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 School of Labor and Urban Studies Students, Faculty, 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)
   
   If a student, faculty, or staff ID card has a current validation sticker, a security officer will approve it at the library entrance. If a card does not have a validation sticker, the library barcode/number will be checked for validation.
    
2. Graduate Center Alumni Photo ID or CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies Alumni ID
   Non-GC CUNY alumni are not extended 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 or School of Labor and Urban Studies Photo ID (maximum 3 visitors per GC or SLU 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