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Oct 14, 2021

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An exhibition in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library celebrates the centennial of the birth of composer Jack Beeson, former Chair of the Department of Music at Columbia and a "master of American opera."

Oct 13, 2021

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“In Service to the New Nation: The Life & Legacy of John Jay" sheds light on the statesman's personal and public life and commemorates the seven-volume Selected Papers of John Jay series.

Oct 12, 2021

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News from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library includes a collection of audio and video interviews that document the history of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and 20th-century peace movements.

Oct 8, 2021

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The Sheila Michaels Civil Rights Organization Oral History Collection offers a democratized narration of the Civil Rights Movement, through interviews with foot soldiers who made change possible through consistent, diligent activism.

Oct 6, 2021

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Moonlight inside the library: When Low Library opened in 1897, visitors enjoyed magical, artificial moonlight shows on Friday evenings, courtesy of a wooden sphere hung from the domed ceiling over the Rotunda reading room.

Sep 15, 2021

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As Columbia University nears 125 years in Morningside Heights, University archivists look to the only building left on campus from its time as the Bloomingdale Asylum: Buell Hall.

Aug 31, 2021

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Public Services staff in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library carry on a long-standing tradition of making the library's holdings available to patrons, a service once headed by the pioneering Dr. Mary A. Bennett.

Aug 12, 2021

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Two fragments of an ancient papyrus letter - one piece held in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the other in the British Library in London - are virtually rejoined into a seamless, digital whole.

Aug 2, 2021

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With a roster of Columbia Lions participating in the Olympic Games in Tokyo, archivists showcase past Olympic competitors from medal-worthy collections in the University Archives.

Jul 23, 2021

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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.

Jul 19, 2021

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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.

Jul 15, 2021

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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.

Jul 13, 2021

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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.

Jul 2, 2021

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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.

Jun 30, 2021

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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.

Jun 23, 2021

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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.

Jun 15, 2021

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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.

Jun 9, 2021

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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.

Jun 8, 2021

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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.

Jun 2, 2021

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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.

May 25, 2021

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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.

May 7, 2021

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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.

May 6, 2021

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

May 6, 2021

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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.

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In Praise of Jack Beeson: A Centennial Exhibition

In Service to the New Nation: The Life and Legacy of John Jay

News from RBML’s Archivists | September 2021

New Collection | Sheila Michaels Civil Rights Organization Oral History Collection

Moonlight Inside the Library

A Little House with a Long History

Making Holdings Available to Users: A Long-Standing Tradition

Two Ancient Papyrus Fragments and Their Very Modern Reunion

Columbia Olympians in the University Archives

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

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

News from RBML’s Archivists | June 2021

Bourke-White at Columbia

Comics Scrapbook Offers a Window into Depression-era Kansas

Return to Campus: Records Management Considerations

A Safe Space Turns 50

From Immigrant to Inventor

Mrs. Duer’s Diaries

Learning from the Crowd: The CULHebrewmss Twitter Bot

Lou Gehrig Day

From Amsterdam Avenue to Broadway

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