The Gandhi Heritage Portal was launched by the Government of India on September 2, 2013. It includes 100 English language volumes of The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, 82 Gujarati language volumes of Gandhiji no Aksharadeha (ગાંધીજીનો અક્ષરદેહ), and 97 Hindi language volumes of Sampūrṇa Gāndhī vāṅmaya (सम्पूर्ण गांधी वाङ्ग्मय). There are two modes for […]
Category: Global Studies
Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here – Exhibit in Butler Library July 16 – Sept. 21st, 2013
The exhibition is part of an international project by book artists to respond to the tragic bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad on March 5, 2007. The Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here exhibition is a tribute to those killed and wounded that day and reflects on the intellectual freedom, human rights and violence in a time […]
2014 NEH Summer Institute Award Announced: “America’s East Central Europeans.”
The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced that it will support yet another prestigious Summer Institute for College & University Teachers, this entitled “America’s East Central Europeans: Migration & Memory” which will run from June 9-29, 2014. Principal Investigator Alan Timberlake, Director of Columbia’s East Central European Center, will be assisted by Co-Directors Edward […]
New E-Resources for Slavic & East European Studies
A number of major electronic resources were purchased for Columbia students and faculty in June, at the close of the FY: The “Iskusstvo Kino Digital Archive” captures the complete run (1931-2012) of this esteemed monthly publication in a complete online archive, in full-image and fully searchable text. https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio10261197 The “Slavic Humanities Index Database” […]
Recent Slavic & East European Antiquarian Acquisitions
In recent months, the 2CUL Librarian for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies made a number of significant antiquarian purchases for library partners Cornell & Columbia. Cornell purchased two stunningly illustrated Hungarian artist books by Tibor Galle (1896-1944). Linoleumok. Masodik konyv. (Budapest, [1925]), an extremely rare portfolio of striking expressionist prints. No other copy is […]
Librarian Travel Report: Bogotá, Colombia
For the second time in two years, I traveled to Bogotá, Colombia in April to attend the International Book Fair of Bogotá, popularly known as FILBO. Along with nineteen other international librarians, I received a generous invitation from Proexport Colombia, La Cámara Colombiana del Libro, and the Centro Internacional de Negocios y Exposiciones –CORFERIAS. Together, […]
Online Resources: Holocaust and Genocide
The Shoah Visual History Archive is largest database of first-person Holocaust testimonies, founded by Steven Spielberg. With over 50,000 testimonies from Holocaust survivors and liberators, carefully indexed in short segments for ease of searchability and use, the VHA is a tremendous resource for the history of the Holocaust. Recently, the VHA has expanded to […]
Columbia Acquires The Gay J. McDougall Papers on Southern Africa
Columbia University Libraries’ Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research is pleased to announce that it has acquired the Gay J. McDougall South Africa and Namibia Papers and the records of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Southern Africa Project. Ms. McDougall served as the Director of the Southern Africa Project for 14 […]
NEH Summer Scholars Named for “America’s Russian-speaking Immigrants and Refugees”
The Institute Selection Committee has named twenty-five Summer Scholars to take part in this June’s “America’s Russian-Speaking Immigrants & Refugees,” a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College & University Teachers, Co-Directed by Robert Davis of Global Studies and Edward Kasinec of the Harriman Institute. The Institute takes place on the campus of […]
Trial of Encyclopaedia Islamica Online
We have arranged for trial access to Encyclopaedia Islamica Online from Brill. "Encyclopaedia Islamica Online is based on the abridged and edited translation of the Persian Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif-i Buzurg-i Islāmī, one of the most comprehensive sources on Islam and the Muslim world. A unique feature of the encyclopaedia Islamica Online lies in the attention given […]