DIY: Planning for Perpetuity: Pixels, Paint, and Physical Materials - March 10 @ 6pm

D.I.Y.: Planning for Perpetuity: Pixels, Paint, and Physical Materials
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
6:00-8:00pm
Columbia College Chicago Library
624 S. Michigan Ave. 3rd Fl East


The d.i.y. panel discussion series at the Columbia College Chicago Library focuses on ‘do it yourself’ fields, in which many from the Columbia community are active.

Each session brings together three independent artists who share their work experience and discuss the evolution of and inspiration for their art, ingredients for success, and advice for up-and-coming artists.

Podcasts will be available for most sessions.


Learn how to how to protect your work so it’s there when you need it -- tomorrow or five years from tomorrow. Focusing on digital, fine art, and physical material formats, the panelists will address long-term care and will answer questions from the audience.

Panelists:

Heidi Marshall: Head of College Archives & Digital Collections at Columbia College Chicago. Her work focuses on preserving the history and activities of the College in formats ranging from century-old documents to HD video. Hired at Columbia to establish its archives in 2005, she holds a MS in Library Science and a MA in American History from Simmons College, Boston and is active in the Society of American Archivists, the Chicago Area Archivists, concentrating on electronic records and digital preservation.

Laura Moeller: a conservator at Graphic Conservation company since 2006 and Columbia alumnus with a BFA in Photography. Laura has a background in printmaking, bookbinding and letterpress arts as well as art history and is an active member of the American Institute for Conservation, Chicago Area Conservation Group and the arts scene. Laura bridges the gap between expectations of artists and the reality of future conservation needs based on chosen materials.

Dr. Michael J. Welsh: an Associate Professor of Chemistry in the Science and Mathematics Department at Columbia College Chicago. He earned a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Illinois Champaign Urbana and a B.S. in Chemistry from Bradley University, Peoria Illinois. His research interests include new teaching methods, chemical demonstrations, and promoting student understanding of the role chemistry plays in the everyday life of the liberal arts student, and in particular the role chemistry plays in the production and conservation of art and cultural artifacts. Over the past ten years, he has developed and taught a course taught at Columbia College Chicago called Chemistry of Art and Color and is currently working on a course called Chemistry of Art Conservation.

Refreshments will be served.

Art in the Library Opening & Reception

Join us - Thursday, February 18th from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. for the Art in the Library Opening and Reception for the Winter 2010 Exhibition in 3rd floor north.

Columbia College Chicago Library, Third Floor (in the new Library wing)
624 S. Michigan Avenue. Light refreshments will be served.


Vision. Sound. Movement.

The Art in the Library program at Columbia College Chicago provides an open, supportive and inviting setting to showcase the talent and creativity of our own community of artists. Since its inception in 2002, Art in the Library has offered library visitors the opportunity to experience the rich cultural diversity and progressive attitudes which thrive in the Columbia environment.

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.



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.

Media Production Center featured on Chicago Tonight - WTTW

On Monday, February 8th Chicago Tonight on WTTW featured an interview with Jeanne Gang, the architect of the new Media Production Center at Columbia College Chicago. The new building is highlighted throughout the interview and also included are scenes from recent classes held in the new space.

College Art Association visits the Library for An Evening at Columbia

Art in the Library is the final stop on An Evening at Columbia College Chicago gallery tour. This event is being held in conjunction with the College Art Association conference, February 10-13, 2010.

Thursday, February 11, 6 – 9 p.m.
An Evening at Columbia College Chicago

Various locations across South Loop campus, free

Join Columbia College Chicago for an evening of exhibitions, performances, film screenings, gallery talks and more. Over a dozen exhibitions are on view across campus, and trolleys will transport guests to and from the hotel, and to the various events on Columbia’s campus. Trolleys will begin pick-up of CAA attendees at the Hyatt at 5:45 p.m. and will continue making making trips until 9:00 p.m.

Event #12: Art in the Library
LOCATION: Columbia College Chicago Library | 624 S. Michigan Ave., 3rd Fl North

Presenting the work of Columbia College Chicago students, faculty, staff, and alumni, Art in the Library exhibits all forms of visual arts, including sculpture, painting, drawings, and book and paper arts.

Website Downtime, Friday, Feb 5th from 6-11PM

The library website will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5th, 6PM - 11PM.

What are you doing on the library website on a Friday night anyway? Now go out and have some fun!

3rd Floor Complete!

Come take a look at the newly completed 3rd floor of the library.

• Additional shelving - and Art books from 700-739
• New study rooms and study tables
• Computers workstations

Book shifting is still occurring on the 4th floor - Art books from 740-799. This will eliminate the overflow carts in the 770's, 780's, and 790's. Pardon our dust while this work is completed.

