Here are some new, and not so new, encyclopedias that might be useful for students in UWP classes if they are having trouble coming up with a topic or need a brief discussion of a concept. Often the bibliographies can help locate some useful titles for very general subjects, as well. General Encyclopedias Encyclopedia of Philosophy […]
Germanistik
Columbia has recently acquired the online version of Germanistik www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio8407640 This index lists books, essays, and articles published from 1960 to the present on German language and literature, including theater, media, and cultural history. The entries for the first ten years have fairly basic search terms ("Shakespeare and English drama in German popular journals, […]
Citing Kindle
We recently received a question on ref-ref about citing works read on a Kindle, and found several sources which might help. The 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio6042885 has this: 14.166Books downloaded from a library or bookseller The majority of electronically published books offered for download from a library or bookseller […]
International Women’s Day Centenary
: A few of our databases for research on women and gender: Recent Scholarship Gender Studies Database LGBT Life Contemporary Women’s Issues Feminae: Medieval Women & Gender Index Historical Full Text Resources Gerritsen Collection: Women’s History Online, 1543-1945 Everyday Life and Women in America, 1820-1900 Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000 Letters […]
New Database: Jewish Life in America c1654-1954
Jewish Life in America c1654-1954: Sources from the American Jewish Historical Society provides full online access to 24 collections of personal papers, and partial access to the papers and archives of six organizations. Collections span 300 years, and are especially strong in material relating to Jewish life in New York. Included are letters, diaries, photographs […]
Proximity Operators for Full-Text Searching
Proximity operators are an important tool for focusing the results of free text searches, particularly in full-text databases. Sadly, there is little uniformity in the syntax for proximity searching across various database families. The chart below, created by DHC Head Bob Scott, provides a key to some of the databases found on the Columbia Libraries […]
Harvard and MIT Join Borrow Direct
Beginning in Summer 2011, faculty, students, and staff from Columbia and the six partner institutions (Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn, Princeton, and Yale), will also have access to regularly circulating materials from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This expansion increases the number of volumes available to Columbia scholars from more than 45 million […]
A New Way to Find Articles
Try our newest article search, from the yellow "Find Articles" tab on the library home page: Described as a "webscale discovery service" it is very fast, searches a vast number of articles in both journals and newspapers, and often searches both full-text and citations. Facets allow you to quickly narrow a search by article type […]
Intersession Hours
During Intersession (January 4th through January 15th) Butler Library will be open: Monday – Thursday 9am to 9pm Friday 9am to 7pm Saturday 11am to 6pm Sunday closed The Reference Desk will be open 1pm to 5pm. Martin Luther King Day (January 15th) hours: 9am to 7pm. Regular Semester Hours (and 24 hour study) resume […]
Have a Great Break!
Butler Library will close at 11:00 pm Thursday December 23rd, and reopen at 9:00 am on Tuesday, December 28th. The library will also be closed from 5:00 pm Thursday December 30th through 9:00 am Tuesday, January 3rd. Here are the full Butler Library hours during intersession. Have a wonderful and refreshing break. The reference […]