One of the most visually exciting additions to Columbia’s holdings was the purchase of ninety-five additional examples of late Imperial and early Soviet sheet music. Columbia’s holdings, catalogued collectively at https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/10290450 are quite likely the largest in any North American collection from this era, now including some 268 titles. […]
SAMP Open Archives Initiative
Columbia University is one of 23 institutions that has joined the South Asia Materials Project Open Archives Initiative. The SAMP Open Archives Initiative will create and maintain a collection of open archives materials in all academic disciplines for the study of South Asia. For more details, see the SAMP OAi business plan. The SAMP OAi has […]
Imagining the World: Exhibit Reception
Thanks to all who joined us at the reception for the reception for the exhibit opening of Imagining the World: Unexplored Global Collections at Columbia on April 17. Some pictures of the opening (and the exhibit itself) are included below. The exhibit will be in the Chang Octagon Room of the Rare Book and Manuscript […]
“Imagining the World: Unexplored Global Collections at Columbia”
Opening the week of April 4, 2016, in the Chang Octagon of The Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, a new exhibition will offer researchers an opportunity to view a sampling of the rare and the unusual in Columbia’s Global Studies collections. The items on display until June 24, range in date from 1454 CE to […]
Online Resource: American Jewish Joint Distribution Council Archives
The JDC Archives holds the institutional records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee since its founding in 1914. Given the nature of JDC’s work and the role it has played over more than a century of activity, these collections are among the most significant in the world for the study of modern Jewish history […]
New Database Trial: Early Arabic Printed Books From the British Library
Library has arranged trial access to Early Arabic Printed Books From the British Library. The trial runs through March 14, 2016 : http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/columbiau?db=EAPB&id=columbiau From publisher’s description: “Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library represents the digitization of one of the world’s most important Arabic collections, based on A.G. Ellis’ catalog from 1894. The full […]
Checklist of East Slavic Modernist Titles Available
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 […]
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 […]