4 DAYS LEFT! RENEW NOW!

If you are planning on charging books to your shelf or carrel during the Summer, please renew both the shelf/carrel and the books on it by Friday June 3.  Books with green Spring flags will be cleared on Monday June 5. Now is also a good time to return those books from other Libraries, BorrowDirect […]

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Avery Classics Highlights at May 16th Display of Recent Acquisitions

Amidst treasures from across Avery’s collections, selections from Avery Classics included items from the Herbert Mitchell bequest, early to mid-20th century works on city planning and the modern housing movement in Europe and Latin America,  contemporary artist books on architectural subjects, and an extraordinary display of Japanese architecture and design from the interwar period.   […]

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Current Publications Featured in the Avery Library Display of Recent Acquisitions

Judy Chicago with Frances Borzello. Frida Kahlo: face to face. Munich; London; New York: Prestel, c2010. At once deeply personal and brilliantly perceptive, this dynamic reconsideration of the life and work of Frida Kahlo is curated by the prominent feminist artist Judy Chicago, who helped introduce American audiences to Kahlo’s paintings. In this volume Chicago, […]

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Avery Library’s Laura Trujillo Wins Information Services Student Employee of the Year Award

We are pleased to announce that Avery Library’s own Laura Trujillo has won one of the Information Services Student Employee of the Year Awards, presented by the Columbia University Libraries Staff Recognition Committee.  Laura has worked at Avery Library since her very first days as a Columbia University student and will be graduating with a […]

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Avery Display of Recent Acquisitions

Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library will host it’s sixth annual Reception & Display of Recent Acquisitions on Monday, May 16th 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. This event showcases some of the most extraordinary, significant and beautiful books, drawings and art works that have been added to Avery collections this past academic year. On view will […]

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