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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.

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.

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.

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.

Banu Pekol, a fellow with the University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights, discusses the role of architectural documentation and preservation in her work in memory, trauma, and human rights advocacy.

As spring debuts in New York City and Manhattan’s cultural institutions begin to re-open, a new exhibition at the New York Botanical Gardens links to a collection in the Libraries' Oral History Archives.

The Rare Book & Manuscript Library digitizes approximately 700 Hebrew manuscripts, now accessible to a global audience, leading researchers to a range of meaningful discoveries.

Vice Provost and University Librarian Ann Thornton is pleased to announce the appointment of Courtney Chartier as Director of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, beginning July 2021.

News

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

Discontinuation of Seat Reservations

From Immigrant to Inventor

Mrs. Duer’s Diaries

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

“Gebetsanliegen” in the Catalog: a Metadata Mystery

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

Architectural Preservation and Documentation, Human Rights, Memory, and Trauma

Art and Nature-Related Oral Histories in NYC

Microfilm?! Digitizing an Old Medium Yields New Discoveries

Courtney Chartier Named as Director of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library