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Aug 19, 2025

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The Libraries' Open Scholarship team announces that two partner journals, "Current Issues in Comparative Education" and the "Columbia University Journal of Global Health," are now included in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

Aug 18, 2025

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Researcher Tim Hastings, a PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, consults a collection of 18th-century sermons by Jonathan Ashley at the Burke Library in his study of slavery in the Connecticut River Valley.

Aug 14, 2025

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Join archivists and librarians from the C.V. Starr East Asian Library for the Fall 2025 series of workshops that range in subject from Chinese databases to Japanese, Korean, and Tibetan studies and East Asian archives.

Aug 13, 2025

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A new exhibition at the Burke Library highlights the first librarian at Union Theological Seminary, Edward Robinson, whose 19th-century travels in Palestine led to the development of the field of "biblical geography."

Aug 13, 2025

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University archivists tell the tale of a long-lost Columbia tradition: In the 19th century, students celebrated the birth of the first child born to a member of the class, the Class Baby, and presented the new father with a silver cup known as the Baby Cup.

Aug 6, 2025

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Columbia University Libraries transitions from multiple legacy systems to a single, unified, open platform, EBSCO FOLIO, in order to "improve access, insights, and service delivery."

Jul 28, 2025

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Visit a new exhibition in the Burke Library, "Magnificent Skies and Mysterious Landscapes," that features paintings by artist Beatrice Terrien, who was raised on the Union Theological Seminary campus and remains a friend of the library.

Jul 18, 2025

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Columbia University Libraries and its partners welcome Yale University to the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP), which enables users from participating institutions to access a shared collection of more than 18 million volumes.

Jul 8, 2025

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An A-to-Z guide to the Libraries' Oral History Archives: 'I' is for the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality Oral History Project, comprised of interviews with 36 individuals involved in the founding and development of the institute.

Jul 8, 2025

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"Current Issues in Comparative Education" (CICE), an international online, open-access journal published in partnership with the Libraries, releases its 2025 special issue on climate change, migration, and conflict.

Jul 2, 2025

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Among many other insights, the newly-processed Patricia S. McCormack papers chart the increase in women's health research from the 1970s through the 1980s and provide valuable source material on second wave feminism.

Jun 13, 2025

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In recognition of Open Source Week from June 16-20, Libraries staff highlight the value of open source software to academic research: open source enables faculty, staff, and students to share scholarly work on a global scale.

Jun 12, 2025

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Columbia College students in the late 19th century harnessed the emerging art of photography to collect classmates' images in keepsake volumes, a selection of which are currently on view in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

Jun 9, 2025

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The New York City COVID-19 Narrative and Memory oral history collection, which captures "the voices and stories of those who lived through the crisis in the pandemic’s initial global epicenter," is now accessible to researchers.

Jun 6, 2025

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Research Data Services resource spotlight: ProQuest announces that the popular text-mining environment, TDM Studio, now includes a beta feature that allows users to integrate GPT models into their R or Python workbench notebooks.

Jun 6, 2025

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A forgotten collection of student essays from the 1960s, now digitized and searchable, captures more than a thousand viewpoints on New York City’s greatest challenges and opportunities.

Jun 5, 2025

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Award-winning NPR program, "Throughline," consulted an extensive oral history interview from the Oral History Archives with workers' rights activist and former Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins, for an episode on "the woman behind the New Deal."

Jun 3, 2025

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Shelley Hayreh, who joined Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library in 2010 as Archivist and Collection Manager of the Department of Drawings & Archives, is now announced as Curator of the collection.

Jun 3, 2025

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Tessa Roynon, librarian at the Swan School, discusses the significance of the Toni Morrison editorial papers, which track her work with a host of renowned and canonical authors, including Toni Cade Bambara and Lucille Clifton.

May 29, 2025

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Listen in as the investigative team behind the latest season of "Shoe Leather," a podcast produced by students in the School of Journalism in partnership with the Libraries' Podcast Publishing Program, explores the rise and fall of disgraced politician Rudy Giuliani.

