“Teresa McManus, BCC’s chief librarian, is enthusiastic that the building she’s been working on for several years is now a reality.
“This beautiful library with its hub of activity is a priceless treasure for Bronx Community College and the City University of New York and for current and future students,” she said in an email. “The environment is designed to accommodate student needs for access to information and learning resources in multimedia as well as print formats for research and to complete assignments. The library provides access to 21st Century intellectual products and learning tools, for example with delivering access to multimedia educational resources 24/7 from any location, as well as e-books supplementing print and web delivered collections of research and scholarship.” (story published in Community College Week)
“Cultivating Entrepreneurship in Academic Libraries” is the title of the 2012 Academic and College Research Libraries-New York symposium to be held at Baruch College on December 7, 2012. The symposium, to take place at the William and Anita Newman Vertical Campus Conference Center, explores the different strategies academic libraries are adopting in response to increasing economic pressures, technological changes and user demand.
The libraries of Queensborough Community College and the College of Staten Island College will be among the institutions in the city’s archivist community to host New York Archives Week, October 7-13, 2012. The Archivist Round Table of Metropolitan New York (ART), a group of more than 550 members, will coordinate a series of free historical and genealogical activities, including open houses, exhibitions, lectures, workshops and behind-the-scenes tours of archives in New York City. New York Archives Week is annual celebration aimed at informing New Yorkers about the diversity of information resources available in the city’s trove of archival materials.
The Greater New York Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries is pleased to announce its annual call for poster session proposals for the 2012 ACRL/NY Symposium, “Cultivating Entrepreneurship in Academic Libraries.” The symposium will focus on academic librarians who seek out new opportunities for collaboration, innovation and creative service offerings that meet our users’ evolving needs with limited resources. We will explore how academic librarians can actively promote risk-taking and develop an entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial approach to service.
Honoring the actions of our sister campuses of Brooklyn College, City Tech, and CUNY Graduate Center – the Leonard Lief Library faculty at Lehman College unanimously endorsed Open Access to scholarship. “Open Access to scholarship is critical for scholarly communication and the future of libraries. Further, the Leonard Lief Library faculty at Lehman College assert that this is central to CUNY’s mission of public education.” –Kenneth Schlesinger, Chief Librarian, Lehman College
Are you a science, technology, engineering, or medical/health librarian? Or an aspiring one? Would you like to meet other enthusiastic and engaged STEM-focused librarians and information geeks–professional leaders, researchers, writers, innovators, and all-around awesome colleagues? If yes, then the STELLA Unconference may be for you
Read the Summer 2012 issue of PASSWORD from the York College Library
The librarian exchange between The City University of New York (CUNY), Shanghai University, and Shanghai Normal University took place spring 2010-fall 2011. The exchange built relationships and strengthened collaborative intent between the Chinese and American libraries, enabling CUNY’s Baruch College to design a second phase of the program, which will launch in September, 2012.
Brooklyn College Library Unveils Zine Collection
Opening Celebration With Zine Readings and Exhibition: July 31, 2012 7-9pm
Padavan, who served District 11 in northeastern Queens, donated Queensborough Community College his legislative documents, Senate bills, photographs and other memorabilia that span his 38-year career. For the dedication ceremony, the library displayed photographs and memorabilia of the senator’s career, including images of senator in the New York State Senate, where groundbreaking 1978 legislation was established that made it easier to open community-based group homes for the mentally ill.
