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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

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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

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"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

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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.

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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

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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

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