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Mar 11, 2025

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The latest installment in the Curatorial Shorts event series will highlight the Latino Arts and Activisms collection, which stewards the archives of Latinos and Latino organizations in New York and other regions, including Dominican-American writer Josefina Báez.

Mar 5, 2025

In the media

ComicBook.com chats with ElfQuest creators Richard and Wendy Pini who established a "landmark endowment for future comics, collections, and more" with the Libraries' Comics and Cartoons collection.

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 25, 2025

In the media

Forbes reports that "Wendy and Richard Pini, the couple behind the long-running ElfQuest independent comics series, are donating $500,000 to Columbia University to endow and conserve the school library’s growing collection of comics, graphic novels, and related prose works."

Feb 19, 2025

In the media

"Looking to the stars: 'Celestial Navigation' exhibit opens in Butler Library. Graduate students showcased new works alongside archival navigational and astronomical pieces in the new exhibit," as highlighted by the Columbia Spectator.

Jan 30, 2025

In the media

To mark the 200th anniversary of the Columbia College Alumni Association (CCAA), Columbia College Today visited the University archives to learn more about the origins and early history of the organization - and found just how much alumni have shaped the College and its community.

Jan 28, 2025

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A series of profiles highlight valued student employees from across the Libraries, including Sydney Hertz, an undergraduate student worker at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library who often uncovers "mysteries and surprises" in archival materials.

Jan 9, 2025

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To mark the 100th anniversary of the Morgan Library and Museum as a public institution, University archivists remember its first director, Belle da Costa Greene, as "a key partner and contributor" to library exhibitions at Columbia throughout the early 20th century.

Dec 9, 2024

In the media

"1961 to 2024: How Columbia football roared back to the top." Columbia Spectator consulted the University Archives to "look back on 63 years of football coaching history - and the rookie coach who brought the Lions their first league title since 1961."

Nov 20, 2024

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To coincide with a new exhibition at the New York Historical, "Pets and the City," Libraries staff honors the University's own four-legged friends who've left their paw prints in the archives, including a dog at the Columbia War Hospital in the Bronx during World War I.

Oct 30, 2024

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Librarian for Jewish Studies Michelle Margolis continues a series of blog posts about the history of Jews at Columbia with an installment on the first years of the Nicholas Murray Butler presidency during the early 20th century.

Oct 27, 2024

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Dr. Robin Bunce of Homerton College, Cambridge University, describes how the papers of activist Darcus Howe, held by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and other recently-digitized materials contribute to his research on the history of Black Power in Britain.

Oct 24, 2024

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In honor of “spooky season," University archivists visit the graves at Trinity churchyard, the final resting place of King’s College alumnus Alexander Hamilton and his wife Eliza Hamilton - as well as a much earlier vault with connections to Columbia history.

Oct 22, 2024

In the media

"Coney Island, Spectacular," an exhibition in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML), features artwork and photography by three Columbia students, alongside historical documents and photos from the W.F. Mangels Company collection in the RBML archives.

Oct 9, 2024

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Cristina Stubbe, an archivist with the Winthrop Group, processed the papers of Jack and Irene Delano, held by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library and including drawings, photographs, and other materials that document the history and culture of Puerto Rico.

Oct 8, 2024

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Author and independent researcher Laura Fisher Kaiser consulted the archival records of the Paul R. Reynolds literary agency in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library for an upcoming biography of novelist Frances Elizabeth Budgett (pen name Elizabeth Dejeans).

Oct 2, 2024

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Sculptor Louise Nevelson was born September 23, 1899 in Pereiaslav, Ukraine. To mark what would be her 125th birthday, University archivists explore the connections between Nevelson and Columbia, now and then.

Sep 28, 2024

In the media

"Coney Island, Spectacular," an exhibition in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML), "juxtaposes photographs taken from the RBML archives with new artworks from Columbia students, all of which were centered around the theme of Coney Island."

Sep 19, 2024

Dr. Robert P. Jackson visited the Rare Book & Manuscript Library to review the papers of scholar and public intellectual Edward Said in relation to his research on Italian theorist Antonio Gramsci.

