The Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library’s J. Max Bond Jr. Collection was recently featured in an issue of The Record. Last year, the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library acquired the papers of J. Max Bond Jr., the African American architect and former Columbia professor who died last February at age 73. The documents, […]
The Book History Colloquium: Writing About Coffee, Reading In Cafés: Literature and Coffeehouses in Early Modern France by Thierry Rigogne
Well before Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Parisian cafés have shared a strong affinity with literature. In the seventeenth century, it was books, from travel accounts to medical treatises, that introduced the French to what was then a new, exotic, Oriental beverage. Writers immediately patronized the first coffeehouses, where they could discuss literature and […]
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You can access the full-text journal and database content provided by Columbia University Libraries directly from Google Scholar. Just type the title of a journal article into Google Scholar and then link directly to Columbia’s full-text via "e-Link@Columbia." If you’re on campus and you search Google Scholar, you will automatically see the "e-link @ […]
Librarian Highlight: Robert Davis
Librarian: Robert Davis Title: Librarian for Russian, Eurasian & East European Studies Subject specialties: Humanistic and social science materials in the vernacular languages of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia Contact info: rhd2106@columbia.edi, 212 854 4701 Library: Area Studies @ Columbia Libraries since: 2008 Education Info: Masters of Library Science, CUNY; MA in […]
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New iPhone Ap from CU Press
Columbia University Press has unveiled a new iPhone Ap today. The ap allows users to search The Columbia World of Quotations by author, subject, nationality and more. Available immediately, The Columbia World of Quotations features 65,000 quotations by more than 5,000 authors covering 3,000 years—from Bella Abzug to Frank Zappa and Galileo to Themistocles. The […]
CLIO Tip: Using Limits in CLIO Beta
Looking for art books shelved in the Barnard Library? Use the Advanced Search to limit by library location, date of publication, language, format, or place or place of publication. This introduction to CLIO Beta covers searching with limits, basic and advanced search options, and placing recall or hold requests. Thanks the the Barnard […]
Weather Update: University Closes at 3pm, Butler Open for Study
Due to inclement weather, Columbia University Libraries (CUL) facilities closed at 3pm today, Wednesday, February 10th. Butler Library will remain open for student study only. All other library facilities will close. CUL facilities are currently scheduled to maintain regular operating hours tomorrow, Thursday, February 11th. The CU Libraries’ Virtual Reference Service will extend its hours […]
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Your recommendations count! The Libraries’ collections hold over 10 million items, and grow each a year. But, we may miss something you need for your research. If you have identified a book, journal, film, sound recording, database or other item that is not in the Libraries’ collections, you can recommend a title for purchase. […]
Weather Update
The Columbia University Libraries are open today, Wednesday, February 10. The Geoscience Library will be closed today, along with the Lamont Doherty campus. And, ReCAP deliveries of materials held offsite will not be made today. We apologize for any inconvenience. Enjoy the snow! […]