Music Online

Our five music databases (with hundreds of thousands of streamed MP3s) are now available through a single interface. Also available from off-campus to Columbia College students and staff.

The five databases are:
American Song
Classical Music Library
Contemporary World Music
Jazz Music Library
Smithsonian Global Sound

Music Online
Available via our Article and Research Databases page and through this direct link: Music Online

See you in 2010!

How Wikipedia Works

A comprehensive guide to the who, what, when, where, how and why of the Internet's largest (and arguably most controversial) encyclopedia.

How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It
by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates
Find it in the Library at call number AE1.5 .A98 2008

On the Fireline

A sociological look at wildland firefighters as documented by a doctoral student with personal experience serving on a firecrew in Northern Arizona.

On the Fireline
by Matthew Desmond
Find it at call number SD421.24 . D47 2007

The Good Earth

The 1937 adaptation of Pearl S. Buck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel won Luise Rainer (as O-lan) a repeat Best Actress Oscar.

The Good Earth
directed by Sidney Franklin
Find it in our Video Collection at call number PN1995.9 .D7G659 1937

Find Pearl S. Bucks original book at call number PS3503 .U198 G66 1949