Back to School Stats

Did you know: the average number of children participating each month in the National School Lunch Program in 2009 was 31.3 million?  the number of classroom computers in the nation’s schools in 2005-2006 was 14.2 million (or one computer for every four students)?   the per-pupil expenditure on public elementary and secondary education nationally in 2009 […]

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Who Owns the Media?

Did you know that News Corporation has over 15.5 million unique monthly visitors to their websites, The Washington Post over 10 million, and Yahoo! News over 40 million?  Find these statistics and more at Who Owns the News Media from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, an interactive database of companies that […]

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Database Spotlight – Leadership Library

Looking for contact information for journalists or media organizations?  Check out the Leadership Library database – explore journalists by industry beat using the interactive map, find the editorial contacts of a media organization.   […]

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QR code for CLIOmobile

Have you tried CLIOmobile, the mobile version of Columbia’s online catalog? Scan the QR code here: Bookmark it here: https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/cliomobile From CLIOmobile, you can: Search CLIO Save items to ‘My List’ Email records Check your Library Account, renew books Place recalls Try it today! […]

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Welcome, Summer MS Students!

Welcome, Summer MS Students! Today’s library presentation is here! Don’t leave home without these guides Stay connected: subscribe to the blog for research tips and announcements follow us on Twitter – JournalismLib follow Columbia University Libraries on Facebook send your research questions to journalism@libraries.cul.columbia.edu   […]

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Borrow Direct Collaboration ExpandsC

 Borrow Direct – a book-borrowing consortium between the libraries of Brown University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University – will be expanded soon to include additional institutions in the service – Harvard and MIT! Beginning in summer 2011, faculty, students, and staff from Columbia and the six partner […]

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