Check out the new Company Dossier database in LexisNexis! Use Company Dossier to find company snapshots, news and legal information, corporate hierarchies and more!
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The Library is pleased to announce that thanks to a generous contribution from Dr. Sam Floyd and the Center for Black Music Research we have recently added the Black Studies Center database to our growing collection of online scholarly resources.
The Black Studies Center is linked from our Databases A to Z page. You can also access the three main components of the Black Studies Center on our Find Articles--African American Studies, --Chicago, --Journalism, and --Literature pages.
The three main components of the Black Studies Center are:
Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience
A unique database detailing the rich tapestry of the African experience throughout the Americas, comprising interdisciplinary essays written by leading scholars on the Black Experience accompanied by a timeline, images, video clips, and other selected research materials.
Chicago Defender Historical Archive (1910-1975)
Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded the Defender in May 1905 and by the outbreak of the First World War it had become the most widely-read black newspaper in the country, with more than two thirds of its readership based outside Chicago.
Black Literature Index (1827-1940)
This searches over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers.
The web site of the Columbia College Chicago Archives is now live! Here's an introduction to the Archives from our College Archivist, Heidi Marshall:
Who were Columbia’s past presidents? Has the school always been known as Columbia College Chicago? How does one best preserve digital images? A strange string of questions but answers to them share a common home. Check out the Columbia College Chicago Archives pages for answers!
The Archives, established in 2005, houses the historic records of the College on the second floor of the Library. Seeking a course catalog from the 1940s? Trying to find an article that appeared in the Columbia Chronicle in the 1980s? The College Archives has them!
Browse the pages, find out the history, read articles written by Columbia’s founders, and learn how to protect your own collection. And, as always, if there are questions, just drop us a line: collegearchives @ colum.edu. Enjoy!
From today's New York Times: "Viking is releasing a 50th-anniversary edition on Thursday (the original came out Sept. 5, 1957), and is also publishing, for the first time in book form, the original version that Kerouac typed on a 120-foot-long scroll and a new analysis by John Leland, a reporter at The New York Times, titled "Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of 'On the Road' (They're Not What You Think)."" (Note: The Library will be receiving Why Kerouac Matters during the upcoming Fall semester).
Want to see the original 120-foot-long scroll? Columbia College Chicago will be hosting the historic document in the Fall of 2008. Read a description of the event HERE and stay tuned for more info.
Read the whole NYT article on the 50th anniversary of On The Road HERE
View a full list of this month's latest arrivals. Here are a few selected works (click the links to be taken to the full catalog record):
Rock Music: Led Zeppelin (also known as Zoso) / Led Zeppelin
Techno Music: From here we go sublime / the Field
String Quartets: op. 18, nos. 2 & 3 / Beethoven
Country Music: My name is Buddy / Ry Cooder
View a full list of this month's latest arrivals. Here are a few selected films (click the images to be taken to the full catalog record):
Batman
How art made the world
Expo : magic of the White City
Maude. The complete first season
My beautiful laundrette
View a full list of this month's latest arrivals. Here are a few selected titles (click the images to be taken to the full catalog record):
Embroidering identities : a century of Palestinian clothing 
Gothic fantasy : the films of Tim Burton
Bodies in code : interfaces with new media
Advertising sin and sickness : the politics of alcohol and tobacco marketing, 1950-1990 
The golden age of advertising : the 60s
Death of Art
Swingin’ chicks of the ’60s : a tribute to 101 of the decade’s defining women
Our intrepid colleague, Shirley Bennett, has sent us a dispatch from New Orleans (see this post for some background on the trip). Here are some excerpts:
"The Mosquitoes are a fact of life here...and they have deadly aim! They are able to target areas along the straps of your sandals or bras as well as the lower half of each finger on one hand.
My NOLA experience is drawing to a close...this morning there is a writing session focused on capturing what two days in the field has wrought. [Yesterday and the day before, we were dispatched to specific houses or field sites where residents had asked for help.] On my first day, I along with four others, worked in the home of Mr. Heyward Jackson, who is is living in a FEMA trailer alongside his badly damaged home. There was a second home handled by another team of 5. Our tasks were basic: remove nails (high and low, to leave the frame of the house ready for drywall, clear the floors of loose debris and nails there. The work, though simple, takes a lot of time when one has to cover every crack and crevice of a place--especially one that has been pummeled as these places have been by such extreme natural elements.
Yesterday, I was all over the place...pulling Chinese tallow(?) in the wetlands area...cutting foot-high grass in a football size field...and ending up at the home base for the organization through whom our efforts for the day had been coordinated--Common Ground. One of the co-founders was on hand to share how the organization had begun and what projects lay in the near future for them. In fact, Mr. Rahim was on his way to Chicago to speak at some function at McCormick Place this weekend.
