Migrating manuscript data from Digital Scriptorium to CLIO

By Timothy Ryan Mendenhall and Matthew Haugen Background on Digital Scriptorium The Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a consortial database of pre-modern manuscripts held in American libraries. Started in 1997, Digital Scriptorium was originally a joint project of the Bancroft Library at University of California Berkeley and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library here at Columbia […]

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Technical Reports in the Repository: Syncing a unique grey literature collection in multiple Columbia University Library systems

By Amanda S Bielskas, Director of Science, Engineering and Social Science Libraries ; Emily Holmes, Director, Preservation ; Esther M. Jackson, Scholarly Communication Technologies Librarian ; Melanie Wacker, Metadata Coordinator ; and Jeremiah Mercurio, Head, Humanities & History / Interim Director of Digital Scholarship Columbia University Libraries has a robust digitization program that aims to […]

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Acquisitions: It’s Not Just Opening Boxes!

Lauren DeVoe, Order & Continuing Resources Librarian Matthew Pavlick, Head, Collections Acquisitions Services Background Before it was known as Collections Acquisitions Services (CAS), Monographs Acquisitions Services (MAS) was a stand alone department residing in room 106 Butler. MAS was primarily responsible for processing firm orders of monographs, music scores, DVDs, graphic novels, and microfilms in […]

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