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Aug 28, 2020 News RBML Staff and CUL Bid Farewell and Good Luck to Sean Quimby The Rare Book & Manuscript Library bids farewell to director Sean Quimby, who joins the University of Pennsylvania after six years with Columbia University. Aug 25, 2020 News Going to Columbia While Living At Home As the University reduces the number of students who will live on campus for the Fall 2020 term, the University Archives recalls that Columbia wasn't always a residential college. Aug 20, 2020 News University Librarian’s Update on Fall Plans for Libraries University Librarian Ann Thornton provides an update on the Libraries' plans reopening for the Fall 2020 term and serving the Columbia community both in person and online. Aug 18, 2020 News Teaching With Digitized Archives: Some Challenges and Opportunities The wealth of digitized archival material available from the Libraries presents both opportunities and challenges that instructors should consider when teaching with digitized archives. Aug 7, 2020 News Black Lives Matter International A bibliography of sources provides a starter kit of archival collections, books, videos, and websites on the struggle to overcome systemic racism, including the global Black Lives Matter movement. Aug 6, 2020 News New from RBML’s Archivists | July 2020 News from the archives of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library includes the Radio Liberty Oral History Project, which documents the 1917 Russian Revolution and is now open to researchers. Jul 29, 2020 News Libraries Digitizes Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center Collection With a grant from the GRAMMY Foundation, the Libraries digitizes 400 hours of recordings of early electroacoustic music from the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (CPEMC). Jul 29, 2020 News Libraries Expands Book Pick-up Service The Libraries expands its newly-launched book pick-up service to include materials from numerous collections and libraries, graphic novels, and DVDs. Jul 20, 2020 News Finding the Women in Columbia’s Judaica Collections Librarian Michelle Chesner uncovers traces of women in the Libraries' rare Judaica collection through records of book ownership, marriage, prayer, and printing. Jul 20, 2020 News The Malleable Academic Calendar: Then and Now The 2020-2021 academic calendar was adjusted to address the COVID-19 pandemic, the latest example of how the calendar has been historically responsive to circumstances. Jul 15, 2020 News Libraries Launches Book Pick-Up Service The Libraries launches a book pick-up service that enables students, staff, and faculty to request and pick up library materials from participating library locations. Jul 13, 2020 News News from RBML’s Archivists | May and June 2020 News from the archives of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library includes newly-digitized oral history collections and records from the University Archives. Jul 10, 2020 News Just Launched: Digital Gaming Communities Web Archive The Digital Gaming Communities Web Archive preserves content about digital games, including critical gaming, game ethics, accessibility in gaming and game design, and other themes. Jun 25, 2020 News Just Launched: Muftiships Web Archive The Muftiships Web Archive preserves the websites of Muslim legal experts, or Muftis, and leading jurists from the Islamic world, illuminating the ways in which Islamic law is administered in the digital age. Jun 24, 2020 News Pride Month and History in the RBML Collections In celebration of PRIDE Month, explore collections in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library that represent a range of LGBTQIA voices and experiences. Jun 22, 2020 News The First Summer Session in 1900 Columbia University first opened its doors for a new term, the Summer Session, in 1900, with courses in disciplines from botany to geography, taught by University faculty. Jun 19, 2020 News Juneteenth, Freedom, and Emancipation Archives in the RBML Archival documents in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library reflect the long history of the struggle for emancipation and freedom from enslavement, now celebrated as Juneteenth. Jun 11, 2020 News, Social Service Update: Scanning of ReCAP Materials Scanning of physical materials from offsite collections held at ReCAP, the Libraries' offsite shelving facility, has resumed. Eligible items will have a "Request from Offsite" link in CLIO. Jun 8, 2020 News Anti-Racist and Black Liberation Archives in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library The Rare Book & Manuscript Library holds important archives from activists, artists, and organizations who dedicated their lives to fighting racism and promoting black freedom struggles. May 22, 2020 News Just Launched: U.S. Women’s and Girls’ Magazines Web Archive The U.S. Women’s and Girls’ Magazines Web Archive consists of websites of women’s media that have long documented women’s thoughts, political interests, and social, cultural, and domestic life. May 18, 2020 News Inside Low Library: The Offices of the Presidents Tour the offices of University presidents past with the University Archives, from the first offices in 1897 to the present-day suite that was once occupied by Dwight D. Eisenhower. May 8, 2020 News A 1966 Oral History Offers Insights into Roots of Unemployment Insurance A 1966 oral history that offers insights into the origins of unemployment insurance, part of the Social Security Act of 1935, is accessible through the Oral History Archives. May 4, 2020 News Low Library as an Athletics Training Facility? Library, administrative offices, ceremonial space, athletics training facility? 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Libraries Opens Six Libraries for Study Space by Reservation Six libraries are now open for study space by appointment or reservation for University students who are approved to return to campus.
