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LIBRARIES: Columbia University libraries recently launched the Libraries Alumni and Friends Gateway (www.alumni.libraries. columbia.edu), an interactive website featuring electronic resources, such as searchable databases, developed specifically for alumni and friends of the Columbia Libraries.

Alumni can search the libraries’ collections on Columbia Libraries Online Catalog (CLIO), as well as the digital library collections, including the Papers of John Jay and the Digital Scriptorium. The program also features a variety of research tools, such as the ProQuest Research Library and ProQuest Newspapers databases, which provide access to thousands of full-text magazines, journals and national and regional newspapers, and the ABI/Inform Global and American Medical Association collections, which offer numerous business journals and medical publications.

LIBRARIES, ADD: “Jewels in Her Crown,” an exhibit in honor of Columbia’s 250th anniversary, opened October 8 in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library in Butler Library. The exhibit showcases 250 treasures from the special collections libraries of Columbia, including Avery Art and Architecture, Barnard, the Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, the Health Sciences Library, the Law and Music Libraries, the Starr East Asian Library and more.
A printed catalogue accompanies the exhibit; the web version (www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/treasures) includes images of all items. The exhibit is open Mondays, noon–7:45 p.m. and Tuesdays through Fridays, 9 a.m.–4:45 p.m. during the school term, through January 28.

RANKINGS: Columbia was rated the eighth best college in the country for African-Americans and tops among Ivy schools, according to a survey in Black Enterprise magazine that was based on responses from 1,855 African-American higher education officials.
A study conducted in 2003 by the Institute of International Education ranked Columbia as the third-leading host campus for international students. And a study conducted by Professor Simon Hix of the London School of Economics and Political Science ranked Columbia’s political science department No. 1 in the world based on the number of articles published in the 36 most influential political science journals during the past five years.

ALICE TURNS 10: Go Ask Alice!, the innovative online health Q&A service produced by the University’s Health Education Program, celebrated its 10th anniversary at an October 7 luncheon
on College Walk. The website (www.goaskalice.columbia.edu) provides users with credible, accessible health and well-being information. It notes, “While the Q&As are chosen, researched and written with CU readers in mind, the site has an audience that runs the gamut of age, ethnicity, nationality and political persuasion.”
In its 10 years, “Alice” has answered nearly 3,000 questions about relationships; sexuality; sexual health; emotional health; fitness; nutrition; alcohol, nicotine and other drugs; and general health. The site is supported by a team of CU health educators, health care providers and other health professionals, along with information and research specialists from health-related organizations worldwide, and is available to the public.

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