by Robin Naughton, Deputy Chief Librarian, and Web & Digital Services Librarian

Today marks the 25^th anniversary of 9/11 and throughout the country we are remembering and reflecting on this day.  �춹��Ƶ Library is also reflecting and has put up a 9/11 exhibition in The Norman & Carole A. Barham Rotunda in Rosenthal.

�춹��Ƶ Library 9/11 Exhibit in the Barham Rotunda in Rosenthal

The exhibition was last displayed five years ago and on this 25^th anniversary, we wanted to display it again. The exhibition is organized into five panels:

• Panel 1: World Trade Center (1973 – 2001): Explore the history of the World Trade center prior to September 11, 2001.
• Panel 2: September 11, 2001: The day the twin towers fell.
• Panel 3: Time of Reflection and Legacy: The center panel shows the aftermath and how people have reflected on what happened.
• Panel 4: �춹��Ƶ Remembers: Discover the names and stories of the people in the �춹��Ƶ community who died on that day.
• Panel 5: One World Trade Center (2014 – Present): Learn about the new World Trade Center and the current state of the area.

Panels 1 and 2: World Trade Center before 9/11 and 9/11.

Panel 3: Time of Reflection and Legacy

Panels 4 and 5: �춹��Ƶ Remembers and One World Trade

Special thanks to Stevie, Sevastoula Kasparian, College Assistant, serving as Curatorial Assistant of the Art Collection, for reviving and mounting this exhibit.

Take some time to explore the exhibit, learn what happened, and reflect on 9/11.  The exhibit will be available for viewing the rest of September 2026.

← Join us for CUNY Digital Accessibility Initiative with Laura Todd

Recent QCL Blog Posts

• Let Us Remember and Reflect on 9/11
• Join us for CUNY Digital Accessibility Initiative with Laura Todd
• Papers of Congressman Gary Ackerman Open for Research
• Towe Archive of Classical Music Collection
• Hellman Collection

Search for:

The post Let Us Remember and Reflect on 9/11 appeared first on Library.

Co-hosted by �춹��Ƶ Library & CETLL

CUNY Digital Accessibility Initiative (CUNY DAI) has created a Brightspace self-paced course on digital accessibility for CUNY.  The course creator, Laura Todd, Technology Trainer (CUNY Central/CIS), is visiting campuses to present on digital accessibility during Fall 2026. �춹��Ƶ Library (QCL) and the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Leadership (CETLL) are collaborating to host Laura Todd at �춹��Ƶ on September 28, 2026 to present a talk on digital accessibility to the QC faculty and staff.

 

Join Us

• Date: Monday, September 28, 2026
• Time: 12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
• Location: Music Building Recital Hall (MU 226) & Zoom
• Presenter: Laura Todd, CUNY Technology Trainer

Presentation Topic

The talk will be centered around three key questions:

What is digital accessibility?
A high level overview of what digital accessibility means and the changing legal and policy
landscape.

Why does it matter here at CUNY?
A look at how digital accessibility supports equitable access for our students, faculty, and
staff with disabilities (both permanent and situational/temporary) and why it is especially
important now.

What can we do?
Practical ways we can all support digital accessibility best practices, including through the
new self-paced Digital Accessibility course in Brightspace.

View Flyer

← Papers of Congressman Gary Ackerman Open for Research Let Us Remember and Reflect on 9/11 →

Recent QCL Blog Posts

• Let Us Remember and Reflect on 9/11
• Join us for CUNY Digital Accessibility Initiative with Laura Todd
• Papers of Congressman Gary Ackerman Open for Research
• Towe Archive of Classical Music Collection
• Hellman Collection

Search for:

The post Join us for CUNY Digital Accessibility Initiative with Laura Todd appeared first on Library.

The post 2026 ICPSR Data Events and Scholarships appeared first on Library.

The Día de Muertos Ofrenda at Rosenthal Library

| events

By: Eric Silberberg, Instructional Design and Education Librarian

Image courtesy QC Creative Services

From October 28th to November 24th, the Carole A. and Norman Barham Rotunda in Rosenthal Library became home to a Día de Muertos ofrenda (altar). The altar was designed and built by students enrolled in Prof. Sara Hinojos’ MEDST 225: Ethnicity in American Media course. These students first researched the origins and commercialization of Día de Muertos. Their work culminated in five distinct sections of the altar. These sections were dedicated not only to family members but also addressed broader themes such as social justice, personal stories of family immigration, and tributes to cultural luminaries important to Latinx communities.

