The librarian is: BLOGGING | Journalism Library, Columbia University

There are a number of new selections available in the Journalism Library! Come check out the following:

* Burden, Peter. (2008). News of the World? Fake Sheikhs and Royal Trappings. London: Eye Books Ltd.

* Rubino, Anna. (2008). Queen of the Oil Club: The Intrepid Wanda Jablonski and the Power of Information. Boston: Beacon Press.

* Scharnhorst, Gary. (2008). Kate Field – The Many Lives of a Nineteenth-Century Journalist. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

* Stout, Glenn. (2008). Everything They Had – Sports Writing From David Halberstam. New York: Hyperion.

* Sunstein, Cass R. (2008). Republic.com 2.0. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Or find them first in CLIO!

The MS Orientation 2008 library presentation and handouts are now available:

- Power Point Presentation
- Scoping Out Your Beat
- Nexis Factiva Cheat Sheet
- Databases List

Q: What library services will I have access to after I graduate? Will I have access to Lexis Nexis and Factiva?

A: For 3 months after graduation, all graduates will continue to have access to the same resources that were available to them when they were students. Columbia University alums are welcome to use the libraries on campus after obtaining the Alumni Library Card upon graduation at the Library Information Office. Lexis Nexis and Factiva are currently not included in the list of electronic resources available to alumni, but there are many benefits and services available at Columbia University Libraries, including access to ProQuest newspapers. For a full listing of electronic services available to alums, click here.

Q: May I use photographs downloaded from AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive on my personal blog? May I copy a journal or newspaper article in its entirety to my personal blog?

A: All materials obtained from Columbia University Libraries databases are for research, instructional, and educational uses only. Please see the Copyright and Fair Use category on this blog for further information.

Photos from the AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive may be downloaded for class-specific projects only, and you must credit the AP in your project.

With journal articles, you may incorporate bibliographic citations into your personal blog, but copying the entire article would be in direct violation of our database license.

Q: Will my Columbia ID give me access to the Medical Library?

A: Yes! With you Columbia ID, you may access the Medical Library and all libraries on campus.

More Questions and Answers from Orientation Library Sessions coming soon!

The Journalism Library is open 7 days a week during the Fall semester. For an up-to-date look at the library’s hours, as well as library resources and services, please go to the Journalism Library’s web page.

Today, we’ll be looking at the AP Multimedia Archive, which is a source for content (images, audio, and text) from the Associated Press, back to as early as 1844.

If you’re looking for maps, here is a link to databases licensed by Columbia University Libraries that have maps in them. The CIA World Factbook is a very good source of simple reference maps. Another good online source for maps is the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection from the University of Texas. They’ve scanned hundreds of maps and made them available online.

You may want to see some of the religion reporting resources I have mentioned previously on this blog. Also, remember that in addition to the Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary (whose holdings are listed in CLIO, you have access to the Jewish Theological Seminary Library, which has a separate catalog, ALEPH.

Please be advised that the Journalism Library in its current incarnation in 203 Journalism will close at 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 10. The library will reopen within the newly constructed student center this Fall.

Answers to questions you may have:

Q: How can I return books that I have checked out from Journalism?

A: Items that have circulated from our regular collection may be returned to any other campus library (Butler Library being the closest one). Journalism Reserves items will circulate from the Lehman Library and should be returned there.

Q: Where will the library’s contents be housed during construction?

A: The Journalism Library collection will be relocated in its entirety to Lehman Library, which is located on the 3rd floor of the International Affairs (SIPA) building on Amsterdam Ave. and 118th St.

The circulating Journalism collection and books from the reference shelf will be shelved separately from Lehman’s collection, in the Lehman sorting area. Journalism Master’s projects and theses will be kept at Lehman’s reserve desk, as will the Journalism reserves collection, periodicals and newspapers received by the Journalism Library.

Q: I want to request books from Health Sciences or Offsite. Where can I have them sent?

A: You may have them sent to any other library location that is convenient to you. Journalism will not be listed as a delivery option during the construction period.

Q: I have a research question. How can I get help?

A: The Journalism Librarian, Deborah Wassertzug, will be working in a different library during the summer (location TBD). The easiest way to reach her will be via email, dw242@columbia.edu. She will send out shortly an office phone number and a Google Talk screen name for use during the summer months.

Q: Where and when will the library re-open?

A: The new Journalism Library will be part of the new student center, opening this Fall. Please visit the Journalism School’s homepage for construction updates.

From the Columbia Spectator, an article about Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at Columbia Libraries’ Electronic Data Service (EDS). Want to learn how to use GIS to generate maps of data? Or just visualize data about New York City and beyond? Stop by EDS, located in the lower level of Lehman Library, to learn more.

Welcome, Class of 2007! Here are the links that I visited during my talk today.

Columbia University Libraries

CLIO, Columbia’s library catalog

ProQuest Historical Newspapers (NYT and other newspapers, scanned as PDF, back to 19th century) (Access restricted to current Columbia affiliates)

Ethnic Newswatch (full text of ethnic newspapers from US & Canada, English and Spanish language) (Access restricted to current Columbia affiliates)

LexisNexis (Access restricted to current Columbia affiliates)

Infoshare Online (all kinds of data about NYC by neighborhood, community district, and more!) (Access restricted to current Columbia affiliates)

Welcome to the Journalism School, Class of ‘07 broadcast students!

This post duplicates the handout provided to students during the broadcast RWI research training sessions.

Master’s projects:

To locate broadcast Master’s projects from prior years, visit the index, available online at: www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/jour/masters/

TV projects are available to borrow from the Journalism Library (ask at the Circulation Desk for project title and year it was completed). Radio projects are also available at the Journalism Library, and online at: www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/radio/masters/index.asp

Stock footage sources (tips from Prof. June Cross)

National Archives website: www.archives.gov/research/formats/film-sound-video.html

Library of Congress (make sure to check copyright status before using!):
www.loc.gov/film/arch.html

Local museums and historical societies
Museums: www.ny.com/museums/all.museums.html
Historical societies: www.nyhistory.com/links/historical_societies.htm

Other resources of interest

AccuNet/AP multimedia archive : photos, text, audio, graphics. (access restricted to current Columbia affiliates) This resource has AP photographs back to the mid-19th century, as well as audio content.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers. (access restricted to current Columbia affiliates) This database contains full historical archives of the Atlanta Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post. It is an entire run of newspapers on microfilm, retrievable on your computer!

Television News Archive.(access restricted to current Columbia affiliates) The TVNA has been taping the nightly network news since 1968. While very limited broadcast content (from CNN) is available streaming on the TVNA site, the searchable archive enables you to see how each network covered events on a given day, how long the segments were, and even what advertisements were shown.

Graduated already? Great news. Columbia University Libraries has just added a new title to the list of online research databases we make available to alumni: EBSCO’s Business Source Premier. This database is a collection of nearly 1100 business magazines and journals in full text.

If you are an alum and have not already registered to gain access to the alumni databases, please see this page for more information.