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.
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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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:
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:
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.
"I'm looking for a book for my class."
"Do you have this textbook?"
"My teacher said the library had this book for our class. Can you help me?"
These are the questions that we hear at the start of each semester here at the Hunter College Libraries. And the answer is yes, we can help you find out if your textbooks are available at the library. You can also help yourself by learning how!
First, you should be aware that the library does not own copies of every textbook for every class, but it is a good idea to look because we do have a lot. it's up to the Professor for a course if materials are made available on reserve, so it can't hurt to ask your professor about this as well.
Reserves - what does it all mean??
Professors can place materials “on reserve” at the library. What that means is that there is at least one copy of a textbook or other material at the Reserve Desk (on the 3nd floor of the Cooperman Library, or at the Circulation Desks of the Social Work and Health Professions Libraries) that is available to be used for two hours at a time in the library. Reserve materials cannot leave the library, but you can make photocopies. Start here:
You can search the Reserves collection by the name of your Professor, your course, or by the title or author of the work.
Sometimes you will have no choice but to get your textbooks from an outside source, which usually means laying out some cash. Thankfully, CUNY has a handy guide to help you save money on textbooks: http://www.cuny.edu/about/resources/student/textbook-savings.html
Hopefully, this post will help you help yourself locate the textbooks you need to succeed this semester. And as always, if you have questions you can Ask A Librarian!