By: Alex Crowley, Adjunct Visual & Performing Arts, Music Librarian

The QC Music Library would like to announce the return of the BOOK SALE to the Aaron Copland School of Music (ACSM). Items for sale will include Books, Scores, LPs, and CDs. The sale is CASH ONLY.

• Location: ACSM Atrium
• Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2026
• Time: 10am – 4pm

Please contact the Music Library if you have any questions about the event: musiclibrary@qc.cuny.edu.

See you then!��

Today, we are all experiencing the change that generative AI has brought into our personal and professional lives.�� As faculty, we are figuring out ways to address generative AI in our classrooms as it relates to our teaching, but we also need to address our own experience with generative AI in our daily life and work.�� Generative AI is not only changing writing courses, it is also changing daily work and life across all professions.

Faculty AI User Experience image created by Canva GenAI

The Forum on Faculty AI User Experience is a two-part discussion focused on learning about the �춹��Ƶ faculty and staff experience of AI as it relates to daily work and life.�� The series will have two discussions during the Fall 2025 semester.�� The first forum will be an open discussion with faculty regarding their AI user experience and the library with a goal of understanding how the library can support faculty going forward.�� The second forum, based on the results of the first will expand the discussion towards creating concrete outcomes.

By: Alex Crowley, Substitute Visual & Performing Arts, Music Librarian

• Location: ACSM Atrium
• Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2025
• Time: 10am – 4pm

Please contact the Music Library if you have any questions about the event: musiclibrary@qc.cuny.edu.

See you then!��

��By: Library Administration

The �춹��Ƶ Library has a long-standing “No Food” policy. Currently, Library users are bringing food into the Rosenthal Library, including sandwiches, salads, hot platters, etc., which results in increased insects & other pests and massive trash throughout the building – health hazards for everyone. We also see a deterioration of Library spaces and materials.

Thus, we are republicizing the Library’s “No Food” policy so that we can have a clean, healthy, and safe Library for everyone.

No food or drink is allowed in the Library by users, except water in re-sealable bottles.��

Library Administration reserves the right to accommodate food and drink for staff offices and scheduled events.

If you need to eat and drink while visiting the Rosenthal building, you can do so in the library café/lobby space prior to entering the Library proper.�� If you bring food into the Library you will be directed to eat it outside in the library café/lobby.

Please help us to continue providing quality spaces, resources, and services to you by not bringing food into the Library.

By: Caitlin Colban-Waldron, Archivist and Special Collections Specialist

We think archives are important all year round, but every October we take time to advocate for archives, archivists, our work, and the many, many collections that exist in our repositories during Archives Awareness Month in the United States. Archivists in all kinds of archives across the country talk directly to people who use (or will use!) archives about what exactly it is we do as archivists, what exists in our collections, and how you can access them.

The Society of American Archivists traditionally designates one day each Archives Awareness Month to , a public initiative where archivists solicit questions from the curious, usually through social media, and answer through the same channels. Questions run the gamut, from advice on preserving your family’s old materials, clarifying when you can visit the archives, highlighting specific collecting areas, explaining how we decide what to keep, or just giving the archivists an excuse to be silly.

🎵 A-R-C-H-I-V-E, send your questions all to me! 🎶 have a question about archives, archivists, �춹��Ƶ, or CUNY? day is TOMORROW!

This year, �춹��Ƶ Special Collections and Archives participated once again across our Instagram and TikTok channels. Catch up on what you missed below, and be sure to subscribe throughout the year to see what we’re up to!

Asked from instagram: What events were going on at QC and CUNY during 1969? A pivotal year, 1969 was a hotbed of student activism in two major directives: anti-Vietnam War protest and SEEK uprising and rebellion. Our Campus Unrest Collection, Student Publications, and photographs show evidence of student power and how they prevailed. Remember: these were QC students, just like you. ♬ For What It’s Worth – Buffalo Springfield

By: Annie Tummino, Head of Special Collections & Archives

Helen Marshall as a child, and family

In this virtual show and tell held on Sept 19, 2024, archivists shared unique items from the Helen Marshall Papers documenting her celebrated career in politics. Marshall (1929–2017) was the second woman and first African American Borough President of Queens, elected to three four-year terms starting in 2001. Earlier, she served on the New York City Council, in the New York State Assembly, and as a co-founder of the Langston Hughes Library in Corona, Queens. Prior to her political career, Marshall earned a Bachelor of Arts in education from �춹��Ƶ and served as a teacher, later making education reform one of her main goals as an elected official. The Helen Marshall Papers were donated to the college by Donald E. Marshall Jr. in 2017.

The collection was recently processed due to a generous grant from the New York State Archives Documentary Heritage Program.

Presenters:��

• Gianna N. Fraccalvieri, Project Archivist for the Helen Marshall Papers
• Annie Tummino, Head of Special Collections and Archives

This event was part of the “At Home with �춹��Ƶ” series sponsored by the Office of Institutional Advancement

By: Alex Crowley, Substitute Visual & Performing Arts, Music Librarian

The QC Music Library would like to announce the return of the BOOK SALE to the Aaron Copland School of Music (ACSM). Items for sale will include Books, Scores, CDs, and more. The sale is CASH ONLY.

