The Barbara Curtis Adachi Bunraku Collection

Thanks to grants from both the NEH and the Freeman Foundation, the Starr Library has successfully organized, preserved, and digitized Barbara Curtis Adachi’s extensive collection of Bunraku materials for Japanese puppet theater. The resulting website, which includes numerous slides and photographs, is now available at  http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/eastasian/bunraku/. […]

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Columbia University Libraries Receives Major Gift of Feature Films from Kim’s Video

Earlier this fall, Kim’s Video donated its entire rental collection of VHS and DVD titles from the former store on Broadway and 113th Street to Columbia University Libraries. The gift was presented in honor of the Film Division in the School of the Arts. Nancy Friedland, Librarian for Media, Film Studies, and Performing Arts, commented […]

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Modern Tibetan Studies: The Rubin Foundation

The Starr Library received a grant from the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation to support Dr. Lauran Hartley’s February 2009 workshop “Modern Tibetan Studies and the Social Sciences: Data, Tools, Maps and Archives.” This two-day event is designed to develop and enhance Tibetan and Himalayan undergraduate curricula and introduce students to Starr’s vast Tibetological materials. […]

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Council on Library and Information Resources

The RBML submitted a proposal to the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), which established a new grant program for cataloging hidden special collections and archives, in partnership with the Mellon Foundation. The RBML proposes to process, treat, and make available the papers of Amiri Baraka, the poet, writer, and activist. Mr. Baraka has volunteered to […]

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The Single Leaf Registry

As part of an application submitted by the University of California, Riverside Libraries to the NEH, the Columbia University Libraries/Information Services is proposing to help make available uncataloged pre-1600 manuscript leaves through a database of images and metadata. The images are of detached pages (single leaves) produced on the continent of Europe and currently in […]

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The Papers of Joseph Pulitzer

The RBML submitted a grant proposal to the NEH requesting support to process, treat, and provide wide access to the Papers of Joseph Pulitzer and those of his newspaper, the New York World. Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911) was one of the most influential American journalist in history. In addition to his historic impact on journalism–including the advent […]

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New Mellon Award

The Preservation and Digital Conversion Division received $371,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for Preserving Historic Audio Content: Developing Infrastructures and Practices for Digital Conversion. The project will preserve 820 audiotapes from OHRO while developing a fully functional infrastructure for audio preservation. […]

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