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Bullet Can I get research assistance if I am not a Columbia affiliate?
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Can I get research assistance if I am not a Columbia affiliate?
  Scholars and researchers with bona fide research-related questions about materials unique to Columbia University Libraries may send email to reference@columbia.edu. We will not provide legal, medical or financial advice. Local libraries are recommended as rich resources of information and can provide assistance using interlibrary loan and other document delivery services.


How can I find journal articles on LibraryWeb?
  Search Databases or E-Journals to find citations or full-text articles.

How can I find archival collections and oral histories at Columbia?
  See Looking for Archives and Manuscripts.

How can I recommend an item for purchase?
  Go to Give Us Feedback/Recommend Books, etc. on the Request It web page. Please note that this is a restricted service Service restricted to members of the Columbia community.


What is the CD-ROM LAN?
  The Libraries' CD-ROM LAN provides access to networked CD-ROM resources. These resources are available to the Columbia University community at specialized CD-ROM LAN workstations within the Libraries. Some titles are available widely in CU libraries and collections; others are available only in selected libraries. For list of resources and locations, see Where to Use the Libraries' CD-ROM LAN.


What names are chiseled on the facade of Butler Library?
 

North side, left to right: Homer - Herodotus - Sophocles - Plato - Aristotle - Demosthenes - Cicero - Vergil

West side, left to right: Horace - Tacitus - St. Augustine - St. Thomas Aquinas - Dante

East side, left to right: Cervantes - Shakespeare - Milton - Voltaire - Goethe

The panels under the large front windows are inscribed with the names of 24 American statesmen and authors: George Washington - Benjamin Franklin - John Adams - Thomas Jefferson - Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - James Madison - John Marshall - John Quincy Adams - Henry Clay - Daniel Webster - Abraham Lincoln Jonathan Edwards - Washington Irving - James Fenimore Cooper - William Cullen Bryant - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Edgar Allen Poe - Henry David Thoreau - Herman Melville - Walt Whitman - Mark Twain

The names were selected by President Nicholas Murray Butler. Source: Robson, John William. A Guide to Columbia University with Some Account of Its History and Traditions. New York: Columbia University Press, 1937. p. 101, 103.


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