Introducing the Fluxx Exporter

The historical records of the Carnegie Corporation of New York are held by the RBML. They are a heavily-used resource by all kinds of patrons, because the Corporation’s philanthropy over the last century-plus has extended to nearly every corner of American life. Until 2015, all the records were paper-based, but since then the grant records have been […]

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Belle da Costa Greene and Columbia

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Morgan Library and Museum as a public institution. As part of the commemoration, the Morgan has put together an exhibition about the life and career of its first director, Belle da Costa Greene. Columbia librarians collaborated with Greene long before the Morgan was open to the public, […]

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Vickrey’s Scaled Roadway Pricing

Columbia Professor of Economics William Vickrey (1914-1996) is widely considered the Father of Congestion Pricing. And deservedly so. Vickrey studied traffic bottlenecks, gridlock and public transportation to find system efficiencies. With a version on congestion pricing about to go into effect in New York City starting January 5, 2025, we look back at a version […]

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Researcher Profile |

We see them every day, handing them a key as they walk in each morning, and receiving it back toward the end of the day. Most often they are hunkered down over a particular archive, getting to understand a portion of one of our archives better than anybody here. We await the longer scholarly projects […]

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