Social Work Library

Located in the Columbia School of Social Work, the Social Work Library contains more than 75,000 volumes, comprising one of the world's premiere social work and social services collections. It provides comprehensive coverage of the various areas of social work including child welfare, gerontology, health and health care, international social welfare, marriage and the family, and social policy.

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Health and psychosocial instruments

The Social Agency Collection

DSM-5

Sage Video: Social Work

Sage Research Methods

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Nov 20, 2024

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To coincide with a new exhibition at the New York Historical, "Pets and the City," Libraries staff honors the University's own four-legged friends who've left their paw prints in the archives, including a dog at the Columbia War Hospital in the Bronx during World War I.

Nov 18, 2024

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Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library announces that more than 3,000 slides have been digitized from the Sculpture in the Environment (SITE) architectural records and the papers of architect James Wines, which were donated to the library in 2020.

Nov 11, 2024

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A team of Libraries staff has begun to archive the Epistolæ project, a remarkable collection of medieval Latin letters to and from women from the fourth through the 13th centuries, which are now accessible through the University's Academic Commons repository.

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