The Journalism Library would like to welcome its new supervisor, Lisa Reist! Lisa comes to us from Shakespeare & Co. Booksellers, in their textbooks shop in New York, with a myriad of technical and academic service experience. Lisa has worked closely with both students and faculty, and we are excited to have her join us! […]
Where’d that data come from?
Wonder where the New York Times found their Census data for today’s article on the poverty rate? Find it here at the U.S. Census Bureau’s Income, Poverty and Health Insurance in the United States: 2009 Tables & FIgures. […]
Search E-Journals Using Abbreviations
Want to look up Columbia holdings for an e-journal by its abbreviation? Find a citation with a journal abbreviation, like JAMA or NEJM or JMCQ, but have no idea what the full title is? Use Columbia’s E-Journals search by title, using just the abbreviation, and get the full title plus direct links! […]
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press (http://people-press.org) is one of many projects from the Pew Research Center and examines the public’s interest in the news, as well as attitudes of and toward the press. View their reports and publications on News Media Read their latest numbers on the public’s view of […]
Facts for Features: Labor Day
Did you know that: the first observance of Labor Day – a parade of 10,000 workers – is believed to have taken place in New York City in 1882? 3.5 million workers face commutes to work of 90 minutes or more each day? there are 154.4 million, 16 years and older, in the nation’s labor […]
Lynda.com Online Training Library
Thanks to a multi-departmental collaboration organized by the Film Division of the School of the Arts, with financial support from the Libraries, we now have access to a rich software training site, Lynda.com (access restricted to Columbia affiliates). For access from on-campus – http://iplogin.lynda.com For access from off-campus – http://www.lynda.com/portal/columbia Learn to use Photoshop, Visual […]
New Book Spotlight: The Yahoo! Style Guide
New to the Journalism Library is The Yahoo! Style Guide: the ultimate sourcebook for writing, editing, and creating content for the digital world (http://bit.ly/yahoostyle), call number TK5105.888 .B368 2010, available in the Journalism Library’s reference collection. Stop by and take a look! […]
Welcome, Fall MS Students and Knight-Bagehot Fellows!
Welcome, new students! Just a few research tips from the Journalism Library: jump-start your electronic research with these databases scope out your beat with these resources don’t leave home without your Lexis Nexis and Factiva cheat sheet and a good place to start is always at the Journalism Library web page Also, for a copy […]