CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Library

CUNY DSI Archives and Library Facility at The City College of New York

 

To fulfill its research, archival, and library missions, the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute has a state-of-the-art facility housing the Dominican Archives and the Dominican Library. The facility is used primarily to preserve and provide access to the archives and library collections and to support the Institute’s research program and activities. The facility is climate-controlled (temperature and humidity) and features a reference/gallery area with seating, videoconferencing, and computer equipment for meetings related to the work of the Institute and to showcase exhibits.

El profesor Max U. Montesino dona su publicación

Gracias Prof. Max U. Montesino por donar a nuestra biblioteca su reciente publicación Retrato del dominicano en la organización: impacto de la cultura nacional en el comportamiento gerencial (Editorial Santuario, 2018).

Este libro contiene un análisis introspectivo sobre el impacto de valores y normas de la cultura nacional dominicana en la conducta organizacional de habitantes de República Dominicana en empresas privadas, instituciones gubernamentales y entidades sin fines de lucro; tanto en el país o como miembros de la diáspora alrededor del mundo. Con esta donación, el Prof. Montesino contribuye a enriquecer los materiales bibliográficos que ofrecemos en nuestra biblioteca a los estudiantes, investigadores y la comunidad que nos visitan.

Jhensen Ortiz

Librarian

New Books: Recent Acquisitions in the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Library

The CUNY DSI Library is proud to announce its recent acquisitions. We are grateful for the support and generosity of The City College Libraries. We look forward to making these titles available to students, researchers, and the general public very soon.

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Here is a list of the books we acquired:

• ¡Manteca! edited by Melissa Castillo-Garsow
• Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League by Dan-El Padilla Peralta
• Mi Casa Uptown: Learning to Love Again by Rich Perez
• Countersong to Walt Whitman and Other Poems translated by Jonathan Cohen and Donald D. Walsh
• The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic edited by Mahogany L. Browne, Idrissa Simmonds, and Jamila Woods
• Alou My Baseball Journey by Felipe Alou and Peter Kerasotis
• Mujeres, The Magic, The Movement and The Muse: An Anthology of Women Writers edited by Peggy Robles-Alvarado
• Winterness by Juan Dicent
• The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and Dominican National Identity by April J. Mayes
• Americans All: Good Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy in World War II by Darlene J. Sadlier
• Escrituras del Otro Cuerpo by Johan Mijaíl Castillo
• Despierta by Greisy M. Genao
• Diccionario de Gestos Dominicanos by Faustino Pérez
• Bichán by Miguel Yarull
• Theatre and Cartographies of Power: Repositioning the Latina/o Americas by Jimmy A. Noriega and Analola Santana
• The Pitcher and the Dictator: Satchel Paige's Unlikely Season in the Dominican Republic by Averell Smith

Jhensen Ortiz, Librarian
CUNY Dominican Studies Institute
jortiz2@ccny.cuny.edu

 

   

 

 

Rehousing of ¡AHORA! Magazine Collection

The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Library has just completed the reorganization and rehousing of the ¡AHORA! magazine collection. ¡AHORA! magazine was founded by Dominican journalist and lawyer Rafael Molina Morillo on January 15, 1962, and was considered a  progressive media outlet for its support of freedom of expression and human rights in the country. The magazine ran until 2004, and the library has been able to preserve a few original issues from 1969 until 1978. While the collection is incomplete, the rehousing has made it possible to protect these issues for many years to come, and it was a collaborative effort that we attempted within the library. 

 

With the assistance of library assistant Matthew Santana and intern Jorge Vasquez, a Queens College graduate student, enrolled in the Library Science, and History, dual degree program, we were able to complete the project.

 

It was a team effort, and I am so proud of the library staff for getting it done so quickly. They look great, and we look forward to sharing this resource with future researchers.

 

Jhensen Ortiz

Librarian

 

BuzzFeed’s Pero Like producers Julissa Calderón and Gadiel Del Orbe visit CUNY DSI

After our tribute to Normandía Maldonado last week, the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Archives and Library was fortunate to receive this morning Julissa Calderón and Gadiel Del Orbe from BuzzFeed's “Pero Like” producers. They came to film a video about the historical legacy of Normandía Maldonando and interviewing members of the staff Assistant Director Anthony Stevens Acevedo, Chief Librarian Sarah Aponte, and Archivist Jessy Pérez.

The Normandía Maldonado Collection was on full display with photographs, letters, flyers, and posters that illustrate her achievements throughout her life.

Julissa Calderón is Doña Normandía’s niece and came to learn about her contributions from other people outside her family. We would like to thank Julissa and Gadiel for coming to us and utilizing her collection to share Doña Normandía's story on such a large online platform. We are looking forward to seeing the finished product in the coming weeks!

