New Database: Jewish Life in America c1654-1954

Jewish Life in America c1654-1954: Sources from the American Jewish Historical Society provides full online access to 24 collections of personal papers, and partial access to the papers and archives of six organizations.  Collections span 300 years, and are especially strong in material relating to Jewish life in New York.  Included are letters, diaries, photographs […]

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Proximity Operators for Full-Text Searching

Proximity operators are an important tool for focusing the results of free text searches, particularly in full-text databases.  Sadly, there is little uniformity in the syntax for proximity searching across various database families.  The chart below, created by DHC Head Bob Scott, provides a key to some of the databases found on the Columbia Libraries […]

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