June 2020

We hope this finds our readers healthy and safe. This has been a time of tremendous anxiety and rapid changes. Amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, our research and learning environment has been largely transformed.  Columbia University Library locations have physically closed, and all staff are working from home -- but we are still striving, each and every day, to ensure continued access to books, journals, and other materials online. We encourage users to visit the Your Libraries Online portal which showcases many of the new and expanded e-resources and services available during this period, and to reach out to members of the Burke Library Staff with questions any time.
 

About: The Burke Library Newsletter, sent approximately every other month, is a compilation of highlights, updates, events, and new additions to our collection.

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• Your Libraries Online lays out the expansive suite of remote services and collections available to students, faculty, and staff (with current Columbia UNI and Password) through the Columbia University Libraries (for example: with HathiTrust, over 40% more digital versions of Columbia’s print collections are available)

• Continued and expanded access to electronic resources through CLIO, including many vendors and university presses' expanded volume of electronic materials. (i.e. if we didn't have an e-book months ago, look again, we might have it now)

• Guide to Free Online COVID-19 Offers and Resources (available to Columbia and to the public) highlights some of the specific vendors and websites that have expanded the availability and quantity of online resources for students and faculty -- all free!

• As always, staff can be reached by emailing burke@library.columbia.edu or reaching out to any Burke Library Staff member. We're working from home and we will do our best to answer any questions and ensure continued access to research materials and services.

Newly-discovered letter from Bonhoeffer to Gandhi (1934)

The Burke Library staff recently received a warm and exciting message from our friend Prof. Clifford Green. He wrote eagerly telling us of the recent discovery in New Delhi of a previously unknown letter mailed to Mohandas Gandhi, sent in earnest by none other than Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who would go on to become a well-known ethicist and activist against the Nazi regime during World War II, when he was a young pastor in Germany in 1934 at the outset of his career.

What did young Bonhoeffer say to Gandhi (or, to "Mahatmaji," as he greeted him respectfully)? The letter is published in full, in the latest issue of the Journal of Ecclesiastical History (April 2020) in an article by Prof. Green.

Read more at the Burke Blog...

Sweet-talking catalogs: an amusing error, and tips to make your way around CLIO