Since August 2020, the RBML’s Public Services staff has taken up the heroic task of making our collections available to remote users all over the world. In 12 months, they have scanned over 80,000 pages. Yes, that’s eighty and three zeros. They have carried on a tradition once headed by the pioneering Director of the […]
Tag: University Archives
Columbia Olympians in the University Archives
With a long list of Lions participating at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, the University Archives looked for past Columbia Olympic competitors. Here are the medal-worthy collections used to rediscover these great athletes. […]
How the Whitney M. Young, Jr. papers came to Columbia
The finding aid to the Whitney M. Young, Jr. papers, 1960-1977 was recently updated and improved. Fittingly, Columbia acquired this civil rights leader’s papers thanks to student activists protesting at the President’s House in the early 1970s. […]
Bourke-White at Columbia
A striking self-portrait of Margaret Bourke-White welcomes visitors to the Met’s latest photography exhibition “The New Woman Behind the Camera.” Before she became a renowned photojournalist, Bourke-White was a student at Columbia, who took her first photography class with Clarence H. White in 1922. […]
Return to Campus: Records Management Considerations
As Columbia begins the return to “normal University life in September,” it’s time to think about our offices and our records. Here are some recommendations in an effort to ease our transition back to campus life. […]