LibGuides: RELI 3206: Religion in the Archive: Remote Library Services

Services at Barnard

Barnard and Columbia Libraries can support a lot of your research needs remotely. Below you will find a list of services provided by the colleges that you can use.

Chat Reference

Ask a Librarian is a chat reference service that offers immediate research help during regular business hours. You can check those hours here.

Collections

CLIO online catalog is the access point for e-books, streaming media, and online journals for the libraries of both Barnard and Columbia. Teachers College and the Law Library at Columbia maintain separate catalogs.

Useful CLIO help guides for conducting research
Video: “What is CLIO?” by Barnard’s own IMATS

Research Support

Personal Librarians: You can make an appointment for online research consultations with your personal librarian, or make an appointment with the next available librarian.
Research Guides: The library has created research guides with links to useful reference resources, databases, and other resources organized by subject area or created for specific courses.

Joining your Zoom Class Session

IMATS has created a one-page guide to joining Zoom classes from Canvas.

Teaching Online (for faculty)

IMATS has created this FAQ for distance learning support. Topics include:

Upcoming trainings and faculty clinics
A Zoom info guide for faculty
Contact courseworks@barnard.edu about Courseworks and Zoom
Contact imats@barnard.edu for equipment information and any other questions.

E-Books & E-Textbooks

While searching in CLIO is a great way to find ebooks, it can take a bit of time for newly purchased ebooks to show up there. Try searching these individual ebook databases as well as free and open ebook databases.

For a full list of ebook collections available at Columbia & Barnard, click this link:

Columbia ebook collections

Ebooks that need a Barnard/Columbia UNI

Ebook Central
A database of ebooks. Use Ebook Central to quickly and easily find relevant ebooks and chapters; read online; search within the ebook; and highlight, take notes and bookmark pages in your online copy, stored on your bookshelf for you. You can also share your research with others, download ebooks and chapters to your laptop or mobile device, and more.
EBSCO eBook collection
Searchable collection of current electronic books (ebooks) from university and commercial publishers and electronic books in the public domain.
HathiTrust Digital Library
As a digital repository for the nation's great research libraries, HathiTrust brings together the immense collections of partner institutions. It was initially conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections, and quickly expanded to include additional partners with fast growing treasure of digitized collections.
Taylor & Francis eBooks
Contains e-book collections in the subject areas of: Area Studies; Arts; Behavioral Sciences; Bioscience; Built Environment; Communication Studies; Computer Science; Development Studies; Earth Sciences; Economics, Finance, Business & Industry; Education; Engineering & Technology; Environment & Agriculture, Environment and Sustainability; Food Science & Technology; Geography; Health and Social Care; Humanities; Information Science; Language & Literature; Law; Mathematics & Statistics; Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health; Museum and Heritage Studies; Physical Sciences; Politics & International Relations; Reference & Information Science; Social Sciences; Sports & Leisure; Tourism, Hospitality and Events; Urban Studies.

Free Online Ebook Resources

RedShelf
To ensure that all students have access to their course materials amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, we're partnering with the publishing community to provide you with up to 7 free eBooks from participating publishers. (Program applies to students at non-profit, semester-based schools, and access runs through May 25th.)

Project Gutenberg
Over 18,000 online texts of "light literature" (fables, stories), "heavy literature" (religious texts, classic literature from many periods), and reference works. Most available in multiple formats (HTML, PDF, Kindle, epub, etc)

VitalSource
VitalSource Helps supports students at semester-calendar schools who may have lost access to course materials due to their campus moving online to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Students and instructors at impacted 2 and 4-year non-profit institutions in the U.S. and Canada can now access an expansive catalog of etexts, through May 25, 2020 in the US and April 30, 2020 in Canada, at no charge. This program is made possible by the support of leading publishers, campus retailers, and independent bookstores in higher education. To get started, visit bookshelf.vitalsource.com. Before you begin searching for and reading course materials, you will need to log in to an existing Bookshelf account with your institution-provided email address or create a new account.

Streaming Video at Barnard

These are some selected streaming video databases available to the Barnard/Columbia community. When off-campus, you'll need a UNI to log-in to the databases.

For a full, up-to-date list of video databases that Barnard/Columbia subscribe to, click this CLIO link or check Columbia's guide to streaming video.

