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- Africa: Basic Guide to Research
- Africa and Black Internationalism
- African Diaspora & African Literatures
- Contemporary African Politics
- East Africa, c.1000 CE to the present
- Economic Development in Africa
- Education in Africa
- Fula Language and Culture Acquisitions at Columbia
- Gender and Sexuality in Africa
- Hausa Language and Culture Acquisitions at Columbia
- Health and Medicine in Africa
- The Horn of Africa
- Maps and Power in Modern African History
- The Novel in Africa
- Peacebuilding in Africa: A Guide for Research Scholars in NYC
- Swahili Language and Culture Acquisitions at Columbia
- Urban Africa
- War, Peace, Humanitarianism, & International Interventions in Africa
- West Africa, c.1000 CE to the present
- Wolof Language and Culture Acquisitions at Columbia
- Workshop in Sustainable Development Practice
- Zulu Language and Culture Acquisitions at Columbia
Yuusuf Caruso
African Studies Librarian
- Global Studies
John L. Tofanelli
Research Collections & Services Librarian
- Humanities & History
- American History and American Studies
- Asian Americans
- Bill of Rights
- Comparative Literature and Society
- Executive Leadership
- Exploring New York City
- Hispanic New York
- Jewish Immigration
- Jews and the City
- History
- Immigration Policy
- International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement
- New York City Atlases & Land Books
- New York City Buildings
- New York City Data Resources
- New York City Government Information
- New York State Government Information
- Religious Worlds of New York
- Social History of U.S. Public Health
- Women in the Black Freedom Movement: Using Archives
John L. Tofanelli
Research Collections & Services Librarian
- Humanities & History
Jeffrey Wayno
Collection Services Librarian
- The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary
Christine M. Sala
Architecture & Fine Arts Librarian
- Avery Library
Christine M. Sala
Architecture & Fine Arts Librarian
- Avery Library
Jenny Davis
Research Services Librarian
- Avery Library
Katherine Brooks
Collection Analysis Librarian
- Science, Engineering, & Social Sciences Libraries
Caro Bratnober
Public Services Librarian
- The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary
Katherine Brooks
Collection Analysis Librarian
- Science, Engineering, & Social Sciences Libraries
John L. Tofanelli
Research Collections & Services Librarian
- Humanities & History
Business
- Bloomberg Help Guide
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- Columbia Historical Corporate Annual Reports
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- Nonprofit Organizations
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- WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)
Course and Program Guides
Nickeisha Pencil
Business & Entrepreneurship Librarian
- Science, Engineering, & Social Sciences Libraries
Yasmin Saira
Research Support & Collection Development Librarian
- Science, Engineering, & Social Sciences Libraries
William B. Vanti
Science & Engineering Librarian
- Science, Engineering, & Social Sciences Libraries
Chengzhi Wang
Chinese Studies Librarian
- Starr East Asian Library
Jocelyn K. Wilk
University Archivist
- Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Ben Chiewphasa
Social Sciences & Policy Librarian
- Science, Engineering, & Social Sciences Libraries
- Data & Statistics for Journalists
- Data Analysis Tools
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- Decennial Census
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- Election Data
- Finding Consumer Behavior Data
- GIS and Geospatial Data
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- Health Data Resources
- International Data Resources
- NYC Data Resources
- Opinion Poll Data Resources
- Research Data
- Text Mining
- Working with and Understanding US Census Population Data
Eric Glass
GIS/Metadata Librarian
- Digital Scholarship
Wei Yin
Research Support & Data Services Librarian
- Digital Scholarship
- Bioethics
- Biology
- Climate Research
- Comparative Urban Policy
- Current Controversies in Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Dinosaurs and Evolution of the Earth
- Earth & Environmental Engineering
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Ecology, Evolution & Evolutionary Biology (E3B)
- Environmental and Energy Policy
- Food Sustainability
- Sustainability Policy Studies
- Water
Amanda Bielskas
Director
- Science, Engineering, & Social Sciences Libraries
- Chinese Oral History & Papers
- Chinese Rare Books and Special Collections
- East Asian Studies Course Guide
- East Asian History Course Guide
- East Asian Humanities Course Guide
- East Asian Studies
