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May 14, 2025

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Spring 2025 Ask a Librarian intern Sam Ward reflects on their experience with the Libraries, which included work on the Ask a Librarian virtual reference service as well as programming for three workshops that emphasized inclusive instruction and an interconnected network of library resources.

May 1, 2025

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University archivists introduce Florence Ellen (F. E.) Harpham, the first woman to become a member of the Columbia faculty in 1896 as a "computer" in the Department of Astronomy; her work included analysis of the some of the earliest celestial photographs taken in the United States.

Apr 30, 2025

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The COVID Information Commons (CIC), developed by the Libraries and the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, is an open resource to explore research on the COVID-19 pandemic and offers an open portal of grant-funded research projects and community events to enable researcher collaboration.

Apr 29, 2025

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As part of efforts to improve researchers’ ability to search the Frank Lloyd Wright Digital Archive, Avery Library staff identify the names of Wright’s women clients, many of whom were deeply involved in design conversations and were previously known only by their husband’s names.

Apr 11, 2025

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In recognition of National Library Week, we'll highlight a few of our fantastic Libraries staff, including Computational Research Instruction Librarian Dan Woulfin, who teaches computational and other literacies through open workshops, consultations, and classroom instructions.

Apr 11, 2025

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An A-to-Z guide to the Libraries' Oral History Archives: 'H' is for a 1997 oral history interview of more than 5,000 pages with Richard D. Heffner, academic, broadcast journalist, and former chairperson of the voluntary film rating system in the motion picture industry.

Apr 11, 2025

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For National Library Week, the Digital Scholarship team highlights the Libraries' mission to educate users about digital privacy as well as the work of organizations like the Library Freedom Project that also shares strategies to protect digital privacy.

Apr 10, 2025

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In recognition of National Library Week, we'll highlight a few of our fantastic Libraries staff, including Scholarly Communications Technologies Librarian Esther Jackson, whose foundational goal of her career as a librarian is to expand public access to information.

Apr 8, 2025

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In recognition of National Library Week, we'll highlight a few of our fantastic Libraries staff, including Digital Project and Outreach Librarian Katherine Prater, who plays a vital role in expanding online access to Avery Library’s special collections.

Apr 7, 2025

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In recognition of National Library Week, we'll highlight a few of our fantastic Libraries staff, including Science and Engineering Librarian Will Vanti, who shares how his experience conducting research in science labs inspired him to pursue librarianship.

Apr 2, 2025

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The Burke Library recently hosted “Aurality and Devotion in the Pre-Modern World,” a multi-disciplinary project on Jewish, Christian, and Islamic devotional song that brought together leading scholars from the U.S. and Europe to share and discuss their research.

Mar 31, 2025

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Staff of Avery Classics worked closely with Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. (D.A.P.) and Designers & Books to create a meticulous facsimile of Archigram magazine, copies of which are held by Avery Library and were used to ensure the accuracy of the facsimile.

Mar 28, 2025

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As a reminder, submissions for the inaugural Undergraduate Library Research Award, which recognizes Columbia undergraduates in the sciences, engineering, and social sciences for excellence in their use of library resources, are due on April 21, 2025.

Mar 18, 2025

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The Libraries recently acquired 12 full-text corpus datasets, including the comprehensive Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), which will help researchers across many disciplines to understand how language is and has been used around the world.

Mar 17, 2025

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A grandfather's diary: The staff of the Burke Library share the papers of Christian missionary and Union Theological Seminary alum Darley Downs with his grandson and great-grandson to explore their family legacy.

Mar 11, 2025

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As important research data, especially those related to key topics like climate change and cancer treatments, disappear from governmental websites, the Libraries' Digital Scholarship team highlights efforts underway to save it, including the Data Rescue Project.

Mar 11, 2025

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The latest installment in the Curatorial Shorts event series will highlight the Latino Arts and Activisms collection, which stewards the archives of Latinos and Latino organizations in New York and other regions, including Dominican-American writer Josefina Báez.

Mar 7, 2025

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The Libraries' Digital Scholarship team recounts recent events held in recognition of Love Data Week, an international celebration of data that included tailored workshops from Libraries staff on data literacy and data tools.

