The Columbia Libraries are now on the CU YouTube channel! You can watch all of our Library Essentials video tutorials on YouTube, and there’s more to come from the Libraries. Subscribe to the Columbia University Channel to get updates whenever new videos are posted. Or, you can subscribe to only the Library Essentials collection of videos. […]
Category: Tools & Tips
Have a question? Try the FAQ
The Libraries FAQ can help answer your questions about using the Libraries and research. Topics covered include Searching CLIO Printing Photocopying Borrowing and renewing materials Basic research help Help with E-resources […]
“Murder in the Stacks” on YouTube EDU
You can now find content from the Libraries on Columbia University’s YouTube EDU. This video, "Murder in the Stacks," was originally shot in Butler Library in 1987. It was recently rediscovered and digitized by CCNMTL. Enjoy! […]
Find More Using Google Scholar
You can access the full-text journal and database content provided by Columbia University Libraries directly from Google Scholar. Just type the title of a journal article into Google Scholar and then link directly to Columbia’s full-text via "e-Link@Columbia." If you’re on campus and you search Google Scholar, you will automatically see the "e-link @ […]
New iPhone Ap from CU Press
Columbia University Press has unveiled a new iPhone Ap today. The ap allows users to search The Columbia World of Quotations by author, subject, nationality and more. Available immediately, The Columbia World of Quotations features 65,000 quotations by more than 5,000 authors covering 3,000 years—from Bella Abzug to Frank Zappa and Galileo to Themistocles. The […]
Recommend a Title For Purchase
Your recommendations count! The Libraries’ collections hold over 10 million items, and grow each a year. But, we may miss something you need for your research. If you have identified a book, journal, film, sound recording, database or other item that is not in the Libraries’ collections, you can recommend a title for purchase. […]
Find Articles
The Libraries’ Find Articles tool lets you search multiple database at the same time. Find Articles can help you search more efficiently, and this quick introduction will get you started. You can get to Find Articles directly by going to the Find Articles webpage, or through the QuickSearch on the Libraries homepage. From […]
Getting Started? Try a Subject Guide
Subject guides are a great way to identify resources when writing a research paper or working on a class project. A subject guide is a bibliography of (mostly) online resources for a particular subject area, for instance Women’s Studies, Biology, AIDS, or British History. These resources are selected by subject specialist librarians, who also purchase […]
Archival Collections Portal
The Archival Collections Portal is a single search engine for multiple archives here at Columbia: Avery Library’s Department of Drawings & Archives, Burke Library at UTS, Columbia University Archives, Health Sciences Library, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and the Starr East Asian Library. This portal provides access to descriptions of all cataloged archival collections in […]
CRL Primary Source Awards
The Columbia Libraries, a CRL membership library, encourages researchers, faculty and librarians to submit a nomination to the Center for Research Libraries Primary Source Awards. The Primary Source Awards are an annual juried competition designed to recognize and publicize librarians, teachers, and researchers whose innovative use of CRL primary source materials result in activities and initiatives […]