Kevin Schlottmann shares newly processed and available collections, as well as some exciting updates to oral history records. Big cheer to archivists Chelsea Reil and David Olson for their efforts in creating pathways to discovering and using these collections, and thanks to our CUL colleagues in other units for their assistance. Newly Processed Collections Oral […]
Tag: LGBTQ
A Safe Space Turns 50
In the spring of 1971, the Undergraduate Dormitory Council and Furnald Hall residents granted the student group Gay People at Columbia the use of a lounge as a safe space for the campus gay community. Fifty years ago, Columbia had the first LGBTQ student lounge on a college campus. […]
New from RBML’s Archivists | September 2019
Newly Processed Collections Patti LuPone papers A collection of scrapbooks, scripts, sheet music, and photographs chronicling the career of the Tony award winning actress and singer Patti LuPone. #Loveinaction OH Collection “The interviews of the #LoveInAction oral history collection were taken to document narrators’ experiences in the Student Interracial Ministry and SIM’s impact on their […]
New oral history collection available | Columbia’s LGBTQ Oral History Project
Newly available in the RBML’s reading room and oral history archives is a six-interview collection detailing the lives and experiences of LGBTQ+ people and allies affiliated with Columbia University. The LGBTQ Columbia University Oral History Project includes interviews with noted alumni and affiliates John D’Emilio, Tony Kushner, Robbie Kaplan, Ann Kansfield, Laura Pinsky and Dennis […]
New Exhibition | Dynamic Archives: renaming and identifying collections
Why would an archivist change the name of a collection? That’s the central question behind a new RBML exhibit. Dynamic Archives features examples of archival collections and materials whose naming, identifying and meaning have had to keep up with historical, social and political perspectives, as well as translation practices and epistemologies. […]