Feb 15, 2023 | Cover to Cover, News
Exhibit Dates: January 26, 2023 – June 30, 2023Exhibit Location: Barham Rotunda Black History Black History Month gives the Queens College Library the opportunity to celebrate and honor the efforts of QC students and faculty who sought social justice for all by their...
Feb 9, 2023 | Cover to Cover, News
You’re invited! Douglass Day 2023, February 14, featuring a Transcribe-A-Thon of the papers of Mary Ann Shadd Cary. Douglass Day is a collective act of radical love for Black history, and an event that helped inspire the creation of Black History Month. ...
Feb 7, 2023 | Cover to Cover, News
From February 6-10, 2023, libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions around the world are sharing free coloring sheets and books based on materials in their collections. Sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine, the initiative is a wonderful way to...
Jan 27, 2023 | Cover to Cover
How can the archives inspire you? This past October, Queens College’s Special Collections and Archives and Professor John Wegner’s Design 1 class met to cultivate inspiration for the Design course’s final project: designing a suite of menu materials for imagined New...
Dec 9, 2022 | Cover to Cover, News
By Pamela Padilla Wondering what an archivist does? In this post, Pamela Padilla, the library’s Shirley Klein Rare Book and Manuscripts Graduate Fellow, provides a sneak peek of her work processing the Alexander Kouguell Papers. Kouguell, a world-class cellist,...
