Access & Borrowing

To find out if and how you can access the Graduate Center Library and its resources, click the group to which you belong:

• Graduate Center Students (including Special Program, Interuniversity Doctoral Consortium, Auditors, Non-Matriculated Students, and Language Reading Program Students)

• Graduate Center Faculty and Staff (including ASRC Faculty and Staff)

• CUNY Students, Faculty, and Staff

• Graduate Center Alumni

• Research Assistants for GC Faculty, Etc.

• Graduate Center Retirees

• Other Visitors (non-CUNY researchers, visiting research scholars, SUNY Empire State students, guests of GC affiliates)

Proper identification is required for access.  Always present to security staff:

1. CUNY Photo ID (student, faculty, staff, or retiree)
   
   Note: Student, faculty, and staff ID cards must have a current validation sticker or activated library barcode/number. (Some campuses issue cards with barcodes; some just use library numbers.) If you have a current validation sticker, you will only need to show your card to the officer at the library entrance. If you do not have a current validation sticker (some campuses do not issue these stickers), the officer will check your library barcode/number to see if it is active.
    
2. Graduate Center Alumni Photo ID or CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies Alumni ID
   Other CUNY alumni cards do not grant access to the GC Library.
   
   
3. Empire State College photo ID
    
4. A government-issued photo ID plus a card for one of the following:
   • Graduate Center Research Assistant
   • Friends of the Graduate Center
   • Library Associates
   • Language Reading Program
   • METRO Referral
      
5. Visitors must be accompanied by someone with a Graduate Center photo ID (maximum 3 visitors per GC ID)
    
6. Graduate Center Photo ID required for:
   • Visiting Scholars
   • GC Research Assistants unaffiliated with the GC
   • Writer’s Program
   • Interuniversity Doctoral Consortium Columbia, Fordham, New School, NYU, Princeton, Rutgers, SUNY Stony Brook