July Newsletter: Education Program

The Gottesman Libraries Education Program informs students, faculty and staff about the latest thinking in education, in ways that engage members of the community with one another and with a broad range of educational experts. The program also provides understanding of work being done throughout the College. Read more about offerings in July.

Workshops

Regularly scheduled instructional offerings include workshops, tours, orientations, and course-specific instruction in coordination with staff and faculty of the College.

Your Research Journey is a five-part library workshop series to help guide you in your research throughout the semester, by providing you with manageable tools and resources to use along your journey. Whether this is your first time conducting research, or you are a well-seasoned researcher and looking for a refresher, each workshop introduces fundamental information to lay a foundation of knowledge on which you can build your scholarly work. While the workshops in this series are designed to build upon each other, you are welcome to attend any workshop individually. All are held on Wednesdays, 3-4pm.

Elevate Your Research builds upon the foundational series, Your Research Journey, by presenting valuable new topics, resources, and methodologies to make you an even stronger and highly proficient researcher. Held on Thursdays, 3-4pm, this series also invites deeper, collaborative work to strengthen academic research initiatives.

The Literature Review, Tuesday, 7/2, 3-4pm

The Literature Review is an essential element of scholarly inquiry, allowing researchers to understand the context and conclusions around a specific topic. A literature review can be conducted as a section in a main project such as a thesis or dissertation, or it can be a standalone project for a course or publication. For whatever reason you are embarking on your literature review process, this workshop will introduce you to the concepts and guidelines behind the three primary types of literature reviews; the narrative review, scoping review, and systematic review. We will also cover strategies for locating the sources you need for your literature review. 

Presenter:  Ava Kaplan, Research and Instruction Librarian

Where: 101 Russell / Online

Charting Your Path, Wednesday, 7/10, 3-4pm

Graduate school research may feel daunting, but this foundational workshop will address the key concepts, strategies, and tools to help develop your research skills.  Charting Your Path will start with a broad overview of what library research can look like, including the terms you may come across in your journey. We will also cover how to use Gottesman Libraries and the Columbia University Libraries to access physical and digital resources; discuss reference management tools; show how to create strong keyword searches; and end with a review of strategies for better search results. Attendees will leave this workshop with the information needed to be successful in Library research across all research disciplines.

Presenter: Ava Kaplan, Research and Instruction Librarian

Where: 101 Russell /Online

Managing Your Citations with Zotero, Wednesday, 7/17, 3-4pm

This workshop provides a quick start introduction including: downloading; tour of the interface;  nuts and bolts of how to ingest references through a web connector; and different ways of citing. This workshop will be followed by others in the Elevate Your Research series, offering more advanced features of Zotero and introductory sessions for Endnote and Mendeley -- all within ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) Frames.

Presenter:  Ava Kaplan, Research and Instruction Librarian

Where:  101 Russell / Online

Literature Reviews in the Health Sciences, Thursday, 7/18, 3-4pm

The Literature Review is a form of evidence synthesis that is impactful and popular in the health sciences. Literature reviews can broaden the readers’ understanding of a topic, highlight research gaps that warrant new primary research, and offer clinicians and health practitioners insight into the efficacy of an impact or intervention, which can inform treatment. In this workshop, we will discuss what types of reviews are best suited for qualitative and quantitative research in the health sciences; what protocols and recommendations exists to guide the review process; how to search empirical literature methodologically and systematically in health-related databases; and answer any questions you may have about conducting a literature review in the health sciences. 

Presenter: Ava Kaplan, Research and Instruction Librarian

Where:  101 Russell / Online

Searching Strategies, Wednesday, 7/24, 3-4pm

How do you know you are retrieving all the relevant information needed for your research topic? Do you find your catalog and database searches are not giving you the best results? This workshop will cover the strategies and concepts needed to give you confidence that you are finding the best results in your searches and take you beyond conducting simple searches by using tools to search in a variety of contexts. The workshop host will review how to use Educat+, the catalog of the Gottesman Libraries; CLIO, the Columbia University Libraries catalog; and database providers, like EBSCO and Proquest. We will then show how you can optimize your queries by using Boolean logic and punctuation to refine your search style and retrieve exactly the resources you seek.

Presenter: Ava Kaplan, Research and Instruction Librarian

 Where: 101 Russell /Online

Article Screening for Literature Reviews, Wednesday, 7/31, 3-4pm

Writing a literature review? Getting a lot of results for articles related to your topic, but now need to make sure they meet your eligibility criteria? Screening is the process of identifying studies from the literature search for inclusion in the review. In this workshop, we will share useful tips and tools for the article screening process of the literature review, including how to apply inclusion and exclusion criteria to search results and how to use digital tools like Covidence and Rayaan to make article screening more manageable and less time consuming.

