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 […]
Ethnographic Video Online–Volume 3 added
Columbia University Libraries access to Ethnographic Video Online has been expanded to Volume III, which emphasizes indigenous issues and perspectives, with much content created by indigenous film makers. Volume III currently contains nearly 100 hours of content and footage from the Oceanic regions of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. The collection will continue to expand with […]
NEH grant to digitize LCCAJ (Yiddish language archive) at Columbia
Columbia University Libraries/Information Services (CUL/IS) has received an award of $150,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize field notes and linguistic surveys from the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ) archive. The LCAAJ archive is an extraordinary resource for research in Yiddish studies that can shed much valuable light on […]
Afghan Titles Available in Microfilm Format
A collection of materials originally published in Afghanistan has been preserved in microfilm format, and is available for lending from CRL (the Center for Research Libraries). MEMP (Middle East Materials Project) and SAMP (South Asia Materials Project) contributed funds to preserve these materials from the Library of Congress–Islamabad office. (Columbia is a member of both […]
Radical Increments: Toward New Platforms of Engaging Iraqi Studies
Butler Library is hosting international conference on April 24-25, 2015 Friday April 24 and Saturday, April 25 Radical Increments: Toward New Platforms of Engaging Iraqi Studies Time: See schedule here Location: Butler Library, Room 203 Sponsored by the Middle East Institute, the Middle East, South Asian and African Studies Department (MESAAS), Butler Library, and al-Shaybani […]