With Oxford Language Dictionaries Online, standard authoritative Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish dictionaries are only a click away. Features include sound recordings for each word, the ability to search in English or in the original language, a virtual keyboard for entering accents and non-roman characters (though this is not necessary for look-ups) and […]
American History in Video
American History in Video provides a large and and rich collection of online video for the study of American history with more than 4,000 titles encompassing more than 1,000 hours. Many of the videos include fully searchable transcripts. Create, annotate, and share clips and playlists. The database includes commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public […]
Library Service Changes Due to Inclement Weather, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010
Due to inclement weather, Columbia University Libraries (CUL) facilities will close at 3pm today, Wednesday, February 10th. Butler Library’s 24-hour study spaces will remain open for CU students and faculty; however, all service points including the Library Information Office, Circulation, Reserves, Media Center, graduate reading rooms and the Butler book stacks will be closed. All […]
Twentieth Century Advice Literature
Twentieth Century Advice Literature : North American Guides on Race, Sex, Gender, and the Family brings together instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature published from 1890 through 1980. The database includes hundreds of fully searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books. […]
CLIO beta: Placing Requests
In CLIO beta, request options are listed in the right sidebar. Here are some options, with approximate turn-around times: Offsite: When something is at Offsite, you may have the physical item delivered to campus, or ask that an article or chapter be scanned and delivered electronically. Requests are generally filled within 2 business days. Borrow […]
New Service Hours in Reference Room and ETS
Spring semester brings changes to our reference service hours. Reference librarians are here to help you: 11am – 1pm – Mondays through Fridays – meet with us in the Electronic Text Service (ETS) in Butler 305 We are available to help you in the Reference Room (Butler 301): 1pm – 9pm – Mondays and Tuesdays […]
Endnote, RefWorks, Zotero: Which Is Best for You?
Columbia supports three citation management programs. We have site licenses for Endnote and RefWorks. Zotero is a free open access service. This video highlights the features of each program: Managing Your References with Citation Software To learn more, take one of our workshops, offered this week, and throughout the semester. Click on the Library Workshops […]
Graphic Novels exhibition in the Butler 3rd floor display cases
Butler Library has a thriving graphic novels collection with over 1300 titles to date. During the Spring 2010 semester, the display cases on Butler’s 3rd floor present an exhibition designed to encourage interest in using these unique resources in curriculum and research. Seven themes are presented; for each theme an image from traditional art–something more […]
New Features in CLIO beta
The results list includes book covers; a turned-up corner shows that partial full text is available through Google Books. Click the title, and then “limited preview” to view the contents and link to text. Use the check boxes on the left to select individual titles, or select “page” or “all” at the top of the […]
Welcome to the Spring Semester at Butler Library!
We are eager to help you take full advantage of the rich collection of resources and tools that the Libraries have to offer. If you are new to Columbia or have not done much library research until now, we urge you to consider coming to one of three workshops on “Getting the Most Out of […]