"Where are the books?" That is the question of the semester at the Social Work & Urban Public Health Library
The ever-evolving landscape of our urban university system necessitated that about 90% of this collection move from its East Harlem home in the Silberman Building to a new refurbished space on the B1 level of the Cooperman Library. The 10% remaining at Silberman now resides in the new Silberman First Floor Reading Room. In both locations, the books are available in open stacks where all students may retrieve specific titles independently and browse the collection at their leisure. In addition, all items remain discoverable in the OneSearch catalog and will be transferred on request between Cooperman and Silberman - or any of the other 24 CUNY libraries.
It was difficult to decide what items to move out from this historic collection of 36,000 volumes. We settled on recent use and recent acquisition as our guiding metrics and so the Reading Room contains all our material circulated or purchased since 2019. By no means are we representing this as the best or most important items, but they do represent the things our communities have been taking off the shelves in recent years and the most recent publications in social work, public health, and nutrition. So this is a place to start, it is all a work in progress.
Moving forward we will make use of circulation data, judgement, experience, and consultation with our communities to shape the contents held in both locations. We hope to hear from you soon and often about what you want to see on the shelves in East Harlem and 68th Street.
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