Presenter:  Ava Kaplan, Research and Instruction Librarian

Where: 101 Russell /Online

Live Music

The Everett Cafe Music Program sponsors performances by TC student and affiliated musicians. Come enjoy a variety of genres and styles! Please contact us if you are interested in playing! We welcome solos, duets, and trios -- and will resume a fuller program in the Fall of 2024.

Nicholas DiMaria Duet, Tuesday, 7/23, 4-5pm

Nicholas DiMaria is a trumpeter, teacher, and composer based in New York City. He draws inspiration from multiple genres and art forms in his compositions and is continuously inspired by expressing visual art in a musical medium. His music is described by audiences as introspective, passionate, and eclectic; influenced by jazz, hip-hop, and classical music.

Nicholas has lead groups at Carnegie Hall, The Northeast Wine and Jazz Festival, The Syracuse Jazz Festival, The Central New York Pride Festival, and restaurants and clubs across New York State. He has also performed at The Great New York State Fair, The CNY January Jazz Festival, the Disneyland All-American College Band, and opened for Grammy-Winner Lalah Hathaway. Nicholas is well-adapted to playing with jazz ensembles, wedding bands, and funk groups. He currently holds a weekly performance residency at Oliva Tapas, NYC (Thursdays and Fridays from 6-8pm). Nicholas is also a faculty member at Larchmont Music Academy, where he teaches trumpet and a jazz ensemble. In 2020, he received his Bachelor's in Jazz Arts from Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Scott Wendholt, Ingrid Jensen, Jim McNeely, and Jon Faddis.

Nicholas is joined by jazz pianist Jack Gruber who is pursuing his masters at Manhattan School of Music. Jack Gruber was selected out of the whole state of Maryland to be the sole pianist in the 2013 and 2014 Maryland All State Jazz Band. He also performed at the Cleveland Tri-C Jazz Fest, and received a soloist award from acclaimed Jazz pianist Orrin Evans. He has performed alongside numerous notable musicians such as Delfeayo Marsalis, Zara Larrson, Jovan Jackson, Paul Carr, and Karen Summerville, Malik Washington, Qaasim Middleton, and Erena Terakubo. He has also performed at various venues and festivals such as the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival, Fat Cat, Minton’s, Twins Jazz, Afro Punk, Strathmore Concert Hall, the Silver Spring Jazz Festival and the Downbeat DC Jazz Festival.

Book Displays

Book displays  are curated and designed by library staff to share the joy of books and reading, while encouraging greater awareness of available resources  and their significance to the Library and College.

Everett Cafe:  Memorable Memoirs

While an autobiography covers a person's entire life, a memoir explores what is learned from specific life experiences. Recounting stories -- often coming of age -- from their lives, memoirists share feelings, opinions, knowledge, wisdom, life lessons -- usually creatively -- while still aiming to be reasonably accurate in their writing. They may have common experiences, revealing how they conform, or do not conform, to acceptable conventions or standards within their family, school, society, or world at large.

This summer we present an interesting and diverse range of electronic memoirs that offer a variety of perspectives relevant to education, psychology, and health in their widest contexts. Across countries, decades, genders, abilities, and beliefs, we hope to share inspiration from memoirs -- particularly literary -- as a memorable medium for expression, teaching, and understanding of our human values.

Memorable Memoirs builds upon the Book Club hosted by the Teachers College Graduate Writing Center and Gottesman Libraries that began in Spring 2023 with a focus on the genre of memoir, mostly written by women. Stay tuned for Fall 2024 announcements of new readings added to the Book Club program.

Where: Everett Cafe

Staff Picks: Symptoms of Being Human

"What does it mean to be alive? What does it mean to have a body? How do we understand pain, suffering, and survivorship? And how is everything so beautiful still? How are we so beautiful still? How are we as fragile as we are and also as strong as we are? Here are some charming books that we believe share some beautiful insights on suffering and survivorship."

--Kungsang Palmo

Staff Picks is curated and designed each month by the Gottesman Libraries' staff to highlight resources on educational topics and themes of special interest.

