July Newsletter: Education Program
Gottesman Libraries
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.
Charting Your Path, Wednesday, 7/2
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
Searching Strategies, Wednesday, 7/9
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
Citation Analysis and Research Impact: Measuring the Impact of Knowledge, Thursday, 7/10, 3-4pm
How do you determine the influence of a journal, article, or author within your field of study? This workshop will introduce bibliometrics, the use of quantitative data from the use of citations, as a means for measuring impact, influence, and assumed quality of a journal, article, or researcher. Attendees will explore many tools and resources as a means of assisting authors, reviewers, and others in making their quantitative and qualitative assessments. Topics covered include citation searching and analysis; altmetrics; and research impact utilizing the database Scopus, Web of Science, and others.
Presenter: Ava Kaplan, Research and Instruction Librarian
Where: 101 Russell / Online
Managing Your Citations with Zotero, Wednesday, 7/16
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 an introductory session for Endnote -- all within ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) Frames.
Presenter: Ava Kaplan, Research and Instruction Librarian
Where: 101 Russell / Online
The Literature Review, Wednesday, 7/23
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
Using PubMed for Research, Thursday, 7/24, 3-4pm
PubMed, created and maintained by the United States National Library of Medicine, is the premiere database of citations and abstracts on biomedical and life sciences literature. This workshop will highlight the important features of PubMed and provide an overview of keyword searching; using filters; using the MeSH database; saving and exporting results along with other useful tips for getting the most out of PubMed. This workshop is suited for first-time users and experienced searchers looking for a refresher.
Presenter: Ava Kaplan, Research and Instruction Librarian
Where: 101 Russell / Online
Article Screening for Literature Reviews, Wednesday, 7/30
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 to make article screening more manageable and less time consuming.
Presenter: Ava Kaplan, Research and Instruction Librarian
Where: 101 Russell /Online
Highlighted 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.
With a focus on emerging forms of reading, writing, speaking, and listening, English Education embraces critical approaches to literature, cultural perspectives and contexts, and multiple levels of education. Resources in the field of English Language Arts are highlighted in July to complement current College and library offerings, from the academic program and Literacy Unbound to the latest Everett Cafe book display. Read more on the Library's news feed.
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.
Claremont Strings, Wednesday, 7/9, 3-4:30pm
Claremont Strings features music for classical strings, from the symphonies of Mozart and Haydn, to well known arias from the operas of Puccini and Bizet. You may hear a selection of continental Viennese waltzes and French cabaret. Musicians of The Claremont Strings Ensemble have performed collectively at Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and throughout the Northeast, playing a diverse range of symphonic and chamber music, eclectic jazz, and gypsy swing. Wadsworth Strings, emanating from the Washington Heights area, is a division of Claremont Strings, founded by Vivian Penham, a graduate of the Juilliard School and Columbia University.
Nicholas DiMaria Duet, Wednesday, 7/23, 3:30-4:30pm
Nicholas DiMaria is a trumpeter, bandleader, and composer based in New York City. He has led groups at Carnegie Hall, The Northeast Wine and Jazz Festival, Syracuse Jazz Festival, CNY January Jazz Festival, and restaurants/clubs across New York State. He has performed at Disneyland®, The Hard Rock Hotel in NYC, The Great New York State Fair, and has opened for Grammy® Winners Lalah Hathaway, Randy Brecker, and Michael McDonald. In 2018, he appeared in a national March-Madness® commercial with Tracy Morgan. Nicholas also held a weekly concert residency at Food Network Chef Franklin Becker’s restaurants for 4 years.
Nicholas 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 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.
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: Set in Summer
Set in Summer features classic works of literature, as well as newer reads whose narratives occur during the summer season. Whether their storylines take place in a wealthy residential neighborhood, small American town, New York City borough, leafy medieval English forest, remote Scottish isle, or other inspiring locale, this curated collection conjures up the feeling of warmth, joy, and freedom associated with lighter, more carefree days.
Enjoy a good summer read, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a delightful comedy written around 1595 by William Shakespeare, to the magical, heartwarming novel, One Italian Summer (2023), by Rebecca Serle. Among these shelves, and with nostalgia for print, you will find Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ray Bradbury, Truman Capote, Harper Lee, Barbara Kingsolver, Betty Smith, Debbie Johnson, Mary Kaye Andrews, Tove Jansson, Sue Monk Kidd, and Emily Henry – an eclectic mix inspiring a thirst for lemonade and all things summer.
Bring a book on vacation, to a family picnic or an outdoor concert, even as quiet company to the beach. It’s time to kick back, relax, and immerse yourself in the glorious pages of Summer, beginning here in the Northern Hemisphere on June 20th– and deliciously lasting until the third week in September.
Set in Summer is designed by Kai Oh, Library Associate, and curated by Jennifer Govan, Library Director and Senior Librarian.
At Everett Cafe, you'll find a new book collection every few weeks that relates to current events, education, or learning environments.
Staff Picks: Coincidence, Serendipity, and Synchronicity: Exploring Life's Unlikely Connections
"The logical brain understands life as the result of causal circumstances; we assume an explanation lies behind every meaningful encounter. But what about those more mysterious moments when experience becomes imbued with something…more? Coincidences, serendipity, and synchronicity are all related phenomena united by their roots in chance, their lack of obvious causality, and the way they provoke us to notice unexpected connections or patterns in our lives. These are moments like running into an old friend on vacation, stumbling across an Instagram post that inspires a career switch, or dreaming of a place then encountering it in waking life—experiences that often feel uncanny and can lead to a shift in perspective, a happy accident, or an "aha" moment. The books in this display all attend to these kinds of experiences. From the sociological insights of Robert K. Merton's The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity to C.G. Jung's foundational work on Synchronicity, you'll find books that examine these phenomena through various lenses—scientific, philosophical, and personal. Dive into these captivating reads and re-examine the role of chance, choice, and meaning in your life."