Jhensen Ortiz

Librarian

 

Thank you Dr. Minosca Victoria Alcántara for your visit and kind donation

Professor Sarah Aponte would like to thank Dr. Minosca Victoria Alcántara for donating her dissertation "Latina High School Students Figured World of Stem: Identity Formation in Formal and Informal Communities of Practice" (Teachers College, Columbia University 2015).  We are also grateful for her visit to the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Library.

William Parra

Research Assistant

 

Visita de historiadores dominicanos

El Profesor Anthony Stevens-Acevedo y la Profesora Sarah Aponte, Director Auxiliar y Encargada de la Biblioteca del CUNY DSI respectivamente, agradecen al Dr. Marcos Charles (izquierda en la fotografía) por coordinar la visita de los historiadores dominicanos José C. Novas, (segundo desde la izquierda), Luis Alvarez López (tercero desde la izquierda) y Ramón Emilio Espínola (derecha) a nuestra Biblioteca, donde donaron numerosas publicaciones de su autoría y compartieron ideas para futuras colaboraciones.

 Los historiadores donaron las siguientes publicaciones para que formen parte de nuestra colección:

 Luis Alvarez-López

-          Secuestro de bienes de rebeldes: estado y sociedad en la uìltima dominacioìn espanÞola, 1863-1865

-          Dieciséis conclusiones fundamentales sobre la anexión y la guerra de la restauración (1861-1865)

-          Cinco ensayos sobre el Caribe hispano en el siglo XIX : República Dominicana, Cuba y Puerto Rico 1861-1898

-          Dominican Republic and the Beginning of a Revolutionary Cycle in the Spanish Caribbean

-          Guerras de liberación en el Caribe hispano, 1863-1878

 Ramón Emilio Espínola

-          La participación dominicana en las guerras por la independencia de Cuba

-          Remembranzas: crónicas de la Ocupación 1916-1924, la era de los Estados Unidos.

-          Dominicanas ejemplare: estudio histórico-biográfico y breve análisis del machismo en la historia

-          Trujillo: causas e implicaciones que dieron origen a la dictadura

-          Trujillo y sus relaciones con los gobernantes haitianos

-          Trujillo, anécdotas y cosas de un dictador

-          Mujeres extraordinarias de la patria puertorriqueña

-          Compendio histórico-biográfico de extranjeros que participaron en la formación de la nación dominicana

 José C. Novas

-          El presidente Cáceres: fábula del progreso, el orden y la paz

-          La batuta de Alejandrito: perfil biográfico del general Alejandro Woss y Gil, 1856-1932

-          Twice the diplomat: Frederick Douglass's assignments to the island of Santo Domingo

-          Los gavilleros: la lucha nacionalista contra la ocupación, 1916-1924

-          Balaguer, Trujillo y el beso de Judas

-          Trujillo: La emboscada final: muerte y funeral del generalísimo

 

William Parra

Research Assistant

Donación del Monumento a los Héroes de la Restauración

La Prof. Sarah Aponte agradece la grata acogida del arquitecto José Manuel Antuñano Peralta, Director del  Monumento a los Héroes de la Restauración durante su visita a Santiago, República Dominicana.

En la foto, aparecen en compañía de la relacionista Arelis Albino, en donde le obsequian el libro: El Monumento a los Héroes de la Restauración; historia y arquitectura por Edwin Espinal Hernández y César Payamps Hernández.

 

William Parra

Research Assistant

Thank you Professor Rosa Andújar for your visit and kind donation

Professor Sarah Aponte would like to thank Professor Rosa Andújar, Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Department of Liberal Arts at King's College London, for donating her article "The Caribbean Socrates: Pedro Henríquez Ureña and the Mexican Ateneo de la Juventud." We are also grateful for her visit to the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Library. This article is part of the book Classics in Extremis: The Edges of Classical Reception (Bloomsbury, 2017) that will be released in early 2018.

William Parra

Research Assistant

El historiador y ensayista José C. Novas dona su publicación

La Profesora Sarah Aponte agradece al historiador José C. Novas por donar su reciente publicación Trujillo, la emboscada final. Muerte y funeral del generalísimo (Editorial Argos, 2014) a nuestra biblioteca. Actualmente, el Prof. Novas es uno de los ganadores de la beca de investigación CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Archives and Library Research Award. Su trabajo de investigación es sobre los Judíos de Sosua.

Jhensen Ortiz

Asistente bibliotecario

 

Visita del Dr. Carlos Báez Evertsz

La Profesora Sarah Aponte agradece al Dr. Carlos Báez Evertsz por donar varios de sus libros a nuestra biblioteca y por su grata visita. La donación consiste de dos de su obras: La modernización fallida: República Dominicana (1996-2012) (editorial Betania, 2012) y Desigualdad y clases sociales (editorial Betania, 2016).

Jhensen Ortiz

Asistente bibliotecario