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The COVID Information Commons & Columbia University Libraries
The COVID Information Commons (CIC), developed by the Libraries and the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, is an open resource to explore research on the COVID-19 pandemic and offers an open portal of grant-funded research projects and community events to enable researcher collaboration.

National Library Week: Meet Dan Woulfin, Computational Research Instruction Librarian
In recognition of National Library Week, we'll highlight a few of our fantastic Libraries staff, including Computational Research Instruction Librarian Dan Woulfin, who teaches computational and other literacies through open workshops, consultations, and classroom instructions.

Digital Privacy for National Libraries Week
For National Library Week, the Digital Scholarship team highlights the Libraries' mission to educate users about digital privacy as well as the work of organizations like the Library Freedom Project that also shares strategies to protect digital privacy.

National Library Week: Meet Esther Jackson, Scholarly Communications Technologies Librarian
In recognition of National Library Week, we'll highlight a few of our fantastic Libraries staff, including Scholarly Communications Technologies Librarian Esther Jackson, whose foundational goal of her career as a librarian is to expand public access to information.

Music Technology Workshops and Office Hours: Spring 2025
The Music & Arts Library, in collaboration with the Digital Scholarship team, offers a series of music technology workshops for Spring 2025, designed and conducted by Sound Art MFA graduate students and current Digital Music Interns Ása Ólafsdóttir and Miles Scharff.

Strategies for Publishing Success: Spring Workshop Series from Open Scholarship
Join the Open Scholarship team for a series of workshops for journal editorial board members and those interested in learning more about scholarly publishing, including sessions on Overleaf, an editorial software, and journal workflow management with Open Journal System (OJS).

Columbia Libraries: Journal Publishing Program Annual Report
The Libraries' Digital Scholarship team has enhanced and streamlined the format of the annual report for partners in the Journals Publishing program, which will enable users to more easily analyze data and identify trends in readership.

The Black Theology Papers Project (2023)
"The Black Theology Papers Project," published by the Black Theology Unit of the American Academy of Religion with the Libraries to promote the intellectual history of Black theology and preserve the proceedings of the Unit's conferences, recently released numerous new articles.

The COVID Information Commons & Columbia University Libraries
The Libraries and partner organizations work to make resources associated with the COVID Information Commons (CIC) accessible to the broader public to ensure that "all members of society have equal access to crucial information about pandemic prevention and preparedness measures."