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Nov 20, 2024

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To coincide with a new exhibition at the New York Historical, "Pets and the City," Libraries staff honors the University's own four-legged friends who've left their paw prints in the archives, including a dog at the Columbia War Hospital in the Bronx during World War I.

Nov 18, 2024

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Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library announces that more than 3,000 slides have been digitized from the Sculpture in the Environment (SITE) architectural records and the papers of architect James Wines, which were donated to the library in 2020.

Nov 11, 2024

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A team of Libraries staff has begun to archive the Epistolæ project, a remarkable collection of medieval Latin letters to and from women from the fourth through the 13th centuries, which are now accessible through the University's Academic Commons repository.

Oct 30, 2024

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Librarian for Jewish Studies Michelle Margolis continues a series of blog posts about the history of Jews at Columbia with an installment on the first years of the Nicholas Murray Butler presidency during the early 20th century.

Oct 29, 2024

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A groundbreaking forum, funded by a grant from the Laura Bush 21st-Century Librarian Program through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, will bring together Black, Indigenous, and people of color curators from archives and special collections across the country.

Oct 27, 2024

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Dr. Robin Bunce of Homerton College, Cambridge University, describes how the papers of activist Darcus Howe, held by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and other recently-digitized materials contribute to his research on the history of Black Power in Britain.

Oct 24, 2024

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In honor of “spooky season," University archivists visit the graves at Trinity churchyard, the final resting place of King’s College alumnus Alexander Hamilton and his wife Eliza Hamilton - as well as a much earlier vault with connections to Columbia history.

Oct 23, 2024

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The Libraries' Digital Scholarship team calls on Columbia researchers to join the Paper Pledge for the Planet, a global collaboration of institutions that aims to make climate change literature openly available. Learn more about how to participate.

Oct 17, 2024

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The Music & Arts Library, in collaboration with Libraries' Digital Scholarship team, offers a series of music technology workshops, designed and conducted by graduate student and current Digital Music Intern Ása Ólafsdóttir.

Oct 9, 2024

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Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library announces that a new exhibition, "Landscape(d)," is now on view as the eighth collaboration between the Libraries' Art Properties collection and students in the M.A. in Art History program.

Oct 9, 2024

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Cristina Stubbe, an archivist with the Winthrop Group, processed the papers of Jack and Irene Delano, held by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library and including drawings, photographs, and other materials that document the history and culture of Puerto Rico.

Oct 9, 2024

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The Libraries announces the annual Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections, which will feature the Inquisition of Bologna, Jews at Barnard in the late 19th century, and a unique story from early modern Prague.

Oct 8, 2024

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Lena Newman, a former student employee on the Avery Index and Special Collections Curator in Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, is announced as the newly-appointed Curator of Avery Classics.

Oct 8, 2024

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Author and independent researcher Laura Fisher Kaiser consulted the archival records of the Paul R. Reynolds literary agency in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library for an upcoming biography of novelist Frances Elizabeth Budgett (pen name Elizabeth Dejeans).

Oct 4, 2024

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The staff of the Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary collaborated with the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL) to host a panel discussion on the role of water in religion and spiritual life in South Asia.

Oct 2, 2024

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Sculptor Louise Nevelson was born September 23, 1899 in Pereiaslav, Ukraine. To mark what would be her 125th birthday, University archivists explore the connections between Nevelson and Columbia, now and then.

Oct 1, 2024

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Librarian for Jewish Studies Michelle Margolis continues a series of blog posts about the history of Jews at Columbia with a brief detour across Broadway to explore Jewish connections to Barnard College.

Sep 30, 2024

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The South Asian Governmental Publications Web Archive aims to collect and preserve open access, online formats of government serials from South Asia, on all subjects and from all countries in the region.

Sep 27, 2024

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The Libraries recognizes Open Access Week (October 21-27), which "prioritizes approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic community," through a week-long series of discussions and workshops.

Sep 19, 2024

Dr. Robert P. Jackson visited the Rare Book & Manuscript Library to review the papers of scholar and public intellectual Edward Said in relation to his research on Italian theorist Antonio Gramsci.

Sep 17, 2024

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Students in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Itzel Franco ('26CC) and Sarah Noon ('24GS), helped University archivists to improve the condition and description of a brittle but valuable collection of records from the New York Public Library (NYPL) Library School.

Sep 17, 2024

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Now on display in Lehman Social Sciences Library: Highlights from the Student Research Mentorship Program, which paired five first-generation, low-income students and students of color with librarian mentors on research projects that leveraged the Libraries' collections and services.

Sep 13, 2024

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The second post in a series about the history of Jews at Columbia details the evolution of Jewish studies at the University and specifically focuses on the period from 1854-1901.

Sep 12, 2024

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The Ask A Librarian Internship Program, which provides currently-enrolled library and information science students with paid, hands-on experience in academic librarianship, announces the Fall 2024 interns: Federica Alesiani, Willy Anthony Diaz Tapia, and Jasmine Zacate.

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Columbia’s Pets

SITE James Wines: A Selection of Slides

Archiving the Epistolæ Project

Jews at Columbia: The Early Butler Years and the Trustee Question (1901-1920)

Columbia University Libraries to Host Grant-Funded Forum for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Curators

Researcher Profile | British Black Panther Movement

A Visit to the Churchyard

Paper Pledge for the Planet

Music Technology Workshops - Fall 2024

Landscape(d): An Exhibition

Processing the Jack and Irene Delano Papers

Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections 2024

Lena Newman Named Curator of Avery Classics

Research at the RBML | Laura Kaiser Finds Elizabeth Dejeans in the Paul Reynolds Papers

Water: Climate and Religion with IRCPL

Louise Nevelson at 125

Jews at Columbia: Annie Nathan Meyer and the “College for Women”

Just Launched: South Asian Governmental Publications Web Archive

Open Access Week at Columbia Libraries

Research at the RBML | Robert P. Jackson Explores Connections between Edward Said, Antonio Gramsci, and Italian Thought

NYPL Library School Records: A Student Project

Now on View: Student Research Mentorship Program Displays

Jews at Columbia: The Beginnings of Jewish Studies (1854-1901)

Announcing the Fall 2024 Ask A Librarian Interns

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Columbia’s Pets

SITE James Wines: A Selection of Slides

Archiving the Epistolæ Project

Jews at Columbia: The Early Butler Years and the Trustee Question (1901-1920)

Columbia University Libraries to Host Grant-Funded Forum for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Curators

Researcher Profile | British Black Panther Movement

A Visit to the Churchyard

Paper Pledge for the Planet

Music Technology Workshops - Fall 2024

Landscape(d): An Exhibition

Processing the Jack and Irene Delano Papers

Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections 2024

Lena Newman Named Curator of Avery Classics

Research at the RBML | Laura Kaiser Finds Elizabeth Dejeans in the Paul Reynolds Papers

Water: Climate and Religion with IRCPL

Louise Nevelson at 125

Jews at Columbia: Annie Nathan Meyer and the “College for Women”

Just Launched: South Asian Governmental Publications Web Archive

Open Access Week at Columbia Libraries

Research at the RBML | Robert P. Jackson Explores Connections between Edward Said, Antonio Gramsci, and Italian Thought

NYPL Library School Records: A Student Project

Now on View: Student Research Mentorship Program Displays

Jews at Columbia: The Beginnings of Jewish Studies (1854-1901)

Announcing the Fall 2024 Ask A Librarian Interns