Alexander Street Video
Streaming video in a variety of areas from Alexander Street Press. Most have transcripts available.
60 Minutes: 1997-2014
Provides streaming video access to the 60 Minutes news show archive for the third and fourth decades of this long-running show, plus segments from the CBS News program Sunday Morning. Includes transcripts of the videos for ease of citation, and a citation export feature. Topics include international and national news, politics, women's studies, society and culture, and many more.
Digital Theatre Plus
Provides online access to a digital streaming video collection of unique films of current, leading British theatre productions. Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries as well as teaching and learning resources to facilitate a deeper understanding of the productions and texts. Learning resources include a detailed introduction, plot summary, character biographies, a relationship map, language analysis, scene study, performance background and historical context for each play.
Filmakers Library Online
The collection includes documentaries that are already heavily used in humanities and social science classrooms. Topical coverage is contemporary and relevant across the curriculum--race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. The titles in Filmakers Library Online present points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.
Film Platform
Contains streaming documentary films in a variety of languages and from different countries, many from the festival circuit. Some available to stream for free and some available to license. Trailers available for films which we do not have access to. Also allows Public Performance Rights (PPR) licensing. The collection is curated by film experts and academics to showcase critically-acclaimed documentaries of social political and cultural importance.
Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive
The Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive is a collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata provided by scholars and educators in the field. The idea that Shakespeare is a global author has taken many forms since the building of the Globe playhouse. Our work honors the fact and demonstrates the diversity of the world-wide reception and production of Shakespeare’s plays in ways that we hope will nourish the remarkable array of new forms of cultural exchange that the digital age has made possible. Global Shakespeares is a participatory multi-centric networked model that offers wide access to international performances that are changing how we understand Shakespeare’s plays and the world.
Kanopy
Check both the Barnard AND Columbia links via CLIO, since both libraries have different videos in Kanopy. An on-demand streaming video service which provides access to educational titles, including award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases - on a very wide range of topics. Kanopy titles are licensed from such major educational producers and distributors as PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection,and the Media Education Foundation.
Independent world cinema: classic and contemporary film
includes more than 400 of the most important films produced from the early 20th century to today. It proudly turns the spotlight on preeminent independent distributors--Milestone Films, Zeitgeist Films, Pragda, and Oscilloscope. More than just a cinema studies collection, these films support disciplines, such as cultural history, psychology, gender studies, anthropology, theatre, African- American studies, and more.
LGBT studies in video
LGBT Studies in Video is a cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as well as the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community. It features award-winning documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring LGBT history, gay culture and subcultures, civil rights, marriage equality, LGBT families, AIDS, transgender issues, religious perspectives on homosexuality, global comparative experiences, and other topics. A primary partner for this collection is Frameline, a nonprofit media organization that produces the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, the oldest film festival devoted to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender programming currently in existence.

Browse by people, themes, and topics. View videos by filmmaker, country of origin, production date, producer, and other features. Combinable search fields enable cross-search of all video transcripts, liner notes, bibliographic data (including producer, series, title, country of origin, publication date, narrator, production staff, and more), and many other indexed fields, including person discussed, year discussed, and the browse options listed above.
Literature Online (LION)
Click the multimedia link to access: Poets On Screen [882 clips]; Shakespeare Audio Plays [38 plays, unabridged]; and the Poetry Archive Audio [922 poems]
Meet the Press
NBC's Meet the Press is broadcast-television's longest-running program, with interviews, panels and debates from across the political spectrum. The collection includes every surviving program from the show's inception in 1947 through the present day. All programs can be watched in streaming format and are fully searchable. All programs are provided with running transcripts. Programs and clips can be saved to a playlist and shared with others.
Naxos Video Library
A performing arts video collection with operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places. Users may create their own playlists and custom video clips.
New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts
The collection includes approximately 200 full-length feature films from leading independent distributors such as Kino Lorber, First Run Features, Film Movement, MK2, and the Global Films Initiative. All films were presented at major film festivals, many were nominated for awards, and many have major awards.
OntheBoards.TV
Provides access to films of full-length performances by artists working in dance, theater, music and other forms that defy categorization.
PBS Video Collection
The PBS video collection assembles hundreds of documentary films and series from the Public Broadcasting Service, including Frontline, NOVA, American Experience, Odyssey, as well as films by Ken Burns and Michael Wood.
Silent Film Online
Silent Film Online database brings together more than 500 films which together represent the basis of modern cinematic technique and film theory. Carefully curated with ASP's Video Advisory Board, the database covers silent features, serials, and shorts from the 1890s to the 1930s. High quality versions of films have been selected for the collection from leading distributors such as Kino Lorber, Lobster Films, Flicker Alley, and Image Entertainment.
Swank Digital Campus
Swank Digital Campus provides colleges and universities with the largest academic streaming collection of its kind, including many major motion pictures. Columbia and Barnard license individual titles through Swank for course reserves. Each college has separate links and separate libraries of films
Theatre in Video: Volume I
Theatre in Video: Volume I contains hundreds of videos, including documentaries and definitive performances of the world’s most important plays. From celebrated productions of Shakespeare to rare, in-depth footage of the work of Samuel Beckett, the collection covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history. Interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors, along with excerpts of live performances deliver an authentic, behind-the-scenes look at hundreds of productions. Browsable by productions, documentaries, people, companies, genres, theatres, and dates.
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Searchable archive of abstracts of news broadcasts from 1968 to present (ABC, CBS, NBC), 1995 to present (CNN), selected content from PBS and FOX News. Video content from CNN viewable. Descriptive summaries of the Vanderbilt University collection of network television news programs and other news-related programming collected in its archive since August 5, 1968.
World Cinema Video Collection
The World cinema video collection provides access to online streaming titles from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East, including films from the silent era, from the mid-20th century, as well as award-winning contemporary works.

