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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 8, 2021

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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.

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 25, 2021

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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.

May 14, 2021

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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.

May 13, 2021

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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.

May 11, 2021

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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.

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.

May 4, 2021

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University archivists join the National Archives' monthly #ArchivesHashtagParty to highlight #ArchivesBugs and the work of Columbia professor Thomas Hunt Morgan, who studied the inherited traits of fruit flies.

Apr 30, 2021

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Archivist Patrick Lawler led a project to describe and provide access to a "truly massive set of 19th-century newspapers” from the Libraries' Seymour B. Durst Collection of Historical Manuscripts, Documents, and Newspapers.

Apr 29, 2021

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Oral history interviews with Columbia students, recorded in April and May 2020, reflect the social implications of the COVID-19 pandemic as the University transitioned to online learning.

Apr 28, 2021

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To mark the passing of philanthropist Vartan Gregorian (1934-2021), President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Oral History Archives shares a 2000 interview from the Carnegie Corporation Digital Archive.

Apr 26, 2021

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The Rare Book & Manuscript Library remembers radio pioneer Bob Fass, whose collection of correspondence, photos & remarkable audio recordings of his WBAI program, "Radio Unnameable," are held by the Libraries.

Apr 21, 2021

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A newly-processed collection of student work in the University Archives chronicles the academic career of Harold Brown, who earned three degrees from Columbia during and immediately following World War II.

Apr 8, 2021

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The Democracy Reform and Voting Rights in the United States Web Archive documents historic, ongoing debates surrounding voter restrictions, structural democracy reform and voting rights and ensuing legislation.

Apr 7, 2021

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News from the Oral History Archives includes more than 300 individual, or independently-collected, newly-digitized oral history interviews in the Digital Library Collections.

Apr 6, 2021

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Global Studies librarians offer a round-up of e-resources and library guides that are new to the Libraries, including resources related to Africa, the Middle East, and Islam, and Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe.

Apr 6, 2021

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A small collection of guest books from the University president’s house show a range of events and dinner guests hosted by Columbia President Nicholas Murray Butler during his 30-year tenure.

Apr 5, 2021

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The University Archives announces the publication of a new online exhibition, "Insistent Change: Columbia’s Core Curriculum at 100," which documents the development and ongoing transformation of the curriculum.

Mar 31, 2021

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News from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library includes a project completed by Library Assistant Melissa Cabarcas that enables staff to locate materials more easily, meaning shorter wait-times for reading room visitors.

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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

Bugs for the Month of May

News from RBML’s Archivists | April 2021

Newly Available | Columbia Students’ COVID-19 Oral History Interviews

Collection Highlight | Vartan Gregorian (1934-2021) and the Carnegie Corporation Digital Archive

Bob Fass, Radio Pioneer (1933-2021)

Newly Available | The Harold Brown Papers

Just Launched: Democracy Reform and Voting Rights in the United States Web Archive

Newly Available Online | Biographical Oral History Interviews Online

Global Studies E-Resources and Library Guides at Columbia under COVID-19, Part 1

President’s House Books for Welcomed Guests

New Online Content | Insistent Change: Columbia’s Core Curriculum at 100

News from RBML’s Archivists | March 2021

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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

Bugs for the Month of May

News from RBML’s Archivists | April 2021

Newly Available | Columbia Students’ COVID-19 Oral History Interviews

Collection Highlight | Vartan Gregorian (1934-2021) and the Carnegie Corporation Digital Archive

Bob Fass, Radio Pioneer (1933-2021)

Newly Available | The Harold Brown Papers

Just Launched: Democracy Reform and Voting Rights in the United States Web Archive

Newly Available Online | Biographical Oral History Interviews Online

Global Studies E-Resources and Library Guides at Columbia under COVID-19, Part 1

President’s House Books for Welcomed Guests

New Online Content | Insistent Change: Columbia’s Core Curriculum at 100

News from RBML’s Archivists | March 2021