It's the last stretch of finals, but we still have free coffee for you!

It's almost over, but there's still studying to be done, projects to be completed, grades to be submitted and finals to be taken. 

Let us help you get through next couple of days.  Need a little pick me up? Stop by the Library for a free cup of coffee during finals week to help get you through!  Prefer tea or cocoa?  That's available too!

The last two days are Wednesday Dec. 11 and Thursday Dec. 12 from 6:00-9:00pm at the Coffee Cart (first floor of the Library), courtesy of your friends at the Library!

Good luck on finals!

Join the Library at Holipalooza 2013!

 

Join us at the Holipalooza 2013 celebration on Thursday, Dec. 12th from 5-8pm at the Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash, 1st floor. 

 

An annual Columbia College Chicago student tradition, Holipalooza celebrates the creative spirit of our campus. There will be raffles, holiday-themed food, games and vendor booths from local organizations. Come by and see us at the Library table, have some apple cider and get your picture taken!

 

Holipalooza is also a student-to-student fundraising initiative for ColumbiaCares, an emergency fund for students in crisis.  For more information about both programs, the Columbia Chronicle did a recent article about ColumbiaCares which can be found here.

Celebrating William Russo: Artist and Educator

The Columbia College Chicago Library is currently showcasing a William Russo exhibit on the first floor and on Saturday, December 7th, there will be a panel discussion of Russo’s work and teachings as well as a benefit show at the Jazz Showcase. Proceeds will fund the William Russo Endowed Scholarship. 

Other activities include: a screening of the animated feature by John and Faith Hubley, Everybody Rides the Carousel with a soundtrack score by William Russo, and the Lee Konitz Residency Concerts featuring Lee Konitz and the Columbia College Jazz Ensemble led by Scott Hall.

For more information on the William Russo celebration and these events, go to www.colum.edu/russo

The Giving Tree: Give a Gift to a Chicago Child in Need

The Columbia College Chicago Library and The Center for Community Arts Partnerships (CCAP)  are again providing the Columbia community an opportunity to give a gift to a child in need from one of Columbia's partner Chicago public elementary schools through The Giving Tree.  This year, 40 students from Mahalia Jackson Elementary School will be participating.

The Giving Tree will be located across from the Circulation desk in the Library. It will contain ornaments representing each child and the gift that they would like for the holiday season. Students, faculty and staff can select a child's gift by pulling the corresponding ornament off the tree, check out their ornament at the Library Circulation desk, and then purchase the gift noted on the ornament.

Please wrap the selected gift and bring it to the Library Circulation Desk by 8pm on December 11th, 2013.

Gifts will be delivered to students at Mahalia Jackson Elementary on Friday, December 13th, 2013. All are welcome to participate or attend!  Send questions to givingtree@ccap.colum.edu.

Create Happy Memories…One Gift at a Time

 

Art in the Library Reception

Art in the Library Opening & Reception

Thursday, November 21st, 2013, 5:00-7:00pm
Columbia College Chicago Library
624 S. Michigan Ave.
3rd Floor North

Untitled photography by Liz Shively, student

Join us – Thursday, November 21st, 2013 from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. for the Art in the Library Opening and Reception for the Winter 2013 Exhibition in 3rd floor north.

Presenting the work of Columbia College Chicago students, faculty, staff and alumni, the Art in the Library program exhibits works in all forms of visual arts, including sculpture, painting, drawings, and paper and book arts. Exhibitions by different artists are shown quarterly on a rotating basis.

Untitled collage/mixed print by Nick Marchese, student

For a preview of the show visit the Art in the Library website and view work from some of the artists featured in the show.

The Art in the Library Committee welcomes all Columbia College Chicago artists to submit work for consideration.

Please visit the Art in the Library website for more information including submission guidelines, artwork forms, and examples of current and former exhibits.

Light refreshments will be served.

An Evening with David Plowden: Tuesday, November 19, 2013

The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago and the Columbia College Chicago Library present An Evening with David Plowden: Closing Reception for Heartland: The Plains and the Prairie exhibit on Tuesday, November 19th from 5:30-7:30pm in the 3rd Floor North Reading Room of the Library.  The Library is located at 624 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago IL.

David Plowden’s work spans over fifty years. He has authored more than twenty photography books, including The American Barn, Vanishing Point: Fifty Years of Photography and Requiem for Steam. Plowden’s photographs can be found in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Beinecke Library at Yale University, the Center for Creative Photography, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution.

