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!

Welcome, entering Fall 2008 classes!

The following are a number of useful research links for you as you start the term. You can find most of these, and other links, on the J-School Current Students page, as well as the Journalism Library web page.

Columbia University Libraries

CLIO, Columbia’s library catalog

AP Multimedia Archive contains photos, audio, and stories from the Associated Press, dating back to as early as 1844. The content is copyrighted but can be used for school projects.

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)

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

Scoping Out Your Beat is a guide that will help you get started as you begin to research and explore your beat neighborhoods.

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.

Archives and manuscript collections may be housed:

They are unparalleled sources of primary materials such as letters, original manuscripts, and collections associated with individuals often include personal effects (such as Herbert H. Lehman’s collection of dog figurines).

Locating archives and manuscripts:

How archives are described:

Archival collections are described using guidelines which are different from those used in cataloging books in a library collection. EAD, or Encoded Archival Description, is the technical standard used for encoding archival finding aids.

Finding aids are your point of entry into a given archival collection.

Welcome to the Graduate School of Journalism, and to Columbia University Libraries. Here are some links for exploring the resources that will help you in RWI.

Please see the blog post prior to this one for information on the temporary closure of the Journalism Library. The Journalism Library will reopen once the new student center is built at the J-school (hopefully this Fall).

The Columbia Libraries’ website is your portal to information about the many libraries available at Columbia, as well as your link into thousands of electronic sources of information (newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, photographs, and more) - information which you won’t necessarily find on Google. The Libraries’ catalog, CLIO, helps you to locate both print and online materials at Columbia.

In terms of getting started on your beat reporting, searching for past news stories on your beat can be accomplished using either LexisNexis or Factiva (access restricted to current Columbia affiliates). If you’d like to dig deeper, ProQuest Historical Newspapers (access restricted to current Columbia affiliates) contains the full text of the New York Times back to 1851! This means you can find out what was happening in your beat neighborhood back then. Or, you can type in a street address and see what interesting events may have taken place there.

For other info on New York City and its neighborhoods, check out the guide, Scoping Out Your Beat. It includes links to a number of important websites with in-depth coverage of relevant social and cultural issues.

Sorry for the radio silence of the last few months. We are back online and will be sending more helpful hints your way very soon!

In the meantime, enjoy this exchange from “Overheard in the Office”: http://www.overheardintheoffice.com/archives/004084.html

Created for the incoming Class of 2007. Apologies for the speed, the camera battery was running out of juice.

Especially for those who envy us our date stamps…
The Personal Library Kit.