Is it Web site or website? The Burke Library, or simply Burke Library? How many “Rs” are in Starr? You’ll find answers to these questions and helpful information about how to refer to our buildings, divisions and the usage of common words in the CUL Style Guide. Created in 2006, the style guide is adapted […]
Category: Announcements
CUL Marketing Grants Awarded
The Assessment & Marketing Librarian is thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2008-09 CUL Marketing Grants. Lauran Hartley, Tibetan Studies Librarian, C.V. Starr East Asian Library Lauran’s marketing initiative will promote a two-day workshop encouraging graduate students to consider the Himilayas as an area of research, partially by promoting the outstanding collections here at […]
Microsoft ending Live Search Books project
On Friday May 23 Microsoft announced that it is ending its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and that both sites will be taken down this week. (See http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2008/05/23/book-search-winding-down.aspx) It is also ending all of its book digitization projects, including the work with Columbia that began this spring. Columbia’s books will remain online […]
What are you reading this summer?
It’s always fun to see what colleagues are reading, or planning to read. Here are a few summer reading suggestions from Libraries’ staff members… From Ree DeDonato: “Here’s what I’m reading… different items for different moods and times! on the subway to and from work: the New Yorker, (doesn’t quite matter which issue since its […]
Microsoft Digitization Project Update
In January Columbia University and Microsoft Corporation signed an agreement to digitize a large number of books from the Libraries and make them available to Internet users with the support of the Open Content Alliance (OCA). The first books are now available online through the Internet Archive. To see Columbia’s digital books, go to http://www.archive.org/details/ColumbiaUniversityLibraries. […]
Sign up for text message notifications
Columbia faculty and staff may now register their cell phone numbers to receive text message notifications from the University during emergencies. Last term, Columbia piloted this system with the student body; about half of our students have now registered. Text message notifications will complement the existing forms of communication that the University uses for sharing […]
Travel and Business Expense Report Policy Reminder
This a reminder of the documentation required when submitting an expense reimbursement for meals during travel on University business and business meals. Columbia University Accounts Payable requires the original restaurant or cash register receipts for meals. The receipt must include: • the date and location • the type of meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner) • the […]
April Staff Forum
The April Staff Forum has been moved back to Tuesday, 4/22. The times and location will be the same: 10:30-11:30am and 2:30-3:30pm in 555 Lerner. The agenda will be announced as we get closer to the date. Stay tuned! […]
Google presentation
Ben Bunnell, library partnerships manager for Google Book Search, will be here to talk to staff about the Google Book Search project and answer questions related to Google in general and the Google/Columbia partnership in particular. His presentation will be given on February 7, in room 203 Butler, at 2 pm. […]
Ellesmere Chaucer Added to Digital Scriptorium
Digital Scriptorium, the online visual catalog of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources into a tool for teaching and scholarly research, has added forty-five new images to the database from EL 26 C9, the Ellesmere Chaucer at the Huntington Library. “The Ellesmere Chaucer occupies a virtually iconic position in the Anglo-American world, since […]