The Lantern Wall at Avery Library

In 1881, William Robert Ware founded the Architecture Program at Columbia University, bringing with him an extensive collection of lantern slides, the foundation of the image archive at the school. These glass plate photographs depict a wide range of locations and represented the most technologically advanced method of image representation at the time. The lantern […]

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Grand Central Terminal/Warren & Wetmore

In last Sunday's New York Times, an article by Sam Roberts celebrating the centennial of Grand Central Terminal featured images from the Warren & Wetmore collection  in Avery Drawings and Archives: Warren & Wetmore designed the terminal jointly with Reed & Stem. In addition to architectural drawings and papers, Avery Library also has the firm's […]

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Welcome back students!!

Avery Library welcomes back students! We hope you had a great vacation and are ready for the new semester. Just a couple of quick reminders: When we are not available for reference questions you can click on "Ask a Librarian" to be connected to Virtual Reference. Our hours for the Spring semester are here. Best […]

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Ada Louise Huxtable Tribute

Ada Louise Huxtable, the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic, died on January 7. She was most recently the architecture critic for the Wall Street Journal. As the New York Times reported in its obituary, Ms. Huxtable considered Avery Library her "most treasured academic home." She covered Avery Library exhibitions and events in many pieces for the […]

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Erin Leach joins Avery Library

Erin Leach joins Avery Library as the Cataloging/Metadata Librarian for the Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection project. Erin earned an M.A. in Information Sciences from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2005. An active member of ALA and ALCTS, Erin was a member of the 2011 Emerging Leaders cohort. She currently chairs the Continuing […]

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