Guide to European and UK Libraries, Archives and Research Centers: Home

Admont Abbey Library in Admont, Austria, the largest monastic library in the world

Start with CLIO to find books and journals in Columbia University library collections. (Use Educat for resources in the Teachers College Library.)

Then try WorldCat, the largest online catalog in the world, with over 100 million book and journal records.

To find dissertations, start with Proquest Digital Dissertations. Also check DART, Europe's E-theses portal.

Other essential resources include:

• Center for Research Libraries
  The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) makes primary and rarely-held research materials available to Columbia affiliates via interlibrary loan and document delivery.  CRL holdings are strong in newspapers, foreign dissertations, and international materials.
• Borrow Direct
  Borrow Direct enables Columbia University students, faculty, and staff to request books only from Brown University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, MIT, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University.
• Interlibrary Loan enables eligible Columbia University affiliates to borrow materials (journals/articles, microfilm, audiovisual content, etc.) from other libraries and universities and obtain copies of articles or book chapters from titles that are not owned or available at Columbia.
• Scan & Deliver enables students, faculty and staff to request electronic delivery of articles and book chapters from the general print collections of most Columbia Libraries.

Ian Beilin, Philosophy & German Studies Librarian, igb4@columbia.edu

Yuusuf Caruso, Africana Studies Librarian (*excluding North Africa), caruso@columbia.edu

Michelle Chesner, Jewish Studies Librarian, mc3395@columbia.edu

Rob Davis, Slavic & East European Studies Librarian, rhd2106@columbia.edu

Gary Hausman, South Asian Studies Librarian, gjh2119@columbia.edu

Meredith Levin, Western European Humanities Librarian, mjl2209@columbia.edu (France, Italy, Low Countries, Scandinavia, Switzerland)

Peter Magierski, Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies Librarian (*including North Africa), pm2650@columbia.edu

Socrates Silva, Latin American & Iberian Studies Librarian, ss5000@columbia.edu

John Tofanelli, British & American History and Literature Librarian, jt628@columbia.edu

Jeffrey Wayno, Ancient & Medieval Studies/Classics/Religion Librarian, jmw2202@columbia.edu

Sarah Witte, Gender & Sexuality Studies Librarian, shs4@columbia.edu

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