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Sep 2, 2025

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Hosted by the Libraries' Research Data Services experts, Data Club returns with a series of meetings that will cover a broad range of topics, including open source GIS and large datasets in R.

Aug 29, 2025

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In partnership with the Libraries' Journal Publishing program, the Columbia Computer Music Center announces the second issue of "Openwork," a peer-reviewed publication that publishes research into experimental music, art, and scholarship.

Aug 27, 2025

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Guest writer Ava Rosenstein, a senior at Bard High School Early College Queens, visits the Rare Book & Manuscript Library to research the Rapp-Coudert Committee that investigated "subversive activity in the New York school system" during the Red Scare.

Aug 27, 2025

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Emily Oliveira, a PhD student in Latin American and Iberian cultures, confronts the challenges of processing - and therefore categorizing - the papers of Josefina Báez, a "person who resists categorization."

Aug 26, 2025

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Welcome to the Libraries! Not sure where to start? Visit any library location to participate in our Library Passport program, which encourages users to explore library spaces, services, and resources in a fun and self-paced way.

Aug 26, 2025

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Learn computational skills at the Libraries! Foundations for Research Computing, offered in partnership with Columbia University IT and the Office of Research, is the Libraries’ program for computational research instruction. Learn more about the program and upcoming workshops.

Aug 25, 2025

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The Libraries' Journals Publishing program shares 10 new, open-access issues from its partners, which range in subject from undergraduate research in mathematics to gender and law. Browse the journals.

Aug 25, 2025

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Drop in for a 15-minute introductory session about how to use your libraries: Learn about the Libraries' collections, expert staff, study spaces, trainings and workshops, and more. Here's when and where you can stop in.

Aug 19, 2025

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The Libraries' Open Scholarship team announces that two partner journals, "Current Issues in Comparative Education" and the "Columbia University Journal of Global Health," are now included in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

Aug 18, 2025

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Researcher Tim Hastings, a PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, consults a collection of 18th-century sermons by Jonathan Ashley at the Burke Library in his study of slavery in the Connecticut River Valley.

Aug 13, 2025

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A new exhibition at the Burke Library highlights the first librarian at Union Theological Seminary, Edward Robinson, whose 19th-century travels in Palestine led to the development of the field of "biblical geography."

Aug 13, 2025

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University archivists tell the tale of a long-lost Columbia tradition: In the 19th century, students celebrated the birth of the first child born to a member of the class, the Class Baby, and presented the new father with a silver cup known as the Baby Cup.

Jul 28, 2025

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Visit a new exhibition in the Burke Library, "Magnificent Skies and Mysterious Landscapes," that features paintings by artist Beatrice Terrien, who was raised on the Union Theological Seminary campus and remains a friend of the library.

Jul 18, 2025

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Columbia University Libraries and its partners welcome Yale University to the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP), which enables users from participating institutions to access a shared collection of more than 18 million volumes.

Jul 8, 2025

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An A-to-Z guide to the Libraries' Oral History Archives: 'I' is for the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality Oral History Project, comprised of interviews with 36 individuals involved in the founding and development of the institute.

Jul 8, 2025

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"Current Issues in Comparative Education" (CICE), an international online, open-access journal published in partnership with the Libraries, releases its 2025 special issue on climate change, migration, and conflict.

Jul 2, 2025

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Among many other insights, the newly-processed Patricia S. McCormack papers chart the increase in women's health research from the 1970s through the 1980s and provide valuable source material on second wave feminism.

Jun 13, 2025

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In recognition of Open Source Week from June 16-20, Libraries staff highlight the value of open source software to academic research: open source enables faculty, staff, and students to share scholarly work on a global scale.

Jun 12, 2025

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Columbia College students in the late 19th century harnessed the emerging art of photography to collect classmates' images in keepsake volumes, a selection of which are currently on view in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

Jun 9, 2025

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The New York City COVID-19 Narrative and Memory oral history collection, which captures "the voices and stories of those who lived through the crisis in the pandemic’s initial global epicenter," is now accessible to researchers.

Jun 6, 2025

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Research Data Services resource spotlight: ProQuest announces that the popular text-mining environment, TDM Studio, now includes a beta feature that allows users to integrate GPT models into their R or Python workbench notebooks.

Jun 6, 2025

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A forgotten collection of student essays from the 1960s, now digitized and searchable, captures more than a thousand viewpoints on New York City’s greatest challenges and opportunities.

Jun 3, 2025

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Shelley Hayreh, who joined Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library in 2010 as Archivist and Collection Manager of the Department of Drawings & Archives, is now announced as Curator of the collection.

Jun 3, 2025

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Tessa Roynon, librarian at the Swan School, discusses the significance of the Toni Morrison editorial papers, which track her work with a host of renowned and canonical authors, including Toni Cade Bambara and Lucille Clifton.

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Data Club Fall 2025 Schedule

Openwork Publishes Their Second Issue

Archiving the Red Scare in New York’s Schools and Colleges

Staging the World with Josefina Báez

Fall 2025 Library Passport Program

Take the Next Step in Your Computational Research Journey This Fall at the Libraries

New Journal Issues from Columbia Libraries Journal Partners

Learn How to Make the Most of Your Libraries in 15 Minutes

Announcing Library Partner Journals Newly-Indexed in the DOAJ!

“Spiritual Liberty is Not Inconsistent with a State of Servitude”: Slavery in the Connecticut River Valley

Edward Robinson’s “Biblical Researches in Palestine”

The Baby Cup

Magnificent Skies and Mysterious Landscapes: Paintings by Beatrice Terrien

Yale University Joins the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP)

A to Z of Oral History | I is for Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality Oral History Collection

Current Issues in Comparative Education – Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict: Lessons in Education (Special Issue 2025)

Abortion, Feminism, and Education in the Patricia S. McCormack Papers

Open Source Week 2025

On View | Windows into the Past: Columbia College Class Albums, 1856-1890

Echoes of the Epicenter: The New York City COVID-19 Narrative and Memory Oral History Collection Now Accessible

Text Mine ProQuest with ChatGPT

“New York’s Future As I View It”

Shelley Hayreh Named Curator of Drawings & Archives

Research from the RBML | Tessa Roynon Writes about Toni Morrison’s Editorial List

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Data Club Fall 2025 Schedule

Openwork Publishes Their Second Issue

Archiving the Red Scare in New York’s Schools and Colleges

Staging the World with Josefina Báez

Fall 2025 Library Passport Program

Take the Next Step in Your Computational Research Journey This Fall at the Libraries

New Journal Issues from Columbia Libraries Journal Partners

Learn How to Make the Most of Your Libraries in 15 Minutes

Announcing Library Partner Journals Newly-Indexed in the DOAJ!

“Spiritual Liberty is Not Inconsistent with a State of Servitude”: Slavery in the Connecticut River Valley

Edward Robinson’s “Biblical Researches in Palestine”

The Baby Cup

Magnificent Skies and Mysterious Landscapes: Paintings by Beatrice Terrien

Yale University Joins the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP)

A to Z of Oral History | I is for Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality Oral History Collection

Current Issues in Comparative Education – Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict: Lessons in Education (Special Issue 2025)

Abortion, Feminism, and Education in the Patricia S. McCormack Papers

Open Source Week 2025

On View | Windows into the Past: Columbia College Class Albums, 1856-1890

Echoes of the Epicenter: The New York City COVID-19 Narrative and Memory Oral History Collection Now Accessible

Text Mine ProQuest with ChatGPT

“New York’s Future As I View It”

Shelley Hayreh Named Curator of Drawings & Archives

Research from the RBML | Tessa Roynon Writes about Toni Morrison’s Editorial List