Bryson Library, Teachers College. General View. Summer Session. (1920) (Courtesy of Teachers College, Columbia University, Historical Photographs of Teachers College collection)It seems to me impossible, when not completely absorbed in the present apparently endless world health crisis, and distracted by the impossibility to plan for the post-pandemic future with an...

The dev team continues to support the library and college by adding new and exciting features to our tech-ecosystem and keeping all our systems and services running and updated.Library App Relaunched: Our biggest push this semester was updating the TC Library app and relaunching it on the App Store and

Welcome to this end-of-summer report on Collection Assessment, an exciting Gottesman Libraries initiative to harness the power of data! This blog explores the research performed this summer by the library’s Acquisition and Materials team in two areas of library analytics: collection holdings and collection usage.

📖 In Review: Summer 2020This review includes the work areas of library acquisitions and materials through Summer A and B terms, and the extraordinary work of

Cousin to the cricket, the cicadas sing in late August in waves among the gingkos. Using their tymbals, they defy even the the most beautiful bluejay, heard, but unseen as of yet in an otherwise quiet, tree-lined street these past summer months. Steady chorus rising, then falling, from the underground they have come, to begin new life in their last few weeks of the season, truly an unprecedented one in New York City. Their chorus is the lovely and sure sign of summer, reminding me of childhood on the shores of Lake Michigan, professional life in the East, and emergence into a new Autumn at ...

Our Work: The development team at Gottesman Libraries has continued to support the library and various digital endeavors at Teachers College during the Spring 2020 semester. Our efforts this semester included identifying ways to streamline our services, enhancing our digital products based on new requirements, keeping our systems and technology updated and running, reduce operational costs, and expand our reach and offerings throughout Teachers College. Some of these efforts are listed below -Library Web...

In Spring 1988, the Teachers College library (at that time Milbank Memorial Library) produced a publication titled “An Almanac for the First Century”; the work was compiled by library director Jane P. Franck with the assistance of other library staff members. (A digital copy of the work can be found at

At a lady's writing desk in the corner of our Spring green living room, there's the luxury of time and treetops dotted with robins, cardinals, and the occasional yellow finch; the leafy canopy outside our south-facing window is gloriously full, a sure and pleasing sign of the season. We trace the delicate honey locust and gorgeous gingko to the banks of the Mississippi, and as far away as China, eagerly waiting out weeks of New York City apartment quarantine, with ample room to reflect and much hope ahead. I pass many an hour on the laptop, connecting almost daily to colleagues via Zoom or ...

Our Spring 2020 semester started with a familiar, welcome rush to meet the needs of our community as we returned from the winter holiday well-rested and ready to process new materials, support course reserves, and identify key areas of improvement in library systems and software. The early months of this semester brought a revised materials request form, alongside the development of an email-based document delivery service in preparation for the closure of Gottesman Libraries’ long standing multi-use materials platform, DocDel.