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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. 

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

Exhibit on histories of mass incarceration and immigrant detention comes to Hunter College Library
Created by students and justice-impacted people from communities across the country

States of Incarceration, a nationally traveling exhibit exploring the roots of mass incarceration in communities across the country, is on view at the Cooperman Library, 6th Floor, East Building of the main Hunter College Campus, until December 15th. A project of the Humanities Action Lab, an initiative newly arrived at Hunter, States of Incarceration is a collaboration of over 800 students and others deeply affected by incarceration in over 25 cities, and counting. They grew up in a United States that incarcerates more of its people, including immigrants, than any country in the world – and at any point in its history. In 2015, when the project began, they witnessed a new bipartisan consensus that the criminal justice system was broken, and an intense conflict over how to fix it.


Students and formerly incarcerated people came together to ask: How did this happen? What new questions does the past challenge us to ask about what is happening now? To find answers, they examined their own communities’ histories. Through courses at universities, local teams share stories, search archives, and visit correctional facilities. Each team created one piece of the exhibit -- and more teams have been adding their stories all along the way.

The exhibit includes portraits and oral histories from the Rikers Public Memory Project, which collects and makes visible the stories of people most impacted by Rikers Island, to mobilize action toward repairing its generational harms and interrupting the dehumanizing narratives about people harmed by Rikers.



To learn more about how to get involved in States of Incarceration and the Rikers Public Memory Project, the Hunter Community is invited to two "Co-Creation Cafes", to be held on September 4, 2:00 - 4:00 pm  and September 10, 2:30 - 3:45 pm.  Over food and drink, faculty and students can learn about funding and other support available for them to contribute their stories and work to this national conversation.  Both events will be in the Cooperman Library, E617.

Posted Friday, August 29, 2025 - 9:21am under exhibit.

We have a new display at the Zabar Art Library (1608 Hunter North): Well-known artists in Zabar Special Collections. 

To start off the new semester, we are showcasing some of the items from our special collections that include the work of well-known artists you may be learning about in your Art and Art History classes, such as Joan Miro, Cy Twombly, Claes Oldenburg, and more. Visit the Zabar Art Library to see these items in person. For a closer look, you can ask at the front desk to use these, or any of our Zabar Art Library Special Collections materials, in person at the library.

To get to the Zabar Art Library, take the North Building A5 elevator to the 16th floor. 

cover of Claes Oldenburg book, white background with blue and white drawing      multicolored lithographed cover of book on artist Joan Miro     blue and gold painting on the cover of the book for Cy Twombly, The Ceiling   

Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2025 - 2:17pm under displays, art, art history, artists.

Display cases at Cooperman Library

CRAASH in Focus displayed at Cooperman Library. Photo: Karen Chan/Hunter College.

On view on the third floor of Cooperman Library through summer 2025, CRAASH in Focus: Revitalizing Asian American Studies explores the history of student activism surrounding the Asian American Studies Program (AASP) at Hunter College, from its early foundation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the revitalization of it in the 2000s and 2010s by way of CRAASH, or the Coalition for the Revitalization of Asian American Studies at Hunter, and CRAASH’s ongoing influence and impact today. Drawing heavily from archival materials held by the Hunter College Libraries, this exhibition demonstrates how students have advocated for the AASP through concerted news and social media campaigns, petitions, protests, and events, as well as their solidarity efforts with other student organizations. Curated by Mee-Len Hom, Allison Ransom, and Lily Susman.

Special Thanks:

Former and current administrators of the Asian American Studies Program: Dr. Shirley Hune, Dr. Peter Kwong, Dr. Robert Ku, Jennifer Hayashida, Dr. Joong Oh, Vivian Louie, Dr. Charles Tien, and Dr. Daniel Woo.

Former and current CRAASH members, including archive donors Linda Luu and Kevin Park. 

Hunter College Libraries faculty and staff Ingrid Bonadie-Joseph, Wendy Jimenez, Dorian Onifer, and Sarah Ward.

Clockwise from upper left: details of an exhibit panel featuring student photos and reproduced flyers and newspaper, introduction to the exhibition, zine made for the exhibition, and details of student testimonials from a display panel.The exhibition features reproduced photographs, flyers, ephemera, and media coverage from the CRAASH archival collection and the organization's current student leaders. Photos: Karen Chan/Hunter College.

