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Grace-Ellen McCrann Lecture Series

In honor of the late Grace-Ellen McCrann (CCNY), LACUNY sponsors an annual Grace-Ellen McCrann Lecture series to spotlight research by LACUNY members.

2024 LACUNY Grace-Ellen McCrann Lectures/Fall Membership Meeting

Friday, October 25, at 2:00pm-4:00pm

Online via Zoom

1.    Unheard Stories: Lived Experiences of Librarians with Hearing Loss

Jill Cirasella, Graduate Center  and Lee Ann Fullington, Brooklyn College

2.    Faculty Perceptions of Academic Librarians as Teachers: Data Analysis Using AI Tools

Mark Aaron Polger, College of Staten Island

3.    A New World from the Ashes of the Old: Library Services to Labor Studies Programs at CUNY (and Beyond)

Aliqae Geraci, Graduate Center

4.    Constant Core, Shifting Shapes: The Resilience of Social Science Librarianship Amidst Changing Formats, Subjects, and Disciplines

Frans Albarillo, Brooklyn College

5.    Cultivating CUNY’s Archives & Institutional Memory

Natalie Milbrodt, CUNY Central

6.    Duarte’s Children: Transnational Dominican Activism during the Balaguerato (1966-1978)

Nelson Santana, Bronx Community College

 2023 LACUNY Grace-Ellen McCrann Lectures/Fall Membership Meeting

Friday October 20, 2023, 2:00pm-4:00pm

Online via Zoom

This year's presenters are:  

"How Do They Really See Us?: An Analysis of Faculty Perceptions of Academic Librarians as Teachers" - Mark Aaron Polger (CSI)

"The BMCC Library Information Literacy Program’s Asynchronous Research Toolkits" - Elizabeth Arestyl, Anthony Bishop, Christopher Lopez, and Sharell Walker (BMCC)

"How Two Teaching Library Professionals Experienced Action Research: From Embracing the Participation in a Professional Learning Community to Delving into Autobiographical Narrative Writing" - Maria Kiriakova (John Jay) & Joan Kelly Castro (Guttman)

"Planning for Imminent Renovations at City College’s Cohen Library" - Sean O'Heir (City College)

"GPS Mindset and Creating a Mindset Supportive Classroom by using a Social Annotation Tool" - Madeline Ruggiero (Queensborough) 

"Mexican Teachers’ Reactions to the 2023 National Textbook Program Prohibitions and Burnings" - Eric Silberberg (Queens)

"A Legacy of Latinx/e Visual Artists: The Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Arts (MoCHA) Collection at Hostos Archives" - Jorge Matos Valldejuli (Hostos)

2022 LACUNY Grace-Ellen McCrann Lectures / Fall Membership Meeting

Friday, November 11, 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Online via Zoom 

Watch the entire event courtesy of YouTube at https://youtu.be/wkzawZnvdDk

Uncovering 100 years of Dominican Music: A History of Dominican Music in the U.S. - Jhensen Ortiz (CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, The City College of New York) 

Considering Data Privacy and Safety: Emergency Remote Learning and Beyond - Emma Antobam-Ntekudzi (Bronx Community College)

“No Talking About the Baby:” Pregnancy, Birth, and Mothering in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Memoir - Julie Turley (Kingsborough Community College)

Perspectives of the STEM faculty on the ACRL Framework in a Community College - Christine (Mi-Seon) Kim (Queensborough Community  College) 

GIS & Librarianship: Building the Brooklyn Health Map - Sheena Philogene (Brooklyn College) 

Share Alike! Join Us on Our OER Journey - Jennifer Newman (Hunter College) & Sarah Ward (Hunter College) 

 Advancing Equity with Library Resource Sharing (Work in Progress) - Silvia Cho (CUNY Graduate Center) 

How Implementing Social Annotations in the Classroom can Support Community College Students - Madeline Ruggiero (Queensborough Community College) 

What Are They Saying About Us: Examining how Faculty Advocate the Library to their Students - Mark Aaron Polger (College of Staten Island)

2021 LACUNY Grace-Ellen McCrann Lectures / Fall Membership Meeting

Friday, November 19, 2:00PM - 4:00PM

Online via Zoom 

  • A Phenomenological Study of Academic Librarians’ Understanding of their Teacher Identity- Mark Aaron Polger- College of Staten Island.
  • When was this book borrowed?! Looking at Long Overdue Books- John DeLooper- Lehman College
  • Prison Librarianship and LIS Schools: Is There a Career Path? - Patrick Raftery- John Jay College
  • It’s Meaningful Work, But It’s Really, Really Hard: Librarians’ Understanding of their Work with Families Experiencing Homelessness- Vikki Terrile - Queensborough Community College.
  • Research as Inquiry: Verifying Voices of Queens through OERs - Madeline Ruggiero- Queensborough Community College
  • Teaching for Success: Promoting Research Inquiry Practices with Students- Vanessa Arce Senati & Katelyn Angell- Lehman College

