Jill Cirasella
Professor / Scholarly Communication Librarian and University Liaison
Mina Rees Library
CUNY Graduate Center

jcirasella@gc.cuny.edu
(212) 817-7046
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As Scholarly Communication Librarian and University Liaison, I lead the Mina Rees Library’s scholarly communication initiatives and help Graduate Center researchers share their work with the public, especially in CUNY Academic Works. I also offer instruction to the full CUNY research community on a variety of scholarly publishing topics (open access, copyright, fair use, publication contracts, journal evaluation, research metrics, and more) and liaise with other CUNY librarians on scholarly communication matters.

I am also the subject librarian for computer science and mathematics, informed in this work by my study of logic and computer science. Additionally, I am the librarian for audiology and speech-language-hearing sciences, drawn to these subjects because of my personal experience with hearing loss. Finally, I am the librarian for the Public Scholarship MALS concentration and the Advanced Certificate in Public Scholarship, as well as the selector of books about disability and accessibility.

My own research focus is scholarly communication, very broadly construed: Recent projects look at concerns surrounding open access dissertations, attitudes about practice-based library literature, and the professional experiences of hard of hearing librarians. (See CV.) I am committed to advancing nonprofit community-led open access initiatives; I recently wrapped up three years as chair of the editorial board of the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication and am co-founder and managing editor of the Journal of Graduate Librarianship.

Before coming to the Graduate Center in 2013, I worked for eight years as a reference and instruction librarian at Brooklyn College. Previously, I worked as a librarian at the Dance Notation Bureau and at the Boston Architectural Center (now Boston Architectural College). My education includes a B.A. in computer science from Amherst College, an M.S. in library and information science from Simmons College (now Simmons University), and an M.Sc. in logic from the Universiteit van Amsterdam’s Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, where I studied on a Netherland-America Foundation Fulbright Grant.