Call for Entries - Chicago Underground Film Festival

Columbia College Chicago Filmmakers: Chicago Underground Film Festival Call for Entries - Open Now!


Early Deadline: March 1, 2010 ($30 entry fee)
Final Deadline: March 15, 2010 ($40 entry fee)
"The Chicago Underground Film Festival exists to showcase the defiantly independent filmmaker. Our mission is to promote films and videos that dissent radically in form, technique, or content from the "indie" mainstream and to present adventurous works that challenge and transcend commercial and audience expectations ... if you suspect that your film is "underground", then it probably is."



More information and a downloadable entry form available at http://www.cuff.org

Remodeled 3rd Floor & Expansion of Art Book Collection

Coming next month a large section of the Art Book Collection - call numbers from 700-739 - will be moved to the 3rd Floor of the library. This move will free up space on the 4th Floor and will eliminate the overflow areas in the 770's, 780's and 790's. Please bear with us while this major shifting of materials takes place. We think the end result will be well worth the disruption!




In addition to the book shift, the 3rd Floor West has been completely remodeled and will include additional computer stations, furniture and seating and two new study rooms.



Starting on Monday, February 1st the call number ranges for each floor will be as follows:
2nd Floor: Reference Materials, Oversize Books, Magazines, Journals & Newspapers, and Career Corner Resources
3rd Floor: Circulating Collection 000-739
4th Floor: Circulating Collection 740-799
5th Floor: Circulating Collection 800-999

For more information on the collections and services located in the library see the Library Floor Directory.

Welcome Back!

The Library resumes normal hours with the start of spring semester. Welcome Back!


Spring Term : January 25, 2010 - MAY 15, 2010*
Monday-Thursday 8:00 am - 10:00 pm
Friday 8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Saturday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sunday 12:00 pm- 5:00 pm

Spring Break : March 22, 2010 - March 27, 2010*

Monday-Friday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

*EXCEPTIONS:

The Library will be closed on the following dates:

• Saturday and Sunday, March 27 & 28, 2010
• Sunday, April 4, 2010 (Easter)

Happy New Year and Library J-Term hours

It's 2010! A very Happy New Year is extended to all within our Columbia community, and that means YOU!




During the J-Term session, the Library hours will be as follows from Monday, January 4, through Friday, January 23, 2010:

J-Term : January 4, 2010 - January 23, 2010*
Monday-Thursday: 8:00 am - 7:00 pm
Friday: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday: CLOSED

*EXCEPTION:
The Library will be closed on the following date:
Monday, January 18, 2010 (Dr. Martin Luther King Holiday)

Regular Library hours resume on Monday, January 25th.

Library Survey--We want to hear from you!

Dear Students,

We want to hear what you think about the Library! Here's your chance to tell us what you think, so please take a moment and complete this survey. As a bonus, you may become eligible to receive a $25 gift card to Jewel-Osco or some cool movie swag from Warner Brothers. The swag and the movie, you ask? INVICTUS t-shirts, baseball caps, posters, books movie passes and cds!

INVICTUS (latin for "unconquered") is Clint Eastwood's latest film, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon and is based upon John Carlin's New York Times bestselling book, Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Changed a Nation.

The survey will be available through the end of the year, so there is still time!

Free Coffee During Finals Week

We know that finals are this week, and you'll be needing some energy to keep you fueled while studying or finishing up your project(s). The Library will be offering free Caribou Coffee this week, from Monday, December 14th through Thursday December 17th from 6:00pm to 9:00pm.


Good luck on finals, and remember...if you need help be sure to Ask-A-Librarian.Visit us in person or by chat, phone, or email. We are here just for you!

Archie Lieberman Photographs and Collection

A collection of photographs by Archie Lieberman are on display in the library through January 25th. The collection is viewable on the Library 2nd Floor West, 3rd Floor West, and 3rd Floor North.

The Columbia College Chicago Archives holds the definitive collection of Archie Lieberman material that chronicles the professional, creative life of this working photographer and author.


The Archie Lieberman Collection contains the work of a professional photojournalist from the 1950s to the early 2000s. His photographs appeared in magazines such as Look, Life, and Time and he worked for Black Star Agency and for corporations like Land’s End, Acme Steel, and Inland Steel. His photographs have been exhibited in the United States and abroad and he also was author of or photographer for over twenty books. The job notebooks he kept allows access to the many prints, slides, negatives, correspondence, and photographs in his collection.

His passion for his work is best seen in two the multi-decade photographic projects, Farm Boy and Neighbors, that capture American farm life in Illinois. He also worked with Ray Bradbury to produce The Mummies of Guanajuato, with his photographs of the preserved corpses in that Mexican town that accompany Bradbury’s text, and with novelist Meyer Levin on The Story of Israel.

