In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the building of Butler Library, an exhibit of more than 100 photographs decorate the bulletin board display on the third floor of Butler Library. The photographs span the decades and showcase the excavation and rise of South Hall (as it was originally named), design details throughout the building, […]
Free Laptop Engraving at Butler Library 11/11/09
Back by popular demand! On Wednesday, November 11, you can stop by the Butler lobby between 11AM and 2PM for free engraving and registration of laptops and other electronics by CU Public Safety. About once a month, a laptop is stolen in Butler Library. Please keep your belongings safe! Never leave items unintended at the library. […]
New E-link Features: Fast Access to Full-Text
E-link connects you with the full-text of articles provided by the Libraries’ thousands of electronic resources, e-journals and databases. We recently upgraded e-link. Here’s an overview of how it works. Run a search in your favorite Libraries database or in the Columbia view of Google Scholar If the full-text is not automatically available within the […]
Google Scholar
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 @ […]
Book History Colloquium: “The Creation of a Photographic Book in 1866” with Claudia Funke
The Book History Colloquium is pleased to announce "The Creation of a Photographic Book in 1866: P.B. Wight’s National Academy of Design." In this talk, Claudia Funke, Curator of Rare Books at Avery, will explore the fascinating and rich circumstances of this unusual publication, including contemporaneous photographic commerce and book publishing; aesthetic theory and artistic […]
Receive Email Updates From the Spotlight BLOG
If you’re not into RSS readers, you can still get updates from the Libraries’ Spotlight BLOG via email. Just enter your email address in the sidebar under "Get email updates from the Spotlight BLOG" and click "Subscribe." You will receive an email whenever we post something new to the BLOG, keeping you up-to-date on what’s happening […]
New Browser Search Plugins
The Libraries now offers new browser search plugins to enable you to quickly search CLIO, World Cat, the Columbia University email/phone directory, the Libraries website, and more, straight from your browser! These plugins are designed to work for both Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox 2.0+. To install, simply click on the link for the […]
“Lipstick Traces: Live”
In Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century, Greil Marcus delved into the cross-currents, tangles, and whirlpools that made such vastly different movements as dada, lettrism, the Situationist International, and punk part of a single current. To mark the just-published 20th-anniversary edition of the book, Columbia University, in partnership with the ARChive of […]
November Workshops
More free workshops from the Libraries this month! Here are just a few. Check the workshops website to see all of the workshops available, and register for one (or two). And, you can now subscribe to the workshops RSS feed to receive notices on upcoming workshops. November 02, 2009 from 10:00 am to […]
Happy Halloween from the Libraries
Photo credit: Flickr Creative Commons Happy Halloween! Check out these scary movies from the Butler Media Center today: American Werewolf in London Call number: DVD10625 Repulsion Call number: DVD10454 Lost Highway Call number: DVD10160 Sweeney Todd Call number: DVD8436 Cat People Call number: DVD10490 Devils Call number: DVD10097 I Walked with […]