What’s on your feed reader? Inside CUL asked a random group of CUL staff about their favorite blogs. Here are some of the responses from the very informal poll: From Karen Green, “Talking Points Memo (http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/) — possibly the most even-handed political blog out there, and one that does real investigative journalism as well–in fact, […]
Staff Activities for July/August
Jeff Carroll’s short story “The Draft” was published in the journal The Long Story, No. 26, 2008. Charlene Chou gave a presentation entitled “Expanding Cataloger’s Role in the Era of Global Digital Libraries” at the Association of Jewish Libraries, New York Metropolitan Area Chapter on June 2. The Powerpoint slides are available at http://www.columbia.edu/~cc179/Expanding_Cataloger_Role_j.ppt. Kenneth […]
Sachie Noguchi’s travels to Japan
Japanese Studies Librarian Sachie Noguchi recently returned from a three-week trip to Japan. She received training for Year 2 of the Tenri Antiquarian Materials Workshop for Overseas Japanese Studies Librarians at Tenri Library along with 6 colleagues from the United States and 12 from Europe. Training this year included the study of manuscripts and print […]
RBML Processing Successes
Fiscal year 2007/2008 saw the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reach a significant milestone: 2,809.47 linear feet of material was processed (just over 1/2 mile). This monumental effort on the part of our professional archivists, Mellon interns, and student assistants has made some 39 collections available. “The true beneficiaries,” says University Librarian Jim Neal, “are […]
CUL Style Guide
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 […]
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 […]
CCLIP Summer Update
CCLIP Talks Your time to beam with pride has arrived! You know that interesting project you’ve been working on? The one that seems to consume every moment of your working life? We want to hear about it! And so do your colleagues! Consider discussing a project or topic of interest during a CCLIP Talk session. […]
New Appointments
Welcome to the Libraries! Nancy Woods Technical Assistant, Preservation and Digital Conversion 5/19/08 Christina Ergunay Journalism Librarian, Social Sciences 5/19/08 Rati Jebashvili Bibliographic Assistant, Technical Support/Acquisitions 5/19/08 Insaf Ali Library Assistant, Access Services 5/27/08 Lara Stuart Library Assistant, Social Sciences 6/2/08 Ethan Christ User Services Consultant, Information Technology 6/2/08 […]
New Mellon Award
The Preservation and Digital Conversion Division received $371,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for Preserving Historic Audio Content: Developing Infrastructures and Practices for Digital Conversion. The project will preserve 820 audiotapes from OHRO while developing a fully functional infrastructure for audio preservation. […]
Oral History of the Apollo Theater
The Apollo Theater Foundation will support the two-year Apollo Theater Oral History Project. The project will conduct oral history interviews and produce audio/video recordings, transcripts, and related materials on the history of the Apollo Theater and its surrounding communities. […]