- Human Rights Studies
- Japanese Studies
- Japanese Studies Course Guide: Literature
- Korean Studies
- Workshop in Development Practice
Ria Koopmans-Debruijn
Head of Public Services / East Asian Studies Librarian
- Starr East Asian Library
Katherine Brooks
Collection Analysis Librarian
- Science, Engineering, & Social Sciences Libraries
- Bloomberg Help
- Business & Economics Guides
- Business & Economics Journalism
- Capital IQ
- CBS MBA Orientation
- Columbia Historical Corporate Annual Reports
- Company Information
- Comparative Urban Policy
- Crash Course in Business Research
- Economic Census
- Economic Indicator
- Economics
- Entrepreneurship
- Environmental and Energy Policy
- Finding Consumer Behavior Data
- Immigration Policy
- Industry Research
- Investigative Techniques: Scholarly and Business Research
- Lodging Industry
- Marketing and Advertising
- Marketing Research
- New Product Marketing
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Patents, Technical Reports, and Standards
- PhD Candidates in Business and Economics
- Real Estate
- Real Estate: Basic Resources for Research
- School of Professional Studies
- Sports Management
- Strategic Communication
- Sustainability Policy Studies
- The Budget Process
- WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)
Nickeisha Pencil
Business & Entrepreneurship Librarian
- Science, Engineering, & Social Sciences Libraries
Yasmin Saira
Research Support & Collection Development Librarian
- Science, Engineering, & Social Sciences Libraries
- Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics
- Biomedical Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- Computer Science
- Earth & Environmental Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Engineering Databases
- Food Sustainability
- Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
- Mechanical Engineering
- Sustainability Policy Studies
William B. Vanti
Science & Engineering Librarian
- Science, Engineering, & Social Sciences Libraries
John L. Tofanelli
Research Collections & Services Librarian
- Humanities & History
Nancy Friedland
Librarian for Butler Media, Film Studies, & Performing Arts
- Humanities & History
Jeremiah R. Mercurio
Head, Humanities and History
- Humanities & History
Ian Beilin
West European Studies Librarian
- Humanities & History
- Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
- Bill of Rights
- Campaigns & Elections
- Census Monographs
- Contemporary African Politics
- Decennial Census (Population & Housing)
- Economic Census
- Election Data
- Executive Leadership
- Exploring New York City
- Federal Government Shutdown
- GIS and Spatial Data
- Hispanic New York
- Human Rights Studies
- Immigration Policy
- International Conflict Resolution, Military Affairs, & Security
- Interwar Internationalism Reconsidered
- New York City Atlases & Land Books
- New York City Buildings
- New York City Data Resources
- New York City Government Information
- New York State Government Information
- Political Science
- Polling, Surveys, & Public Opinion
- Publications of Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
- The Legislative Process
- The Regulatory Process
- U.S. Census Data
- U.S. Foreign Policy
- United Nations Resources
- War, Peace, Humanitarianism, & International Interventions in Africa
Emily Schmidt
Journalism & Government Information Librarian
Caro Bratnober
Public Services Librarian
- The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary
- Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
- Campaigns & Elections
- Comparative Urban Policy
- Contemporary African Politics
- Contemporary Western Civilization I
- Contemporary Western Civilization II
- Environmental and Energy Policy
- Gender in Policy & International Affairs
- Interwar Internationalism Reconsidered
- History
- Human Rights Studies
- Immigration Policy Guide
- International & Public Affairs Research Guide
- International Conflict Resolution, Military Affairs, & Security
- International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement
- Political Science
- Population, Migration and Refugee Studies
- Seminar on Policy Practice I
- Sustainability Policy Studies
- The Legislative Process
- U.S. Foreign Policy
- War, Peace, Humanitarianism, & International Interventions in Africa
Ben Chiewphasa
Social Sciences & Policy Librarian
- Science, Engineering, & Social Sciences Libraries
- Adriatic Romanticisms
- Anthropology of Contemporary Italy
- Behaving & Misbehaving: The Body in Early Modern Europe
- Comparative Literature and Society
- Fascism in Germany & Italy
- Guide to European and UK Libraries, Archives and Research Centers
- Italian
- Italian Language & Literature
- Italian Renaissance Literature & Culture
