Summer Reading, part II

What’s on your feed reader? Inside CUL asked a random group of CUL staff about their favorite blogs. Here are some of the responses from the very informal poll: From Karen Green, “Talking Points Memo (http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/) — possibly the most even-handed political blog out there, and one that does real investigative journalism as well–in fact, […]

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Staff Activities for July/August

Jeff Carroll’s short story “The Draft” was published in the journal The Long Story, No. 26, 2008. Charlene Chou gave a presentation entitled “Expanding Cataloger’s Role in the Era of Global Digital Libraries” at the Association of Jewish Libraries, New York Metropolitan Area Chapter on June 2. The Powerpoint slides are available at http://www.columbia.edu/~cc179/Expanding_Cataloger_Role_j.ppt. Kenneth […]

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Sachie Noguchi’s travels to Japan

Japanese Studies Librarian Sachie Noguchi recently returned from a three-week trip to Japan. She received training for Year 2 of the Tenri Antiquarian Materials Workshop for Overseas Japanese Studies Librarians at Tenri Library along with 6 colleagues from the United States and 12 from Europe. Training this year included the study of manuscripts and print […]

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CUL Marketing Grants Awarded

The Assessment & Marketing Librarian is thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2008-09 CUL Marketing Grants. Lauran Hartley, Tibetan Studies Librarian, C.V. Starr East Asian Library Lauran’s marketing initiative will promote a two-day workshop encouraging graduate students to consider the Himilayas as an area of research, partially by promoting the outstanding collections here at […]

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Trip to Argentina and Uruguay, by Pamela Graham (April 17th -26th)

Book fairs in many parts of the world are highly popular and energetic events. This was definitely the case in April in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the 34th International Book Fair took place. Pamela Graham, Latin American & Iberian Studies Librarian and the acting director of Area Studies and the Center for Human Rights Documentation […]

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Staff Activities in April & May

Kenneth Crews participated in various programs during April. He was a speaker at the annual copyright conference held at Ball State University, and he was an invited participant in two invitational workshops. Harvard Law School hosted a two-day planning session for the development of copyright instructional materials geared for librarians in all parts of the […]

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Staff Activities for March

Bindu Bhatt, South Asian Studies Librarian, attended the 18th New Delhi World Book Fair between February 2nd and 10th in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. The fair is organized biennially by the National Book Trust, India and featured over 1,400 publishers from around the world.  Books were available in 24 Indian languages covering a wide variety […]

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Staff Activities & Achievements

Rick Block, Head of Special Collections and Metadata Cataloging Services, recently won a teaching award for adjunct faculty at CW Post, where he teaches courses on cataloging at LIU’s Palmer School of Library Science. Charlene Chou, Chinese Cataloger, C. V. Starr East Asian Library, gave a talk on “Next Generation Catalogs” at Central University of […]

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