In the first post on Sente, Sente for PDF Management on the Mac and iPad (1): Capturing and Organizing PDFs, I showed you how to make PDF and bibliographic libraries using Sente, and made some suggestions for how to set up your library bundles, namely so that they look like this. In previous posts, I introduced […]
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology and Medicine: 1780-1925
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine, 1780-1925, part II was recently added to the Columbia University Libraries. This second part of the Science Technology and Medicine collection includes some three million pages of scientific material from the late seventeenth century through the first quarter of the twentieth century, with a primary focus […]
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 […]
PDF Chaos? Digital Workflow Basics
Is PDF chaos on your mind? Is your Digital system insane in the membrane? This is the second post of the series Digital Workflows for Academic Research on the Mac, and it’s, for lack of a better phrase, about taming your wild wild west world of unorganized PDFs, rogue USB drive sticks, and general lack […]
Introducing Digital Workflows for Academic Research on the Mac
This is the first, introductory post of what will be a series of posts for the Digital Humanities Center on the topic of Digital Workflows for Academic Research for Mac. Digital workflows? What does that mean? Does this involve apps and nifty tools, hacks, and tutorials? Yes. Good news for the huddled masses staring at their device and computer screens […]
Database Trial: LGBT Thought and Culture
LGBT Thought and Culture is a new Alexander Street Press database which includes texts, letters, speeches, interviews, and ephemera covering the political evolution of gay rights as well as memoirs, biographies, poetry, and works of fiction that illuminate the lives of lesbians, gays, transgendered, and bisexual individuals and the community. Our trial subscription to LGBT […]
Comics@Columbia: podcast with Graphic Novels Librarian Karen Green
If you're interested in learning more about the genesis, use, and future of the comics collection and archives here in Butler Library, check out this podcast over at bOINGbOING: http://boingboing.net/2014/01/29/riyl-podcast-038-columbia-lib.html […]
Online Music Scores
We're of course delighted when you visit the Music & Arts Library (701 Dodge) to browse and check out items from our extensive collection of printed music scores. But, there are those times that you may need some music in a pinch, or when we're closed. For those times, the availability of online scores can […]
Welcome Students!
The librarians and staff of Butler Library welcome you! We offer a full range of resources and services to support all aspects of study. We encourage you to contact us; we are eager to help you with your research. Explore our deep collections and services through our website, library.columbia.edu Our goal is to make Columbia […]
Notes from a Summer Intern at Butler
Jennifer Ferretti writes: I’m one of ten extremely lucky individuals enrolled in a library science program chosen out of an applicant pool from both the U.S. and Canada to become an Association of Research Libraries Career Enhancement Program Fellow for summer 2013. I’m carrying out my fellowship in the Humanities & History Division at […]