• Location: ACSM Atrium
• Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2024
• Time: 10am – 4pm

Please contact the Music Library if you have any questions about the event: musiclibrary@qc.cuny.edu.

See you then!��

By: Annie Tummino, Head of Special Collections & Archives

This past spring, Special Collections and Archives mounted an exhibit in the Rosenthal Library celebrating the history of the , from its origins in the Civil Rights Movement to its emergence as a national model for higher education opportunity programs across the country. The exhibit featured items from , such as brochures, handbooks, newsletters, photographs, clippings, and fliers, demonstrating the incredible innovation, resilience, and impact of the program over its 58-year history.

Now, Special Collections and Archives is proud to announce that the majority of items featured in the exhibit, plus a number of others, have been scanned and are available through ! This online access will benefit researchers around the world as well as our local community here at �춹��Ƶ. The collection currently has 71 entries, but we hope to add hundreds more as resources allow.

�춹��Ƶ SEEK Program

Please enjoy browsing the collection, as well as using JSTOR’s tools for downloading, citing, saving, and sharing items of interest. If you have any questions about the SEEK collection or how to use JSTOR, please email qc.archives@qc.cuny.edu.

By: Alex Crowley, Substitute Visual & Performing Arts-Music Librarian

On Wednesday, September 4, 2024, the Music Library re-opened after hours (5-7pm) to host students from the First Year Experience (FYE) program for a Vinyl LP Listening Party. More than a dozen students, accompanied by FYE staffers Jorge Ivan Velez, Saarah Ahsan, and Elisheva Conway, joined me for an introduction to the Music Library and a basic turntable tutorial session that included some “crate digging” through selections taken from the Music Library’s vinyl record collection.

Vinyl LP Listening Party

Vinyl LP Listening Party

I have been conducting an inventory and reorganizing the long-neglected record collection since early Spring, so hosting this event with FYE was a great opportunity to introduce students to both the music collection and the analog music-listening experience.

The Music Library’s pair of Technics SL-1200 MK2 turntables each have external adapters for four sets of headphones, making it possible for multiple people to simultaneously listen to the same record. Attending students picked a few albums to check out and listen to in small groups. They had questions about the various technical functions (pitch adjustment, arm weight, skate control) on the turntable device and remarked upon the “crackling” noise of the records—more noticeable on some albums than others.

Technics SL-1200 MK2

Engaging with the LPs is a reminder that for decades these records were the only game in town, so the library would have held multiple copies of many of these albums. One student who selected a Billie Holliday album noted that Holliday’s work is largely absent from streaming services, and it is likely that among the approximately 5,000 LPs in the collection are many others that cannot be found on any streaming service.

LP Selections

Now that the inventory of the collection is complete and the improved finding aid for the LPs, is functional, a future project for the Music Library may lie in taking stock of rare LPs and those that are not available digitally. In the meantime, all QC students are welcome to browse the LP collection and come to the Music Library for a record break.

By: Q. Joan Xu, Assistant Professor, Data Services and Business Librarian and Eric Silberberg, Assistant Professor, Instructional Design & Education Librarian

The �춹��Ƶ Library is pleased to present the Data Services Workshop Series, offering free, hands-on training sessions designed to enhance your data knowledge, management, and analysis skills. These free workshops are open to the entire QC community and will cover business data resources, data analysis with R, building AI tools with Python, and research data management.

Workshop 1: Data Resources for Business Research

This workshop will introduce essential business data resources that support and empower business research and entrepreneurship. Topics include data-driven and data-informed approaches and competitive analysis. Led by Qiong Xu, Data Services and Business Librarian.

This workshop will be offered twice:

• Sep 18, 2024 12:15 pm
  • Hybrid
• Sep 25, 2024 2:15 pm
  • Hybrid

Workshop 2: Introduction to R and RStudio

This workshop will introduce the basics of using R and RStudio to analyze data for research. No prior programming experience is required; having knowledge and experience with another statistical software package (such as SPSS or SAS) will be helpful. Topics include R packages and syntax; RStudio Interface; Data importing, exploring, analysis, and saving. Led by Qiong Xu, Data Services and Business Librarian.

• Oct 16, 2024 12:15 pm
  • Hybrid

Workshop 3: Build Your Own AI Tools with Python and Gemini

In this workshop you’ll learn how to use Google Gemini Flash 1.5 language model and Python to create custom AI tools. Beginner experience with Python is required. Topics include Gemini API calls and prompt engineering. Led by Eric Silberberg, Instructional Design and Education Librarian.
This workshop will be offered twice:

• Oct 23, 2024 12:15 pm
  • Hybrid
• Nov 6, 2024 12:15 pm
  • Hybrid

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Workshop 4: Introduction to Research Data Management (RDM)

This workshop will cover the basics of research data management (RDM) for data sharing and publication. Topics include benefits of RDM, Data storage & sharing strategies. Led by Qiong Xu, Data Services and Business Librarian.

• Nov 20, 2024 12:15 pm
  • Online