Image courtesy QC Creative Services

​Día de Muertos is a Mexican holiday where families traditionally gather to pay respects and remember friends and family members who have died. Families customarily build home altars adorned with marigold flowers (cempazúchitl), decorative skulls (calaveras), and the departed’s favorite worldly foods and belongings.

 

Image courtesy QC Creative Services

 

The holiday’s origins are debated with some tracing its roots to Indigenous Mexican traditions and others viewing it as a local expression of Christian practices. At its core is a profound recognition of the continuous cycle of life and death. During the late 1960s, Mexican American artists in Southern California began transforming the tradition, turning the ofrenda into a public display of cultural pride, grief, and political expression in community centers, parks, and libraries. Even as Día de Muertos becomes more commercialized in the U.S. context, its spirit makes space for meaningful expression of shared, intercultural experiences of the �춹��Ƶ community.

← Poetry is Not a Luxury: A Makerspace Patchwork Quilt 2026 ICPSR Data Events and Scholarships →

Recent QCL Blog Posts

• Let Us Remember and Reflect on 9/11
• Join us for CUNY Digital Accessibility Initiative with Laura Todd
• Papers of Congressman Gary Ackerman Open for Research
• Towe Archive of Classical Music Collection
• Hellman Collection

Search for:

The post The Día de Muertos Ofrenda at Rosenthal Library appeared first on Library.

The post Upcoming Event: Research in Praxis Discussion Series with Emily Drabinksi appeared first on Library.

The �춹��Ƶ Library is celebrating Open Access Week with a workshop on the new guidelines for federally funded research. The workshop will be held on Wednesday, October 26, 2:00-3:00 PM.

In August 2022, the White House released new for sharing federally funded research. These guidelines aim to ensure public access to research, and if your research is federally funded, they will probably affect your work! 

The new memo goes much further than previous open access requirements by federal agencies. These new guidelines, which will be implemented by 2025, will require that:

• Federally funded research is made available without embargo
• Research results be made available in repositories as identified by the agencies
• Publications be made available in machine-readable forms according to NISO standards to improve accessibility
• Research data be made available along with the publication (except in cases where this isn’t appropriate)

These guidelines will apply to many more agencies than the previous policies did – so a lot more research is going to be made publicly available when these are enacted.

Ultimately, these guidelines mean your work will be available in new ways and to new audiences.
This workshop will cover what we know about these requirements so far, how they might affect your research and publication processes, and where and how readers might encounter your work.

We hope you’ll join us for the workshop!

Workshop Details:

• Title: Understanding New Guidelines for Federally Funded Research
• Presenters: Nancy Foasberg and Sonali Sugrim
• Date and Time: October 26, 2:00-3:00 PM
• Register:

Share Post:

The post Upcoming Event: Understanding New Guidelines for Federally Funded Research appeared first on Library.

An edit-a-thon is an event where participants come together to edit Wikipedia.  

This is for both complete newcomers and experienced Wikipedians. If you’ve never edited an article before, don’t worry! This is a friendly and approachable way to begin. Instruction and assistance are provided; we will teach you how to make edits and how to make your edits stick.  

On the week of March 21, the library will host two edit-a-thons; please feel free to attend one or both! Each meeting will have a different theme, but of course, if you have begun to edit an article in the first event, you can always continue it in the second. 

The details are as follows: 

• QC Wiki-Week: Edit-a-thon Part I (The Civil Rights Movement in New York) 
  • Monday, March 21
  • 4:00-6:00 PM 

• QC Wiki-Week: Edit-a-thon Part II (Monuments, Landmarks, and Public Art in Queens) 
  • Wednesday, March 23 
  • 12:00-3:00 PM 

We hope to see you there! While we can’t offer free refreshments in this online format, we can offer support and good company as we edit and create articles. Anyone from inside or outside the �춹��Ƶ community is invited – faculty, students, staff, and others.   

