Marilyn Crispell, Female Composer and Jazz Icon Author: Ariana Csonka Kaleta Marilyn Crispell started out life as a classically trained traditional musician. Born in Philadelphia, she attended the Peabody Institute and the New England School of Music, where she studied piano and composition. She contended in competitions and gave recitals. However, at the age of […]
Emily Pallant Gresser, a stage success from among the strings…
The Story of Emily Gresser: A Stage Success from among the Strings Author: Ariana Csonka Kaleta Born, on March 11, 1894 into a highly cultured Russian Jewish Emigré family. Emily was the most musical of her four siblings and began performing publicly at 8 years old. By the age of nine, she had already performed […]
Music Cataloging- Spring 2017
Notes on the Bibliographic Description of Hip-Hop In January 2017 I began work as an Ask-A-Librarian Intern under the supervision of Columbia’s Music Librarian, Nick Patterson. A great feature of the Ask-A-Librarian internship at Columbia is the ability of supervisors to tailor the on-site portion of the internship to suit the interests of the student. […]
Columbia University Libraries Internship Experience
Welcome to the Columbia University Libraries Internship Blog! Please use this blog to share and learn about your peers’ internship experiences at CUL. Please post blog entries explaining your internship projects, as well as, sharing about your experiences during the internship. Ensure to mark the correct category when submitting a post (i.e., “Fall 2017 Interns”). Start blogging! […]
Mr. Smith Goes to Berlin: German Learning in the Papers of Henry Boynton Smith (1815-1877)
Henry Boynton Smith (1815-1877) was professor and librarian at Union Theological Seminary from 1850 to 1874, joining the faculty at UTS after serving as a Congregationalist minister (1842-1847) and teaching philosophy at Amherst College (1847-1850). Smith is perhaps best remembered for the active role he played in the reunion of the Old and New Schools […]
Tibetan Studies A/V Internship- Summer 2017
The Complexity of Cataloging Tibetan ‘Music Videos’ In my Intro to Knowledge Organization class, Professor Amber Billey taught her students that cataloging was inherently political. She taught us about Sandy Berman and Hope Olson’s work; about the story that is “told” by classification. Items to be cataloged are multifaceted, and there is conscious decision-making behind […]