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 […]
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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 […]
Barnard Writers in Coversation, September 23
The Friends of the Columbia Libraries are pleased to sponsor an evening of conversation with acclaimed writers Mary Beth Keane, author of the new book The Walking People, and Mary Gordon, author of Circling My Mother and Pearl. The event will take place on Wednesday, September 23 at 6:00 p.m. in the Sulzberger Parlor on […]
’09-’10 Research without Borders Speaker Series Kicks Off with Women Bloggers Panel
Join a roundtable discussion, "A Blog of Her Own: Scholarly Women on the Web," on Monday, September 21, 2009, at 12:30 pm in Alfred Lerner Hall Room 555 at Columbia University’s Morningside Campus. The event is sponsored by Columbia University’s Scholarly Communication Program, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and Women in Science […]
Welcome New Students
The Libraries welcomes new students to Columbia! Attend an orientation session to get acquainted with the Libraries. You’ll learn about library services, finding the resources you need, using the Libraries website, and great study spaces. Aug. 28 5:00PM – 6:00PM Burke Library Reception The Burke Library, Terrace Reading Room Sep. 1 9:00AM – 10:00AM Burke […]