Feb 21, 2023 | Cover to Cover, News
In Celebration of Black History Month, this month we share an item from our digital shelves: an oral history with Nathaniel Smith. Nathaniel Smith is Director of NYC Men Teach at Queens College, CUNY. The interview was conducted by former staff member Obden Mondésir...
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...
