Spring 2025
Library Room 7-28 | 212-925-6625 | Ext. 228
Library Open for Study/Research
Mon - Fri 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM
Sat 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
In Person Staffed Hours
Mon - Thu 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Fri 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Sat 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Online Staffed Hours
Mon - Fri 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM
Sat 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
seamus@ccny.cuny.edu
WELLNESS & SUPPORT
Counselling Service at CWE
Open Door Policy at CWE
SCHOLARSHIP/AWARDS
CWE Awards & Scholarships (Fall 2026) [CWE Students Only]
Women’s Forum ($10,000) (Feb 1, 2026 I women, age 25+) [CWE - 12 Winners]
Perry Scholarship ($10,000) (Now Open | CD Feb 27, 2025 |Women Affected by incarceration)
Mellon Mays (Now Open | CD Apr 22, 2025) [CWE - 3 Winners]
All CCNY Award & Scholarship Opportunities
CWE WRITING CENTER
(1) CWE Writing Center
CCNY LIBRARY RESOURCES
(1) CWE library staff will help you locate and use research resources for your essays and projects
(2) We have laptops available for full-semester loans – come to Library or email eomolade@ccny.cuny.edu or seamus@ccny.cuny.edu [CWE students only]
(3) You can request books from all CUNY and most SUNY libraries to be brought to the CWE Library
(4) You can return these books at the CWE Library or any CUNY library
(5) You have free sub to the digital NYT and WSJ
(6) Check Democracy Now, The Nation and Teaching for Change for alternative views
(7) You have access to 500,000 full text scholarly articles & 700,000 e-books
(8) You have 1,000 pages of free printing in the library and computer lab if you use CWE in person
(9) One-on-one research consultations with me in person/Zoom | seamus@ccny.cuny.edu
(10) You can access all the databases, e-books and articles from home
(11) You can sign up for a free digital NYPL card to access their many diverse magazines, articles and databases
(12) EBSCO Turbo Search!
(13) FindIt!
(14) You can request physical books, and e-chapters and e-articles that CUNY do not have, using free Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
OTHER DATA RESOURCES
(14) USAFacts
(15) Finding Datasets
(16) Retraction Watch
(17) NYPL Digital Collections
(18) Digital Municipal Archives
(19) New York City History
(20) New York Times Historical (1851-2010)
(21) Purdue Online Writing Lab
TO START
(1) Search the CCNY and CUNY library catalog for books, e-books, videos and articles
(2) You start on this page https://library.ccny.cuny.edu/ If you have this page you are half way home in terms of locating material for your essays and research because the design makes it easy to navigate
(3) The Research Toolkit page is very helpful as well so good to check it regularly
(4) One way to access scholarly electronic articles is via the Databases page
(5) Access our e-book collections directly here
(6) Access the most popular database directly Academic Search Complete
Note: A database is a collection of related information in various fields that is structured to maximize retrieving the results so typical fields might be author names, title of article and key words for example Autism, Black Lives Matter, Genocide, Holocaust, AIDS, SARS, gentrification, Irish famine, Palestine, educational inequality, family relationships, developmental disabilities, charter schools, police violence, social mobility, inequality, etc.
IMPORTANT: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Articles versus Popular Articles
Teachers at CWE may require you to find and use articles for your papers that are deemed scholarly/authoritative. This means
LIBRARY RESOURCES | Some Specific Subject-Area Databases
Psychology (13 databases)
Sociology (19 databases)
Language & Literature (13 databases)
Education (11 databases)
Public Health (22 databases)
Medicine (28 databases)
LIBRARY RESOURCES | Instructional Videos
Scholarly Versus Popular Articles
How to use OneSearch
OTHER RESOURCES
Email Password Reset
CWE Directory [Open Door Policy]
WORTH CONSIDERING ?
Life Experience Program BA (Up to 12 credits free)
Autobiography Program BA (Up to 8 credits free)
Accelerated MA Program (Up to 12 credits towards the MA while enrolled for the BA)
Séamus Scanlon
Librarian, Center for Worker Education (CCNY CWE)
City College Downtown, Cunard Building
25 Broadway, 7-28, New York, NY 10004
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