RBML Staff and CUL Bid Farewell and Good Luck to Sean Quimby The Rare Book & Manuscript Library bids farewell to director Sean Quimby, who joins the University of Pennsylvania after six years with Columbia University.
Going to Columbia While Living At Home As the University reduces the number of students who will live on campus for the Fall 2020 term, the University Archives recalls that Columbia wasn't always a residential college.
University Librarian’s Update on Fall Plans for Libraries University Librarian Ann Thornton provides an update on the Libraries' plans reopening for the Fall 2020 term and serving the Columbia community both in person and online.
Teaching With Digitized Archives: Some Challenges and Opportunities The wealth of digitized archival material available from the Libraries presents both opportunities and challenges that instructors should consider when teaching with digitized archives.
Black Lives Matter International A bibliography of sources provides a starter kit of archival collections, books, videos, and websites on the struggle to overcome systemic racism, including the global Black Lives Matter movement.
New from RBML’s Archivists | July 2020 News from the archives of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library includes the Radio Liberty Oral History Project, which documents the 1917 Russian Revolution and is now open to researchers.
Libraries Digitizes Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center Collection With a grant from the GRAMMY Foundation, the Libraries digitizes 400 hours of recordings of early electroacoustic music from the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (CPEMC).
Libraries Expands Book Pick-up Service The Libraries expands its newly-launched book pick-up service to include materials from numerous collections and libraries, graphic novels, and DVDs.
Finding the Women in Columbia’s Judaica Collections Librarian Michelle Chesner uncovers traces of women in the Libraries' rare Judaica collection through records of book ownership, marriage, prayer, and printing.
The Malleable Academic Calendar: Then and Now The 2020-2021 academic calendar was adjusted to address the COVID-19 pandemic, the latest example of how the calendar has been historically responsive to circumstances.
Libraries Launches Book Pick-Up Service The Libraries launches a book pick-up service that enables students, staff, and faculty to request and pick up library materials from participating library locations.
News from RBML’s Archivists | May and June 2020 News from the archives of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library includes newly-digitized oral history collections and records from the University Archives.
Just Launched: Digital Gaming Communities Web Archive The Digital Gaming Communities Web Archive preserves content about digital games, including critical gaming, game ethics, accessibility in gaming and game design, and other themes.
Just Launched: Muftiships Web Archive The Muftiships Web Archive preserves the websites of Muslim legal experts, or Muftis, and leading jurists from the Islamic world, illuminating the ways in which Islamic law is administered in the digital age.
Pride Month and History in the RBML Collections In celebration of PRIDE Month, explore collections in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library that represent a range of LGBTQIA voices and experiences.
The First Summer Session in 1900 Columbia University first opened its doors for a new term, the Summer Session, in 1900, with courses in disciplines from botany to geography, taught by University faculty.
Juneteenth, Freedom, and Emancipation Archives in the RBML Archival documents in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library reflect the long history of the struggle for emancipation and freedom from enslavement, now celebrated as Juneteenth.
Service Update: Scanning of ReCAP Materials Scanning of physical materials from offsite collections held at ReCAP, the Libraries' offsite shelving facility, has resumed. Eligible items will have a "Request from Offsite" link in CLIO.
Anti-Racist and Black Liberation Archives in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library The Rare Book & Manuscript Library holds important archives from activists, artists, and organizations who dedicated their lives to fighting racism and promoting black freedom struggles.
Just Launched: U.S. Women’s and Girls’ Magazines Web Archive The U.S. Women’s and Girls’ Magazines Web Archive consists of websites of women’s media that have long documented women’s thoughts, political interests, and social, cultural, and domestic life.
Inside Low Library: The Offices of the Presidents Tour the offices of University presidents past with the University Archives, from the first offices in 1897 to the present-day suite that was once occupied by Dwight D. Eisenhower.
A 1966 Oral History Offers Insights into Roots of Unemployment Insurance A 1966 oral history that offers insights into the origins of unemployment insurance, part of the Social Security Act of 1935, is accessible through the Oral History Archives.
Low Library as an Athletics Training Facility? Library, administrative offices, ceremonial space, athletics training facility? The University Archives unveils perhaps the most unexpected prior use of Low Library.