Mar 6, 2025

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A cheerful Chinese sculpture of a child that dates to the Ming dynasty in 1641, held by Avery Library, is now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the current exhibition, "Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100-1900."

Mar 5, 2025

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The curator of a Los Angeles exhibit on "forgotten artisan" Manuel Sandoval consulted the Frank Lloyd Wright archives in Avery Library to explore the legacy of the Nicaraguan artist, including his ties to Wright.

Mar 5, 2025

In the media

The New York Times reports that "a sweeping history of Native Americans and a study of the creation of the port of Los Angeles in the 19th century have won this year’s Bancroft Prize."

Mar 5, 2025

In the media

ComicBook.com chats with ElfQuest creators Richard and Wendy Pini who established a "landmark endowment for future comics, collections, and more" with the Libraries' Comics and Cartoons collection.

Feb 27, 2025

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A panel discussion at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, hosted in collaboration with the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, commemorated the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X and celebrated his friendship with activist Yuri Kochiyama.

Feb 25, 2025

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The Libraries has awarded six Community Engagement Grants to projects that intend to promote library services, enliven library spaces, and engage students and library users in fun and inventive ways.

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“My First Step into Academic Library Work Was at an Ivy League School”: Reflections from Ask a Librarian Intern Sam Ward

Meet Flora Harpham

The COVID Information Commons & Columbia University Libraries

Wright-ing the Women In: Updating and Linking Archival Data in Avery Library’s Frank Lloyd Wright Collections

National Library Week: Meet Dan Woulfin, Computational Research Instruction Librarian

An A-to-Z of Oral History at Columbia: 5000 Pages with Richard D. Heffner

Digital Privacy for National Libraries Week

National Library Week: Meet Esther Jackson, Scholarly Communications Technologies Librarian

National Library Week: Meet Katherine Prater, Digital Project & Outreach Librarian

National Library Week: Meet Will Vanti, Science & Engineering Librarian

Aurality and Devotion in the Premodern World Project

New Archigram Facsimile to Be Published

Reminder: Undergraduate Library Research Award Submission Deadline

Libraries Acquire Full-Text Corpus Data

A Grandfather’s Diary: The Darley Downs Papers

Data Rescue: A 2025 Update

Historias: Latino Arts and Activisms Collections at RBML

Love Data Week 2025: Final Report

New Life for an Old Friend: Ming Dynasty Sculpture on View at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Forgotten Artisan Behind Frank Lloyd Wright

2025 Bancroft Prize Winners│The New York Times

ElfQuest Creators Wendy and Richard Pini Create Landmark Endowment for Future Comics, Collections, and More

A Revolutionary Friendship: Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama

Announcing the 2024-2025 Community Engagement Grants

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“My First Step into Academic Library Work Was at an Ivy League School”: Reflections from Ask a Librarian Intern Sam Ward

Meet Flora Harpham

The COVID Information Commons & Columbia University Libraries

Wright-ing the Women In: Updating and Linking Archival Data in Avery Library’s Frank Lloyd Wright Collections

National Library Week: Meet Dan Woulfin, Computational Research Instruction Librarian

An A-to-Z of Oral History at Columbia: 5000 Pages with Richard D. Heffner

Digital Privacy for National Libraries Week

National Library Week: Meet Esther Jackson, Scholarly Communications Technologies Librarian

National Library Week: Meet Katherine Prater, Digital Project & Outreach Librarian

National Library Week: Meet Will Vanti, Science & Engineering Librarian

Aurality and Devotion in the Premodern World Project

New Archigram Facsimile to Be Published

Reminder: Undergraduate Library Research Award Submission Deadline

Libraries Acquire Full-Text Corpus Data

A Grandfather’s Diary: The Darley Downs Papers

Data Rescue: A 2025 Update

Historias: Latino Arts and Activisms Collections at RBML

Love Data Week 2025: Final Report

New Life for an Old Friend: Ming Dynasty Sculpture on View at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Forgotten Artisan Behind Frank Lloyd Wright

2025 Bancroft Prize Winners│The New York Times

ElfQuest Creators Wendy and Richard Pini Create Landmark Endowment for Future Comics, Collections, and More

A Revolutionary Friendship: Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama

Announcing the 2024-2025 Community Engagement Grants