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Capital of Capital: Money, Banking and Power in NYC, 1784-2012
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Book History Colloquium: Catalogue as Map in the Library of Ferdinand Columbus
Thurs., November 13th at 6:00 PM in 523 Butler Library Seth Kimmel, Assistant Professor, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University Ferdinand Columbus (Christopher’s second son) was an avid bibliophile who amassed one of the largest libraries of the sixteenth century. The series of catalogues that he devised to navigate his collection have […]
A Narrative in the Documents: The Gibbs Affair
Interesting narratives that are interwoven into Columbia University’s history can unravel simply by creating an online inventory for a collection. Recently, a series of letters was discovered within the Columbia College Papers that elucidate past events involving administrative prejudice, academic politics, and the Civil War. After James Renwick, Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy and […]
Book History Colloquium: “Traces in the Stacks: 19th-Century Book Use and the Future of Library Collections”
Tues., October 28th @ 6:00 PM Andrew Stauffer, Associate Professor of English and Director of NINES, University of Virginia The Book Traces Project engages the question of the future of the print record in the wake of wide-scale digitization. College and university libraries increasingly reconfigure access to nineteenth-century texts through public-domain versions via repositories such […]