The Humanities and History Division will be offering a new workshop, Humanities Data Management: An overview of resources and best practices for organizing, managing, and archiving your research materials at all stages of the scholarly process, on Thursday, March 24, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm in Butler Library 208b (Studio@Butler). All of us create an […]
Text and Image Scanning and Machine Reading (OCR)
at the Digital Humanities Center
The Digital Humanities Center’s computer lab (DHC) in 305 Butler provides Columbia students, faculty, and staff with 10 scanners for copying images and copying and reading texts in a variety of forms – books, loose pages, photographs, slides, negatives, microfilm, microfiche, and microprint. (Visitors can take advantage of four public canners, one in room 300, […]
New and Improved Databases: September 2015 to February 2016
New and Improved Databases The following databases have either been newly acquired or improved since the last “New and Improved Databases” column was published in Humanities & History Division Newsletter (in our fifth issue, September 2015). New African American Communities (Adam Matthew) “Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities […]
Attend a Zotero Workshop on 2/16, 2/22, 3/4 or 3/8
Zotero is a free citation management program that helps you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources and enables the download, capture, and indexing of full text, web pages, and research notes. It also allows you to insert citations in Word documents in a wide variety of writing styles, such as APA, Chicago, […]
Featured Resource: Drama Online
Drama Online is an exceptional collection of digital texts, images, audio, and video that together meet the full range of teaching needs for theatre studies. A product from Bloomsbury Publishing, the foundation of this resource is comprised of the core collection featuring 1200 titles from Bloomsbury’s Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare Series, and Faber and Faber. […]
Temporary Closure, Butler Room 301, Wednesday to Friday, February 10-12
Butler Room 301 will be closed temporarily, Wednesday through Friday, February 10-12, 2016. We will be installing new, permanent reading tables in 301 as part of our ongoing efforts to improve the quantity and quality of seating in this room. The final phase of this improvement project is expected to take place in March when […]
Get a New York Public Library card this Monday from noon-1pm
The New York Public Library is a great resource for downloadable e-books and e-audiobooks (kindle, overdrive, 3M, MP3, and many other formats). It also has a vast collection of DVDs and books, amazing archival collections and large collection of research databases. All you need is a library card! On Monday, 2/8, from noon-1pm, Lauren Bradley […]
EVENT: “Bill Griffith: A to Z” Wednesday, March 16, 6 PM, 523 Butler
The cartoonist Bill Griffith has had a storied career, from his early underground comics featuring Mr. the Toad, to his long-running character Zippy the Pinhead, to his involvement in the influential comics anthology, Arcade, to his recent foray into long-form comics with his revelatory family history Invisible ink: my mother’s secret love affair with a famous cartoonist. […]
Scanning Services in Butler and other Campus Libraries
Scanning services are available in many libraries. Scanners are all free of charge. Scanners that require no login are available for visitors to use. Scanner Locations & Numbers Location No Login Required UNI Login Required Avery Library 2 8 Burke Library 1 0 Business & Economics Library 0 3 Butler Library: 3rd Floor […]
EVENT: “An Evening with Jules Feiffer,” Monday, December 7, 6:00 PM
The Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, in partnership with Comics@Columbia, is delighted to present a conversation with the legendary Jules Feiffer. Feiffer is perhaps best known for his long-running strip in The Village Voice (1956-1997), but he is also a distinguished playwright and screenwriter, evinced by his Academy Award (for the short film “Munro”), his Pulitzer […]