End Note Essentials designed for social science students and faculty are being offered for the second year.¬? Alysse Jordan, Jerry Breeze, and Fadi Dagher designed the course and are the instructors for the sessions offered in the Social Work Library training space.¬? The schedule for this term is: EndNote Essentials for the Social Sciences Designed […]
EDS/GIS Workshops
EDS/GIS is offering an expanded series of workshops on a variety of topics related to using GIS. The schedule so far can be found at http://www.columbia.edu/acis/eds/gis/gis_workshops.html […]
Staff Activities & Achievements
Rick Block, Head of Special Collections and Metadata Cataloging Services, recently won a teaching award for adjunct faculty at CW Post, where he teaches courses on cataloging at LIU’s Palmer School of Library Science. Charlene Chou, Chinese Cataloger, C. V. Starr East Asian Library, gave a talk on “Next Generation Catalogs” at Central University of […]
Recent Gifts and Grants
$20,000 from the Luce Foundation to support student interns to work on the processing of the New Leader collection. $132,065 from NHPRC to support the John Jay project. $35,000 from the Russell Sage Foundation to support the processing of the Merton Papers. […]
A Warm Welcome for Undergrads
Anice Mills, Undergraduate Services Coordinator in Butler Library, recently gave a welcome party on a grand scale. From August 27 to September 1, she single-handedly organized the undergraduate student orientations for the libraries, welcoming 1600 students from Columbia College, Engineering & Applied Science, and General Studies. […]
Professional Travel in 2007
What sort of professional travel did people take in the second half of the 06/07 fiscal year? Herewith, from the Professional Development Committee, an overview of awards for conference attendance and the like. Please feel free to follow up with any of these colleagues to find out what they learned! ALA Midwinter/Seattle Sarah G. Wenzel […]
September Professional Staff Meeting
The next professional staff meeting is on Friday, September 21, 9am -11am in the Kellogg Room, 15th floor, IAB The agenda for the meeting is below: 9am – 9:30am – Breakfast 9:30am – 10am – Updates from Jim Neal 10am – 10:30am – Provost Brinkley [update on Manhattanville; academic developments] 10:30am – 10:40am – break […]
Welcome!
New hires in August and September: Abigail Uhteg Technical Assistant VI, Preservation – 8/1/07 Meghan Hagberg Library Assistant IV, College Library – 8/6/07 Holly Kennedy Bibliographic Assistant, Avery Library – 8/9/07 Julie Tozer Project Archivist, Avery Library – 9/3/07 Alexander Donovan Library Assistant IV, Starr East Asian Library – 9/4/07 Kevin Carranza Library Assistant IV, […]
Business Library Summer Renovations Complete
The following renovations were done in the Business & Economics Library over the summer: 1. Electrical outlets and internet jacks were installed to service the tables in the center of the reading room. These hard-wired jacks will provide maximum high speed connectivity to all tables. 2. 34 study rooms were constructed on the upper and […]
New ILL management system
The Interlibrary Loan (ILL) office in Butler Library switched to a new ILL management system on August 31, 2007. The new system replaces RLG?Äôs ILL Manager software, which was retired as part of the OCLC/RLG merger. The new ILL system, developed by Atlas Systems, Inc. in collaboration with the ILL department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute […]