st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } The following is a list of recent acquisitions of interest to CUL librarians, information professionals, and staff. All of the titles below are shelved in Butler stacks. Creating the customer-driven academic library / Jeannette Woodward. Z675.U5 W78 2009 Fundamentals of technical services management / Sheila S. Intner, with Peggy Johnson. Z688.5 .I575 2008 […]
Reminder: Prof Staff Meeting 2/27, 9-11am
The next Professional Staff Meeting will be held Friday, February 27, 9 a.m. – 11 a.m., in the Kellogg Center, 15th Floor, International Affairs Building. There will be breakfast at 9:00 a.m. and the meeting will start at 9:30 a.m. An agenda will follow shortly. We look forward to seeing you all there! […]
Events and Exhibitions in January & February
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On Watch
Jeffrey Lynch is on the night watch at Butler Library. He regularly makes his rounds during the wee hours to gently discourage “campers,” students who leave all manner of personal belongings including pillows and lamps to claim a study space. During the time that Jeffrey has been on patrol, there has been a significant decrease […]
Staff Activities
Nancy E. Friedland, Librarian for Butler Media, Film Studies & Performing Arts was recently elected to serve on the Theatre Library Association Board for a second, non-consecutive, term. Katie L.B. Henningson, a Library Assistant I currently working on the New York Chamber of Commerce Records, has won a fellowship with the ARL Career Enhancement Program. […]
On Meyer Schapiro
A conference and exhibition to celebrate the publication of Meyer Schapiro Abroad: Letters to Lillian and Travel Notebooks will take place January 30 at Columbia University. (download invitation) The conference will take place on Friday, January 30th, 2009 from 200-5:00 p.m. at The Frieda and Milton Rosenthal Auditorium, 501 Schermerhorn Hall. The presentations and discussion […]
New Hires
Welcome! Peng Xu Business Electronic Services, Instruction & Reference Librarian, Social Sciences, Business/Economics – Reference & Instructional Svcs. 11/17/2008 Jennella Young Coordinator- Apollo Theatre Project, RBML, Oral History Research Office 12/1/2008 Jee-Young Park Cataloger (Korean), Starr East Asian Technical Services 1/12/2009 […]
The Barbara Curtis Adachi Bunraku Collection
Thanks to grants from both the NEH and the Freeman Foundation, the Starr Library has successfully organized, preserved, and digitized Barbara Curtis Adachi’s extensive collection of Bunraku materials for Japanese puppet theater. The resulting website, which includes numerous slides and photographs, is now available at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/eastasian/bunraku/. […]
Avery Completes Emery Roth and Sons Project
With a grant from the E. H. A. Foundation, the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library completed a nearly two-year project to catalog the comprehensive archive of New York architects Emery Roth and Sons. The firm’s well-known buildings include the Pan Am Building, the Citicorp Building, and the Cogate-Palmolive Building. The collection is one of […]
New Acquisitions: November-December 2008
The following is a list of recent acquisitions of interest to CUL librarians, information professionals, and staff. All of the titles below are shelved in Butler stacks. Especially relevant for those considering—or in the process of obtaining—a degree in library and information science: The portable MLIS: insights from the experts / edited by Ken Haycock […]