The Humanities & History Division Librarians Launch Morningside Heights Digital History (MHDH)

We are proud to announce the launch of our site, Morningside Heights Digital History, or MHDH. Two years ago we announced a professional development program in the Columbia University Libraries for the Humanities & History Division. In our first iteration of the Developing Librarian project or, as we refer to it on social media, the […]

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Power Research and Writing on the Mac: Workshops in Digital Workflow Applications

Three Digital Humanities Center workshops will focus on scholarly workflow tools on successive Friday mornings.  Attend any that interest you. February 13th, 20th and 27th 11:00 am to 12:30 pm Butler 306 These are designed for users with Mac laptops, who are encouraged to download a demo version (as described below) of each of the three […]

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Sente for PDF Management on the Mac and iPad (4): Reading/Annotation in Sente and Power Note Taking ($$tagging$$) with Sente Assistant

This is the seventh post in the series Digital Workflows for Academic Research on the Mac for the Columbia Libraries Digital Humanities Center. In my previous installments on Sente, Sente for PDF Management on the Mac and iPad (1): Capturing and Organizing PDFs, Sente for PDF Management on the Mac and iPad (2): Capturing and Organizing PDFs, […]

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Daniel Wessel: Using Content Outlines and Circus Ponies Notebooks for Writing Articles and Theses

This is the sixth post in the series Digital Workflows for Academic Research on the Mac for the Columbia Libraries Digital Humanities Center. It is written by guest contributor Dr. Daniel Wessel. Daniel is a scientist at a research institute in Tuebingen, and holds a research doctorate in Psychology from the University of Tuebingen (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen), Germany. During […]

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Sente for PDF Management on the Mac and iPad (1): Capturing and Organizing PDFs

This post will focus on the business of capturing, categorizing, and organizing your PDFs in a coherent library using Sente for Mac. If you followed my last post, PDF Chaos? Digital Workflow Basics, I discussed the chaos that can ensue without establishing a coherent filing system for PDF documents–and illustrated it with a chaotic demo […]

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The Studio@Butler is open!

Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ Digital Humanities Center and theGraduate School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Center are pleased to announce the opening of Studio@Butler, a new space in Butler Library for collaboration between scholars, educators, librarians, and technologists. Studio@Butler is designed to support emerging practices in pedagogy and digital scholarship.  It is inspired by hacker spaces, maker spaces, meetups, […]

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“Gone In A Flash?” Personal Digital Archiving Workshop,Thursday, 9/13 @1pm

*This event is open to Columbia students, faculty, staff, and affiliates* Personal Digital Archiving Workshop: Butler Library 523 on Thursday, September 13th at 1pm The last thing you want to have happen when a new school year begins is to have to show up to class saying “the computer ate my homework” or to tell […]

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Digital Humanities Center Hosts Film Night, Wednesday March 7

Tonight, Wednesday March 7 at 6pm the Digital Humanities Center will be hosting the first of a series of presentations of films created by users and staff of the DHC. This first evening, held in Butler 306, will feature five short films by DHC staff members Jason Alarcon, Kostas Antonopoulos, Michele de Caro, Rachel Israel, […]

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The Digital Humanities Center presents…

New Questions, Methods, and Collaborations Please join us for the next Digital Humanities talk with a presentation by Joan Lippincott, Associate Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Tuesday February 21, 2012 | 12:00 – 1:30pm | 523 Butler Library | Refreshments served Joan K. Lippincott is the Associate Executive Director of the […]

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The Digital Humanities Center Presents…

  Virtual Reality, VSim, and the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893: Is There Hope for the Technically Challenged? Please join us for the next in our Digital Humanities Speaker Series with a presentation by Dr. Lisa Snyder, Associate Director of the Experiential Technologies Center, UCLA. Tuesday Jan. 31, 2012 / 4-5:30pm / 114 Avery Hall […]

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