Library

CCNY Libraries includes:

• The Morris Raphael Cohen Library (North Academic Center)
• The Architecture Library (Spitzer School of Architecture 101)
• The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Archives and Library (NAC 2/202)
• The Music Library (Shepard 160)
• The Science/Engineering Library (Marshak 29)
• The Center for Worker Education Library (25 Broadway, 7th Floor)

Cohen Library, built around an atrium in the North Academic Center, occupies five floors and houses Humanities, Powell School, and Education materials. The collections are the largest in the CUNY system, totaling more than 1,700,000 books, 901,600 microforms, 27,800 scores and recordings, 8,000 videos and DVDs, and 1.3 million digital images. Designated a federal depository in 1884, the library has 148,826 government documents. The Archives and Special Collections Division contains 4,191 linear feet of official records and historical material on the College in addition to rare books and special subject collections. Digital holdings include 944,121 e-books, 150,000 online periodicals, and 100,000 digital government documents. The library serves the instructional and research needs of undergraduate through doctoral levels and provides study areas, carrels, and computer workstations for students and faculty.

The City College Libraries web site (http://library.ccny.cuny.edu) provides quick and easy access to digital resources – full text, indexes, dissertations and catalogs – in 236 databases. The OneSearch library catalog provides access to library holdings both at City College and throughout CUNY.

Books and periodicals are arranged on open stacks. The Library of Congress classification is used for the shelf arrangement of most books.Three hundred and fifty computers provide access to digital resources, document preparation software, and the Internet. CLICS, the intra-CUNY borrowing service, allows users to request materials from any library in the University, for delivery to any CUNY library of their choice. Document delivery, Interlibrary Loan, and METRO referrals enable faculty and students to obtain materials from other library collections in the metropolitan area and beyond. MaRLI (Manhattan Research Library Initiative) provides borrowing privileges at NYPL, Columbia and NYU libraries to graduate students who apply to the program. See https://www.nypl.org/help/research-services/MaRLI for more information.

Library faculty provide individualized library service and information literacy instruction on multiple levels, from FIQWS classes through graduate courses. For research assistance, contact us at: library.ccny.cuny.edu/askus/contact.