2019 LACUNY Grace-Ellen McCrann Lectures / Fall Membership Meeting

Friday, October 25, 2:00PM - 4:00PM

CUNY Graduate Center, rooms C201 & C202

  • Elvis Bakaitis, Graduate Center: A (Mini) History of Bluestockings Bookstore
  • Linda Miles & Kate Lyons, Hostos CC: Gamifying Media Literacy Instruction
  • Lee Ann Fullington, Brooklyn College: Pick out the jams: Curation and independent record shops
  • Joan Jocson-Singh and Julie Turley, Lehman College & Kingsborough CC: Snare Drum at My Womb: The Role of Rock and Heavy Metal Mothering
  • Kate Angell & Elvis Bakaitis, Graduate Center: Advocating Open
  • Nicole Williams, Bronx CC: Expansion of Cinematic Racial Character Tropes: The White Tour Guide
  • Madeline M. Ruggiero, Queensborough CC: Words to Images the Paintings of Carlo Levi
  • Amy Beth, Guttman CC: Cultivating Practitioner Intersections: Social Scientists, Architects, and Librarians

2018 LACUNY Grace-Ellen McCrann Lectures / Fall Membership Meeting

Friday, October 26, 2:00PM - 4:00PM

https://lacuny.org/event-3096949

  • Frans Albarillo (Brooklyn) American-Style Research a study of cultural perceptions of libraries and educational transitions
  • Robin Brown (BMCC) Claiming our space: A quantitative and qualitative picture of disabled librarians 
  • John Carey & David Donabedian (Hunter) Collection development in Armenian academic libraries: A conversation with librarians and faculty
  • Anne Hays (CSI) Liaising by listening: LGTBQ student usage of the library
  • Miriam Laskin (Hostos) Rocket your research: Hostos Library's one-on-one research consultation program
  • Ajatshatru Pathak & Sarah Johnson (Hunter) Use and awareness of reference management software among community college students
  • Ryan Phillips (Baruch) Evolving company disclosure: Environmental, social, governance data and reporting


2017 LACUNY Grace-Ellen McCrann Lectures / Fall Membership Meeting

Friday, December 08, 2017, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM 

https://lacuny.wildapricot.org/event-2433419

  • Limitations of the Gender Field in the Name Authority File - Kimberly R. Abrams, Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian, City Tech
  • Utilizing Effective Collaboration Strategies to Implement New Academic Systems - Anthony Bishop, Assistant Professor of Instructional Design/Librarian, BMCC
  • Researching Fashion: What They Wore and How it was Made - Wanett Clyde, Adjunct Reference and Digital Outreach Librarian, Graduate Center
  • Teaching Humorous Accounts of Fake News – and Why They're Not so Funny -  Lane Glisson, E-learning and Instruction Librarian / Assistant Professor, Borough of Manhattan Community College

  • Library Information and Resource Sharing: Transforming Services and Collections - Beth Posner, Associate Professor, Head of Library Resource Sharing, Graduate Center

  • Why Connecting Underrepresented College Students to Public Libraries Matters - Maureen Richards, Assistatnt Professor and Electronic Resources Librarian

  • Archival Curation at the Graduate Center Library: From Display to Collaborative Exhibition - Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, Assistant Professor, Head of Reference, Grad Center

2016: December 9, New York City College of Technology


Electronic Resource Management with YOURLs - Kimberly Abrams (City Tech)

Infinite Narratives: Librarians as Authors, Libraries as Inspiration - William Blick (QCC)

Cultural study of Citation Practices and Academic Integrity in Japanese Academic Institutions - Yoko Inagi Ferguson (City College)

When YOU Are in Charge: Reflections on Managing Staff in the Library - Trevar Riley-Reid (City College)

Personal Information as Property - Tony Doyle (Hunter)

Zine Author’s Attitudes about Inclusion in Public and Academic Libraries - Anne Hays (College of Staten Island)

2015: December 17, Bronx Community College

Researching Queen of The Underworld, a Biography of Sophie Lyons - Barbara Gray
Roger H. McDonough: Librarian, Politician and Historian - Robin Brown
Lau Kar Leung and the Shaw Bros. Studio in Hong Kong - Eric Pellerin
Bronx Faces and Voices - Janet Butler Munch
The Architecture of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum and Patient Experience in the 1860’s - Leslie Ward
Counter culture: A Brief Oral History of Independent Record Shops - Lee Ann Fullington
Mission work, Conversion and the Italian Immigrant in Turn-of-the-Century New York City: the Story of the Anson Phelps Stokes Italian Free Library - Alexandra de Luise
The Preservation Moment - Jeffrey Kroessler
Studies in the history of anthropology in the United States - Jay Bernstein
African American Diaspora in the Island of Hispaniola: From Oral History to Written History - Reabeka King
When It Turns Out the Subject of Your Study has Plagiarized - Amy F. Stempler
Women and the policing of criminal abortion services in Progressive Era New York City - Ellen Sexton

2014: December 11, 2014, LaGuardia Community College



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