Aug 27, 2026 | archives, Cover to Cover, Featured
By: Annie Tummino, Head of Special Collections & Archives Special Collections and Archives is pleased to announce that the papers of former Congressman Gary Ackerman (Queens College class of 1965) are now open for research, with a completed finding aid. Ackerman...
Aug 26, 2026 | Cover to Cover, Featured, music
By: Alex Crowley, Adjunct Visual & Performing Arts, Music Librarian In February 2025, the self-proclaimed “America’s oldest college DJ” passed away and left behind his vast trove of records. However, few outside the world of New York metro area Classical radio...
Jun 18, 2026 | Cover to Cover, Featured, music
By: Alex Crowley, Adjunct Visual & Performing Arts, Music Librarian In September 2025, Harriet Hellman contacted the Music Library to inquire about donating old sheet music that had been passed down through the family of her late husband, Samuel. In Harriet’s...
Jun 11, 2026 | archives, Cover to Cover, Featured
By: Annie Tummino, Head of Special Collections & Archives Thanks to generous funding from the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), 295 public domain items from the James J. Periconi Collection of Italian-language American imprints are now available on...
Jun 8, 2026 | archives, Cover to Cover, Featured
By: HebatAllah Basala, Queens College Undergraduate Student My archival research began with a question that was deeply personal to me. In a previous senior seminar course, I conducted archival research on Edwards Said and his significance in shaping modern Arab...
Jun 8, 2026 | archives, Cover to Cover, Featured
By: Tyler Rivera, Queens College Undergraduate Student My decision to research WWII-era Queens in the Queens College Special Collections and Archives was due to both the ingrained cultural mythos surrounding the time and my volunteer experience with the Elmhurst...
