In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the building of Butler Library, an exhibit of more than 100 photographs decorate the bulletin board display on the third floor of Butler Library. The photographs span the decades and showcase the excavation and rise of South Hall (as it was originally named), design details throughout the building, […]
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Free Laptop Engraving at Butler Library 11/11/09
Back by popular demand! On Wednesday, November 11, you can stop by the Butler lobby between 11AM and 2PM for free engraving and registration of laptops and other electronics by CU Public Safety. About once a month, a laptop is stolen in Butler Library. Please keep your belongings safe! Never leave items unintended at the library. […]
Book History Colloquium: “The Creation of a Photographic Book in 1866” with Claudia Funke
The Book History Colloquium is pleased to announce "The Creation of a Photographic Book in 1866: P.B. Wight’s National Academy of Design." In this talk, Claudia Funke, Curator of Rare Books at Avery, will explore the fascinating and rich circumstances of this unusual publication, including contemporaneous photographic commerce and book publishing; aesthetic theory and artistic […]
“Lipstick Traces: Live”
In Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century, Greil Marcus delved into the cross-currents, tangles, and whirlpools that made such vastly different movements as dada, lettrism, the Situationist International, and punk part of a single current. To mark the just-published 20th-anniversary edition of the book, Columbia University, in partnership with the ARChive of […]
Book History Colloquium: “The Eleven Texts of Frankenstein”
The Book History Colloquium is pleased to announce the third event in the series, “Eleven Texts of Frankenstein: From the Hypothetical Ur-Text and “Original” Draft to the Published Editions of 1818 and 1823 and 1831” will feature Charles E. Robinson, Professor of English at the University of Delaware. This event is free and open to […]
Author Kirstin Downey to Speak at Exhibit on Frances Perkins
The Friends of the Columbia Libraries will sponsor a talk by award-winning journalist and author Kirstin Downey, who will discuss her new book, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday). Frances Perkins (1880-1965) is no longer a household name, yet […]
Cinema in New York: an Evening in Honor of Dan Talbot
Join the Friends of the Columbia Libraries for an evening of conversation about film culture in New York in honor of Dan Talbot, film distributor and founder of New Yorker Films. The event will take place at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 22, in Room 523 of Butler Library, and is free and open to […]
Sign up for a free New York Public Library card
Stop by the Barnard College Library to sign up for your free NYPL library card. In addition to books, the circulating collections of the New York Public Library include videos, DVDs, CDs and more. You can also request that materials be delivered to an NYPL branch near you. Just bring your Columbia ID card with you […]
Book History Colloquium: “Writing About Coffee, Reading in Cafes: Literature and Coffeehouses in Early Modern France” with Thierry Rigogne
Update: This event has been postponed due to illness. We will post the new date and time as soon as we have more information. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. Well before Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Parisian cafés have shared a strong affinity with literature. In the seventeenth century, it was books, […]
Constitution Day at Columbia University
The John Jay Papers, contain many letters that Jay wrote just prior, during, and just after the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in 1787. Jay, then serving as Secretary of Foreign Affairs for the Confederation, kept American diplomats serving abroad, such as John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, informed of the news, while frustrated that the […]