The post Wiki-Week at �춹��Ƶ (4th annual edit-a-thon!) appeared first on Library.

Join us on December 10 at 2pm for a workshop on Manifold, CUNY’s very own open-source publishing platform! During our time together you will learn how Manifold is being used across our 25 campuses and become familiar with different course models for using Manifold in your classroom. You will also learn how to create a project on Manifold, add texts and multi-media resources to a project, create a reading group, and learn how to annotate and place resources in a text.

This workshop is open to the QC community and coincides with the final event in the OER Faculty Fellowship Seminar Series for Fall 2021. The OER Faculty Fellowship trains QC faculty to find, adapt, and use open and zero-textbook-cost course materials. To learn more about the fellowship, or apply for Spring 2022, visit the .

The post Workshop: Open Publishing with Manifold Press appeared first on Library.

�춹��Ƶ is known for its involvement in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, especially the Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964. A year earlier, a lesser known, but no less important project took place, when 16 volunteers from the �춹��Ƶ Student Help Project traveled to Prince Edward County, Virginia to tutor Black children who were shut out of public schools due to massive resistance to desegregation. There, they lent support to a long struggle for equal education dating back to the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954 and local, student-led activism for better schools.

In this presentation, primary sources from the archives will bring to life this important history, as documented through a year-long oral history initiative made possible by the Freda S. and J. Chester Johnson Civil Rights & Social Justice Archives Fellowship Program at the �춹��Ƶ Library. Initiators/alumni of the Student Help Project will also join the event for the Q and A.

ANNIE TUMMINO is an assistant professor and head of Special Collections and Archives at the �춹��Ƶ Library, where she manages over 5,000 linear feet of college records, personal papers, and rare books. She is particularly interested in preserving the social movement history of �춹��Ƶ and connecting it to today’s activists and students. She received a master’s in library and information studies from �춹��Ƶ in 2010 and a master’s in maritime studies from SUNY Maritime College in 2020.

VICTORIA FERNANDEZ is the museum coordinator at the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College CUNY, where she helps develop and revise exhibition content, instruct student programming, manage library and archival collections, and facilitate interactions with their Holocaust survivor support group. She graduated from �춹��Ƶ in 2021 with a dual master’s degree in history and library science (MLS/MA) after receiving a BA in history and political science from the Macaulay Honors College at QC in 2018. She has held several positions within the field of archives, most recently serving as the 2020– 2021 Freda S. and J. Chester Johnson Civil Rights and Social Justice Archives Fellow at the �춹��Ƶ Department of Special Collections and Archives.

Sponsored by the Office of Institutional Advancement

The post Stories from the Civil Rights Archives: The �춹��Ƶ Student Help Project of 1963 appeared first on Library.

This monthly film screening series continues on Wednesday, October 20th, at 6pm with the film Monster Pies!

When Mike’s English teacher pairs him up for a class assignment on Romeo and Juliet with hot new kid William, Mike can’t believe his luck! As the two spend more and more time working together on a monster movie version of Bard’s classic tale, they soon realize their feelings for one another may be more powerful than either is truly ready for.

This film screening is open to everyone on Zoom, but only the first (50) fully vaccinated �춹��Ƶ students may join us on campus! Masks are required. Seating will be distanced.

Free registration is required:

Space is limited.

At home, or on campus, Monster Pies is sure to tug at your heartstrings and haunt you for a long time.

Learn more about LGBTQI+ history by browsing the library’s .

Queer Cinema at QC is made possible because of the generous support of the New York City Council through the office of Daniel Dromm (District 25), the Office of Speaker Corey Johnson, and LaGuardia Community College, in partnership with the �춹��Ƶ Office of Student Development and Leadership, the �춹��Ƶ Libraries and The Summit at �춹��Ƶ. Other sponsors include the Women and Gender Studies Programs at �춹��Ƶ; the Gender, Love & Sexuality Alliance/GLASA at QC; the QC Arts Club, the CUNY Office of Student Inclusion Initiatives, and the Division of Student Affairs.

�춹��Ƶ is a proud member of the CUNY LGBTQI+ Consortium.

The post Free Film Screening Series (Queer Cinema at QC): Monster Pies appeared first on Library.