Sep 17, 2024

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Students in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Itzel Franco ('26CC) and Sarah Noon ('24GS), helped University archivists to improve the condition and description of a brittle but valuable collection of records from the New York Public Library (NYPL) Library School.

Aug 28, 2024

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An A-to-Z guide to the Libraries' Oral History Archives: 'G' is for gun violence in America, addressed in the Forty Percent oral history collection which "gives a powerful voice to survivors of gun violence" in the U.S. from 2017 through 2020.

Aug 26, 2024

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The first installment in a series of blog posts about the history of Jews at Columbia by Librarian for Jewish Studies Michelle Margolis centers on the first 100 years of the University, then known as King's College, from 1754-1854.

Aug 19, 2024

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Processing Archivist Yingwen Huang details a small exhibition in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library on the people of the Chinese Republican era (1912-1949) and beyond, which includes photographs, letters, ephemera, and other artifacts.

Jul 30, 2024

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The (other) legacy of Frederick A.P. Barnard, tenth president of Columbia College: Best known for paving the way for the College to become a University and for his unsuccessful campaign in support of coeducation, Barnard also made significant contributions in the education of deaf students.

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Historias: Latino Arts and Activisms Collections at RBML

ElfQuest Creators Wendy and Richard Pini Create Landmark Endowment for Future Comics, Collections, and More

A Revolutionary Friendship: Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama

ElfQuest Creators Donate $500,000 To Columbia University Comics Archive

Looking to the Stars: "Celestial Navigation" Exhibit Opens in Butler

A Salute to the CCAA

Student Employee Profile: Meet Sydney Hertz

Belle da Costa Greene and Columbia

1961 to 2024: How Columbia Football Roared Back to the Top

Columbia’s Pets

Jews at Columbia: The Early Butler Years and the Trustee Question (1901-1920)

Researcher Profile | British Black Panther Movement

A Visit to the Churchyard

Columbia Artists Reimagine Coney Island in New Exhibition

Processing the Jack and Irene Delano Papers

Research at the RBML | Laura Kaiser Finds Elizabeth Dejeans in the Paul Reynolds Papers

Louise Nevelson at 125

Coney Island, Spectacular: Where Art Meets Archives

Research at the RBML | Robert P. Jackson Explores Connections between Edward Said, Antonio Gramsci, and Italian Thought

NYPL Library School Records: A Student Project

An A-to-Z of Oral History | G is for (40% Oral History Collection on) Gun Violence in America, 2017-2020

Jews at Columbia: The First Hundred Years (1754-1854)

Archivist’s Pick: A Glance at the Chinese Republican Era and Beyond

President Barnard’s Other Legacy

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Historias: Latino Arts and Activisms Collections at RBML

ElfQuest Creators Wendy and Richard Pini Create Landmark Endowment for Future Comics, Collections, and More

A Revolutionary Friendship: Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama

ElfQuest Creators Donate $500,000 To Columbia University Comics Archive

Looking to the Stars: "Celestial Navigation" Exhibit Opens in Butler

A Salute to the CCAA

Student Employee Profile: Meet Sydney Hertz

Belle da Costa Greene and Columbia

1961 to 2024: How Columbia Football Roared Back to the Top

Columbia’s Pets

Jews at Columbia: The Early Butler Years and the Trustee Question (1901-1920)

Researcher Profile | British Black Panther Movement

A Visit to the Churchyard

Columbia Artists Reimagine Coney Island in New Exhibition

Processing the Jack and Irene Delano Papers

Research at the RBML | Laura Kaiser Finds Elizabeth Dejeans in the Paul Reynolds Papers

Louise Nevelson at 125

Coney Island, Spectacular: Where Art Meets Archives

Research at the RBML | Robert P. Jackson Explores Connections between Edward Said, Antonio Gramsci, and Italian Thought

NYPL Library School Records: A Student Project

An A-to-Z of Oral History | G is for (40% Oral History Collection on) Gun Violence in America, 2017-2020

Jews at Columbia: The First Hundred Years (1754-1854)

Archivist’s Pick: A Glance at the Chinese Republican Era and Beyond

President Barnard’s Other Legacy