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Dec 16, 2024

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Looking to switch up your scenery during finals? Hear from Columbia students about their favorite study spots on campus, from the basement of Avery to the top floor of Butler.

Dec 11, 2024

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Cecilia Li, '26SIPA, who was rewarded for her participation in the annual Library Passport program, reflects on how the program impacted her coursework, her favorite library spaces, and "hidden gems" in the Libraries.

Dec 10, 2024

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Watch the 2024 Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections, which featured presentations on Jewish criminal cases in Bologna in the 15th century, sickness in 18th-century Prague, and Jewish women at Barnard College in the 19th century.

Dec 9, 2024

In the media

"1961 to 2024: How Columbia football roared back to the top." Columbia Spectator consulted the University Archives to "look back on 63 years of football coaching history - and the rookie coach who brought the Lions their first league title since 1961."

Dec 4, 2024

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A series of profiles highlight valued student employees from across the Libraries, including Lilium Chen, a student assistant at Butler Library in the Humanities and History department who specializes in film and media studies.

Dec 4, 2024

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The Libraries' Digital Scholarship team has enhanced and streamlined the format of the annual report for partners in the Journals Publishing program, which will enable users to more easily analyze data and identify trends in readership.

Nov 25, 2024

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As part of the 2024 Open Access Week events, Libraries staff and collaborators presented on "Digitizing Vietnam Project: Increasing Access to Vietnam Studies Materials," a project that will act as an inter-institutional digital hub for Vietnam studies.

Nov 21, 2024

In the media

"A love letter to the Music & Arts Library: The Music & Arts Library has finally received its deserved admiration and gratitude. The quiet environment, the chairs, even the cubicles - something that is so common in every library on campus, but just feels so different with you. You’re truly one of a kind."

Nov 20, 2024

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To coincide with a new exhibition at the New York Historical, "Pets and the City," Libraries staff honors the University's own four-legged friends who've left their paw prints in the archives, including a dog at the Columbia War Hospital in the Bronx during World War I.

Nov 18, 2024

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Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library announces that more than 3,000 slides have been digitized from the Sculpture in the Environment (SITE) architectural records and the papers of architect James Wines, which were donated to the library in 2020.

Nov 11, 2024

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A team of Libraries staff has begun to archive the Epistolæ project, a remarkable collection of medieval Latin letters to and from women from the fourth through the 13th centuries, which are now accessible through the University's Academic Commons repository.

Oct 30, 2024

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Librarian for Jewish Studies Michelle Margolis continues a series of blog posts about the history of Jews at Columbia with an installment on the first years of the Nicholas Murray Butler presidency during the early 20th century.

Oct 29, 2024

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A groundbreaking forum, funded by a grant from the Laura Bush 21st-Century Librarian Program through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, will bring together Black, Indigenous, and people of color curators from archives and special collections across the country.

Oct 27, 2024

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Dr. Robin Bunce of Homerton College, Cambridge University, describes how the papers of activist Darcus Howe, held by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and other recently-digitized materials contribute to his research on the history of Black Power in Britain.

Oct 24, 2024

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In honor of “spooky season," University archivists visit the graves at Trinity churchyard, the final resting place of King’s College alumnus Alexander Hamilton and his wife Eliza Hamilton - as well as a much earlier vault with connections to Columbia history.

Oct 23, 2024

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The Libraries' Digital Scholarship team calls on Columbia researchers to join the Paper Pledge for the Planet, a global collaboration of institutions that aims to make climate change literature openly available. Learn more about how to participate.

Oct 22, 2024

In the media

"Coney Island, Spectacular," an exhibition in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML), features artwork and photography by three Columbia students, alongside historical documents and photos from the W.F. Mangels Company collection in the RBML archives.

Oct 17, 2024

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The Music & Arts Library, in collaboration with Libraries' Digital Scholarship team, offers a series of music technology workshops, designed and conducted by graduate student and current Digital Music Intern Ása Ólafsdóttir.

Oct 9, 2024

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Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library announces that a new exhibition, "Landscape(d)," is now on view as the eighth collaboration between the Libraries' Art Properties collection and students in the M.A. in Art History program.

Oct 9, 2024

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Cristina Stubbe, an archivist with the Winthrop Group, processed the papers of Jack and Irene Delano, held by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library and including drawings, photographs, and other materials that document the history and culture of Puerto Rico.

Oct 9, 2024

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The Libraries announces the annual Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections, which will feature the Inquisition of Bologna, Jews at Barnard in the late 19th century, and a unique story from early modern Prague.

Oct 8, 2024

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Lena Newman, a former student employee on the Avery Index and Special Collections Curator in Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, is announced as the newly-appointed Curator of Avery Classics.

Oct 8, 2024

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Author and independent researcher Laura Fisher Kaiser consulted the archival records of the Paul R. Reynolds literary agency in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library for an upcoming biography of novelist Frances Elizabeth Budgett (pen name Elizabeth Dejeans).

Oct 4, 2024

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The staff of the Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary collaborated with the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL) to host a panel discussion on the role of water in religion and spiritual life in South Asia.

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Where is Your Go-To Study Spot?

Cecilia Li, ‘26SIPA, Reflects on the Library Passport Program

Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections 2024

1961 to 2024: How Columbia Football Roared Back to the Top

Student Employee Profile: Meet Lilium Chen

Columbia Libraries: Journal Publishing Program Annual Report

Open Access Week 2024 (South/Southeast Asia)

A Love Letter To The Music & Arts Library

Columbia’s Pets

SITE James Wines: A Selection of Slides

Archiving the Epistolæ Project

Jews at Columbia: The Early Butler Years and the Trustee Question (1901-1920)

Columbia University Libraries to Host Grant-Funded Forum for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Curators

Researcher Profile | British Black Panther Movement

A Visit to the Churchyard

Paper Pledge for the Planet

Columbia Artists Reimagine Coney Island in New Exhibition

Music Technology Workshops - Fall 2024

Landscape(d): An Exhibition

Processing the Jack and Irene Delano Papers

Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections 2024

Lena Newman Named Curator of Avery Classics

Research at the RBML | Laura Kaiser Finds Elizabeth Dejeans in the Paul Reynolds Papers

Water: Climate and Religion with IRCPL

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Where is Your Go-To Study Spot?

Cecilia Li, ‘26SIPA, Reflects on the Library Passport Program

Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections 2024

1961 to 2024: How Columbia Football Roared Back to the Top

Student Employee Profile: Meet Lilium Chen

Columbia Libraries: Journal Publishing Program Annual Report

Open Access Week 2024 (South/Southeast Asia)

A Love Letter To The Music & Arts Library

Columbia’s Pets

SITE James Wines: A Selection of Slides

Archiving the Epistolæ Project

Jews at Columbia: The Early Butler Years and the Trustee Question (1901-1920)

Columbia University Libraries to Host Grant-Funded Forum for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Curators

Researcher Profile | British Black Panther Movement

A Visit to the Churchyard

Paper Pledge for the Planet

Columbia Artists Reimagine Coney Island in New Exhibition

Music Technology Workshops - Fall 2024

Landscape(d): An Exhibition

Processing the Jack and Irene Delano Papers

Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections 2024

Lena Newman Named Curator of Avery Classics

Research at the RBML | Laura Kaiser Finds Elizabeth Dejeans in the Paul Reynolds Papers

Water: Climate and Religion with IRCPL