Upcoming Events in the Library - Dec. 9 and Dec. 10

Summer in Florence Information Meeting
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Columbia College Chicago Library
624 S. Michigan, 3rd floor east
5:00-6:30pm
Sponsored by the Academic Initiatives and International Programs


Minds of Winter Student Poetry Reading
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Columbia College Chicago Library
624 S. Michigan, 3rd floor east
4:00-6:15pm
Sponsored by the English Department

Art in the Library Opening & Reception

Join us - Thursday, November 19 from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. - for the Art in the Library Opening and Reception for the Winter 2009 Exhibition in 3rd floor north.

Columbia College Chicago Library, Third Floor (in the new Library wing)
624 S. Michigan Avenue. Light refreshments will be served.


Vision. Sound. Movement.

The Art in the Library program at Columbia College Chicago provides an open, supportive and inviting setting to showcase the talent and creativity of our own community of artists. Since its inception in 2002, Art in the Library has offered library visitors the opportunity to experience the rich cultural diversity and progressive attitudes which thrive in the Columbia environment.

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.



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.

Music Online's Jazz Music Library adds MORE content

Jazz Music Library recently released more than 2,000 albums (over 30,000 tracks!) of great jazz recordings from Verve, Impulse! Records, GRP, A&M Records, Blue Thumb Records, Geffen, Decca, Universal Classics & Jazz, Marsalis Music, and more.


Notable artists/ensembles included in this release:

• Alice Coltrane
• Anita O'Day
• Billie Holiday
• Bing Crosby
• Branford Marsalis
• Cassandra Wilson
• Diana Krall
• Dinah Washington
• Duke Ellington
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Glenn Miller Orchestra
• Herbie Hancock
• John Coltrane
• Lionel Hampton
• Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
• Nina Simone
• Sarah Vaughan
• Shirley Horn
• Spyro Gyra

Live recordings from legendary venues such as the Village Vanguard, Newport Jazz Festival, The Jazz Workshop, Montreux Jazz Festival, The Swing Cat's Ball, Pep's, Birdland, and La Bonbonniere


Recordings from JAZZ AT THE PHILHARMONIC, featuring Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, and concerts from the 1940's

Recordings from the JAZZ MASTERS SERIES, featuring compilations from artists such as Cannonball Adderley, Jimmy Smith, Stan Getz & Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine

Recordings from the MARSALIS MUSIC HONORS SERIES, featuring music from Michael Carvin, Jimmy Cobb, Bob French, and Alvin Batiste

COMPLETE LABEL RECORDINGS from artists such as Bill Evans (The Complete Bill Evans on Verve), John Coltrane (The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings), Count Basie (The Complete Decca Recordings), Sarah Vaughan (The Complete Sarah Vaughan on Mercury), and more

This release brings Jazz Music Library to 60,000 tracks and makes it the largest resource for streaming audio in jazz.

Take the Library Survey!

Did you know that the new study rooms in the Library are there because students told us they wanted them?

The updated reading and study spaces throughout the Library are a result of student feedback.

The Library Staff wants to hear from you.

Providing resources and services to you so you can succeed in your coursework is the reason the Library exists!

Please let us know what you think about the resources and services we offer so we can keep the good things going and improve when needed.

Our goal is 400-500 respondents. Help us reach our goal!

By completing this survey you may become eligible to receive a $25 Jewel/Osco gift card.

John Fischetti Manuscript Collection in the College Archives

New Digital Collection of John R. Fischetti Sketchbooks & Cartoons

Columbia College Chicago Library is delighted to offer a new digital resource - the John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Sketchbook Project - showcasing the work of the Pulitzer-prize winning political cartoonist and syndicated cartoonist who drew for such publications as the Chicago Sun, The New York Herald Tribune, Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, The New York Times, and Stars and Stripes. John Fischetti (1916-1980) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for political cartooning in 1969. View the collection at: http://www.lib.colum.edu/archives/mss_fischetti/.

Through a generous donation from his estate, Columbia College Chicago received the majority of John Fischetti’s sketchbooks in which he worked out ideas for his cartoons. Writing about his sketchbook use in his autobiography, Fischetti said "before 1961 I used to doodle ideas on the backs of envelopes, scraps of paper and yellow copy paper... Since even half-formed ideas are invaluable, I decided to use layout pads for the gestating periods. By dating each page, it turned out to be a sort of log of historical and personal events." These notebooks offer a detailed, graphical history of the period from 1962 to 1980. Shortly after Fischetti's death, Mike Alexandroff, then president of Columbia College and close friend of John Fischetti, established the Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition in 1982 at the college in the cartoonist’s honor. Today it is a nationally recognized award for political cartooning.




