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Area Studies
Distributed throughout various libraries, Area Studies at Columbia consists of the following individual collections. (See each library for region-specific information on collections, services and resources). African Studies, Latin American & Iberian Studies, Middle East & Islamic Studies, Russian, Eurasian & East European Studies, South & Southeast Asian Studies More... |
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Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library
Located in Avery Hall, the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library collects books and periodicals in architecture, historic preservation, art history, painting, sculpture, graphic arts, decorative arts, city planning, real estate, and archaeology. The Library contains more than 250,000 volumes and receives approximately 1,500 periodicals. More... |
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Barnard College Library *Columbia University Affiliate
Located in Lehman Hall on the Barnard campus, the Barnard College Library contains approximately 6,000 reference books, primarily in the social sciences and the humanities. Reference librarians are available during daytime, evening and weekend hours to provide assistance in finding information through printed and electronic sources. More... |
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Biological Sciences Library
Located in the Sherman Fairchild Center, the Biological Sciences Library houses over 52,000 volumes and subscribes to about 335 serials. The collection is particularly strong in the areas of molecular biology, biochemistry, cell biology, genetics and neurobiology. The areas of population and evolutionary biology, and plant physiology are also collected at a research level. More... |
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Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary
Located on the campus of Union Theological Seminary, the Burke Library is the largest theological library in the western hemisphere, containing rich collections for theological study and research. With holdings of over 700,000 items, the Library is recognized as one of the premier libraries in its field and includes extensive holdings of unique and special materials. More... |
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Business & Economics Library
Located in Uris Hall, the Watson Library of Business and Economics houses one of the largest collections in the U.S. for the study of management, finance, economics, industry and related fields. The library's collection reflects an emphasis on the economics of developed and developing nations, international business conditions and practices, global trade, emerging markets and international securities trading. More... |
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Butler Library
Butler Library houses 2 million volumes which comprise the University's collections in the humanities, with particular strengths in history, government documents, social sciences, literature, philosophy and religion. The building also houses numerous service points, including BMC, ETS, ILL, LIO, OHRO, RBML, Butler Reference, and the Milstein undergraduate library. More... |
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Butler Media Center
Located in Butler Library, the Butler Media Center is a 21 workstation facility supporting the playback of multiple visual and audio formats. In addition, the Center supports multimedia development for students and faculty with the addition of three digital video editing stations. More... |
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Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research
CHRDR supports the community of teachers, researchers, students, and law and social justice advocates working in the multidisciplinary sphere of Human Rights, through collections, services and public programs, and is the official repository for the archives of major Human Rights organizations including Amnesty International USA, Human Rights Watch and others. More... |
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Chemistry Library
Located in Chandler Hall, the Chemistry Library's holdings now total over 48,000 volumes, showing strength in organic, inorganic, physical and theoretical chemistry, organic and natural products synthesis, chemical reactions, catalysis, polymerization, stereochemistry, solid state chemistry, photochemistry, and electrochemistry. More... |
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Columbia University Archives
Located in Butler Library on the 6th Floor, within the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the University Archives contains historical records, published materials, and objects relating to the history of Columbia University, 1754 to the present. More...
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East Asian Library (Starr)
Located in Kent Hall, the C. V. Starr East Asian Library is one of the major collections for the study of East Asia in the United States, with nearly 750,000 volumes of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, Mongol, Manchu, and Western-language materials and over 5,000 periodical titles. More... |
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Electronic Data Service
Located in Lehman Library in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) building, the Electronic Data Service (EDS) is operated jointly by the Columbia University Libraries and Columbia University Information Technology (CUIT). EDS supports instruction and research that involve numeric data resources. More... |
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Electronic Text Service
Located in Butler Library, the Electronic Text Service (ETS) is a research and instructional facility of the Columbia University Libraries designed to help Columbia faculty and students incorporate computer-based textual and bibliographic information into their research, study, and teaching. More... |
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Engineering Library
Located in the Mudd Building, the Ambrose Monell Engineering Library has a collection of more than 216,000 volumes and receives about 900 serials. The collection includes civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineering; computer science; metallurgy; mining; operations research; applied physics; applied mathematics; and nuclear engineering. More... |
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Geology Library
Located in Schermerhorn Hall, the Geology Library's collection of over 93,000 volumes and 1,200 serial subscriptions is particularly strong in the areas of traditional terrestrial geology. Extensive collections of state and foreign geological surveys and societies go back to the 18th century. Subject areas collected include mineralogy, petrology, sedimentology, hydrology, stratigraphy, and paleontology. More... |
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Geoscience Library at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Located in Lamont Hall at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the Geoscience Library houses 30,000 volumes and subscribes to approximately 500 journals. The subject scope of the collection is broad, including marine biology, physical geography, climatology, and rock mechanics, in addition to geochemistry, geophysics, and paleomagnetics. More... |
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Health Sciences Library
Located in the Hammer Building on Columbia's Medical Center campus, the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library serves Columbia University's schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, and public health, as well as other health care, instructional and research programs at the Columbia University Medical Center and the New York Presbyterian Hospital. The Library is one of the largest academic health sciences libraries in the country. More... |
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Jewish Theological Seminary Library *Columbia University Affiliate
The Library contains a collection of core classic Judaic texts, standard works, commentaries, discourse, encyclopedias, concordances, dictionaries, atlases, indexes, festschriften and an extensive section of bibliographies in all fields of Judaica. It also houses over 1,000 periodicals, a music collection, and other educational resources. More... |
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Journalism Library
The Journalism Library features a small collection of reference books, circulating books, and current periodicals, as well as the most recent five years' of Master's projects completed by graduates of the School. Reference works include dictionaries, guides, handbooks, directories, atlases, and style and usage manuals. More... |
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Law Library
Located in Jerome L. Green Hall, the Arthur W. Diamond Law Library holds over one million volumes, including books, serials, and microforms. 200+ computers or LAN jacks and several wireless nodes facilitate access to extensive online subscription content. More... |
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Lehman Social Sciences Library
Located in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) Building, The Lehman Social Sciences Library holds a contemporary collection of more than 330,000 volumes and approximately 1,700 current periodical titles. It includes materials in political science, sociology, social and cultural anthropology, political geography, journalism, and environmental science, and houses EDS, Maps, and U.S. Government Documents. More... |
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Mathematics & Science Library
Located in the Mathematics building, the Mathematics & Science library holds two distinct collections. Mathematics holdings exceed 37,400 volumes covering algebra, number theory, geometry, topology, statistics, and probability. The science collection, totaling about 75,000 volumes, consists of general and multidisciplinary materials including the history of science and technology. More... |
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Milstein Undergraduate Library
Located on Butler's 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors, the Philip L. Milstein Family College Library provides materials and services geared toward Columbia's undergraduates. The collection holds about 100,000 volumes, and is especially strong in history, literature, and the social sciences supporting the undergraduate curricula in Columbia College, General Studies, and to a limited extent, SEAS. More... |
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Music & Arts Library
Located in Dodge Hall, the Gabe M. Wiener Music & Arts Library's onsite collection totals over 60,000 printed items, including monographs and serials on western and non-western music, as well as music scores; 20,000 sound and video recordings in multiple formats; CD-ROM indexes and multi-media titles; and several hundred microforms of scholarly interest. More... |
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Off-site Shelving Facility (ReCAP)
Located in Plainsboro, NJ, the ReCAP shelving facility helps alleviate overcrowded conditions in the stacks in the Columbia Libraries. Operated jointly with the New York Public Library and Princeton University, the ReCAP facility currently holds over 1 million items from the three institutions. A courier service offers next business day delivery of requested items to any library on campus. More... |
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Oral History Research Office
Located in Butler Library, the Oral History Research Office is the oldest and largest organized oral history program in the world. Founded in 1948 by Pulitzer Prize winning historian Allan Nevins, the oral history collection now contains nearly 8,000 taped memoirs, and nearly 1,000,000 pages of transcript. These memoirs include interviews with a wide variety of historical figures. More... |
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Physics & Astronomy Library
Located in the Pupin Laboratories Building, the Physics & Astronomy Library contains 36,000 volumes and 300 periodical titles. The physics holdings emphasize theoretical and experimental atomic, nuclear and particle physics, relativity, quantum theory, mathematical physics, high energy physics, optics, radiation, and radioactivity. The astronomy collection is strong in descriptive astronomy and astrophysics. More... |
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Psychology Library
Located in Schermerhorn Hall, the Psychology Library contains 36,000 volumes, approximately 200 current serial titles and about 70 videos. The collection is strong in the area of experimental psychology as related to social psychology, personality, cognition, perception, sensation and psychophysics; animal learning and behavior; and neuroscience. More... |
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Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Located on Butler Library's 6th floor, the Rare Book & Manuscript Library is home to many of Columbia's greatest treasures. The library contains cuneiform tablets, papyri, ostraca, astronomical and mathematical instruments, maps, works of art, photographs, posters, early printing presses and papermaking equipment, type specimens, sound and moving image recordings, theater set models, puppets, masks, ephemera and memorabilia. More... |
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Social Work Library
Located in the Columbia School of Social Work, the Social Work Library contains more than 75,000 volumes, comprising one of the world's premiere social work and social services collections. It provides comprehensive coverage of the various areas of social work including child welfare, gerontology, health and health care, international social welfare, marriage and the family, and social policy. More... |
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Teachers College Library *Columbia University Affiliate
Located in Russell Hall at Teachers College, the Milbank Memorial Library is one of the nation's largest and most comprehensive research libraries in education. The scope of the collections reflects the historic commitment to advanced study in education, psychology, and the health professions, including about 500,000 printed volumes together with substantial non-print collections.
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