- Modern European Studies
- The European Union
- Western European History Since 1450
Chiaki Sakai
Japanese Studies Librarian
- Starr East Asian Library
Journalism
Course and Program Guides
Emily Schmidt
Journalism & Government Information Librarian
Michelle Margolis
Norman E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies
- Global Studies
Hee-Sook Shin
Korean Studies Librarian
- Starr East Asian Library
- Art of the Américas
- Culturas Hispánicas I
- Film Studies: Latin America, Caribbean Portugal, and Spain
- Hispanic New York
- Latin American & Iberian Studies Microform Collections
- Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies
- Music in Latin America, the Caribbean, Portugal & Spain
- News & Newspapers from Latin America, the Caribbean, Portugal, and Spain
Jeremiah R. Mercurio
Head, Humanities and History
- Humanities & History
- Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics
- Comparative Urban Policy
- Data & Statistics for Journalists
- Data Citation
- GIS and Spatial Data
- Health Data Resources
- Immigration Policy
- Mass Media and American Democracy
- Mathematics
- New York City Data Resources
- Statistics
- Strategic Communication
- Sustainability Policy Studies
- United Nations Resources
William B. Vanti
Science & Engineering Librarian
- Science, Engineering, & Social Sciences Libraries
Peter Magierski
Middle East & Islamic Studies Librarian
- Global Studies
Nick Patterson
Head, Gabe M. Weiner Music & Arts Library
- Music Library
Kimberly Springer
Curator of Oral History
- Columbia Center for Oral History Archives
Ian Beilin
West European Studies Librarian
- Humanities & History
Katherine Brooks
Collection Analysis Librarian
- Science, Engineering, & Social Sciences Libraries
William B. Vanti
Science & Engineering Librarian
- Science, Engineering, & Social Sciences Libraries
- Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
- Census Monographs
- Contemporary African Politics
- Decennial Census (Population & Housing)
- Economic Census
- Election Data
- Executive Leadership
- Federal Government Shutdown
- Gender in Policy & International Affairs
- Interwar Internationalism Reconsidered
- Immigration Policy Guide
- International Conflict Resolution, Military Affairs, & Security
- Mass Media and American Democracy
- New York City Government Information
- New York State Government Information
- Political Science
- Seminar on Policy Practice I
- Sustainability Policy Studies
- The Legislative Process
- The Regulatory Process
- U.S. Census Data
- U.S. Foreign Policy
- United Nations Resources
- War, Peace, Humanitarianism, & International Interventions in Africa
Ben Chiewphasa
Social Sciences & Policy Librarian
- Science, Engineering, & Social Sciences Libraries
Katherine Brooks
Collection Analysis Librarian
- Science, Engineering, & Social Sciences Libraries
Caro Bratnober
Public Services Librarian
- The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary
Robert H. Davis
Russian, Eurasian & East European Studies Librarian
- Global Studies
Kae Bara Kratcha
Social Work & Professional Studies Librarian
- Science, Engineering, & Social Sciences Libraries
Ben Chiewphasa
Social Sciences & Policy Librarian
- Science, Engineering, & Social Sciences Libraries
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- British and Irish History
- Dissertations & Theses (South & Southeast Asia including Australia, New Zealand)
- Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibet
- Human Rights Studies
- India
- Indian Music
- Indian Rebellion of 1857
- Journalism in South Asia
- Nepal
- Pakistan Studies
- South Asian Epics
- Sri Lanka
- The Maldives
- Workshop in Development Practice
Gary Hausman
South Asian Studies Librarian
- Global Studies
Gary Hausman
South Asian Studies Librarian
- Global Studies
Gary Hausman
South Asian Studies Librarian
- Global Studies
Nancy Friedland
Librarian for Butler Media, Film Studies, & Performing Arts
- Humanities & History
Kristina Dy-Liacco
Tibetan Studies Librarian
- Starr East Asian Library
Sydni Meyer
Teaching and Undergraduate Services Librarian
- Humanities & History
- Behaving & Misbehaving: The Body in Early Modern Europe
- Holocaust Literature: A Survey
- Comparative Literature and Society
- Contemporary Western Civilization I
- Contemporary Western Civilization II
- Fascism in Germany & Italy
- French Empires
- French Language & Literature
- Guide to European and UK Libraries, Archives and Research Centers
- History
- Human Rights Studies
- Modern European Studies
- The European Union
- Western European History Since 1450
Ian Beilin
West European Studies Librarian
- Humanities & History
Sarah Witte
Research Collections & Services Librarian: Women & Gender Studies
- Humanities & History