This spring, the Humanities & History (H&H) staff will be offering reference service in the Digital Humanities Center (DHC) in 305 Butler rather than in Butler 301. This move is part of a larger effort to integrate our research support services with our digital scholarship efforts, especially in the area of digital humanities. For the […]
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New Database: Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences
Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences: A Born-Digital Textual Inquiry (EDC) is an XML-based archive of poems and letters from Emily’s correspondence with her sister-in-law and primary confidante, Susan Dickinson. Each text is presented with a digitized scan of the holograph manuscript. These images have zoom functionality as well as a special light-box feature that allows users to […]
Database Trial: ArKyves
Arkyves is a database designed for scholars interested in the History of Culture. It is a single access point for thematic searches across a wide variety of cultural heritage collections, contributed by partners like the Dutch Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands Institute for Art History, the Herzog August Bibliothek, and the university libraries of Milan, Utrecht, Glasgow, […]
Database Trial: American Consumer Culture: Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965
American Consumer Culture: Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965 provides a unique insight into the world of buying, selling and advertising in pre- and post-war America. The collection provides access to thousands of market research reports by pioneering analyst Ernest Dichter and his Institute for Motivational Research, commissioned by advertising agencies and global businesses in […]
Independent Voices
Independent voices: An Open Access Collection of an Alternative Press is a four-year project to digitize over 1 million pages from the magazines, journals, and newspapers of the alternative press archives of participating libraries. Starting with collections by feminists and the dissident GI press, the collection will grow to include small literary magazines, underground newspapers, […]
Humanities & History Newsletter, issue 2
We are pleased to announce the second issue of the Columbia University Libraries Humanities Newsletter, edited by Meredith Levin and Alex Gil. […]
Gateway to North America: People, Places, and Organizations of 19th-Century New York
Gateway to North America, from the New York Historical Society, contains over 800,000 pages of content from over 1,500 print and manuscript directories, member lists, travel guides and other sources, chronicling the people and organizations of New York City from the late 18th through the early 20th century. The database includes residential, trade and occupational […]
Trial to Mango Languages
The Columbia University Libraries have trial access to Mango Languages, a language-learning database. Mango Languages includes over 60 foreign language and 17 ESL/ELL courses with native speakers and essential dialogue. It features: 20 award-winning international films; free mobile apps; cultural specialty courses i.e. Medical Spanish, Oktoberfest German, etc.; phonetic pop-ups, voice comparisons, grammar and cultural […]
New Columbia Digital Library Collections Website (beta)
Columbia University Libraries / Information Systems is pleased to announce the beta launch of our new Digital Library Collections website. The new site combines into one platform the digital content and metadata from many of our digital special collections projects and online exhibitions. Until now, all of our digital projects’ content has been managed within […]
Trial to DigiZeitschriften
The Columbia University Libraries have trial access to DigiZeitschriften, a database featuring 200 German academic journals spanning 19 disciplines. The database has 500,000 articles, 16 million pages, and is growing constantly! The trial will run through November 30, 2014. Please forward questions or comments to Meredith Levin, Western European Humanities Librarian, at mjl2209@columbia.edu. […]