Did you know that C-SPAN placed its entire archive of footage dating back to 1987 online earlier this year? Over 160,000 hours of programming can be viewed in its entirety at the C-SPAN Video Library. From Congressional Medal of Honor ceremonies to President Clinton’s press conference in reaction to the 1994 midterm elections, if it […]
CLIOmobile
CLIO, the Libraries’ online catalog, now has a mobile interface – CLIOmobile – for use with your smart phone or mobile device! From CLIOmobile, you can: Search CLIO Save items to ‘My List’ Email records Check your Library Account and renew books Place recalls For more information, click on the following link: https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/cliomobile0 […]
Radical Cartography
Radical Cartography is a really cool website put together by Bill Rankin, a graduate student at Harvard University. He’s created some very interesting maps that present new ways of looking at transportation, commerce, income distribution and other topics in a variety of cities, including New York. Additionally, all of the maps, text and images on […]
Service Notice: ProQuest Maintenance Window 10/30
ProQuest will be performing infrastructure maintenance on October 30, 2010. The window during which ProQuest products will be unavailable is Saturday, October 30, 2010, at 22:00 EDT to Sunday, October 31, 2010 at 10:00 EDT. The following products will be unavailable during this time: ProQuest Newspapers – both current and historical products CSA Illumina products, […]
Cemetery Records
More people live in New York City than any other city in the US, and, consequently, many die here as well. Some of New York’s biggest cemeteries have placed their burial records online, which can be a useful place to start looking for information on New York residents of the past. Here’s a few links […]
Reception for PhD Students
Columbia’s PhD candidates are invited to join the Libraries for a wine and cheese reception this Thursday. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet and mingle with PhD students and librarians from across disciplines. See you there! When: Thursday, October 21, 6pm – 8pm Where: Butler Library, room 523 Sponsored by Columbia University Libraries. […]
NewsTrust
Online journalism has become the go-to news source for people around the world. In an effort to evaluate journalism and information for the masses, there’s a great resource called NewsTrust that helps us sort out the best from the rest. Haven’t heard of NewsTrust? You can find out the full details here, but in short […]
Journalism Library Intern – Brian Stokes
The Journalism Library would like to welcome its new intern, Brian Stokes! Brian is currently a library and information science graduate student at Pratt and has previously worked as a reporter for the Centre Daily Times, in State College, Pennsylvania, and also as a reporter and assistant editor for Energy Intelligence, based here in NYC. […]