Columbia Libraries Expands Access to Mobile Ebooks

  Columbia University Libraries is pleased to announce a significant expansion of access to mobile ebooks on the “Palace Project” mobile app.  The Palace Project app brings together over 250,000 ebooks from our collections and makes them accessible all in one place.   Palace helps Columbia’s Libraries improve the reading experience and makes available ebooks […]

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Library Stacks Reopening; ETAS Ending

Since the suspension of on-campus academic activities in March 2020, the Libraries have been providing students and faculty with increased access to millions of online resources, emergency digital access to in-copyright materials, and online assistance in support of teaching and research. We put in place several emergency services that will be discontinued for Fall 2021, […]

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SimplyE for Columbia

  Columbia University Libraries is pleased to announce the launch of SimplyE for Columbia, a free mobile app that brings together ebooks from our collection and makes them accessible all in one place. Initially developed and launched by the New York Public Library, SimplyE helps Columbia’s Libraries improve the reading experience and makes available ebooks […]

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Borrowing (book pick-up service), scanning from Library collections, and book returns

Book pick-up service is now available for select print material. Eligible items will have a “Pick-up” hyperlink in the CLIO record (currently available for materials shelved in Butler Library only). Please refer to the Pick-Up Service page for instructions about how to request materials for pickup, how to pick up the materials, and how to […]

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Scanning from Offsite resumes

It is once again possible to request scans from our offsite collections held at ReCAP. Offsite items available for scan requests will have the “Request: Scan” links displayed in CLIO records. Physical delivery of ReCAP items has not yet resumed, so the offsite request form has been modified to only allow scan requests to be […]

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Expanded online access to collections during COVID-19 Emergency

Close to 40% of our print collections are now available through Hathi Trust Emergency Temporary Access. Books and journal volumes currently available to you through the Emergency Temporary Access Service have the label “Log in for temporary access” After connecting to Hathi Trust from the list, scroll down to see the “Temporary Access” link. Then […]

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Four Million Princeton and NYPL Titles Added to CLIO

The Shared Collection Service, developed in partnership with Princeton University Library and The New York Public Library (NYPL), has launched!  More than four million titles (comprising over seven million items) from New York Public Library and Princeton University Library are now available for request in CLIO.   Columbia faculty, students, and staff can request direct delivery […]

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