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Feb 20, 2026

Social, Video

WATCH: Michael Meeropol, son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and MaryLouise Patterson, daughter of civil rights leaders Louise and William L. Patterson, speak to the lasting impact of the Red Scare on their childhoods as well as its parallels to American politics and society today.

Feb 10, 2026

Video

Oral histories behind every tile: Hear from the Mahjong Project’s history keeper, Nicole Wong, about her efforts to preserve mahjong's rules, etiquette, and personal anecdotes for generations in conversation with Curator of Oral History Kimberly Springer.

Feb 5, 2026

News, Video

Spring 2026 Data Club recap: Tips on how to avoid repetitive tasks in R. Data Club, provided by the Libraries' Research Data Services, offers strategic lessons and a supportive meeting space for the Columbia community to learn, share, and implement tools for data-driven projects.

Jan 29, 2026

News, Video

Spring 2026 Data Club recap: Tips for working with large datasets in R. Data Club, provided by the Libraries' Research Data Services, offers strategic lessons and a supportive meeting space for the Columbia community to learn, share, and implement tools for data-driven projects.

Jan 28, 2026

News, Video

Spring 2026 Data Club recap: Learn how to structure a research project with uv. Data Club, provided by the Libraries' Research Data Services, offers strategic lessons and a supportive meeting space for the Columbia community to learn, share, and implement tools for data-driven projects.

Dec 17, 2025

In the media, Video

WATCH: The Libraries' Associate Vice President for Technology and Preservation Rob Cartolano spoke with the Readium Foundation about "advocating for open standards in academic libraries."

Dec 1, 2025

Video

The 2025 Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections has an early modern focus, where three scholars discuss their research on what we find in books when we look beyond the actual texts - at annotations, illustrations, and other paratexts.

Nov 20, 2025

Video

In a talk for the Columbia Jewish Alumni Association, Norman E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies Michelle Margolis discusses the long and winding history of Jews at Columbia, from the 18th to the beginning of the 20th centuries.

Oct 2, 2025

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Fall 2025 Data Club recap: A rapid refresher on the basics of Python programming language followed by an introduction to Proquest’s TDM Studio tool.

Sep 18, 2025

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Fall 2025 Data Club recap: A tour of working with research data, led by Data Services Librarian Wei Yin, and a preview of upcoming Data Club meetings.

Mar 5, 2025

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Spring 2025 Data Club recap: Begin learning Polars, an alternative data analysis Python library to pandas, how Polars is similar to and different from pandas, and why it is an appealing choice in 2025 for extract-transform-load (ETL) operations.

Feb 27, 2025

Video, News

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 19, 2025

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Spring 2025 Data Club recap: A look at using SQL and NoSQL databases in Python with pandas.

Feb 6, 2025

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Spring 2025 Data Club recap: A discussion of project management and how to use Git with VS code.

Dec 10, 2024

Video

Watch the 2024 Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections, which featured presentations on Jewish criminal cases in Bologna in the 15th century, sickness in 18th-century Prague, and Jewish women at Barnard College in the 19th century.

Nov 26, 2024

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Fall 2024 Data Club recap: An exploration of how to do lightning-fast data analysis in an Observable notebook.

Nov 7, 2024

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Fall 2024 Data Club recap: How to translate knowledge of the Observable workflow into generating Jamstack websites.

Nov 2, 2024

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Fall 2024 Data Club recap: An instructional video on how to install Observable Framework to make data-driven web apps, like dashboards.

Oct 10, 2024

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Fall 2025 Data Club recap: An exploration of how to make web maps with Leaflet.

Sep 26, 2024

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Fall 2024 Data Club recap: With a general sense of how to use JavaScript from a prior session, particularly in an Observable environment, participants worked with their own data in their Observable notebooks.

Sep 12, 2024

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Fall 2024 Data Club recap: Data Club returned in 2024 with a focus on JavaScript! In our first meeting, we reviewed the basic syntax of the language and learned some rudimentary programming idioms.

Apr 18, 2024

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The program to honor the 2024 recipients of the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy is now available to view online through the Libraries' new partnership on the C-SPAN series, American History TV.

Nov 10, 2023

Video

The 2023 Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections highlights the physical aspects of books and manuscripts and features a presentation on a 14th-century Hebrew Bible from Spain held by the Libraries.

Jun 10, 2023

In the media, Video

The program to honor the 2023 recipients of the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy is now available to view online through the Libraries' new partnership on the C-SPAN series, American History TV.

News

Confronting McCarthyism: Facebook Reels Playlist

Oral Histories Behind Every Tile: Nicole Wong & The Mahjong Project

Working with Repetitive Data Tasks in R

Working with Large Datasets in R

Starting a Python Research Project in 2026

Advocating for Open Standards in Academic Libraries with Robert Cartolano

Beyond the Text: Reading Jewish History Between the Words

[WATCH] In the City of New York: The Unique Story of the Jews at Columbia

Introduction to Python Text Analysis with TDM Studio and ChatGPT

Getting Started with Research Data: Concepts, Tools, & Resources

Data Engineering in Python with Polars 1

A Revolutionary Friendship: Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama

SQL and NoSQL Databases in Python with Pandas

Git and Gitting Organized (Also, Text Editing)

Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections 2024

Day One Exploratory Data Analysis with JavaScript

Day One Generating Jamstack Websites

Installing Observable Framework from Zero

Day One Map-Making with Leaflet

Day One Data with Observable

Day One JavaScript

2024 Bancroft Prize for History | C-SPAN

Norman E. Alexander Library for Jewish Studies Celebration of Collections 2023

C-SPAN: American History TV | 2023 Bancroft Prize Program

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Confronting McCarthyism: Facebook Reels Playlist

Oral Histories Behind Every Tile: Nicole Wong & The Mahjong Project

Working with Repetitive Data Tasks in R

Working with Large Datasets in R

Starting a Python Research Project in 2026

Advocating for Open Standards in Academic Libraries with Robert Cartolano

Beyond the Text: Reading Jewish History Between the Words

[WATCH] In the City of New York: The Unique Story of the Jews at Columbia

Introduction to Python Text Analysis with TDM Studio and ChatGPT

Getting Started with Research Data: Concepts, Tools, & Resources

Data Engineering in Python with Polars 1

A Revolutionary Friendship: Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama

SQL and NoSQL Databases in Python with Pandas

Git and Gitting Organized (Also, Text Editing)

Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections 2024

Day One Exploratory Data Analysis with JavaScript

Day One Generating Jamstack Websites

Installing Observable Framework from Zero

Day One Map-Making with Leaflet

Day One Data with Observable

Day One JavaScript

2024 Bancroft Prize for History | C-SPAN

Norman E. Alexander Library for Jewish Studies Celebration of Collections 2023

C-SPAN: American History TV | 2023 Bancroft Prize Program