Ok, there has been some fun. A poetry slam, a crab bake in the parking lot, beignets in Congo Square and a barbecue at the home of the local poet celeb, Shakespear."
All of us here at the Columbia College Chicago Library are looking forward to Shirley's return and to hearing more about her experiences in New Orleans.
Another film great has passed away. Michelangelo Antonioni, one of Italy's most famed modernist film directors, died on Monday at his home in Rome. "Mr. Antonioni is probably best known for "Blowup," a 1966 drama set in swinging London about a fashion photographer who comes to believe that a picture he took of two lovers in a public park also shows, obscured in the background, evidence of a murder." Read the whole New York Times obituary HERE.
Ingmar Bergman, widely considered one of the greatest directors in motion picture history, died July 30th at the age of 89. His death was announced by the Ingmar Bergman Foundation.
The Library has many books and other resources covering the life and works of Bergman. Click on the Find Articles--Film & Video link on the Library's home page to be directed to a number of film related databases, as well as the Biography Reference Bank.
Read Bergman's New York Times obituary HERE
For more information on the works of Ingmar Bergman, explore the Ingmar Bergman Face to Face website.
Welcome, incoming First-Year students and new Transfer students! One of the highlights of Orientation (which has been taking place throughout this month and will continue into next month) is picking up your shiny new Columbia College ID card.
Not only will you be able to add "Columbia Cash" to your card to make purchases in the Bookstore, the Plum Cafe and the Library Coffee Cart and pay for printing in the Library and other Campus labs, your Columbia College Chicago ID (aka your "Campus Card") is also your Columbia College Chicago Library card! Your Campus Card is your ticket to a world of books and other resources available to you through the Columbia College Chicago Library.
In addition to checking out books from the CCCLibrary, you can also use your Campus Card to request books from other libraries located all over Illinois. Here's a quick explanation of how to do this: http://www.lib.colum.edu/research/findBooksOtherLibraries.php
And here's more information about the new Campus Card: http://www.colum.edu/Administrative_offices/Campus_Card/
Not sure how this works? Have another question? Just click
At the end of this month, Columbia College Chicago Librarian Shirley Bennett will travel to New Orleans to help foster awareness of the continuing challenges faced by Hurricane Katrina survivors. Shirley is one of fifteen mentors from the College and its community partners who will be accompanying a group of twenty Saturday Scholars students who are making this trip as part of the culmination of a six-week course incorporating reading, writing and visual literacy based on the text of When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts by filmmaker Spike Lee.
This trip builds on a previous outreach effort made by a group of Columbia College students who were accompanied by Lott Hill, former Assistant Director for Civic Engagement and current Acting Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence. They traveled to the French Quarter to offer their assistance and support during Spring Break earlier this year.
Find these books and more on Hurricane Katrina in the Library:
While this isn't in any way tied to the Library (or to the "Donut Day" extravaganzas we've held in the past), we thought you might like to know that the Dunkin' Donuts™ on the corner of Wabash and Harrison is offering a free donut (one per customer, per visit) on Mondays throughout July. Maybe you want to grab a quick pick-me-up before heading over to the Library? Mmmm...free donuts and information.
The true history of chocolate
Pure imagination : the making of Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory
The new taste of chocolate : a cultural and natural history of cacao with recipes
The emperors of chocolate : inside the secret world of Hershey and Mars
Chocolate therapy : dare to discover your inner center!
The Library's bookshelves and databases are covered in (information about) chocolate! Come sit in our newly-remodeled Weisman Reading Room and read today's New York Times--the food section has an article describing the merits of British chocolate over American chocolate. Or read the full text of the article HERE through our America's Newspapers database.
Have questions? Need help? Just click
Have you been wishing you knew how to cook more than just hot water for tea and ramen noodles? Getting bored with cafeteria and fast food or your usual rotation of recipes? Then check out some cookbooks from the Library this summer! Go to the catalog and search by Subject for Cookery or just try a keyword like Vegetarian or Pasta. Or simply come on up to the 3rd floor and browse the shelves in the 641.5 range. Your stomach (and wallet) thanks you!
The Library has recently acquired the Biography Reference Bank!
Did you know...
Well, now you do! You can find out about these famous people and more using Biography Reference Bank, just one of the many databases the Library offers featuring all kinds of interesting biographical information from reputable reference sources!
- that Martha Graham was born in 1894 and continued to choreograph her dance company until she died a month before her 97th birthday?
- that Barack means "blessed" in Swahili?
- that David Bowie's life was changed by reading Jack Kerouac's On the Road and that he has a son named Zowie Bowie?
- that Georgia O'Keefe lived in Chicago briefly in the early 1900's and did free-lance commercial art work?
