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Dec 1, 2025

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Apr 3, 2023

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The Libraries' Research Data Services team collaborates with the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) to design a course on research data management, which includes a series of publicly-available animated videos.

Nov 15, 2022

In the media, Video

A video from the Columbia Daily Spectator features conversations with the founders of the Student Homophile League, the first gay student organization in the United States, and showcases materials from the University Archives.

Sep 15, 2022

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Dr. Shalom Sabar joins Librarian for Jewish Studies Michelle Chesner to discuss the design and text of ketubbot (or marriage contracts) produced in the Jewish communities on the Greek island of Corfu.

Aug 10, 2022

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A team of librarians and researchers collaborate to launch the (Un)Silencing Slavery project, which intends to "respectfully and lovingly remember and hold space for" the enslaved people at Rose Hall Plantation in Jamaica.

May 2, 2022

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Hear a presentation about the complex connections between Columbia residence halls and histories of racism and share your owns thoughts about proposals to acknowledge these histories in the built environment of campus.

Apr 1, 2022

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The Lehman Center for American History hosted author Dr. Elizabeth Hinton for a conversation on police violence and Black rebellion since the 1960s with Professor Jelani Cobb of the Columbia School of Journalism.

News

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

Everyone Uses Research Data | Exceptional Scholarship with Research Data, Part 1

Columbia Student Homophile League: The Nation’s First Gay Student Organization

Virgins and Unicorns: Decorated Ketubbot from Corfu

Launching “(Un)Silencing Slavery” Project

Columbia Residence Halls Event

America On Fire: A Conversation on Police Violence & Black Rebellion Since the 1960s [VIDEO]

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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

Everyone Uses Research Data | Exceptional Scholarship with Research Data, Part 1

Columbia Student Homophile League: The Nation’s First Gay Student Organization

Virgins and Unicorns: Decorated Ketubbot from Corfu

Launching “(Un)Silencing Slavery” Project

Columbia Residence Halls Event

America On Fire: A Conversation on Police Violence & Black Rebellion Since the 1960s [VIDEO]