Where: Second Floor Reading Room

Curiosity Cabinets: Student Voices in Print and Perpetuity

Student Voices in Print and Perpetuity showcases an extraordinary range of Teachers College student publications from the early 1900s to the present day, with examples of yearbooks, literary and art magazines, newsletters, bulletins, and books – all of which show the vital role that students play; they inform their peers and community about campus events and occurrences; raise political, economic, and socio-cultural concerns; and share their creative talents, often built upon the curriculum. They learn to think, create, and act upon their values, opinions, beliefs, and perspectives while becoming leaders for change. In representing both the individual and collective perspective and actions of students within the context of education, the student voice serves to awaken us to the complexities of ourselves, our societies, and our world, as their publications provide a tangible record.

Where:  Third Floor Reading Room

News Displays

Need to keep current, look to the past, teach a topic? The Everett Cafe features daily postings of news from around the world, and also promotes awareness of historical events from an educational context. Be sure to check the Cafe News postings on the library blog.

Thoreau Moves to Walden Pond, Thursday, 7/4

Re-introducing Etch a Sketch, Friday, 7/12

Rowing Across the Atlantic, Friday, 7/19

Liberia Becomes Africa's First Republic, Friday, 7/26

Databases

Every month we draw attention to select databases that strengthen learning, teaching, and research in academic areas and their relevance to current offerings and programs.

In July, we present resources relating to recreation and leisure, important elements of physical and mental health and well being, as we slip into the summer. Read more on the library's news feed.

Exhibits

Educational exhibitions are mounted in partnership with the Teachers College community and others with an interest in displaying unique and innovative educational materials, while also regularly showcasing Teachers College's Historical Art Collections. 

The library has several spaces in Russell Hall to exhibit diverse materials, and also features digital and web-based exhibitions when possible. 

Artivism:  Art from the Heart

Often the responsibility demanded by our relationships with others leads to a larger understanding and appreciation of one's responsibility to the world. Through love, we learn that what we give to one another is more important than what we may receive in return. And, by investing in our love and care for others,  selfless relationships become more special, deep or meaningful.

The annual exposition of Artivism focuses on artwork created in the spirit of love and generosity, as we close the seventh season of programming for weekly talks that connect us to each other -- building community, while raising awareness of significant issues that affect our lives and humanity  --  sustainability, health, equity, justice, and peace, to name a few. Through a variety of mediums, and with open hearts and minds, we also provide the unique opportunity for artists, including students, teachers, and others, to gift their work to a charity or organization for a good cause. 

Art from the Heart complements Student Voices in Print and Perpetuity, archival materials on display this summer in the adjacent Third Floor Curiosity Cabinets; Thinking, Acting, and Learning: On Student Activism, an Everett Cafe book display (May-June) ; and the interactive art installation, Spectrum of Togetherness.

Where: Offit Gallery

When:  May 30th - July 26th

Growth: Part One: Select Artworks from the Ziegfeld Collection of International Children's Art

The Ziegfeld Collection of International Children's Art is comprised of 361 paintings, drawings, prints, and collages made by adolescents aged 10 to 18 from 32 countries across the world. The Collection was first shown in 1967 at the High Museum in The Hague, the Netherlands. It was assembled by Professor Edwin Ziegfeld, then Chair of Art and Education at Teachers College. Columbia University, who was also President of the International Society for Art Education, an organization he helped found in 1954 under the auspices of the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.

Under the direction of Macy Professor of Education Judith Burton and in collaboration with the Library, the Ziegfeld Collection was first shown at the Macy Art Gallery, Teachers College in 1999. Wrote Professor Emerita Maxine Greene, "this exhibition opened[d] new possibilities for those dedicated to the growth of children and, particularly, to enabling the adolescents of our time to find their way through the entangled forests of a difficult moment in history."(Catalog Introduction, The Ziegfeld Collection: International Artworks of Adolescents from the 1950s: A Celebration). Created after the Second World War, the artworks spoke to the significance of adolescents who would continue the adult work of reshaping the world, its values, aspirations, skills, and behaviors, over the coming decades.

Growth, Part One: Select Works from the Ziegfeld Collection of International Children's Art focuses on representations of the family, school, and friendships -- a foundation for growth of the individual. These topics are also reflected in the Everett Cafe book display, Memorable Memoirs, international in scope but more adult in perspective. We invite viewers and readers to consider their formative years, from the nucleus of the family and schooling, to social growth -- and to explore common human experiences and emotions as they relate to our understanding of ourselves; the world around us; and our development as human beings.

Growth: Select Works from the Ziegfeld Collection of International Children's Art will be displayed in three parts over the Summer and Fall of 2024.

Where: First Floor

When: Part One, July through mid-September