CUNY Librarians and Faculty Status

Although the libraries in what were then known as the City Colleges of New York were made academic departments in 1938, all of the librarians did not have faculty status until 1946, and faculty rank did not come until 1965

Robert Prosky

Robert Prosky was an actor best known for his role on Hill Street Blues

The James Como Collection

Description of books donated to the York College Library by James Como, Professor Emeritus, Department of Performing and Fine Arts

Untruth in the Classroom

Although historical revision is a valid practice, Holocaust revisionism is based on deliberate fabrications of the historical record and does not reinterpret a past event. The author believes that Holocaust revisionist materials should not be ignored by teachers, but should be used in classrooms as primary source material on anti-Semitism and intolerance

Review of the website City Directories of the United States of America

Review of the website City Directories of the United States of America

Bliss: The Man and the Classification

This paper discusses the career of Henry Evelyn Bliss, founder of the Bibliographic Classification, which is currently being revised. Dissatisfied with the current classification systems, Bliss devised his own, which was based on a main class order that provided for collocation of related classes. Although not currently used in the United States, the Bibliographic Classification continues to be utilized by approximately 50 libraries in the United Kingdom. Advantages and criticisms are presented for Bliss\u27s system, which is often praised in library science textbooks, yet seldom used as the trend in libraries has been to either the Dewey Decimal or the Library of Congress classification systems

Review of the book Central Europe Profiled: Essential Facts on Society, Business and Politics in Central Europe

Review of the book Central Europe Profiled: Essential Facts on Society, Business and Politics in Central Europe

Librarians Seek Answers For Literature of Denial

Libraries and librarians have a long history of fighting censorship and attempts to remove materials from their collections, but what about materials that are not only offensive but also historically inaccurate? There are three aspects to the topic of Holocaust-denial materials in libraries: Should libraries acquire it? If they do, how should it be classified? Where should it be shelved

Review of the book The great patriotic war of the Soviet Union, 1941-45: A documentary reader

Review of the book The great patriotic war of the Soviet Union, 1941-45: A documentary reader

York\u27s Founding Librarian Made H[er]story: Remembering Gladys Jarrett

Gladys Jarrett was the first Library faculty member hired at York College, and was one of the original three librarians when the college opened. Her career at York spanned 1967-1985, and she was very likely the first African-American woman to be a Chief Librarian in the City University of New York system