Center for Worker Education Library

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
 SUPPORT
CWE Counseling Service
CWE Benny's Pantry
CWE Open Door Policy 
CWE Writing Center
CCNY Immigrant Student Center 
Request Your CCNY ID Card

                                                              SCHOLARSHIP/AWARDS
                                     CWE Awards & Scholarships (Opens Fall 2025) [CWE Only]
                                     Women’s Forum ($10,000) (Opens Fall, 2025 I Women, age 25+)  [CWE - 12]
                                     Perry Scholarship ($10,000) (Opens Feb, 2026 | Women affected by incarceration)
                                     Mellon Mays (Now Open | CD Apr 22, 2025) [CWE - 3 Winners]
                                     All CCNY Award Opportunities                     

CCNY LIBRARY RESOURCES
Laptop loans | seamus@ccny.cuny.edu [CWE students only]
Help locating resources for your essays and projects
One-on-one Research Sessions in person/Zoom | seamus@ccny.cuny.edu
City College Library Chat
You have free digital sub to the NYT
You have access to 500,000 full text scholarly articles & 700,000 e-books
You can access all the databases, e-books and articles from home
Academic Search Complete (ASC) good starting point - easy access to 66 other databases
You can request physical books from all CUNY libraries to be brought to the CWE Library
You can request physical books, e-chapters/e-articles that we do not have via ILL

NYPL RESOURCES
Sign up for a free digital NYPL card - many diverse magazines, articles and databases.
Check our new guide about the Public Libraries in NY. 
New York Public Library Chat  | Great free resource

MEDIA RESOURCES
NEW YORK RESOURCES
SELECT AUTHORITATIVE RESOURCES
OTHER RESOURCES TO CONSIDER

WHAT ARE DATABASES?
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, public education, censorship, colonialism, etc.

WHAT ARE SCHOLARLY/PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES?

• Scholarly articles or peer-reviewed articles - same thing
• Scholarly articles have been vetted by the peer-reviewed process
• When authors submit a paper to a journal  goes to a team of reviewers/experts in the same area of study (peers of the authors)
• The reviewers sent a report back to the journal to say accept, reject or suggest edits
• They have an abstract, subject key words, citations/references and written by experts
• Articles are not from newspapers or magazines or internet sources
• We have access to these type of articles through the library homepage  

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
e: seamus@ccny.cuny.edu | p: (212) 925-6625 | Ext. 228
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