In the last post, Sente for PDF Management on the Mac and iPad (2): Capturing and Organizing PDFs, Metadata, Tagging, Statuses, I demonstrated Sente’s internal browser, further showed how to use its PDF and metadata capture modes, and concluded by exploring some of Sente’s organizational features, including ad hoc Tags, Hierarchical Quick Tags, Statuses (for process), and Star […]
Sente for PDF Management on the Mac and iPad (2): Capturing and Organizing PDFs, Metadata, Tagging, Statuses
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 […]
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 […]
Database Trial: Numerique Premium
We are currently trialing a new database of French e-books, Numérique Premium, through April 12, 2014. The collection contains nearly 850 full-text titles in a variety of fields, including history, religion, philosophy, politics, literature/literary theory, film, and architecture. Publishers include: Belles Lettres, Canadian Scholars Press, CNRS éditions, ENS éditions, Gallimard,Flammarion, Nouveau Monde, Picard, Presses universitaires de […]
Comics@Columbia events: “Celebrating Al Jaffee,” on Tuesday March 4, 7 PM.
With the new semester comes new events, and our first of the year is a corker: in honor of Al Jaffee's donation of his papers to our Rare Book and Manuscript Library, we're going to celebrate his life and career with a panel discussion. Former DC Comics president (and sometime Columbia lecturer) Paul Levitz will […]
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 […]