Students, we know you're working hard and you've got a lot to do, but we encourage you to take a break from studying to relax and recharge. Tonight, Tuesday May 7, Butler Library is hosting Alice!’s Stressbusters from 8pm to Midnight in Butler 203. Come for free neck and back rubs and some mellow activities. […]
HathiTrust: Digital Library Unveils New, Improved Webpage
HathiTrust is a shared collection of over 10 million volumes of digitized book and journal content. Columbia University is a member of this international partnership of 60-plus research libraries committed to the long-term preservation and availability of the cultural record. HathiTrust recently unveiled a new website, with a new design and new features. You’ll now […]
EVENT: “Picture This: The Art of Comics Adaptations”–Monday April 15, 6 PM
The Libraries are thrilled to host an event sponsored by the French Embassy: a conversation between French cartoonist Alex Alice and Brooklyn cartoonist Ron Wimberly on the craft of transforming literature into comics. Alex Alice has produced an award-winning three-volume adaptation of the Nibelungenlied, or Ring Cycle, titled Siegfried, now being published in an English […]
RESOURCE: medieval art in CORSAIR, the Morgan Library’s catalog
Scholars looking for medieval illuminations to illustrate their arguments need look no further than the Morgan Library. The Morgan has digitized and cataloged every image in its vast holdings of medieval manuscripts. While an image search can be made in CORSAIR, the general catalog of manuscripts and printed books, there is a specific area of […]
EVENT: “Comics at Columbia: the Golden Age” March 7, 6 PM
Please join us in 523 BUtler on Thursday March 7 at 6 PM for a panel celebrating two of the Libraries' newest acquisitions! The Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired the research materials and library used by journalist Larry Tye for his acclaimed book, Superman: the high-flying history of America's most enduring hero, […]
New Database: History of Modern Russian and Ukrainian Art, 1907-1930
The History of Modern Russian and Ukrainian Art, 1907-1930 documents the history of modern Russian and Ukrainian art. It encompasses critical literature, illustrated books, and art periodicals. The collection contains texts by such artists as Wassily Kandinsky, Pavel Filonov, Kazimir Malevich and Anatolii Petrytskyi; publications of art groups such as the Jack of Diamonds (Bubnovyi […]
New Database: African American Periodicals, 1825-1995
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 is full text journal collection based upon James P. Danky's African–American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography (Harvard, 1998). Drawn from holdings of the Wisconsin Historical Society, African American Periodicals ranges over more than 150 years of American life, from slavery during the Antebellum Period to the struggles and triumphs of […]
New Database: Victorian Popular Culture
Victorian Popular Culture: Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments & the Advent of Cinema This section of Victorian Popular Culture explores the pivotal era in entertainment history when previously static images came to life and moved for the first time. It features printed ephemera, programmes, sheet music, cigarette cards, postcards, games, toys and other merchandise from the […]
Columbia University Libraries Expands Support for Research in Comics and Graphic Novels
Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) is pleased to announce the acquisition of two significant additions to its Comics and Graphic Novels collections: research materials for Larry Tye’s well-received 2012 book, Superman: The High-Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Superhero, as well as six 1940’s Batman scripts from the estate of Jerry Robinson. […]
Faculty Document Delivery Service Expands
Using the Faculty Document Delivery Service, full-time faculty from the Columbia Morningside campus, Barnard, and Union Theological Seminary now can request electronic delivery of journal articles and book chapters from the general print collections in the Avery, Burke, Business & Economics, Butler, East Asian, Engineering, Geology, Journalism, Lehman Social Sciences, Math, Science & Engineering, and […]