Fair Use Week 2024: Q&A with Director of Copyright Advisory Services Rina Pantalony

With Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week approaching from February 26 through March 1, we sat down with Columbia University Libraries Director of Copyright Services Rina Pantalony to dissect what fair use means, how to determine whether or not you are within the boundaries of fair use, and the role fair use plays in today’s world. Q: […]

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Event | ArteSana: Celebrating the Life and Work of Josefina Báez

Join us for a conversation and celebration of the Josefina Báez Papers, now part of the Latino Arts and Activisms Collection in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The discussion will be held on Thursday, October 5, 2023, at Maison Française (515 W. 116th St, New York, NY 10027) from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. […]

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Event | Disasters: The Stories We Share

Disasters can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. Documenting disasters may influence change, emphasize varied narratives, demonstrate social inequities, and/or be part of a community’s resilient response. And when we think about the word “disasters,” what often comes to mind are the “natural”: floods, hurricanes, earthquakes. And yet, a “disaster” is […]

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Columbia Alumna Beverly Gage Reflects on Winning a 2023 Bancroft Prize

Beverly Gage, a 2004 graduate of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, was recently awarded a Bancroft Prize for her book, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, a biography of former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Reviewing it in The New York Times, Jennifer Szalai described the 837-page biography […]

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Year of Open Science Extravaganza

The Columbia University Department of Physics will welcome a host of visitors for a special edition of its Community Round Table on Tuesday, April 25. The discussion will address questions like, “What is open science?,” “What does open science look like for me?,” “What resources are available to help me participate in open science?,” and […]

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Three Exhibitions at Columbia Showcase Materials from Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library

Three ongoing exhibitions on Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus – Open / Plan: Launching the Frank Lloyd Wright Digital Archive at Avery Library, Forms of Care, and Contact: Community and Collaboration across Five Centuries of Printmaking – feature materials from Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library. Open / Plan: Launching the Frank Lloyd Wright Digital Archive at […]

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Open Access Week Events at Columbia University Libraries

Columbia University Libraries announces two events for the 2022 International Open Access Week (October 24-30), that focus on the theme of “open for climate justice.” Openness can create pathways to more equitable knowledge sharing and serve as a means to address the inequities that shape the impacts of climate change and our response to them. […]

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Columbia Historian Mae Ngai Reflects on Winning the 2022 Bancroft Prize

The scholars Mae Ngai and Mia Bay have won this year’s Bancroft Prize award, one of the most prestigious in the field of American history. The Libraries proudly administers this Prize, an honor for historians and by historians. Ngai, author of The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics, is Columbia’s Lung Family Professor […]

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Ongoing Workshops from Columbia University Libraries

Columbia University Libraries offers regularly-occurring workshops on key resources throughout the semester. These sessions are typically held via Zoom and are open to anyone at Columbia. They are held weekly at various days and times to make them easy to fit into your schedule, and are all one hour or less. Popular workshops include: Getting […]

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Columbia University Libraries Participates in a National Day of Racial Healing

January 18 is recognized as the National Day of Racial Healing, part of a larger movement for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT), which is a political and cultural framework developed by Dr. Gail Christopher and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. TRHT is embraced by more than 300 organizations in the academic, artistic, civic, and faith […]

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