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New Science and Engineering Library Columbia: A Collaborative Environment for Interdisciplinary Rese



The Science & Engineering Library is the newest library on campus, having opened in 2011 in the Northwest Corner Building. It is sometimes known as just NoCo. The library primarily focuses on research support in natural sciences and engineering. It's not to be confused with the now-defunct Monell Engineering Library in Mudd.




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The Science & Engineering Library, located in 401 Northwest Corner Building, focuses on research support for the fields of astronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, and psychology, as well as providing a collaborative environment supporting rapidly expanding interdisciplinary science and engineering research. The Science and Engineering Library is home to the Digital Science Center, where high-end computers are especially equipped with software and hardware to support teaching, learning, research, and innovation in the science and engineering disciplines. Group study, individual carrels, and staff consultation spaces along with printing and scanning facilities are included in this library, which offers spectacular views of the Columbia campus and Morningside Heights.


Online, CUL provides access to extensive collections of electronic journals, ebooks, handbooks, standards, patents, and society publications. Databases such as Compendex, INSPEC, Scopus and Web of Science help patrons to pinpoint relevant engineering and science research.


The School of Mines Records describe the founding, growth, and evolution of the School. The materials contained in this collection show the expansion of the School's faculty, student and alumni bodies, and physical plant plus its shift in academic focus from mines and metallurgy to engineering and applied sciences. Also covered are the development of the undergraduate and graduate programs of study and the celebrations and documentation of the School's progress and history.


In 1896 the School of Mines was renamed the School of Mines, Engineering, and Chemistry, a recognition long coming of the branches of engineering and science beyond the original mines concept. The Faculty of the School of Mines at the same time became the Faculty of Applied Science. These developments, though opposed by most of the faculty devoted to the primacy of the School's original mining emphasis and its traditions, addressed the rising importance of engineering in society. The same year the School recognized its broadening scope of study with an official name change, so too did Columbia College recognize the importance of graduate research and study to its mission, becoming Columbia University in the City of New York. These important changes to the School and College were followed a year later by another significant step in both institution's evolution: the University's move to Morningside Heights.


Though the original School of Mines evolved well beyond the original plan of its founder Thomas Egleston, Jr., the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science continues its ancestor's tradition of producing pioneering, successful, and well-respected professionals, educators, and researchers in science and engineering.


Striving to provide the best possible library services to scholars in engineering and technology, Dibner Library maintains a variety of open and reservable study spaces, access to all Tandon required course materials, and assistance in using library resources.


The Columbia University Libraries seeks an innovative, forward-thinking,technologically savvy professional to lead library support fore-Science, data science, computational methods in research, and researchworkflows for the science and engineering disciplines. The DigitalScience Librarian will identify, develop, and provide targeted,point-of-need information and data support services to scientists andengineers. The successful applicant will be a creative, self-motivatedproblem-solver familiar with both the research laboratory setting andcomputational methods for scientific research.


Reporting to the Emerging Technologies Coordinator, Science andEngineering Libraries, the Digital Science Librarian will provide directservice to faculty and students, including instruction and outreach,research consultations, and virtual reference. The position will select,evaluate, and promote information and data resources related to scienceand engineering research and will engage scientists and engineers onissues surrounding research data and publication in collaboration withcolleagues from across the organization, including the Center forDigital Research and Scholarship. The position will also participate onLibraries-wide task forces and working groups, and will represent theorganization at appropriate regional and national forums.


Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.


This discrepancy would further suggest that New York City could use a life science-focused campus at least as much, if not even more so, than an engineering-focused applied sciences campus. Recall that the invisibility of city schools on national rankings was a key reason cited by Mayor Bloomberg for pursuing the science-tech campus.


This library supports teaching and research in Astrophysics, Biology, Chemistry, Geosciences, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Physics, and Psychology, and includes the Map and Geospatial Information Center. 2ff7e9595c


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