The Columbia University Libraries is currently hosting an exhibit entitled: “Inscriptions Unbound: Edward Said’s Library”, on the 3rd floor of Butler Library. The exhibit features inscriptions from approximately 50 books selected from Edward Said’s book collections, which are housed in the Edward Said Reading Room (Butler Library), the Middle East Institute, and his former […]
New and Featured Books: Arabic poetry, with a special focus on Palestine
Columbia University Libraries is pleased to announce the launch of a new installment of “New and Featured Books”, a display of a set of circulating items from our collections curated around a topic of international relevance. Display themes rotate every semester, and feature books in three categories: newly-published titles, popular titles, and/or Columbia authors. You […]
Open Access week 2024 (South/Southeast Asia)
As part of Open Access Week 2024 events (October 21-27; theme Community Over Commercialization), there was a presentation on: Digitizing Vietnam Project: Increasing Access to Vietnam Studies MaterialsPresenters: Hoang Minh Vu, Ph.D. (Faculty member, History and Vietnam Studies, Fulbright University Vietnam); Phuong Tram Nguyen, Ph.D. (Digital Curator, Digitizing Vietnam Project, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia […]
Nakba Day Anniversary, 2024: Archives, Libraries, Memory and Narrative
“The power to narrate, or to block other narratives from forming and emerging, is very important to culture and imperialism, and constitutes one of the main connections between them.” Edward Said: Culture and Imperialism “There is no political power without control of the archive, if not of memory.” Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever “One of the […]
Democracy in India
Columbia University Libraries is pleased to announce the launch of a new component of the: “New and Featured Books” in the Butler Library Lounge, Room 214. This display will include a set of circulating items from our collections that are curated around a topic of international relevance. Display themes rotate every semester, and feature books […]
Ambdekar Digital Bookmobile Project
This week is the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Fittingly, Columbia University and Barnard College recently hosted (from Nov. 27th through Dec. 8th, 2023) the Ambedkar Digital Bookmobile project designed by Smita Rajmane and Somnath Waghmare. This project documents and collects material relating to singers of anti-caste songs from rural regions in […]
Checklist of LGBTQ+ Resources From Eastern Europe
Thanks to a grant from the Columbia Libraries’ ADEI Program, colleagues at Columbia, Cornell, NYPL, Harvard and Princeton have compiled a 1,066-entry indexed checklist of print and electronic holdings pertaining to LBTQ+ communities in Eastern Europe. The checklist is freely-accessible via Columbia’s Academic Commons at the following link: https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/xrn3-kn56 Or via QR: Discussions are underway […]
Open Access Week 2023–South Asia Resources
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Wikidata Edit-A-Thon
On Tuesday, August 29, 2023, the CUL Wikidata Group (Taylor Baker, Mollie Echeverria, Matthew Haugen, Kalliopi Mathios, Ryan Mendenhall, and Melanie Wacker) organized an in-person Wikidata edit-a-thon in Studio@Butler, which focused on collections with international and/or multilingual content, or those with appeal to international audiences and scholars, in an effort to make them more visible […]
Literary Afro Futures
Columbia University Libraries is pleased to announce the launch of a new component of the: “New and Featured Books” in the Butler Library Lounge, Room 214. This display will now include a set of circulating items from our collections that are curated around a topic of international relevance. Display themes rotate every semester, and feature […]