The reception begins at 5:30pm, followed by a talk by David Plowden at 6:00pm. He will be signing copies of his latest work, Heartland: The Plains and the Prairie at 7:00pm. Copies will be available for sale at the event.

Heartland: The Plains and the Prairie Exhibit - Photographs by David Plowden

Photograph by David Plowden

The Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Columbia College Chicago Library are pleased to display prints by photographer David Plowden.  The photographs on exhibit are from Plowden's latest book,  Heartland: The Plains and the Prairie, and will be available for viewing from November 11-November 19th 2013 in the 3rd Floor North Reading Room during Library hours.  The Library is located at 624 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL.

David Plowden’s work spans over fifty years. He has authored more than twenty photography books, including The American Barn, Vanishing Point: Fifty Years of Photography and Requiem for Steam. Plowden’s photographs can be found in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Beinecke Library at Yale University, the Center for Creative Photography, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution.

A closing reception for the exhibit, featuring a talk by David Plowden will be held on Tuesday, November 19th from 5:30-7:00pm in the same location.

Friends of the Library Signature Showcase presents: Laurence Minsky

 

 

Columbia College Chicago Library and the Friends of the Library welcome Laurence Minsky, Associate Professor in the Marketing Communication Department at Columbia College Chicago and editor of The Get a Job Workshop: How to Find your Way to a Creative Career in Advertising, Branding, Collateral, Digital, Experimental and More (2013) as our featured speaker for the Fall 2013 Friends of the Library Signature Showcase. 

 

This program is part of the Inauguration Week Events, and President and CEO, Kwang-Wu Kim, will be in attendance.

 

Columbia College Chicago Library

November 5, 2013 from 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Third Floor North

624 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago IL 60605      

Light refreshments will be served.
 

Recognized for his strategic and creative skills, Mr. Minsky’s experience as a Creative Director/Writer/Educator includes brand development, brand activation, brand & direct response advertising, promotions, interactive, local store marketing, and new product development. He is an award-winning creative and the author of numerous books including the popular How to Succeed in Advertising When All You Have is Talent (2007).

Copies of Mr. Minsky’s books will be available for sale and signing at the end of the program.  This presentation is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.  

 



New badges for library staff

In the Library and need a little help? The answer to a question, maybe?

We totally feel you! 

Newly designed identifying badges are now being worn by Columbia College Library staff so that you may easily locate us wherever you need assistance!

So spy out someone wearing one of these:

…then ask away!

Alumni on 5: Fall Exhibition & Opening Reception

Join us for the Alumni on 5 Fall Exhibition & Opening Reception this Friday, October 18, 2013 from 5pm-7pm on the fifth floor. Meet some of the alumni artists, view their work, and mingle over food and drinks. This exhibition's theme is the Start of Something and is curated Nick Albertson (MFA '13).

Celebrate Banned Books Week!

Sunday, September 22, 2013 marks the thirty-first anniversary of Banned Books Week!

Sponsored by the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, and many other organizations, Banned Books Week  is an annual celebration of the freedom to read and of individual expression.  It is also an opportunity to bring attention to the challenges to and restriction attempts of materials in libraries and bookstores across the nation. 
Members of the book community, including librarians, teachers, booksellers, comic book artists and journalists come together each year to advocate against censorship and the free expression of ideas.

Check out the Banned Books Week You Tube channel and find out what authors such as Junot Diaz, Delia Ephron, Sherman Alexie, R.L. Stine and others have to say about book censorship.

You can get involved by participating in a new initiative through Twitter.  For the first time this year, Twitter parties will help promote the message of Banned Books Week.  Parties will be held from 11am to 1pm Central time on Monday, Sept. 23, and Wednesday, Sept. 25, from 1pm to 3pm  Central time.  Supporters are urged to tweet using the hashtag #bannedbooksweek.

More information about the Twitter parties and other ways to be involved in Banned Books Week is available on the Banned Books Week website, http://bannedbooksweek.org/.

Art in the Library Opening & Reception

Art in the Library Opening & Reception

Wednesday, September 18th, 2013, 5:00-7:00pm
Columbia College Chicago Library
624 S. Michigan Ave.
3rd Floor North

Untitled photograph by Liz Shively, student

Join us - Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. for the Art in the Library Opening and Reception for the Spring 2013 Exhibition in 3rd floor north.

