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. […]
Category: Printing History and Book Arts
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 […]
New exhibition | Mirror of Humanity: Seeing Ourselves in Playing Cards
Playing cards were once condemned as “the Devil’s picture book,” gaudy bits of pasteboard that encouraged sins such as time-wasting and gambling. Mirror of Humanity: Seeing Ourselves in Playing Cards instead approaches playing cards as mirrors which retain images of past perceptions of ourselves and others. Whether commercial products made to appeal to buyers, or […]