Now with finals occurring, we are in full swing. It gradually increased, but took until near the end of the semester to do so. Reference brought its own peculiarities: after the storm, attendance in the library was down. The process was a little slow, but after a few days spent mass-processing information literacy one shots, the library was caught up. After mass transit was brought back online, normal business resumed. It wasn’t a huge issue, but it definitely kept us on our toes, and I’ll be interested to meet with the Instruction Team after the semester ends to discuss our lessons learned.īenjamin Franz, Digital Reference LibrarianĪt Medgar Evers College we sustained no damage from the storm. Because the hurricane closed school for several days most faculty had to revise their syllabi, which meant that we saw many more classes than usual in the library in which students did not have an assignment to work on. Our instruction sessions are highly assignment-driven, and I spend lots of time at the beginning of the semester working with faculty to ensure that their classes are scheduled to come to the library for instruction when it’s most useful for them.
One unexpected effect of the hurricane was the impact on library classes that did not have to be rescheduled. While it was a bit of a scramble to reschedule that many sessions just as we were heading into our busiest time for library instruction, thanks to the flexibility and patience of our instruction librarians and faculty colleagues we were able to find new times for all of the sessions that were missed. We typically offer over 200 instruction sessions during the fall semester there were 11 sessions that had to be canceled while the college was closed. I coordinate our information literacy and library instruction, so my main focus immediately after the hurricane was figuring out the impact on our teaching calendar. Maura Smale, Information Literacy LibrarianĪt City Tech we were lucky to have no significant damage to our facilities and the library reopened on Thursday, November 1. New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn Here my colleagues and I share our post-hurricane adaptations in some of the libraries across the CUNY system. We all returned to a semester that looked different from the usual, and in some cases, very different. Yet despite all of these challenges, overall most CUNY facilities escaped serious damage from the hurricane and were able to reopen to students on Friday, November 2. The damage to mass transit systems on which so many New Yorkers depend made traveling throughout the city difficult for students, faculty, and staff. Some CUNY schools, both in Lower Manhattan and other parts of the city, were without power for the week (or even longer). CUNY is a public institution and many of the colleges provided shelter to displaced local residents during and after the storm. With the devastation wrought by Sandy, the university was closed after the storm, as were many others in the area.
When Hurricane Sandy hit New York and New Jersey at the end of October, most of the twenty-three schools that make up the City University of New York were in the midst of midterm exams.
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