Welcome New CC, SEAS and GS Undergraduates in the Class of 2016!

Columbia University Libraries welcomes undergraduates in Columbia College, School of Engineering and Applied Science, and General Studies! As part of our welcome, you have three chances to win an iPad! Enter our Online Library Contest, http://bit.ly/LibrariesContest2012. Attend our Butler Library Welcome Events on Wed. 8/29 from 10-11am and on Fri. 8/31 from 11am-12noon. Meet the […]

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Recent Acquisitions in Streaming Video Databases

Check out some of our recent database acquisitions in streaming video: World History in Video: English-language documentaries World history in video is an online collection of streaming video that gives users access to documentaries from filmmakers worldwide, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio9411569 March of Time From 1935-1967, […]

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Explore the Library’s Online Exhibitions

The Libraries house so much more than print resources! Four new online exhibitions opened recently, ranging in topic from social welfare to journalism to architecture to literature. Photographs from the Community Service Society Records, 1900-1920 An exhibit of photographs (by Jessie Tarbox Beals, Lewis Hine, and others) and publications used in the “scientific charity” movement […]

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Butler Library in the New York Times!

In the Arts section of the June 27 New York Times, you may find a lovely meditation on the beauty of Butler Stacks.  Those of us who work here are no strangers to the tranquil beauty of the "vital inner organ" of Butler Library.  Now, Ben Ratliff, CC alumnus and music critic for The New […]

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Congratulations Class of 2012!

The Butler Librarians and staff congratulate the Class of 2012! We wish you all success in your future endeavors. Remember, access to licensed electronic databases continues for a period of three months beyond the degree conferral date. For more information on alumni privileges, see: http://library.columbia.edu/content/libraryweb/services/lio.html CU Later! […]

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New Books in Butler Provide a Different View of the Middle Ages

Challenge your pre-conceptions about the Middle Ages (don’t you call them Dark!) with books recently added to the Butler Library collections.   Motherhood, religion, and society in medieval Europe, 400-1400 is a collection of essays, edited by Oxford University’s Conrad Leyser and Lesley Smith, that honors the work of scholar Henrietta Leyser (appropriately enough, Conrad’s […]

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CLIObeta: A New Way to Search

The Columbia Libraries are developing a new interface for CLIO which allows researchers to combine elements from the library catalog in powerful new ways.   CLIObeta offers the ability to refine a keyword search by format; publication date; topical, regional, historical, and genre headings; language; library location; call number; and acquisition date. It is also possible […]

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Digital Humanities Center presents…

  From Archive to Interdisciplinary Tool: Transforming Our Images of the FSA-OWI Photograph Collection Please join us for the next Digital Humanities talk with a presentation by Laura Wexler, Ken Panko, Stacey Maples, Taylor Arnold and Lauren Tilton. Friday, March 23, 2012 | 12:00 – 1:30pm | 523 Butler Library | Refreshments served […]

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