Presenting the work of Columbia College Chicago students, faculty, staff and alumni, the Art in the Library program exhibits works in all forms of visual arts, including sculpture, painting, drawings, and paper and book arts. Exhibitions by different artists are shown quarterly on a rotating basis.

"Pottery & Violence" photograph by Pilar Amado, student

For a preview of the show visit the Art in the Library website and view work from some of the artists featured in the show.

The Art in the Library Committee welcomes all Columbia College Chicago artists to submit work for consideration.

Please visit the Art in the Library website for more information including submission guidelines, artwork forms, and examples of current and former exhibits.

Light refreshments will be served.

 

Celebrate Constitution Day: Tuesday September 17th, 2013

Constitution Day is quickly approaching, but what exactly is it?  Constitution Day is a day commemorating the signing of the United States Constitution which occurred  on September 17, 1787.  Since 2004, Constitution Day has been recognized each September 17th as a national day of observance, one for American citizens to learn about the importance of the Constitution and know their rights.   Find out more about Constitution Day here:

Each year Columbia College Chicago observes Constitution Day, and this year we have exciting activities planned for the College community.  First, the Library will host voter sign-ups at two campus locations. Voter sign up forms, information and goodies will be available at each station, including FREE copies of the US Constitution in both English and Spanish.

Voter sign-up
Tuesday, September 17,  10am - 2pm
624 S. Michigan, Library, 1st Floor  AND 623 S. Wabash, Lobby

In October, we will continue our recognition of Constitution Day by screening the award-winning 2013 documentary, Gideon's Army, directed by Dawn Porter.   The documentary follows three young public defenders in the South, where sentencing is exceptionally steep and the prison population swollen. The film takes its name from Gideon v. Wainwright, the landmark 1963 Supreme Court decision that guarantees the right of legal representation to all criminal defendants.     

Gideon’s Army screening and panel discussion
Thursday, October 24, 6pm
Film Row Cinema, 1104 South Wabash, 8th floor
This program is FREE and open to the public.

Printing in the Library

Key Things to Know:

• Black and white printing costs 10 cents per page; color is 50 cents per page.*
• Campus Cards (your Columbia ID) are required for all print jobs. For information about adding money to your Campus Card, please visit the Campus Card Office website:
  https://columbia-sp.blackboard.com/eaccounts/AnonymousHome.aspx
• Oasis course schedules and Library Catalog records are free to print, but you still need to swipe your Campus Card to release the print jobs.
• Don’t have a Campus Card? Purchase a Go Print card with cash on the 1^st Floor – also known as cash-to-card.  
• Color printing must be directed to the Public Color Printer located on the 1^st Floor; color printing is only available for those paying with the Campus Card (not the cash card).
• In a hurry? There is a Quick Print station available on the 1^st Floor for printing Microsoft Word documents only. 

How to print:

Send the print job as you normally would. Do not change the printer setting unless you want to print in color. Only if you are printing in color do you need to change the printer setting to the1st Floor Color printer.

Make a note of the number on the computer.

Go to the monitor next to the printer.

Select the bubble that corresponds to the computer on which you are working.

Then select the items you would like to print (note the color changes to green to indicate you’ve selected it).

Now, press continue and then swipe your campus card.

Locating your printer:

There are computers on every floor of the library and printers on the first three floors. It works like this:

• 1^st Floor computers send print jobs to the 1^st Floor printer.
•  2^nd Floor computers send print jobs to both the 2^nd floor printer and the 1^st Floor printer.
•  3^rd Floor computers send print jobs to both the 3^rd Floor printer and the 1^st Floor printer. 
•  4^th Floor computers send print jobs to the 1^st Floor printer. 
•  5^th Floor computers send print jobs to the 1^st Floor printer.

EXCEPTION: If you are paying for printing with cash, you will pay and pick up your print job from the 1^st Floor printer.  Remember, when paying with cash, the prints are only available in black and white.

Go Print cash-to-card instructions: 

Go Print cash-to-card machine

The Go Print cash-to-card machine only takes dollar bills (no coins). It costs $1 to purchase a new print card – 50 cents of that $1 is for the cost of the card and 50 cents can be used to pay for printing. Adding more money to the card can be done at any time at the Go Print cash-to-card machine.

Still confused? Ask library staff for help. We don’t mind, really!

*All fees are subject to change without notice.