The Library is pleased to announce that thanks to a generous contribution from Dr. Sam Floyd and the Center for Black Music Research we have recently added the Black Studies Center database to our growing collection of online scholarly...
The web site of the Columbia College Chicago Archives is now live! Here’s an introduction to the Archives from our College Archivist, Heidi Marshall: Who were Columbia’s past presidents? Has the school always been known as Columbia College Chicago?...
From today’s New York Times: “Viking is releasing a 50th-anniversary edition on Thursday (the original came out Sept. 5, 1957), and is also publishing, for the first time in book form, the original version that Kerouac typed on a...
View a full list of this month’s latest arrivals. Here are a few selected works (click the links to be taken to the full catalog record): Rock Music: Led Zeppelin (also known as Zoso) / Led Zeppelin Techno Music:...
View a full list of this month’s latest arrivals. Here are a few selected films (click the images to be taken to the full catalog record): Batman How art made the world Expo : magic of the White City...
View a full list of this month’s latest arrivals. Here are a few selected titles (click the images to be taken to the full catalog record): Embroidering identities : a century of Palestinian clothing Gothic fantasy : the films...
Our intrepid colleague, Shirley Bennett, has sent us a dispatch from New Orleans (see this post for some background on the trip). Here are some excerpts: “The Mosquitoes are a fact of life here…and they have deadly aim! They...
Another film great has passed away. Michelangelo Antonioni, one of Italy’s most famed modernist film directors, died on Monday at his home in Rome. “Mr. Antonioni is probably best known for “Blowup,” a 1966 drama set in swinging London...
Ingmar Bergman, widely considered one of the greatest directors in motion picture history, died July 30th at the age of 89. His death was announced by the Ingmar Bergman Foundation. The Library has many books and other resources covering...
Welcome, incoming First-Year students and new Transfer students! One of the highlights of Orientation (which has been taking place throughout this month and will continue into next month) is picking up your shiny new Columbia College ID card. Not...