As the Halloween ghouls and goblins and geese came out last night, the deadline for our design contest, Playing with a Full Deck, also came to a close. Thank you to everyone who took the time to enter! Our panel of judges will get to work and choose a winner to be announced at a […]
Category: Printing History and Book Arts
Acquisitions | A book made with glass pages and other new titles in book arts
Click the tweets below to enlarge and see which new acquisition Curator Michelle Chesner stop in her tracks.,, Becky Slemmons, They did not know that the books were already in our head, 2015. […]
Contest | Playing with A Full Deck – design your own playing card!
Playing with a Full Deck is a competition for the most creative re-imagining of the standard playing card deck. The competition accompanies the Columbia University Libraries’ Rare Book & Manuscript Library exhibition, Mirror of Humanity: Seeing Ourselves in Playing Cards. The Columbia University community is invited to create a new playing card design. The contest […]
Event | #DisruptWikipedia: a panel discussion and edit-a-thon
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What is this place? A short intro to RBML
That is the question we hear a lot at the beginning of the new academic year as students explore Butler Library and end up here, in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, aka “The Pink Palace.” The Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) is Columbia’s principal repository for primary source collections. The range of collections […]