Tonight! The Finding Aid: Black Women at the Intersection of Art and Archiving
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Visualizing Data Competition 2011
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EdLab Digital Art Residency (2009)
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Overheard (2009)
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Overheard: The Audio Tour (2009)
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Balance and Momentum: Spring Education Program
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Child Abuse Prevention: A Select Bibliography
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Learning Spaces
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On Space and the Education Program
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125th Anniversary: Call for Actors
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Balance and Momentum: Spring Education Program
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Learning Spaces
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On Space and the Education Program
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Process in the Education Program
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Research & Information Services, Fall 2012
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Anne Hays
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Jennifer Govan
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Elizabeth Blakely
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John Sarubbi
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Allen Foresta
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Michelle Pronovost
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Tonight at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture there is an event called The Finding Aid: Black women at the Intersection of Art and Archiving. The event features librarians, artists, and writers discussing, through a multimedia presentation, the topic of art and community-based archiving. It looks pretty amazing! Details are below... Tuesday, May …
Pedaling is the way a cyclist goes forward, maybe for châteaux, grey road ribboning vineyards green in a Loire Valley August, or for sweaters, woolly spin down the salt-slippery strip into Aber town, or for work, up past the North Woods on that crazy-cold NYC day, hands like birds frozen in flight. We provide points …
In case you haven't noticed, some of our meeting rooms here at the library have been supplied with brand new Macbooks. For people who have Macs at home and are familiar with most Apple products, this may be exciting news. But if you haven't used Macs before and have been a PC user for as long as you can …
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. The April 10th Everett Cafe news display will feature advocacy efforts, and the Socratic conversation, Generational Patterns of Familial Child Abuse, with Natalie Millman, CU social work student, will focus on strategies for working with abused children and advocate for change on a multi-systems level. Also on April 11th, …
Imagine a box, velvet black, Low-key lighting like beams from a lighthouse cast. Open space, no seats, silence. Just a big black box Waiting for actors, dancers, musicians. It’s a space that will be. Meaning will they make, Like blank page to written word. They perform, imprint our souls, move on. My knowledge of transitional …
The Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University now retains the archives of author Dawn Powell. The collection includes works that capture her life experiences in New York City from the 1930’s through the 1950’s. Powell, a New York novelist whose posthumous literary collection includes Gore Vidal, Edmund Wilson and Matthew Josephson, hundreds of …
As we grow, our spaces need to evolve, and the way things evolve can be difficult to predict. Whether we need to fashion a third bedroom out of a Manhattan living room, or create more appealing space for an expanding Education Program, we anticipate that content is prime; aesthetics and functionality, key; light, tone, color, …
Do you have a talent for acting that is going unused? Maybe you do and you don't even know it. Maybe you just want to give it a shot. For Teachers College's 125th, EdLab is producing a series of short (2 minute, slightly humorous video re-enactments of major events in Teachers College history. The films …
“Why do we do what we do?” asks a colleague over the cranking of coffee machines in the Everett Café. I flip through the numbers and think through the presentations: an estimated 1,500 events since the inception of the Gottesman Libraries' Education Program, enhanced by introductions at professional conferences, staff meetings, and the events themselves. …
"LOVE Now" was the subject of a Socratic Conversation on Valentine's Day, in which a couple of dozen discussants looked at the topic from as many different angles: romantic love, of course, but also love of country, love of family, love of God, love of humanity, and...yes, love of learning! One participant, noting the …
This past Thursday, January 31st, the lobby of TC's Zankel Hall was busier than usual, as Teachers College commenced its year-long celebration of its 125th year. EdLab had a table at the kick off event to promote its newest app, New Learning Times (NLT) which is part of a series of new learning technologies available …
Since the concept of the "home page" was first introduced to us in the mid-1990s, our library has had a number of "Web presences," all of which can be viewed by means of the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive (at by searching by the library's old website address, i.e., lweb.tc.columbia.edu. It occurred to me …
Dashing through the Fall, For our students and a song, O’er the library dear, Galloping along, Sounds in Everett ring, Posters oh, so bright, What fun it is to laugh and sing, With TC’eans, a happy sight! Oh, Ed Program, Ed Program, When to grow our minds, Oh, what fun it is to think and …
Christmas trees made out of books, elevator speeches, and soundbites? These are just a few ideas shared by Kathy Dempsey, Consultant and Owner of Libraries Are Essential, in a workshop, What Accidental Library Marketers Need to Know”, held on December 8th at the New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency. Ms. Dempsey enthusiastically outlined …
Who can argue with Progress? Everyone, it seemed, at a spirited Socratic Conversation on that subject among a dozen diverse TC students on December 6th. Several of the conversants remarked that their quality of everyday life had declined over the past few years -- attributing war, economy, rising tuition, job scarcity, and recurrence of natural disaster. …
As New York continued to struggle with the devastating aftermath of Sandy, participants in the Socratic Conversation conducted by Ron Gross on November 15th struggled with the learnings emerging from the experience. Photojournalist Diane Cohen exemplified such learnings: “Finding myself alone in the dark, I began to realize that the independence I had always assumed …
Feeling nostalgic for open windows and summer breezes? With our first snowstorm of Winter 2012 behind us, the library is a comfortable place to study and stay warm. Fall is usually our busiest semester. Here's a look at the summer's circulation, meeting room usage and overall foot traffic at Gottesman: We had 6,860 total checkouts …
We took a look at the usage statistics for the social archive of Teachers College, PocketKnowledge. This past summer PocketKnowledge received 11,252 visits between June 1st and August 31st. 79% of PocketKnowledge visitors were first time visitors, and 20% of visitors were returning to our archive. During this time there were 74,447 pageviews.
This past summer the Library Services unit maintained a low hum of activity, at the same time closing out the activities of the Fall and Spring semesters, and gearing up for the upcoming academic year. A major focus of our efforts was preparation for rolling out a new version of Blackboard, the learning management system …
This was some time for play, This was some time for fun, This was some time for games, And some work was well done! All that hot, hot, hot sun, All that sun made us run. When our boss went Down to Ground for the …
Anne Hays
15 hours ago
Jennifer Govan
4 days ago
Balance and Momentum: Spring Education Program
4 days ago
Child Abuse Prevention: A Select Bibliography
a month ago
Learning Spaces
a month ago
On Space and the Education Program
2 months ago
125th Anniversary: Call for Actors
2 months ago
Elizabeth Blakely
a month ago
New Macbooks at the Library
a month ago
John Sarubbi
22 days ago
Columbia Acquires Author Dawn Powell Archives
2 months ago
EdLab launches New Learning Times
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Allen Foresta
a month ago
Research & Information Services, Fall 2012
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Library Services Highlights and Statistics, Summer 2012
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