The Mina Rees Library
http://library.gc.cuny.edu
also see Library Photo Tour
The Mina Rees Library supports the research, teaching, and learning activities of the Graduate Center by serving as a gateway to the print and electronic resources available in the library, in the collections of the nineteen other CUNY libraries, in collections at libraries available worldwide, and to other digital resources available on the Internet.
The Mina Rees Library collection consists of over 301,000
volumes, 600,000 microforms, as well as music scores
and records, and a total of about 16,000 print and electronic
subscriptions to journals, reference and statistical
sources, and other serial publications. Total print holdings
CUNY-wide are over six million volumes.
The library’s home page on the Internet, http://library.gc.cuny.edu, provides information, instruction, news about library events and services, and links to library catalogs and to websites and electronic texts selected for their interest and value to doctoral students and faculty. Links on the website also allow students to ask a question via live chat 24/7, request an Interlibrary Loan, arrange group instruction or individual consultation, or renew a book.
Special collections include the Seymour
B. Durst Old York Library which contains a collection of books, artifacts,
and memorabilia documenting nineteenth- and twentieth-century
New York City, the Deiro Archive, a wealth of material
of interest to anyone wishing to learn about the history
of the accordion in the U.S., and Activist Women’s
Voices Oral History Archives, 1995–2000.
CUNY doctoral students have full use and borrowing privileges at all CUNY libraries, except the Law School library. Proximity to the Science, Industry, and Business Libraries (SIBL) of the New York Public Library, located around the corner within the same building as the Graduate Center, provides students with easy access to immense holdings in the physical and applied sciences, economics, and business. The vast resources of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library of the New York Public Library are also located only eight short blocks from the Graduate Center. Access to other New York City research libraries is also available for on-site use of materials not held elsewhere. In addition to facilitating on-site use of other area libraries, the Mina Rees Library offers a highly efficient Interlibrary Loan service for obtaining materials at other libraries and a inter-campus book delivery service for books in the collections of all CUNY libraries.
Workstations throughout the library and in an electronic
commons on the lower level provide access to software
on the Graduate Center network, to library services and
resources, and to other internet resources. Reference librarians on the second floor and technical support staff in the electronic commons on the concourse level are available for instruction, research assistance, and consultation in the use of applications software. The library conducts frequent beginning and advanced classes on database searching, on locating and using full-text electronic resources, and on use of citation management tools.