Digitizing and cataloging the drawings facilitates access to Fischetti's work for educational purposes and for scholarly research. And the new digital collection will serve as a valuable source of primary research and study material, especially as it captures and illustrates the process of creativity. Scholars, who often employ a thematic approach to political cartoon research, will be able to search the collection based on subjects the artist addressed and iconographic tropes he used, lowering an historical barrier to detailed research and study of the political cartoon as an art form. The detailed level of cataloging includes the capture of all text associated with an image (captions, dialogue, and notes) and the addition of standardized and searchable subject headings, names, and iconographic elements, providing a number of rich access points to the collection.



Columbia College Chicago is pleased to make this rich collection publicly accessible to scholars, educators, and the public for personal research and classroom use. Funding for this grant was awarded by the Illinois State Library (ISL), a Department of the Office of Secretary of State, using funds provided by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), under the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA).



Contact:
Columbia College Chicago Archives & Digital Collections
collegearchives@colum.edu
(312) 369-8788

Open House Library Tours

Open House Library Tours
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Columbia College Chicago Library
624 S. Michigan Ave., First Floor
12:00 and 2:00pm

Paula Epstein, Reference Librarian, will be your tour guide to the Columbia College Chicago Library during Open House on Saturday November 7th. Find out what you should know about the Library’s collections and services. Meet Paula at the Library Circulation Desk on the first floor at either Noon or 2:00pm. Open to all.

November 5th - Friends of the Library Signature Showcase

Mark your calendars for our upcoming Friends of the Library Signature Showcase on Thursday November 5th, 2009.

Each semester, the Columbia College Chicago Library highlights the work of one faculty member and this fall, we are delighted to have Dominic Pacyga as our featured speaker. Dr. Pacyga is a faculty member in the Humanities, History and Social Science Department, Columbia College Chicago and a Chicago historian.

This year, the city of Chicago celebrates the Burnham Centennial, the 100th anniversary of Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett’s classic, Plan of Chicago (1909). In his illustrated presentation entitled, “An Ongoing Legacy: The Burnham Plan from the City Beautiful Movement to Daley’s Post-Modernist Chicago”, Dr. Pacyga will explore the roots and impact of the Plan of Chicago from its conception to present day. The Burnham Plan remains a central document for those who would build and rebuild this great city. Most importantly it has shaped Chicago’s lakefront and guaranteed that the city will preserve it for generations to come. Yet the 1909 Plan is much more; it provides an ongoing inspiration for planners as Chicago continues to evolve as a world class city. Pacyga will explore the early roots of planning in the city especially in Baron (Georges-Eugène) Haussmann’s Paris and George Mortimer Pullman’s utopian manufacturing city and show how current Mayor Richard M. Daley is, in many ways, reclaiming Chicago’s “City Beautiful” past as first laid out by Burnham and Bennett one hundred years ago.

This presentation is free and open to the public. Faculty and their classes are encouraged to attend.

Thursday, November 5, 2009
6:00-8:00pm
Columbia College Chicago
Ferguson Theater
600 S. Michigan Ave, First Floor

A book signing featuring his latest book, Chicago: A Biography will be held immediately afterwards.



ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Dominic A. Pacyga received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1981. He has authored, or co-authored, five books concerning Chicago’s history, including Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago (1991, 2001), Chicago: City of Neighborhoods with Ellen Skerrett (1986), Chicago: A Historical Guide to the Neighborhoods (1979) with Glen Holt, Chicago’s Southeast Side (1998) with Rod Sellers.

He has lectured widely on topics ranging from urban development, residential architecture, labor history, immigration, and racial and ethnic relations, and has appeared in both the local and national media. Pacyga has been a member of the Humanities, History and Social Sciences Department at Columbia College/Chicago since 1984. He has worked with various museums including the Chicago Historical Society, the Museum of Science and Industry, and the Field Museum in Chicago on a variety of public history projects. Pacyga has also worked with numerous neighborhood organizations as well as ethnic, labor, and fraternal groups to preserve and exhibit their histories. Pacyga acted as guest curator of a major exhibit, "The Chicago Bungalow" which ran from October 18, 2001 to January 15, 2002 at the Chicago Architecture Foundation. He and Charles Shanabruch are co-editors of The Chicago Bungalow (Arcadia Press 2001), a companion volume to the exhibit. Pacyga has won the Oscar Halecki Award from the Polish American Historical Association for his book, Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago and the Catholic Book Award for Chicago: City of Neighborhoods. In 1999 he received the Columbia College Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2005 he was a Visiting Fellow at Campion Hall, Oxford University. Pacyga’s latest book is Chicago: A Biography published by the University of Chicago Press (2009).