May 28, 2025

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Recent tributes to curator and librarian Jean Blackwell Hutson, an alumna of Barnard College and Columbia University, explore her integral contributions to the respected Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

May 26, 2025

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This Memorial Day, we pause to remember those who died serving in the United States military, including members of our own Columbia community: The Columbia Roll of Honor, maintained by the University Archives, recognizes students and alumni who sacrificed their lives during military service.

May 22, 2025

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Columbia University Libraries announces the acquisition of the archival collection of a mobile application, MINUTIAE, among the first of the archives of a mobile application, which documents the content, development, and experience of the "anti-social media app."

May 22, 2025

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Congratulations to the 2025 Undergraduate Research Award winners, presented by the Science, Engineering, and Social Sciences Libraries in recognition of outstanding use of library resources in sciences, engineering, and social sciences-based coursework.

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Announcing Library Partner Journals Newly-Indexed in the DOAJ!

“Spiritual Liberty is Not Inconsistent with a State of Servitude”: Slavery in the Connecticut River Valley

East Asian Library Workshops for Fall 2025

Edward Robinson’s “Biblical Researches in Palestine”

The Baby Cup

Columbia University Libraries Modernizes Library Infrastructure with EBSCO FOLIO

Magnificent Skies and Mysterious Landscapes: Paintings by Beatrice Terrien

Yale University Joins the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP)

A to Z of Oral History | I is for Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality Oral History Collection

Current Issues in Comparative Education – Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict: Lessons in Education (Special Issue 2025)

Abortion, Feminism, and Education in the Patricia S. McCormack Papers

Open Source Week 2025

On View | Windows into the Past: Columbia College Class Albums, 1856-1890

Echoes of the Epicenter: The New York City COVID-19 Narrative and Memory Oral History Collection Now Accessible

Text Mine ProQuest with ChatGPT

“New York’s Future As I View It”

Oral History in the News | Frances Perkins on NPR’s Throughline

Shelley Hayreh Named Curator of Drawings & Archives

Research from the RBML | Tessa Roynon Writes about Toni Morrison’s Editorial List

Shoe Leather’s New Season Explores the Rise and Fall of Rudy Giuliani

[Cross-Posting] Librarian Jean Blackwell Hutson, BC ’35

Memorial Day | Columbia Roll of Honor

Columbia University Libraries Acquires the Archival Collection of MINUTIAE Mobile App

Meet the 2025 Undergraduate Research Award Winners

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Announcing Library Partner Journals Newly-Indexed in the DOAJ!

“Spiritual Liberty is Not Inconsistent with a State of Servitude”: Slavery in the Connecticut River Valley

East Asian Library Workshops for Fall 2025

Edward Robinson’s “Biblical Researches in Palestine”

The Baby Cup

Columbia University Libraries Modernizes Library Infrastructure with EBSCO FOLIO

Magnificent Skies and Mysterious Landscapes: Paintings by Beatrice Terrien

Yale University Joins the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP)

A to Z of Oral History | I is for Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality Oral History Collection

Current Issues in Comparative Education – Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict: Lessons in Education (Special Issue 2025)

Abortion, Feminism, and Education in the Patricia S. McCormack Papers

Open Source Week 2025

On View | Windows into the Past: Columbia College Class Albums, 1856-1890

Echoes of the Epicenter: The New York City COVID-19 Narrative and Memory Oral History Collection Now Accessible

Text Mine ProQuest with ChatGPT

“New York’s Future As I View It”

Oral History in the News | Frances Perkins on NPR’s Throughline

Shelley Hayreh Named Curator of Drawings & Archives

Research from the RBML | Tessa Roynon Writes about Toni Morrison’s Editorial List

Shoe Leather’s New Season Explores the Rise and Fall of Rudy Giuliani

[Cross-Posting] Librarian Jean Blackwell Hutson, BC ’35

Memorial Day | Columbia Roll of Honor

Columbia University Libraries Acquires the Archival Collection of MINUTIAE Mobile App

Meet the 2025 Undergraduate Research Award Winners