We know that you will be working hard this week on your final tests and projects, so let us give you a boost! The Library will be providing free cups of coffee after 5pm beginning Monday, December 12th through Thursday, December 15th.
It's our way of sharing our appreciation and wishing you good luck!
The Columbia College Chicago Library will be closing at 7:00pm on Wednesday, November 23rd, and will reopen on Monday, November 28th at 8:00am.
The College will be closed Thursday through Sunday in observance of the Thanksgiving Day holiday.
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| Photography by Abby Tebeau |
From 2000 to 2007, Jay Wolke photographed in the south of
Italy to
capture the complexity of a region that is colloquially known as
Il mezzogiorno.
What he found in this historic and often troubled
landscape was an elaborate
set of physical, social,and political forces
manifested in an extraordinary tapestry
of visual information.
Join us as he discusses the project and signs copies of his
latest book,
Architecture of Resignation,
Photographs from the Mezzogiorno published
by the Center for American Places (now Columbia
College Chicago
Press). This event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will
be served.
Friday October 28, 2011 | 5:00-6:30pm
Columbia College Chicago Library, 3rd Floor North
624 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60605
Jay Wolke is Professor and Chair of the Art + Design
Department at
Columbia College Chicago and has been an educator since
1980. He is
a celebrated photographer and the author of several books including
All
Around the House: Photographs of American Jewish Communal Life,
published by the Art Institute of Chicago, and Along the Divide:
Photographs of the Dan Ryan Expressway, published by the Center for American Places. |
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| Artist: Rafael E. Torres, Jr., Staff |
Having trouble editing that video you just shot? Want to know how to retouch photos like the pros? Want to redesign your website so it’s mobile-friendly? We can help! There are two great resources available to assist you with your technology questions, both of which can be accessed with your OASIS login.
Lynda.com
This College resource features video tutorials on a wide array of topics, complete with screen caps and visual examples of demonstrations. Lynda is a wonderful resource for those who don't learn well through books, and can help you gain an overview of a familiar topic or learn a totally new skill. Videos lead you through the process or program step by step, teaching you the technical skills and the core concepts behind them.
Safari Tech Books
This Library resource consists of more than 12,000 online e-books, and is a great reference for those who don’t learn well through video or who need to look up specific facts. E-books are presented much the same way as paper books, complete with chapters, indices, screen caps, and diagrams. The main advantage of an e-book, however, is the ability to keyword search. You can find the specific tool, trick, skill, or shortcut to meet your needs quickly and efficiently.
Lynda + Safari Tech Books... Figuring out technology, so you don't have to on your own.
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| Late Night Television, image by Larry Chiat ('02) |
Twentieth Century Cover Designs
September 19 – December 23
Keeping It Together: Paper Clips & Paper Fasteners
September 19 – December 23
Underground and Independent Comics - a new resource from the Library.
The Library has added Berg Fashion Library to our list of databases available to Columbia College Chicago students.
You can scroll through the slideshow of designers...
In 2008, students participated in a summer study tour in Tokyo, Japan. The tour description read:
Love Harajuku street fashion? Big fan of manga, anime, and Japanese pop culture? Interested in Japanese art, design, new media and its history? Join us for a study tour to Tokyo, the cultural capital of Asia where refined traditions, Zen philosophy and tranquil aesthetic coexist with the exaggerated cuteness of animate subculture and imported global influences.
The street fashion images displayed in the Library, 3rd floor, east contain highlights from an exhibit co-created by the Center for Asian Arts and Media at Columbia College Chicago.
The exhibit runs through December 23, 2011.
Do you have Adobe Reader on your Mac? If you're using Safari or Firefox on a Mac, you may have trouble downloading PDFs articles from library databases. The solution is simple - just download Adobe Reader:
• It’s free
• It just takes a few minutes,
• and you just have to do it once
Click the Download Adobe Reader button on the library website and follow the steps to install.
The brief video below outlines the process.
Still having trouble?
Contact us via email or chat (http://lib.colum.edu), phone (312-369-7153) or in person (624 S. Michigan Ave.)
Finding books and articles at the Library just got easier!
There’s a new way to search for them on the Library website.
What is it? How do you get to it? Piece of cake…it’s in the box! The one that says “Books & Articles”. You can now search for both at once - simply enter a search term into the box and away you go!
Need help? Stop by and see a Reference Librarian at the 2nd floor reference desk. For a quick question, use Chat Reference featured on the Library front page (as well as throughout the Library website) or send us an email for in-depth or after hours requests.
Veterans Administration Research and Guidance Center at Columbia College Exhibit
Library, 2nd Floor
August 10th - December 23, 2011
After World War II, Columbia College was an important education center for the Veteran Administration. The GI Bill had far reaching effects at the College that still resonate today. The display features material from the time period, 1945 to 1956, including information about students, disciplines introduced, and alumnae who attended Columbia on the GI Bill, including one of our current trustees. The exhibit is in the Library, 2nd floor west and runs from August 10 until December 23, 2011.
The Archie Lieberman Black Star exhibition features a selection of Lieberman’s photographs during his time with Black Star, a photographic agency offering photojournalism and stock photography services. It is an important supplier of photographs to Life and other magazines. Culled from thousands of negatives, most of the photographs shown in the exhibit were not chosen for their original publications. Despite the variety of content, these striking photographs reveal a sense of humor and an interest in the unusual. Lieberman worked with Black Star for nearly a decade.
The Archie Lieberman Black Star exhibition is part of the Archie Lieberman collection, a generous gift from the Lieberman family to the Archives and Digital Collections at Columbia College Chicago. Lieberman taught photography at Columbia College during the 1960s. Curated by Thatiana Oliveira, a graduate student in Photography at Columbia College Chicago, the exhibit runs through September 30, 2011. An exhibit reception will be held Tuesday September 13, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Library, 3 North.
Columbia College Chicago is pleased to announce its participation in an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded project to plan a portal to Chicago-focused historical collections in 14 area museums, universities, libraries, and other cultural institutions that make up the Chicago Collections Consortium (CCC). Mellon recently awarded $61,000 to the University of Illinois Board of Trustees on behalf of the University of Illinois at Chicago Library who is leading the effort.
The Chicago Collections Consortium, when complete, will provide a web portal to member collections through one single database. Member institutions include: University of Illinois at Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Park District, Chicago Public Library, Newberry Library and the Chicago History Museum.
Columbia College Chicago Library staff members, Kyle Henke and Kerri Willette will serve on two portal working groups to evaluate content, technology needs, functional requirements and implementation approaches. College Archivist, Heidi Marshall and Center for Black Music Head Librarian and Archivist, Suzanne Flandreau are also active participants in the project. For more information, The Chicago Sun Times recently wrote about the project, and you can read about it here.
