January 26 | Location: Columbia University, Knox Hall Looking to learn something new in the new year? Join the Oral History Master’s (OHMA) program for an intensive day of workshops with OHMA faculty and alumni! Register now – these always sell out! OHMA will also be hosting their annual Spring Open House that very same week […]
A Classic Cartoonist, Hiding in Plain Sight
Sometimes, despite the best efforts of an impressive team of catalogers and processing archivists, an error can cause a work to become nearly invisible. Such was the case when a curator happened across a folder in our Art Collections flat-files, labeled “Eebster, H T.”: An unusual name indeed! Closer inspection revealed a beautiful piece of […]
ICYMI: 2018 News from RBML
We’re proud to say that it’s been a big year for RBML with new staff additions, new collections opened, records updated for better access and fine-tuning operations to make the collections needed for your teaching and research available. Here are just a few of the highlights. New head of archives Kevin Schlottman and the RBML’s […]
Book Talk | Susan Orlean on her book, The Library Book
November 29, 2018, 6 pm 523 Butler New Yorker Staff writer and author Susan Orlean will talk about her latest work, The Library Book, which is both an investigation of the 1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire and a meditation on her lifelong love of books and libraries. The Rare Book & Manuscript Library acquired […]
New and Updated Collections | November 2018
Head Archivist Kevin Schlottmann shares collections newly opened or updated by RBML archivists. Ian and Betty Ballantine Books and Business Records “Ian and Betty Ballantine were book publishers who contributed to the growth of paperback book sales in the United States between the 1940s and the 1990s. The Ian and Betty Ballantine Books and Business […]