The 197-page Checklist of Russian, Ukrainian & Belarusian Avant-Garde & Modernist Books, Serials & Works on Paper at The New York Public Library & Columbia University Libraries compiled by Robert H. Davis Jr. and Megan Duncan-Smith, Harvard University (with an Introduction by Steven Mansbach, University of Maryland) is now available for viewing or download via […]
Category: Global Studies
Slavic & East European Collections Add Rare Titles
A number of significant, rare, and in some cases unique antiquarian works from Eastern Europe were purchased for Columbia’s libraries over the past twelve months. Through the efforts of colleagues in Global Studies, Rare Books & Manuscripts, and the Avery Classics Library, and with additional financial support from the Libraries’ Primary Resources Fund, distinctive collections […]
New Resource: Christian-Muslim Relations II
Library added the database Christian-Muslim Relations II to the list of electronic resources available to Columbia community. Christian-Muslim Relations : Bibliographical History Online is a general online history of relations between the two faiths as this is represented in works written by Christians and Muslims about the other and against the other. The recently acquired […]
#HumanRightsDay2015
December 10th is recognized as International Human Rights Day, commemorating the day in 1948 when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations. This summer I visited the Franklin Delano Roosevelt home and Presidential Library in Hyde Park, NY for the first time. A highlight of the visit was an exhibit […]
This week! David Ruderman on Christians, Jews, and those in between in 19th-Century Europe
Please join us this Thursday evening (November 12) at the annual Norman E. Alexander lecture, featuring David Ruderman (University of Pennsylvania). […]
Trial Access to British Online Archives–African Blue Books, 1821-1953
British Online Archives: African Blue Books, 1821-1953 https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio11610507 Beginning October 21, 2015, researchers at Columbia University Libraries can take advantage of a month-long, trial access to an important source for the economic and political history of the colonial era in the former British colonial territories of Africa: “The Blue Book was a key item of […]
Cambridge Archive Editions Online – Trial available
Cambridge Archive Editions Online https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio11594842 Cambridge Archive Editions Online offers collections of key British archival documents from the 18th – 20th centuries. It makes available hundreds of thousands of digitized pages of historically authentic facsimile documents, as well as numerous maps, on the national heritage and political development of many countries. The material is rich […]
August 30 – International Day of the Disappeared
August 30th is recognized as a day to raise awareness of the crime of enforced disappearance and to remember those who have disappeared in the context of conflict and other violations of human rights. Resources in our Libraries’ collections document and enable the study of enforced disappearances, and how human rights organizations and individuals have […]
News and Views on President Obama’s 2015 Trip to Kenya and Ethiopia
For a short list of “open access” articles and essays reflecting a wide range of approaches to the first visit by a sitting American president to both Kenya and Ethiopia and the first speech by an American president to be made at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, see the selections on offer from […]
British records on “Apartheid South Africa” boosts primary resources on South Africa
Columbia faculty and students can now access the full text of digitized selected documents from the British National Archives on South Africa during the “apartheid” era. The “Archives Direct” collection on South Africa from Adam Matthew includes files from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices spanning the period 1948 to 1980; divided […]