Happy Homecoming weekend, Columbia! The first Homecoming was celebrated in October 1948 to honor newly-inaugurated University president, Dwight D. Eisenhower.

2020 presidential candidates have paid more attention to climate change than in previous election cycles. The reason, according to Curator Thai Jones, is activism.

The Chronicle of Higher Education cites the partnership between the Libraries and Cornell Library in Slavic studies as an example of successful collaborative collecting.

Telegraphic codebooks uncovered in two collections held by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library offer insights into historic Chinese cryptography.

CNN reports on the Butler Banner Project and Columbia students' "bold statements about the lack of inclusivity" in the inscriptions of male names on the exterior of Butler Library.

"Clodion and 'Clodion Mania' in Nineteenth-Century France," a new exhibit in Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, is the third in a series of student-curated exhibitions.

Students uncover underreported and ignored stories from African American history in the archival collections of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

The latest iteration of the student-led Butler Banner Project now hangs on the north facade of Butler Library, honoring eight exceptional women writers and visionaries.

As the New York Yankees head into another playoff run, we're reminded of Columbia Football's ties to the Bronx Bombers, like baseball legend Lou Gehrig (CC1925), who played football and baseball for the Lions.

Based on an artifact in the Libraries’ collections and a historic campus event, an inside-outside exhibition aims to foster conversations about representation in library spaces and collections.

A recent Libraries workshop studied the intricacies of the vibrant manuscripts at the heart of the Muslim World Manuscript preservation and digitization project.

In the pages of his newspaper, the Chinese-American Times, publisher William Yukon Chang provided a venue for Chinese Americans to read and write about their own communities.

Curator Thai Jones weighs in on the role that disruptive protests against the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s have played in shaping modern American activism.

Librarian Sophie Leveque leads Columbia's School of Social Work on a "time-travel adventure" into the Social Work Agency Collection, with archival materials that date to the 18th century.

85 years after opening its doors in 1934, the main reading room on the 3rd floor of Butler Library is as grand as ever! Tour the building through historic photos from the University Archives.

Following the passing of novelist Toni Morrison, African Studies Librarian Yuusuf Caruso sought to better understand the writer's relationship with Africa.

The team behind Barnard Library's Digital Humanities Center reflect on the recent #DisruptWikipedia panel & edit-a-thon, calling on community editors to "make Wikipedia a source worth referencing."

Learn about the role of statesman and Columbia alumnus John Jay in the ratification of the Constitution, signed on September 17, 1787, from the politician's personal papers.

Columbia Libraries disrupts Wikipedia with a panel discussion from experts on the knowledge-sharing platform and following edit-a-thon. Watch on the Libraries' Facebook!

Curator Thai Jones appreciates the "wonderfully rich depictions" of the Chinese community in New York in the writings of the late Chinese-American journalist William Chang.

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and the work of Latinx cartoonists, comic book artists and writers, and graphic novelists from the Comics@Columbia collection.

Works from Art Properties, the University art collection stewarded by Avery Library, appear in "20 and Odd: The 400-Year Anniversary of 1619," on view in Dodge Hall.

The Geologic Field Trip Guidebooks Web Archive preserves web-based geoscience field trip guidebooks, which document geologic information from across North America.

The Libraries' Head of History & Humanities Jeremiah Mercurio advises School Library Journal on the key to teaching college-level research.