Friday, April 22, 2005

public printer in reference

Darin set us up to bypass NINJa, and I changed the default to duplex.

Thursday, April 21, 2005

Search Engine Chart

I found this on the Librarian in Black blog. It compares various search engines and charts how their Boolean operators and other features work. http://www.infopeople.org/search/chart.html

Thursday, April 14, 2005

Digital Library Seminar Series: 3 presentations

You are invited to attend the three Digital Library Seminar Series presentations described below.

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Digital Library Seminar Series presentation #1:

TOPIC: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at Columbia University
WHEN: Friday, May 6 ~ 10:00-11:30 AM
WHERE: 203 Butler Library
SPONSOR: Libraries Digital Program Division

SPEAKERS:
Jeremiah Trinidad, GIS/Map Librarian, Lehman Library
Douglas Miller, GIS Analyst, Institute for Social & Economic Research & Policy

MORE INFO:
GIS at Columbia University Libraries
Institute for Social & Economic Research & Policy


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Digital Library Seminar Series presentation #2:

TOPIC: Grey Literature in Scholarly Communication: Current Thinking from
Libraries & Publishers
WHEN: Friday, May 13 ~ 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
WHERE: 203 Butler Library
SPONSOR: Libraries Digital Program Division

SPEAKERS:
Jim Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian
Kate Wittenberg, Director, Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia
(EPIC)

MORE INFO:
Coalition for Networked Information Spring 2005 Meeting Abstract


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Digital Library Seminar Series presentation #3:

TOPIC: Integrating Libraries & Electronic Publishing: The DART Project

WHEN: Friday, June 3 ~ 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
WHERE: 203 Butler Library
SPONSOR: Libraries Digital Program Division

SPEAKERS:
David Millman, Director, AcIS Research & Development Group
Kate Wittenberg, Director, Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia
(EPIC)

MORE INFO:
Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching (DART)


Monday, April 11, 2005

ReferenceUSA

"Detailed information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses; 102 million U.S. residents; 683,000 U.S. health care providers; 1 million Canadian businesses; and 11 million Canadian residents." (from ReferenceUSA "About Us" page)

Please share your comments with the ERC for this resource: Deborah Wassertzug

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

North American Theatre Online

Provides detailed reference information on all aspects of the Canadian and American theatre, including records to more than 25,000 plays, 28,000 people, 3,000 theatres, 12,500 productions and 1,500 production companies. The file also includes some 5,000 images, playbills, postcards, scrapbooks and other resources. The database will grow to include entries for every author, play, theatre, major production, and production company from the 1600s to the present.

Learn more: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/databases/5256802.html

ERC: Nancy Friedland

Friday, April 01, 2005

Staff Copier

The copier repair person wanted to let us know that the staff copier is all better now and that he ordered a "PM Kit" to replace all the stuff he used to fix it.

When the big box of PM Kit arrives, it can just go somewhere near the copier. (Under it?) No need to call anyone.

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