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A spring library review!

It was another busy spring here at the library.  This past spring 6,817 meetings, classes and events were scheduled in the library, making up 17,834 hours of room usage. That is a slight increase from the 6,374 room bookings and 14,596 hours of room usage last year during the 2012 spring semester. …

Posted 19 days ago by Rebecca Beck

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Thanks, Brian…

Library Services, Spring 2013: Connecting with our Past

The celebration of Teachers College's 125th seems a good occasion to think about the history of services at the TC library, and to ponder how our predecessor librarians thought about their own work, whether they documented it in ways similar to how we do (and whether such records are to be found), and, perhaps most …

Posted 25 days ago by Allen Foresta

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Balance and Momentum: Spring Education Program

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 …

Posted a month ago by Jennifer Govan

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Learning Spaces

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 …

Posted 2 months ago by Jennifer Govan

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On Space and the Education Program

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, …

Posted 3 months ago by Jennifer Govan

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Process in the Education Program

“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. …

Posted 3 months ago by Jennifer Govan

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Research & Information Services, Fall 2012

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 …

Posted 5 months ago by Allen Foresta

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Thanks for your note, Anne…

One Horse Open: Fall Education Program

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 …

Posted 6 months ago by Jennifer Govan

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And be sure to tune in to James Lord Pierpont’s “One Horse Open Sleigh” - with the original 1857 melody and chorus: http://www…

A review of summer activity in the library

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 …

Posted 7 months ago by Michelle Pronovost

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Why yes, I am feeling nostalgic for open windows and summer breezes…

PocketKnowledge Usage

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.

Posted 7 months ago by Rebecca Beck

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Library Services Highlights and Statistics, Summer 2012

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 …

Posted 8 months ago by Allen Foresta

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These pictures are really lovely…

Tipping the Hat… to the Education Program*

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 …

Posted 8 months ago by Jennifer Govan

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I have a question invivlong dependant schools…

Spring Snapshot: Circulation and Room Booking

Book checkouts are down and room booking is up according to the statistics on library circulation and space usage for spring 2012. Our most popular meeting room was Russell Hall 309, a mid-sized room situated in the southeast corner of the 3rd floor Reading Room overlooking 120th Street. In total, 6,374 meetings, classes and events …

Posted 13 months ago by Michelle Pronovost

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Thanks for the update…

Library Services Statistics and Highlights, Spring 2012

Among the great pleasures of providing research and information services (what used to be called “doing reference”) is the continuing opportunity, and indeed necessity, to learn:  about disciplines, research approaches, technologies new to oneself.  I feel privileged to have been able to serve the research and information needs of members of the academic community in …

Posted 13 months ago by Allen Foresta

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Many thanks to Allen Foresta and all other TC library staff for making the library such a lovely place to study and providing guidance on how to use the library resources for research and schoolwork…

Spring Flowers: Cultivating the Education Program

A trio of four-year olds arrives quietly, ushered in by young teachers. They tiptoe along the carpeted path to my desk by the southerly first floor windows, as we’re preparing a workshop on services for budding alumni. Lemon rose, coral tulip, and purple sweet william are tied in fuchsia-colored satin, an annual token of appreciation …

Posted 13 months ago by Jennifer Govan

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Thanks a lot for sharing this with all of us you actually know what you're talking about…

Unwrapping the Fall Education Program

Here are a few good numbers for you, Enjoy them, a present, for all, shining true, Heralding the attendees of collaborative events, From September through December On the calendar we went. In the halls of great Gottesman, With lively spirit and cheer, We donned music, displays, a new tier Of Socrates, films, scintillating speakers, Cool …

Posted 18 months ago by Jennifer Govan

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That's such a creative, fun, and cute way to record what Education Program had accomplished in Fall 2011…

Circulation and Room Booking Roundup, Fall 2011

Two of the library's most popular services are meeting room reservations and materials checkouts. Here they are in numbers for the Fall semester: From September through today, there have been 13,456 checkouts and 11,646 checkins at the Gottesman first floor desk. This includes physical books and equipment like laptops. The TC Community booked almost 5,000 …

Posted 18 months ago by Michelle Pronovost

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Research & Information Services Statistics and Highlights, Fall 2011

During Fall 2011, the Research & Information Services team delivered a substantial number of in-person, telephone, and email reference exchanges, one-on-one research consultations, and course-specific library information sessions.  The following is a summary of reference and public services provided to the academic community during the Fall semester. As of the last week in December before …

Posted 18 months ago by Allen Foresta

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