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Collaboration and Open Access: Lessons from the Ask A Librarian Internship
Ask a Librarian Intern Federica Alesiani counts "collaboration and open access" among the lessons learned throughout her work with the Libraries: "By actively engaging with my colleagues, sharing ideas, and seeking guidance, I learned from their expertise and contributed to shared goals."

Columbia Libraries: Journal Publishing Program Annual Report
The Libraries' Digital Scholarship team has enhanced and streamlined the format of the annual report for partners in the Journals Publishing program, which will enable users to more easily analyze data and identify trends in readership.

Bookbinding and Letterpress Printing: Two Weeks at the Center for Book Arts
Bibliographic Assistant at the Burke Library Brandon Harrington, also a student at the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Science, details a two-week intensive in bookbinding and letterpress printing at the Center for Book Arts.

Open Access Week 2024 (South/Southeast Asia)
As part of the 2024 Open Access Week events, Libraries staff and collaborators presented on "Digitizing Vietnam Project: Increasing Access to Vietnam Studies Materials," a project that will act as an inter-institutional digital hub for Vietnam studies.

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

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

Researcher Profile | British Black Panther Movement
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.

Processing the Jack and Irene Delano Papers
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.

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