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Recreating a Lost Yiddish Database The digital Language and Culture Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry preserves interviews with native speakers of Yiddish that address the challenges of an endangered linguistic and cultural legacy.
Staff Profile: Carolyn Bratnober Meet Carolyn Bratnober, Public Services Librarian at the Burke Library, who supports student and faculty research in religious studies, theology, and other disciplines.
The Tricky Allure of Becoming a Black American Expatriate Curator Kimberly Springer writes about African Americans who have left the U.S. in search of freedom from racism and oppression, her own experiences with nationhood, and the case for returning home.
Teaching the History of Police Torture Curator Thai Jones explores an effort by the city of Chicago to address the damage inflicted by decades of police torture through education on the history of abuse in law enforcement.
The Comfort of Old Books Freddy Claudio, Binding & Shelf Preservation Supervisor, reflects on the history of a book as it passes from owner to owner and how a well-preserved book can educate students for generations.
Digital Humanities Project Visualizes the Impact of Family Separations Library Journal profiles Torn Apart/Separados, an interactive website developed in part by Digital Scholarship Librarian Alex Gil that visualizes the impact of the Trump administration’s family separation policy.
'ICE Is Everywhere': Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis Scholars at Columbia University, including Digital Scholarship Librarian Alex Gil, organized a six-day “crisis researchathon” to visualize immigration enforcement in the U.S.
Countering Impermanence A new mode of preservation has urgently emerged in recent decades, which is intended to conserve vulnerable information that may disappear from the live web: web archiving.
The Divine Connector Digital Dante, one of the world’s foremost platforms showcasing innovative research on Dante and his works, is a collaborative effort from the Libraries and Professor of Italian Teodolinda Barolini.
2018 Bancroft Winners Announced The Libraries awards the 2018 Bancroft Prize to three exemplary works in American history and diplomacy, chosen from among nearly 250 submissions.
Columbia University Libraries Awarded Grant in Partnership with Peer Institutions to Digitize Manuscripts and Paintings of the Muslim World Columbia University Libraries is a partner recipient of a $500,000 grant to support the digitization of Islamic manuscripts and paintings that date from 1000 to 1900.
