Libraries care about library catalogues, or, more broadly, lists of books, compiled for all sorts of reasons. On the back flyleaf of a manuscript of a well-known grammatical text is a list of medical books: it's in the same hand as that of the grammar, and it ends with a curious statement: The sum of Bertykin, […]
Month: July 2010
Alfred J. Kahn Papers Donated to Columbia
Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library has acquired the papers of social policy author, advocate, and Columbia University Professor of Social Work Dr. Alfred J. Kahn. The papers were donated by Kahn’s daughter, Nancy V. Kahn, and include many of Kahn’s policy proposals, research material, and business papers. The collection offers invaluable insight into […]
Jack Beeson’s Birthday
Today, July 15, 2010, would have been Jack Beeson’s 89th birthday. We celebrate his prolific output and prodigious memory by heartily recommending his autobiography, what he called "The Book," How Operas are Created by Composers and Librettists: The Life of Jack Beeson, American Opera Composer, published by The Edwin Mellen Press in 2008. Jack died […]
The Journalism of Opinion Conference Video
Video of Columbia University’s recent conference on opinion journalism in American intellectual history, which was cosponsored by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, is available at the Columbia Journalism Review site. Conference speakers included Victor Navasky (former editor and publisher of The Nation, who delivered the keynote), jazz and social critic Stanley Crouch, Dissent editor Michael […]