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Butler Library, the largest of Columbia's libraries, houses collections in the humanities, history, government documents, social sciences, literature, philosophy, and religion. The building also houses numerous service points and special collections, including the Library Information Office, the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and Research & Teaching Support Services.

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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.

The prolific career of Chinese filmmaker Wango Weng receives long-overdue attention in a recent virtual event co-hosted by the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, which holds a collection of his films.

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.

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

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