LibGuides: Economics: Books

Latest information on access to materials

Library Status Updates - Columbia University Libraries
This page is the most frequently updated centralized source of information about the accessibility of library services. Things change a lot these days.
Pick-up Service
If you are near campus and want to pick up materials, this page will give you all the information you need on the new procedures.
Ask a Librarian (Columbia University Libraries)
Columbia's Ask A Librarian chat/text service is available for extended hours.

Intelex Past Masters
Provides access to complete editions or selections from classics in philosophy, political science, and economics. Several searchable full-text collections of writings by key philosophers and thinkers from ancient times to the present, including Anselm, Aristotle, Augustine, Bentham, Berkeley, Calvin, Nicholas of Cusa, Descartes, John Dewey, Hegel, Hobbes, Hume, Leibniz, Locke, Luther, Mill, Nietzche, Peirce, Plato, Ricardo, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Thomas Aquinas, Wittgenstein and many others.

New York Public Library
The New York Public Library (NYPL) catalog searches the circulating and non-circulating research collections at the NYPL.
Teachers College Library
Teachers College Library has a fantastic collections of materials of education, available for BC/CU students. Search the Teachers College Library catalog, Educat. Teachers College materials are not shown in CLIO. Teachers College is on West 120th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.
WorldCat
WorldCat searches libraries collections worldwide.

New York Public Library Remote Resources
NYPL has over 300,000 e-books to borrow for free using their SimplyE App. Don't have a library card? That's OK. For this limited time, NYC residents (including students) can sign-up for a card in the app itself. There are all kinds of other digital resources in NYPL's collection, including archival material, image collections, language learning software, newspapers, magazines and more!

College students that attend New York State colleges but are studying remotely from home out of the state/country may still apply for NYPL cards!

Download the SimplyE app
Click Find Your Library and choose the New York Public Library
Click Settings, then Accounts, then New York Public Library
Click "Don't have a library card? Sign up" and enter the information
Note: You must enable location services to sign up for a library card, but you only need them during the initial sign--up

Download and fill out the application below [PDF file].
You must use the Barnard address as your local address.
You must also include a pin number (4 digits).
Email your application/info to georgebruce@nypl.org. Use this subject in the email: NYPL Card Application.
NYPL staff can process these applications onsite and email you your library card number