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 […]
EXHIBITION: “Comics at Columbia: Past, Present, Future”
“Comics at Columbia: Past, Present, Future” presents art, manuscripts, and ephemera from Columbia’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library, including items associated with the university’s history, as well as art from Mad artist Al Jaffee, Elfquest artist Wendy Pini, and New Yorker cartoonist Charles Saxon; drafts and notes from X-Men writer Chris Claremont and Legion of Super Heroes writer Paul Levitz, and correspondence from mainstream and indie […]
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. […]
EVENT: “Politics and Comics,” November 3, 6 PM
From Honore Daumier to Thomas Nast, George Cruikshank to Garry Trudeau, political ideology and political commentary have been expressed through the medium of comics. Please join Peter Kuper (cartoonist and co-founder of the political comics journal World War 3 Illustrated), Jeff Danziger (editorial cartoonist), and Liza Donnelly (New Yorker cartoonist and member of “Cartooning for […]
Trial to OpenEdition Freemium for E-Books
The Columbia University Libraries currently have trial access to OpenEdition’s Freemium platform for e-books until December 31st, 2014. OpenEdition Freemium is a program for the development of open access academic publishing in the humanities and social sciences. This partnership aims to create an innovative and sustainable economic model. All income generated by the program is […]