Ask a Librarian Goes Live

In order to provide extra help during the last two weeks of the semester, the Ask a Librarian service has gone live on the third floor. Reference and Instruction Librarians Shirley Bennett and Paula Epstein are shown here making themselves accessible to students with laptop at the ready.

Celebrate National Library Week!

The American Library Association has designated April 13-19 as National Library Week. Stop by the Columbia College Chicago Library and celebrate with us!



Learn more about National Library Week !

Join Us at Spring "Art of the Library"

(Painting by Janet Talbot)

Thursday, 04/17/08, 5-7pm
Columbia College Chicago Library, Third Floor
624 S. Michigan Avenue

Art of the Library is an ongoing series (four times a year) of exhibitions featuring the art of Columbia College Chicago students, faculty and staff. More information here.

Cole Robertson Awarded CAAP Individual Artist Grant

We congratulate Visual Resources Coordinator Cole Robertson, who was just awarded a City of Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) Individual Artist Grant for 2008. Cole will also be showing his photography in the Evanston Art Center's juried Biennial exhibition. Shown here is one of Cole's works, entitled Wrestle. See more of Cole's work at his website.

Library Student Worker News

Jess Rose, student worker in our Reference Department, represented Columbia College last night at the Ninth Annual Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival. Jess read three poems, followed by the readings of students from 11 other Chicago universities. It is quite an honor to be chosen to read in the Citywide festival. Congratulations, Jess!

We also wish to congratulate Nate Gray, who has just been accepted to the University of Michigan's Graduate Library School, the School of Information, where he will attend school in the fall.