Directions to the Library
Graduate Center Library
365 Fifth Avenue
New York NY 10016-4309
(212) 817-7040
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Enter the library through the lobby of the building, on the 1st floor.
Subways:
- B/D/F/M/N/Q/R to 34th St./Herald Square (between 6th Ave. and Broadway)
- 1/2/3/A/C/E to 34th St./Penn Station (between 7th and 8th Ave.)
- 6 to 33rd St. (at Park Ave.)
Buses: M1/M2/M3/M4/M5/M34/Q32 to Fifth Ave. at 34th St.
Other Public Transportation:
- PATH trains to 33rd St. (between 6th Ave. and Broadway)
- NJTransit and LIRR trains to Penn Station (34th St. between 7th and 8th Ave.)
- Metro-North trains to Grand Central Terminal (42nd St. at Park Ave.)
- Buses to Port Authority Bus Terminal (8th Ave. between 41st and 42nd St.)
Entrance Requirements
To enter the library, patrons must present one of the following photo IDs:
- CUNY Photo ID (student, faculty, staff, or retiree) with a current validation sticker (if applicable)
- Graduate Center Photo ID:
- Graduate Center or CUNY BA alumni (non-GC CUNY alumni have access to their home libraries only)
- Visiting research scholars
- Graduate Center research assistants
- Interuniversity Doctoral Consortium students (Columbia, Fordham, New School, NYU, Princeton, Rutgers, SUNY Stonybrook)
- Empire State College Photo ID
- A government-issued photo ID alongside special privileges card:
- Graduate Center Research Assistant
- Friends of the Graduate Center
- Library Associates
- Language Reading Program
- METRO Referral
- A valid photo ID issued by a SHARES Institution
Borrowing
For more information about who can use the library and detailed borrowing privileges, visit our Access and Borrowing page.
Floor Plans
The library occupies three floors of the Graduate Center. The entrance is on the first floor, which houses the circulation and reserve desks, interlibrary loan office, and Dissertation Reading Room. The print and microform collections, reference desk, and library faculty and staff offices are located on the second floor, as are many study tables, computers, and scanners and other digitization equipment. The concourse level is under construction to make way for the Center for Digital Scholarship and Data Visualization. Click a floor plan thumbnail to see a larger version:
Library Faculty and Staff A-Z
Zoom Booths
Zoom booths are now available for reservations using the DGSC Room Reservation portal. There are two installed in the first floor of the Mina Rees Library. These booths are sponsored by the Graduate Center’s Doctoral and Graduate Student Council (DGSC). See the DGSC Room Reservation page for more information.