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How curators in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library virtually reunited half of an ancient papyrus letter that dates to 6 A.D. with its companion, held by the British Library in London.

University archivists recount how protests among student activists on campus inspired Margaret B. Young, widow of civil rights leader Whitney M. Young, to donate her late husband's papers to Columbia.

A recent event marked the completion of the Manuscripts of the Muslim World Project, a collaboration among numerous institutions to digitize and provide online access to Islamicate manuscripts and Mughal paintings.

Inside the basement of Butler Library: Behind the scenes of the Libraries' Collections Acquisitions Services (CAS) division, which acquires nearly 60,000 books, journals, DVDs, music scores, and graphic novels every year.

News from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library includes correspondence, reports, speeches, and other materials that document the work of civil rights leader Whitney M. Young.

The University Archives shares photos from renowned photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, who took her first class in photography at Columbia in 1922 and whose work is now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Explore the Carnegie Corporation of New York Digital Archive to trace the evolution of ideas surrounding democracy and immigration with the release of the corporation's annual class of Great Immigrants.

A scrapbook of comic strips compiled by barber I.A. Persinger throughout the late 1920s and early 1930s offers an unlikely window into sociocultural history and life in Depression-era Kansas.

As Columbia prepares to return to "normal University life," according to the Office of the President, the University Archives offers a series of recommendations to transition offices and records back to campus.

Fifty years ago, in 1971, Columbia established the first LGBTQ student lounge on a college campus in Furnald Hall, a safe space for the gay community at the University.

A selection of ebooks in commemoration of Pride Month, available to Columbia faculty, staff, and students through SimplyE for Columbia, speaks to a range of experiences and stories from the LGBTQ community.

The Libraries announces plans for a full reopening for the Fall term, including all library locations, library stacks, visitor access, and 24-hour operations in Butler Library, among other highlights.

Beginning Monday, June 28, seat reservations will no longer be required to use library spaces. Six libraries will remain open as study space for students, faculty, and staff through September 7.

To celebrate National Immigrant Heritage Month, the University Archives remembers Michael Pupin, or Mihajlo Idvorsky Pupin, CC 1883, University faculty member and inventor of coils to facilitate long-distance telephone calls.

The diaries of Hannah Maria Denning Duer, wife of Columbia College’s fifth president, William Alexander Duer, date from January 1838 to June 1862 and detail her time in College Hall on Park Place, the original home of King's College.

Happy birthday to iconic American architect Frank Lloyd Wright! Born on June 8, 1867, Wright designed more than 1,000 structures over the course of his career. His expansive archive is now held by Avery Library.

An automated Twitter account shares vibrant images from a collection of Hebrew manuscripts in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library with an engaged, global audience of scholars, students, and sharp-eyed Twitter scrollers.

A pilot program led by a committee within the Library of Congress helped a team of Libraries staff to streamline processes to digitize and catalog audiovisual materials from the Libraries' collections.

The University Archives remembers "Columbia Lou" on the first annual Lou Gehrig Day, which supports ALS awareness and research, with photos, yearbook entries & other memories from Gehrig's time as a Columbia Lion.

A recently re-discovered photo of South Field, where Columbia Football games were played from 1915-1922, shows a long-lost view of the Morningside campus from Amsterdam Avenue to Broadway.

A wildfire recently destroyed the Jagger Reading Room at the University of Cape Town - and priceless artifacts on African history along with it. Here's how researchers can help the library's recovery efforts.

Columbia University Libraries is thrilled to welcome students to campus this summer! Whether you’re returning to campus or arriving for the first time, here are five easy ways to get started at the Libraries.

Online library catalogs help users find specific materials from anywhere in the world, but what happens when an item's full title isn't included in its catalog record? The Burke Library takes on a metadata mystery.

E-handouts created by Social Science and Social Work Research Support Librarian Sophie Leveque enable library users to learn new research methods, skills, and software in a virtual environment.

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British Library Medieval Manuscripts Blog: A Letter of Recommendation Split between Two Continents

How the Whitney M. Young, Jr. Papers Came to Columbia

The Muslim World Manuscripts Project: “Listening to All the Echoes in the Garden”

Acquisitions: It’s Not Just Opening Boxes!

News from RBML’s Archivists | June 2021

Bourke-White at Columbia

Celebrate Great Immigrants with the Carnegie Corporation of New York Online Archives

Comics Scrapbook Offers a Window into Depression-era Kansas

Return to Campus: Records Management Considerations

A Safe Space Turns 50

Pride Month Spotlight: Ebooks in LGBTQ Studies

Here's What You Need to Know About the Reopening of Columbia's Libraries This Fall

Discontinuation of Seat Reservations

From Immigrant to Inventor

Mrs. Duer’s Diaries

Happy Birthday, Frank Lloyd Wright!

Learning from the Crowd: The CULHebrewmss Twitter Bot

PCC Wikidata Pilot: Expanding Authority Control to Identity Management

Lou Gehrig Day

From Amsterdam Avenue to Broadway

How Researchers Can Help with Recovery Efforts for the Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town

Five Ways to Get Started at the Libraries This Summer

“Gebetsanliegen” in the Catalog: a Metadata Mystery

New E-Handouts Support Remote Learning and Teach New Research Methods and Skills