BarnardRefDesk

With thanks to many people for their assistance, especially LDPD, CCNMTL, Starr and the Development Office, we are pleased to announce the first podcasts (audio & visual files) created by the Columbia University Libraries as part of an experiment under the aegis of the Public Services Council.

NB: these do not require an iPod or iTunes to be viewed or heard.

• for downloadable images of the Milstein or Butler stack guides, go to http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/floor/index.html.
• for a tour of Starr in Japanese (four more languages coming), visit http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/eastasian.
• to listen to & view the PowerPoint of Digital Library Seminars given by Barbara Taranto or Nancy Fried Foster, see the new (thanks again to LDPD) Digital Library Seminars page: https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/bts/ldp/seminars.
• to listen to Prof. Delbanco's discussion of his new book on Melville, go to http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/news/recordings/friends/index.html.
  

We will be discussing the project, as well as our presentation on it at the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries October Conference ("Cool Tools and New Technologies:"
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/services.htmld/OctCon2006), at the next Emerging Technologies Brown Bag on 30 November from 12-1.

If you have any questions or comments, please let us know.

Yours,
Sarah, for the podcast project team: Jennifer Rutner, Jeremiah Trinidad-Christensen & Sarah G. Wenzel

The Columbia Area Studies librarians have divided up the world.

Consult this list to identify appropriate referrals https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/staffweb/units/area/country_list.html

On Monday, November 6, 2006, between 8-11 a.m., there will be a 3-hour disruption in the Library photocopy service in order to perform upgrades on the photocopy system throughout the campus. During this time, patrons will only be able to use-coin operated Library photocopiers. Flex card dispensers and readers will not work during this upgrade process.

Please be sure to post appropriate signs to inform users of this disruption, and if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.


Jane Winland

Soon there will be a link to CrossSearch under the QuickSearch box on the Columbia Libraries home page.

For now you can view it at is at http://staging.cul.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/index.temp.html.

This might be a good time to familiarize yourself with CrossSearch.