On Friday October 28th, the creators of the graphic novel Marzi: a memoir will be in conversation in Butler Library. Marzena Sowa, the author, was born in Poland in 1979; by the time she was ten years old she had experienced Communist rule, Chernobyl, the Solidarity factory strikes of 1988, and the triumph of […]
Month: October 2011
The Digital Music Lab
Make some music! The Digital Music Lab in the Music & Arts Library (701 Dodge) offers an extensive collection of software and hardware to enable your inner Beethoven, rock star, or musical mad scientist. The Lab is equipped with 5 Mac Pro workstations, 2 Yamaha Arius YDP181 […]
This Week in Butler: Paper-Cutting Art Exhibition and Performances
As part of this week’s Cinema China, Culture China festival, a Shanghai Paper-cutting Art Exhibition and daily performances by paper-cutting artists will be held on the third floor of Butler Library. The exhibition opens on Monday, October 17th and will remain on view through December. Performances by Paper-cutting artists Xi Xiaoqin and Shi Qinling will […]
New Partnerships and Opportunities for Borrowing
MaRLI (Manhattan Research Library Initiative) Columbia full-time faculty and doctoral students may now borrow books from NYU or the New York Public Library (research collection). Register for MaRLI as a Columbia scholar. MaRLI is a pilot project between Columbia, NYU, and the Research Collections at New York Public Library. The project began in March 2011, and […]
Users Unbound: Reading, Libraries, and the Digital Humanities
This image of a reader is familiar to us all. The depiction is one of an individual solitary act that is immersive and serious. The material object being read is a book and we may even assume it is a literary work. It is easy to assume that this is READING. The current claim […]