This blog is the first in a new series from the Gottesman Libraries on Open Access resources. Today’s blog focuses on the HathiTrust Digital Library and the Internet Archive Digital ...

Ziyin and I continued to support the library by keeping our applications updated and running. Following is a brief list of updates and additions to our eco-system.Library Website: Our main product continues to get regular updates, including -Monthly Cafe and Staff Picks virtual book displaysA new URL for the library blog (https://blog.library.tc.columbia.edu/)Updated Library hours and calendar displays

Why Wikidata? Over the past three weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of participating in the November Wikidata Institute, a thr...

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is a community of practitioners who advance research, learning, social justice, and the public good through the creative design and wise application of digital library technologies. Each year, DLF hosts a forum in partnership with colleagues from the Council on Library and Information Res...

The dev team continues to support the library and college by adding new and exciting features to our tech-ecosystem and keeping all our systems and services running and updated.Library App Relaunched: Our biggest push this semester was updating the TC Library app and relaunching it on the App Store and

Our Work: The development team at Gottesman Libraries has continued to support the library and various digital endeavors at Teachers College during the Spring 2020 semester. Our efforts this semester included identifying ways to streamline our services, enhancing our digital products based on new requirements, keeping our systems and technology updated and running, reduce operational costs, and expand our reach and offerings throughout Teachers College. Some of these efforts are listed below -Library Web...

[Fairlight II Page R by Clusternote, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons]As we've evolved as a society and our art has followed, the foundations of music education have remained both consistent and traditional. The structure of music allows for us to bridge time and place by communicating within a uniquely universal language of notation, rhythms and key signatures. The way...

Although I was a music student for most of my academic life, I never studied an important branch of my focus: music education. From middle school through college, the music programs at my schools focused heavily on performance and music theory. Since graduating, I've become deeply immersed in the non-academic world of music as a touring musician, songwriter, producer and mixing engineer. When I'm not doing these things, I'm ...

The term ‘infodemic’ is so new to the lexicon that it appears as a mere suggestion in the Collins Unabridged English Dictionary online. Among its first published appearances is in a United Nations Health News story on February 4, 2020: