On June 27, 2018
by
Phoebe Stein
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Happy Independence Day! The SVA Library will close at 1pm on Tuesday, July 3rd and remain closed through Wednesday, July 4th. The library will reopen at 9am on Thursday, July 5th. Enjoy a safe and happy holiday! ... read more -
The SVA Library has an ongoing subscription to Flipster, a digital magazine solution for reading complete digital surrogates of magazines online and via a mobile app. It's available to all SVA students, faculty and staff, and is a great reading option for NYC commuters! This year, some of the titles we subscribe to have changed. Read on for a full list and access instructions! ... ... read more -
Here at the SVA Library, we subscribe to several databases from EBSCO, including the Academic eBook Collection. Using that collection is easy with EBSCO's updated mobile interface. You can read ebooks from any of our EBSCO databases on a desktop computer, on your mobile device, or in a dedicated e-reader. Instructions for each method can be found in our guide, How to Download Ebooks from SVA L... ... read more -
The main SVA Library will close at 1pm on Friday, May 25th for Memorial Day weekend. It will reopen at 9am on Tuesday, May 29th. After Memorial Day, main library hours will be Monday-Thursday, 9am-7pm, and Friday 9am-3pm. Library West will close at 4pm on Thursday, May 24th for Memorial Day weekend. It will reopen on Tuesday, May 29th at 12pm. After Memorial Day, Library West hours... ... read more -
The VRC would like to share a handful of links and articles in honor of APAHM that we hope will be a great start for you to explore all of the many, different ways in which generations of Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders have enriched U.S. history and continue to do so through art, music, film, architecture, cuisine, literature and much more.... ... read more -
Food for Fines has been extended for the end of the Spring 2018 semester! We will accept items through May 7th, 2018. Need to clear your fines in order to graduate or check materials out? Every canned or non-perishable food item brought into the library reduces your library fines by $2. Peanut butter, beans, and canned tuna are protein-rich staples that are always in demand! Please no ram... ... read more -
Today we have lost a powerful, poetic Chicana photographer: Laura Aguilar (1959–2018). Long under-recognized by mainstream institutions, Aguilar's work just recently had a revival in popularity not only due to her extraordinary, traveling retrospective, Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell [initially at the Vincent Price Museum of Art and currently on view at the Frost Art Museum], but a... ... read more -
White Fungus is an experimental arts publication that was first published in 2004 as a zine-y piece of political propaganda-lite. It was made to protest the construction of a highway slated to cut directly through the Wellington, New Zealand arts district, a project that the community had resisted for forty years. The first issue was, as the publication’s website states, “pro... ... read more -
Unsurprisingly, the SVA Library Pictures Collection contains a rather robust “Libraries” folder. The folder is packed with architectural delights of the book-housing variety, and offers glimpses of moments like impeccably-coiffed librarians from the 1960s and 70s helping guileless students do research, people of all ages perusing titles, and artist Cindy Sherman in the stacks. The fold... ... read more -
For the end of the spring semester, we're serving up free coffee and donuts on select evenings from 5pm-close: April 16th, 18th, 20th, 23rd, and 25th. ... read more
