The Rare Book & Manuscript Library welcomes the collection of late artist John Fantucchio, a former illustrator and art director for the C.I.A., a prodigious collector, and a true fan of comics.

The Libraries and the Columbia First-Generation Low-Income Partnership (FLIP) create an exclusive circulation of textbooks in Butler Library to lessen the burden of costly reading materials.

A collaborative digital project that collects information about Jewish books printed from the 15th through the 18th centuries allows scholars to trace early modern Jewish texts through time and place.

"Mapping the Holy Land," a new exhibit in the Burke Library, highlights how past scholars have thought about and visualized one of the most historic and contentious areas in the world.

The Libraries appoints Emily Holmes as Director of Preservation to lead conservation, digital imaging, audio and moving image digitization, and collections monitoring initiatives.

"Connections in Collections," a new exhibit in Avery Library, finds surprising similarities between sculptures from the University art collection and images from architecture books.

Librarian for Jewish Studies Michelle Chesner joins a panel of leading scholars at the Jewish Theological Seminary to explore the remarkable story of Jews and books.

The Making and Knowing Project collaborates with the Libraries' Digital Scholarship team to offer a new way to read a 16th-century manuscript and explore the art of early craft making.

Created by the Libraries' Digital Scholarship team, with support from the Burke Library, the Black Theology Papers Project preserves the work of the Black Theology Unit of the American Academy of Religion.

Graduate student Sadegh Ansari consults the Libraries' rich Muslim World Manuscript Project to consider "the science of music in the medieval Islamic world."

Slavery reparations seem impossible, but in many places, they’re already happening: Curator Thai Jones details local efforts to offer restitution to the descendants of slaves.

Director of Copyright Advisory Services Rina Elster Pantalony, in partnership with Ithaka S+R, proposes a 21st-century approach to copyright education in libraries, archives, and museums.

Before JJ's, there was the Commons: 100 years ago, Columbia students dined in the University Commons, a dining room decorated with verses by Homer in the former University Hall.

Columbia Spectator showcases "Awash in Books: Books for the Year of Water," an exhibition of works that celebrate and explore one of the most precious resources on Earth.

The University Archives shares previously-restricted administrative records related to the search for a new University president after the historic campus protests in April 1968.

Browse the latest additions to the Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, including a 16th-century volume that features fold-out maps of the Holy Land.

New year, newly-processed collections! The latest from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library includes the papers of dancer Arthur Mitchell and the archive of New York-based publisher Goodie Publications.

Happy birthday, Zora Neale Hurston (BC 1928)! The acclaimed author of "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and other works was the first African-American graduate of Barnard College.

Learn about the history of the iconic Apollo Theater from the Oral History Archives' Apollo Theater Oral History Project, which features interviews with performers and music industry insiders.

Curator Thai Jones, who studies radical social movements, discusses the potential consequences of a decision by a Virginia school district to allow students time off to protest.

Columbia Engineering Magazine consults the Libraries' lead conservators about the future of cultural preservation.

In recognition of Human Rights Month, archivist Chris Laico discusses his work to make the Libraries' human rights collections accessible to researchers and scholars worldwide.

Hear a 1991 oral history from Margaret Lawrence, the first African-American psychoanalyst and a graduate of Columbia's College of Physicians & Surgeons, who passed away on December 4 at 105.

The Mellon Foundation awards the Libraries $750,000 to preserve nearly 21,000 unique audio and moving-image recordings, including audio material from the archive of radio personality Bob Fass.