-- Ava Kaplan, Research and Instruction Librarian
Coincidence, Serendipity, Synchronicity: Exploring Life's Unlikely Connections is curated by Ava Kaplan, Research and Instruction Librarian, and designed by Kai Oh, Library Associate / Art and Design.
Where: Second Floor Collaboration Space
Staff Picks is curated and designed each month by the Gottesman Libraries' staff to highlight resources on educational topics and themes of special interest.
Rocket Cases: Warmest Reads for Kids
Come enjoy a selection of summery books, many of them set at the beach, on the water, during a family vacation, or on an idyllic island. Titles are drawn from the contemporary juvenile collection and showcased as rocket displays to launch you into the warmest season the year and spur reading by your students or to your own kids.
Warmest Reads for Kids is curated by Ashley Cho and Kaili Ebert, Library Associates for Reference and Reader Services
Where: Second Floor
The Rocket Cases feature award winning and notable children's pop up book displays, with seasonal, educational, or other themes drawn from the juvenile collections.
Curiosity Cabinets: Backpack, Camelback, Outback, Wayback: Curious Accounts of Travel
Showcased in this display are historical examples of travelogues and travel writings, from those of Venetian merchant Marco Polo, with his unique interpretation of the East in the thirteenth-century, to musings on Manhattan by the popular twentieth-century American children’s book author E.B. White. Selected works date from the mid 1600s through the 1940s, spanning all continents and representing different modes of travel – by men and women, pioneers and adventurers, students and teachers, romantics and essayists, the religious and the political, the philosophical and mercantile. Some travel by foot, others by camel, horse, automobile, train, boat, or plane. All have a story or two to tell, and all help us see the world from a different perspective throughout history.
While the emphasis is on personal narrative, included are examples of travel books or texts for schools – notably the popular Peter Parley series, written by Samuel Goodrich and others from 1827 onwards, to connect the study of geography, biography, history, science, and miscellaneous tales. In addition, there are diaries, memoirs, letters, photographs, maps, souvenirs, brochures, and intriguing artifacts – among them, a Syrian medicine bowl from the Adelaide Nutting Historical Nursing Collection and a Burmese book with Buddhist script enameled on copper plates.
Backpack, Camelback, Outback, Wayback: Curious Accounts of Travel compliments the Offit Gallery exhibit, Give and Receive: From the Virtual to the Real, where postcards, which travel by mail without envelopes, express thoughts and sentiments about the status quo of the world as we know it today.
Where: Third Floor
The Curiosity Cabinets showcase interesting and insightful material from the historical collections to inform and enhance concomitant art exhibitions and book displays. Read more here.
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.
Burr-Hamilton Duel, Friday, 7/11
Kings College Opens in New York, Thursday, 7/17
First Moon Walk, Sunday, 7/20
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: Give and Receive: From the Virtual to the Real
Artivism's Annual Summer Expo presents Give & Receive: From the Virtual to the Real. Participating artivists closed their devices; avoided the "send" button, and went retro by mailing printed postcards containing their original art.
Here you will find postcards that share their thoughts, ideas, suggestions, expressions, messages, and more about the status quo of the world. Poems, photography, collage, or drawing, the postcards reflect hope, joy, love, peace, growth, healing, positivity, dreams, nature, beauty, heritage, strength, perseverance, and community. They are created by children, teens, and adults of all ages and from all over the world.
In addition, we present a gallery of awarded Artivism posters dating back to Spring, 2021. Each season reflects the commitment of those who, through art, aspire to nurture change for a more meaningful and dignified coexistence.
Artivism: The Power of Art for Social Transformation is jointly sponsored by Adelphi University, Sing for Hope, and the Gottesman Libraries. A movement with committed social artivists, Artivism: The Power of Art Social Transformation, grew out of Illuminations of Social Imagination: Learning From Maxine Greene, (Dio Press, 2019), edited by Teachers College alumni Courtney Weida and Carolina Cambronero-Varela, and Dolapo Adeniji-Neill, of Adelphi University.
Upon closing of this multi venue exhibition, all artworks will be distributed among participants, creating the opportunity to connect and continue the exchange.
Where: Offit Gallery
When: June 2nd - July 31st
Ode to Summer
Complementing the Everett Cafe book display, Set in Summer, are select works from the Teachers College Art Collection that reflect the warmest season, June through August in the Northern Hemisphere. These pictures are drawn from the Federico Castellon Memorial Print Collection, McNeeley Costume Drawings, Passow Collection of Israeli Children’s Peace Art, Ukrainian Children’s Art Collection, and Ziegfeld Collection of International Children’s Art. Created from the 1920s-1970s by adults and children from all over the world, the artworks capture the warmth, joy, vibrancy, and also the tranquility of Summer, when children are on school vacation, holidays are key, and rejuvenation is beneficial. Pieces relate to nature and environment, summer activities, and the fantastical and imaginary to help us pause and just enjoy this welcome time of year!
Ode to Summer is designed by Soeun Bae, with assistance from Kai Oh, Library Associates for Art and Design, and curated by Jennifer Govan, Library Director and Senior Librarian. The exhibit is supported by the continuing generosity of the Myers Foundations.
Where: First Floor
When: July 2nd - August 31st
