New date! This talk has been rescheduled for March 3, 2010. The Book History Colloquium at Columbia welcomes Thierry Rigogne from Fordham University’s History Department. His talk, “Writing About Coffee, Reading In Cafés: Literature and Coffeehouses in Early Modern France” will be held March 3, Butler Library room 523, 6PM. Well before Jean-Paul Sartre […]
Russian Delegation
On December 18, 2009, the four member Russian delegation led by Aleksandr Pavlovich Vershinin, General Director of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, has visited the Columbia University libraries. This visit was initiated by the Russian side of the team representing the Joint Project between the Library of Congress and the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, the […]
Snowing in NYC (and in Flanders)
They closed Columbia this afternoon at 3:00 because of the snow storm. It feels like a sudden gift, a wild moment, normalcy is abandoned. Columbia students threw snow balls in the fields in front of Butler Library, and me, I came home and played with the Digital Scriptorium website. Snow in the Middle Ages? You […]
Frances Perkins
The exhibition “Frances Perkins: The Woman Behind the New Deal,” currently on display here in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University, has been extended through March 26, 2010. Please join the Frances Perkins Center at an event on Thursday, January 14, at the Harvard Club. Perkins biographer Kirstin Downey will be joined […]
Holiday wishes to All!
Against my own deeply held principles, I’ve monkied with an image of a medieval manuscript this morning, and it was fun, I do confess. New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Plimpton MS 050, f. 2v, detail (and changed). […]