(With apologies and gratitude to Douglas Adams and his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy novels for inspiration. NB: direct quotes and paraphrases appear in Hooloovoo — a hyperintelligent shade of the color blue.)
Sprawling across the five boroughs of New York City in the northwestern hemisphere of our mostly harmless planet is the largest public system [...]

Examining the trends in eBooks and the challenges that affect on library usage was the focus of the 2011 LACUNY Institute’s “Electronic Books and the Future of Reading” event.  This year’s Institute, held January 28 at the Graduate Center’s Segal Theatre, focused on eBook access issues and the challenges, technological and otherwise, eBooks pose for [...]

The 2011 LACUNY Instruction Committee Spring Event took place on April 22 at the CUNY Graduate Center. The invited speaker was James Elmborg, Associate Professor and Program Director of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. His presentation, “Critical Information Literacy: The Challenge of Practice,” was recorded and can be [...]

The CUNY Copyright Committee (established in 2010 by the Office of Library Services) hosted “Copyright & Fair Use @ CUNY” at BMCC on April 8. As evidenced by the strong attendance, there is a great need for education on these issues. More than 90 people from across CUNY participated, including librarians, classroom faculty, legal counsels, [...]

The following librarians were announced as recipients of PSC-CUNY Research Awards in June.
William Casari (Hostos): “Street Life: Connecting Cultures of Santo Domingo and New York City”
Sheau-yueh Chao (Baruch): “The Yuan Chronicle”
Dorothea Coiffe (Borough of Manhattan): “Moving Image Websites for Undergraduate Education: An Annotated Webliography”
Kathleen Collins (John Jay): “Dr. Joyce Brothers and American Television: A Joint [...]

The College of Staten Island Library is pleased to announce the inauguration of a new exhibition space, located in the Edmond L. Volpe Rotunda.  The gallery space was made possible by a grant from Con Edison in celebration of the 350th anniversary of Staten Island’s founding.  The inaugural exhibition, drawing on the rich transportation history [...]

Several CUNY Library faculty members are among the scholars and researchers who contributed to the recently published Polish-American Encyclopedia, edited by James S. Pula (McFarland, 2011) and sponsored by the Polish American Historical Association.
Anamika Dasgupta (York) contributed entries on social historian John J. Bukowczyk and literary scholar Alex Kurczaba.
John Drobnicki (York) wrote articles on artist [...]