Five free things Columbia students have access to through the Libraries

With a new semester underway, the Libraries remind Columbia students of five free resources available to take advantage of (that you might not know about). Digital news subscriptions Stay up to date on breaking news and current events with full access to content from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.  250,000+ e-books […]

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Library Service Changes for December 2023/January 2024

Library Hours Extensions for Finals Period, December 12-22, 2023 Please check library location hours before visiting. The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floor study spaces in Butler Library are open 24 hours a day from December 12 through 5pm on December 22. Select 5th and 6th floor research reading rooms in Butler Library are open 24 […]

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How to Use the Libraries as an Alum (Plus, New Databases!)

Alumni of Columbia University enjoy free lifetime access to library facilities. It’s this simple: Visit the Library Information Office during business hours to get your alumni ID card. Visit any library location with your ID during open hours*. Want to borrow books? Purchase borrowing privileges for $30 per month at the Library Information Office. Alumni […]

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C.V. Starr East Asian Library Temporary Closure: Summer and Fall 2023

At the Libraries, the safety of our users and the stewardship of our collections are among our highest priorities. We work diligently to ensure reliable access to library collections and spaces, enabling research and scholarship to thrive at Columbia. To that end, following Commencement in May 2023, we will be making necessary upgrades to the […]

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Sofia Jen Ouyang, ’24CC, Reflects on the Library Passport Program

At the start of the Fall semester, Columbia University Libraries launched the Library Passport program, which encourages Columbia students to explore library spaces, services, and resources in a fun and self-paced way. Participants were asked to visit as many library locations as possible to learn about the resources available in each library and receive a […]

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Columbia University Libraries Expands Access to Mobile Ebooks

Columbia University Libraries is pleased to announce a significant expansion in access to mobile ebooks on the Palace Project mobile app. The Palace Project app provides access to more than 250,000 ebooks from the Libraries’ collections in a single location, improving users’ reading experience and consolidating ebooks from various publishers into one, simplified interface. Columbia […]

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Ready to Browse in Butler Lounge

Written by Teaching and Undergraduate Services Librarian Kaneisha Gaston. Butler Library recently transformed empty shelves in the Lounge (room 214) into a new browsing display, called Butler Browsing. Butler Library is home to the Libraries’ Milstein Undergraduate Library, which supports the University’s undergraduate courses, introductory-level guides to academic disciplines and popular interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary titles. […]

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Free Open Access Publishing with Cambridge University Press

Columbia University Libraries is pleased to announce that the NorthEast Research Libraries Consortium (NERL), of which Columbia is a core member, has signed a Read and Publish Agreement with Cambridge University Press (CUP) that will waive article processing charges (APCs) for open access articles that meet the following eligibility criteria: Have a corresponding author affiliated with Columbia University Be original research (eligible […]

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Ongoing Workshops from Columbia University Libraries

Columbia University Libraries offers regularly-occurring workshops on key resources throughout the semester. These sessions are typically held via Zoom and are open to anyone at Columbia. They are held weekly at various days and times to make them easy to fit into your schedule, and are all one hour or less. Popular workshops include: Getting […]

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How to Use the FLI Partnership Lending Library for Low-Income or First-Generation Undergrads

Are you teaching a course in the Spring and want to make sure your course materials will be available for your undergraduate students? Partner with the Libraries and help us make course materials available to all students through course reserves, purchasing, and the FLI Partnership Lending Library. For more support, contact undergrad@library.columbia.edu. The Columbia FLI […]

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