The website for the 2014 NEH Summer Institute “America’s East Central Europeans: Migration & Memory,” scheduled for June 8-29, 2014, is now available at: http://nehsummerinst.columbia.edu/ This website includes detailed information on the Institute, daily agenda, reading list, eligibility and application information. The new website also includes the archived content, including videos of selected presentations, of […]
Marathi Manuscripts Digitized
The Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library has added two new catalogs of digitized Marathi Manuscripts. The archival partner for this project, “Preserving Marathi Manuscripts and Making Them Accessible,” was the Marathi Manuscript Centre, Pune. Project EAP023 includes digital images and a project description. Project EAP248 includes digital images and a project description. […]
Government Gazettes of South Africa, 1910 to the present
Columbia University Libraries now subscribes, courtesy of Sabinet, to digitized full text versions of South African government gazettes, from 1910 to the present. All current Columbia faculty and students can access and search the three online collections (on or off campus). Retrospective Gazettes of South Africa, 1910-1993 http://clio.columbia.edu/databases/10425697 Government Gazettes of South Africa, January 1994 […]
Lecture: How (and why) the Jews invented Hollywood
Columbia University Libraries is pleased to announce the annual Norman E. Alexander Lecture in Jewish Studies, featuring Neal Gabler, Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at USC: "How (and why) the Jews invented Hollywood." The lecture will take place on Wednesday, October 16 at the Skylight Room in the Faculty House (64 Morningside Drive, […]
Gandhi Heritage Portal
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 […]
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, […]