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Check out NYU's new BobCat, powered by ExLibris. I know some may be sentimental about the old system, but I say, it was about time!

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Anthropology Plus Anthropology Plus combines Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and the Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology,

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You now need to swipe your ID, rather than wave it at security to enter Butler. From an email to CUL Notes from Aline Locasio (login required to read) "From now on, every time you enter the building,instead of showing your CUID to the officer at the desk, pass it over the card reader before entering the library. "You do not have to remove your card from many types of card holders and wallets,

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American County Histories to 1900 These books include chapters with detailed coverage of local history, geology, geography, weather, transportation, lists of all local participants in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, government, the medical and legal professions, churches and ministers, industry and manufacturing, banking and insurance, schools and teachers, noted celebrations, fire departments

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Henry Stewart Talks: Biomedical & Life Sciences The presentations consist of navigable slides with accompanying narration synchronised for ease of listening. They are all approximately 40-50 minutes long and are organised into a comprehensive series of talks. Serial Set Maps (via LexisNexis) Contains maps within the U.S. Serial Set which represent one of the greatest single collections of

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Did you know that the bookstore formerly known as Labyrinth Books is now called Book Culture? I didn't. Address & Phone 536 West 112th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam New York, NY 10025-1601 212-865-1588 Hours Monday to Friday 9:00 AM to 10:00 PM Saturday 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM Sunday 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM

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There is a problem with the Borrow Direct system that is preventing patrons from placing new requests. All Borrow Direct partner libraries are affected by the problem, and it is currently being investigated by system administrators. We hope to have this resolved as soon as possible. I will post an update when I have more information. Neil -- Neil Romanosky Interlibrary Loan & Delivery Services

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The July/August issue of Inside CUL is now available! In this issue: Announcements: RBML Processing Successes Staff Spotlight: Sachie Noguchi’s travels to Japan CLIPP Summer Update CUL Style Guide Events: Emerging Technologies Brown Bag Recent Grants CUL Marketing Grants Awarded New Appointments Staff Activities Summer Reading, part II -- Laura M. Kenna Communications Coordinator University

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On Thursday, July 24th, the office of Management Information and Network Services (MINS) will be performing annual server maintenance. Regular maintenance of college computer systems is important to keeping a high quality of service and maximum uptime. The majority of systems have already been updated with no disruption of service. However, the following systems require downtime to complete

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Abstracts in Social Gerontology Abstracts in Social Gerontology includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to social gerontology, including the psychology of aging, elder abuse, society and the elderly, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Family Studies Abstracts Family Studies Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to

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New York Staff Directory Online http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio6625961 Contact information across all levels of state, city and municipal government, as well as state organizations. The directory includes profiles and photographs of all elected officials -- from state legislature to local officials. Federal Staff Directory Online http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?

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Alexander Street Literature Alexander Street Literature is a comprehensive, cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender. It includes poetry, short fiction, and novels, along with full-text plays and film scripts. Black Short Fiction and Folklore : from Africa and the African Diaspora The most comprehensive collection yet created of stories from Africa

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American Civil War Research Database Contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs. In addition to 222 volumes of rosters published by the state Adjutants Generals, the database includes the military records for every soldier in the collection as well as Official Records, pension index records, 1860 census records,

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Is it The Burke Library, or simply Burke Library? How many "Rs" are in Starr? Web site or website? You'll find 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 from UDAR and the Office of University Publications at Columbia. In most cases it follows the Chicago Manual of Style (15th

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19th Century UK Periodicals contains over 1 million pages of periodicals published in Great Britain from 1800-1900. It includes publications on women, children, leisure and sport, and humor. GreenFILE offers well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on

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Starr East Asian Library Renovation: "This summer our library will be undergoing major renovation work in the entrance and service area to accommodate a beautiful centrally-located integrated service desk and card-reading entrance gates. Although we hope to keep the library and collections open and accessible, in order to accommodate the work we do need to make some temporary changes to

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On Monday, if all goes well, our current institutional repository system (DigitalCommons@Columbia) will be replaced by the new "Academic Commons" repository. You can preview Academic Commons. Initially the content of Academic Commons will be the same as DigitalCommons, with the same three content 'communities': Center on Japanese Economy and Business working papers, etc. Economics Department

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As part of the relocation of the U.S. government documents depository collection, the decennial census volumes have been transferred to Lehman Library. The census volumes 1950-2000 are now located at HA 201 [yr] in the Lehman stacks downstairs. They are all non-circulating. CLIO records are in the process of updating, as are the census web pages. I hope to have all of the web pages updated

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Did you know that there is a Columbia University wiki, and that it deals with our library in a dismissive manner?

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The Readex online version of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set currently covers 1817-1942. MARC records are being added in batches to CLIO, and at the moment these records go up through 1890. At this point, I thought it might be useful to say a few words about the subject headings used in the Readex Serial Set, since these are the same as the headings used in the MARC records for it in CLIO.

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Here are some new databases which have been added to main list: You can find more detailed descriptions by accessing these through the A-Z list. Foreign Broadcast Information Service http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio6428533 Attic Grave Reliefs of the Late 5th and the 4th Century BC http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio6191783 Census of Antique Art and Architecure

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Library Essentials, a collection of online tutorials to help students with their research: Workshops & Research Help -- General Research Skills Ask Us -- Help Yourself LibraryWeb Help LibraryWeb Site Index Created by Columbia CourseWorks Committee with help from CCNMTL, LDPD, and LITO.

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from Janet Gertz: The Internet Archive has now created a homepage for the books being digitized from Columbia's collections.

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The United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence.

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I know I didn't offer a very good explanation last year, but I hope that post was based on a discussion we had in person. Regardless, the deal is that we (we being Michael and Jenna) are not inclined to provide another heavy-duty stapler for public use. The one we bought last year, that we couldn't keep in working order for more than five minutes at a time, cost $200. The expense wouldn't be

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