Lunar New Year falls on Friday, February 16, 2018 this year. Being Chinese-American, I’ve always had a fondness for the holiday, especially since every year brings us a different zodiac animal to celebrate. The Chinese zodiac moves in a 12-year cycle, and those born during 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, and 2018 are considered to […]
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Many dogs win “Best in RBML Collections”
For some, the most important, star-studded event for this time of year isn’t the Winter Olympic Games. And it’s not the Oscars. This past weekend the Westminster Kennel Club held its annual dog show and declared a very puffy Bichon Frise “Best in Show.” Right about here would be a great place for a dog-related […]
Happy Valentine’s Day from RBML!
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Columbia’s collection of incunabula are part of a growing database
The Wall Street Journal recently reported on the University of Oxford’s attempt to track and catalog, “the half-million books printed from 1450 to 1500 that still survive and are now scattered across 4,000 libraries in Europe and the U.S.” Consuelo Dutschke, Curator of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s Medieval and Renaissance Collections, reports that […]
Event | Author Jennifer Egan to discuss use of oral history in new novel, Manhattan Beach
Thursday, January 25, 2018, 6:00 – 7:30 pm The Columbia Center for Oral History Research Office will sponsor a talk with author Jennifer Egan about the use of oral histories in her new novel, Manhattan Beach, about Brooklyn in the 1930s and 40s. Egan will discuss her “experiences as an interviewer, how she thinks oral history […]