Posted Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 2:05pm under archives, exhibitions, Cooperman Library.

On Saturday, March 29, the Hunter College Alumni Weekend included a visit to the Hunter College Archives. Guests were shown materials from the Archival collection, including yearbooks, a graduation dress worn by graduate Mary Ann Brown in the 1870s, and the Nobel Prize medal awarded in Physiology and Medicine to Hunter alumna Gertrude Elion ’37 for her work on drug development. Alumni were excited to learn that we now have high resolution scans available for Hunter College yearbooks.
 

Please visit Hunter College Materials on JSTOR. Yearbooks from 1896 to 1984 are currently available. More yearbooks and scans of student newspapers from 1914 to 1975 to come.

Highlights from Alumni Weekend



 
Posted Friday, April 4, 2025 - 4:33pm under archives, HCLarchives, alumni, alumni_event.

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Do you have questions about how to start searching the Hunter College Libraries?  How to choose a research topic? How to find peer reviewed sources?  How to find full text?  Check out Hunter College Libraries concise Library Help Videos!  These videos allow you to learn step-by-step at your own pace.  Here is our video about locating peer reviewed materials:

 

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Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 12:00am under research help.

We at the Hunter College Libraries support the information needs of the Hunter College community. In that spirit, we want to remind you of these vitally important campus-wide resources: 

  • College protocol to address ICE visits to our campus: 

  • The Office of Legal Counsel provides support and services to our faculty and staffPhone: 212-772-4098 or email legal@hunter.cuny.edu. 

 

We will provide updates when they are available.  

 

Posted Friday, March 7, 2025 - 4:30pm under resources, immigrant, LGBTQIA+.

We currently have items on display at the Zabar Art Library (1608 Hunter North) connected to the recently opened "Full Moon, Walking" exhibition by artist Lauren Orchowski. "Full Moon, Walking" can be viewed at the Sweet Flypaper Gallery on the 11th Floor of Hunter North through April 10, 2025: https://huntercollegeart.org/2025/03/05/full-moon-walking/

On display at Zabar are models built by the artist, as well as a copy of her book and zines. There will be an artist talk on April 1, 2025 at 5:45PM, in room 1604 of Hunter North, sponsored by the Sainsbury Initiative.

red, white, and blue wooden model of a mid-century playground structure shaped like a rocket, with a metal slide

Red lettering reading "Full Moon, Walking" Lauren Orchowski,on a white background

Posted Friday, March 7, 2025 - 9:25am under art, exhibitions, Zabar Art Library.

Each February, Black History Month signals a time to reflect on the powerful stories, accomplishments, and contributions of Black individuals who have shaped our college and our world. One such figure is legendary “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet” Audre Lorde (1934-1992), alumna and former Distinguished Professor at Hunter College.
 
On February 18th - which would have been Audre Lorde’s 91st birthday - the LGBTQ+ Community Space at Hunter College will celebrate with a screening of Dagmar Schultz’s film: Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992. The Hunter College Libraries have created a mini zine guide to explore Lorde’s work and impact, which will be available at the screening and in the community space afterward.
 
As we spotlight Lorde's legacy, the Hunter College Libraries affirm that the history and accomplishments of Black students, alumni, faculty, staff, and community members will never be confined to just one month of recognition. We recognize and celebrate Black excellence - past and present - every day of the year.
 
Event Details:
What: Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 Film Screening and Zine Distribution
Where: The LGBTQ+ Community Space in Thomas Hunter Hall, Room 311
When: Tuesday, February 18th at 2:30 pm
 
Library Resources:

  • To explore the breadth of Audre Lorde’s writing including poetry, essays, speeches, letters, and memoirs available through the Hunter College Libraries, click here.
  • To explore biographies, documentaries, books, chapters, and articles about her life and work available through the Hunter College Libraries, click here.
  • For help locating a specific title or narrowing the search results above, visit the Hunter College Libraries in person or ask-a-librarian online!

 

Posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 - 12:13pm under audre lorde, Black History Month.

The Zabar Art Library (1608 Hunter North) recently acquired four artworks by former Hunter College faculty member and alumnus, Michael Berube, who passed away in May of 2024. We are grateful for these vibrant works of art that enliven the walls of this library space. They are on permanent view, and we hope that members of the Hunter College Community stop by to take a look.

multicolored mixed media painting with a red and gold background

Posted Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 10:23am under Zabar Art Library.

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