Local Politics Part 3: A View from Brooklyn By Natalia Sucre, Instruction & Digital Services Librarian For the Brooklyn portion of our Local Politics summer series, last Tuesday, July 13th, we were honored to speak [...]
By Natalia Sucre, Instruction and Digital Services Librarian On the afternoon of June 23, 2021, Students Services and MCNY Library assisted Professor Desi K. Robinson in hosting the Reflect, Rejoice, and Celebrate event in honor [...]
By Natalia Sucre, Instruction and Digital Services Librarian Local Politics Part 2: A View from the Bronx Last Wednesday, Marricka Scott-McFadden, MCNY MPA program alumna, met with students and faculty to discuss her work within the internal operations of Bronx [...]
By Natalia Sucre, Instruction & Digital Services Librarian Local Politics Part 1: A View from Harlem The pandemic restricted our movements and imposed social isolation, but it also brought many New Yorkers close to their immediate neighborhood [...]
By Natalia Sucre, Instruction & Digital Services Librarian At our last library virtual roundtable, Women’s Grassroots Leadership: Global/Local, on the last day of Women’s history week, we were led by two distinguished guests --Dr. Pamela Ransom of MCNY and Shorai Chitongo of the Huairou Commission-- through a [...]
What’s Poetry Got to Do with It? A Community Reading of Amanda Gorman By Tina Callender MCNY Library hosted its first roundtable of the new year and semester on February 9th at 5pm. Our topic: Poetry and politics via the work of Amanda Gorman, who most recently commanded the nation’s attention on January 21st. Many thanks to students [...]
Student Spotlight Todd Bristow is an MCNY MBA student, class of 2020,who has held leadership positions in the nonprofit sector. The library was fortunate to have his attendance at our last conversation event, “The Anti-Racist [...]
The Anti-Racist Reading List - Then and Now: Framing the Conversation By Tina Callender, Evening Reference Librarian Weary and exhausted from the pandemic and being socially distanced, isolated from family and friends, at the end of May I --like so [...]
A Different Kind of Book Club By Kate Adler, Director of Library Services When we (the library staff) started talking about moving our monthly programs to the virtual world, we thought about what that could/would [...]
Your Library Staff: Remote, but Available As libraries across the world scramble to meet the needs of their communities in a newly virtual world and MCNY undertakes its first full-fledged online semester, our library staff asked [...]