Other Remote Resources

Compiled Lists of Free E-Resources

Columbia's Free Online COVID-19 Offers and Resources: Educational Resource Offers Guide
This guide lists resources compiled by the Columbia University Libraries.
Resource Access for Distance Learning and Research During COVID-19
From the University of Notre Dame: this document is a holding pen for COVID-19 motivated permissive or open resource availability information by vendor/publisher.
Vendor Love in the Time of COVID-19
This is a community-sourced list of video and other licensed content that library vendors are making available on free or modified terms during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Selected Resources (New York Specific)

Metropolitan Museum of Art Online
The met museum has a huge online digital collection, which includes e-book versions of many of its publications. It has also added virtual tours, and behind the scenes videos via YouTube.
Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera is offering free streaming access to performances. While the house is dark they will be offering a different encore presentation from their Live in HD series.
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!

Milstein Centers and Special Collections

Milstein Centers

The Center for Engaged Pedagogy
The CEP is offering tips and strategies for instructional continuity for faculty, and online learning tips and support for students.
Design Center
The Design Center is offering online consultations and online workshops.
Digital Humanities Center
The DHC is hosting individual and group consultations by appointment. They are also continuing courses and events in an online format.
Empirical Reasoning Center
The ERC lab will be holding walk-in hours and appointments virtually for the remainder of the spring semester. They will be starting from Wednesday, April 1st. See their "Visit Us" page for more details.
IMATS
The IMATS team is still here to support Barnard faculty, students, and staff in the great undertaking of distance learning in several ways, including technology to support distance learning, and help using Zoom. You can find out more from this FAQ page.
Vagelos Computational Science Center
The Computational Science Center is hosting workshops and is available for Zoom consultations.
The Sloate Media Center
The Sloate Media Center website offers steps for gaining remote access to software, as well as research consultation opportunities.

Milstein Library Special Collections

The Barnard Archives
You can access the digital collections of Barnard Archives here.
Barnard Zine Library
The Zine Library is collecting zines made by women and nonbinary people during quarantine. Please contact them if you think we might like to buy copies of your zine.

Jennie Correia	Economics, Education, Human Rights, Political Science, Sociology, and Urban Studies
Jenna Freedman	Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Miriam Neptune	Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, Environmental Science, Neuroscience and Behavior, Physics and Astronomy, and Psychology
Vani Natarajan	Africana Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Cultures, Comparative Literature, English, French, Italian, Jewish Studies, and Spanish and Latin American Cultures
Charlotte Price	Classics & Ancient Studies, Dance, Film Studies, German, History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Philosophy, Religion, Slavic Studies, and Theatre
Martha Tenney	American Studies
Meredith Wisner	Anthropology, Architecture, Art (studio), and Art History

Second Floor Quad	Charlotte Price
Third Floor Quad	Vani Natarajan
Fourth Floor Quad	Meredith Wisner
Fifth Floor Quad	Jennie Correia
Sixth Floor Quad	Meredith Wisner
Seventh Floor Quad	Charlotte Price
Eighth Floor Quad	Jennie Correia
Commuters	Meredith Wisner
Transfers & VISP	Jenna Freedman

RELI 3206: Religion in the Archive

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