David N. Dinkins, New York City’s first, and only, African American mayor died on November 23, at the age of 93. Dinkins, whose term as mayor lasted from 1990 to 1993, had been a member of the Columbia University community for more than a quarter of a century, serving since 1994 as professor at the […]
Month: November 2020
Records Management and University Archives 101s
On the Managing University Records site, we recently posted a section with Training Slides. These presentation slides offer some of the basics on what the University Archives does: we help Columbians manage their records, and we preserve and make accessible the institutional history of the University. The training decks are short and, hopefully, useful, and […]
Radio Liberty oral history project newly available to the public
A popular oral history project, the Radio Liberty project, 1964 – 1966, was recently opened for public listening.* From the catalog record: In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Radio Liberty and the Institute for the Study of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in Munich collected memoirs of participants in […]
Two Lehman Center for American History Events This Week
Marcia Chatelain (Georgetown University) on her book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. Franchise historicizes the origins of today’s pervasive racialized health disparities by examining the forces that brought McDonald’s into so many corners of Black life. By taking a historical approach to the question of nutrition and food politics, Chatelain brings new insights into […]
News from the RBML’s Archivists | September and October 2020
Here are updates from the RBML’s archives and collections management specialists. Newly linked CLIO records for oral histories With thanks to Library Information Technology colleagues, an additional 1,329 CLIO records for digitized oral histories now have direct links to digitized content in the Digital Library Collection. This is a tremendous boon to patrons, who use […]