Our colleagues in Global Studies sat down with RBML archivists Chris Laico to discuss archives and his daily work with the Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research. I view my work as similar to an eternal graduate student, in a good way. I learn something every day. There is a fundamental need to understand […]
Category: Human Rights Collections
Global Sexualities in the RBML Collections
The Columbia Research Initiative on the Global History of Sexualities (CRIGHS) recently launched a website and research guide describing approximately 150 archival collections, databases, oral histories, and other sources available across the Columbia and Barnard libraries of interest to historians of sexuality. […]
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 […]
Pride Month and history in the RBML collections
Getting to tell your own story is a gift, but it means that you have to contend with other people’s stories, and I guess that can mean arguing, maybe for 50 years straight. And that’s O.K. – Who Threw the First Brick at Stonewall? Let’s Argue About It The RBML’s archival, manuscript, oral history and […]
After Processing, Scholarship Begins: Research Applications of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program Records
On September 30, the Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s three-year project to process the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program Records will officially come to an end. The project, supported by the Ford Foundation, met several goals. It supported the processing of approximately 500 linear feet of paper records and 3.6 terabytes of digital records, which […]