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 […]
“Researching Theater” exhibit on display through Spring 2009
“Researching Theater” represents a wide range of primary and secondary source materials essential to researching drama and theatrical production. Items were selected from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Starr East Asian, Avery Library, Butler Library, Butler Media Collection, and Music Library. The exhibit is on display in the third floor exhibit cases in Butler […]
CCLIP Meeting December 5th
This is just a note to remind everyone that there is a Council of Columbia Library and Information Professionals meeting this Friday, December 5, from 9-11:00. the meeting will be held in the Kellogg Room, located on the 15th floor of the SIPA Building. The agenda for this Friday’s Meeting: As always: 9-9:30, mingle and […]
Libraries Holiday Party
Save the Date: the Libraries annual Holiday Party will be held on Tuesday, December 16 in the Low Library Rotunda from 3:00 to 5:00pm. More information to come… […]
Staff Activities
Rick Block, head of special collections and metadata cataloging, is the recipient of Library Journal‘s 2008 Teaching Award. Block teaches at the Palmer School of Library & Information Science at Long Island University, Brookville, NY, and at the School of Information and Library Science at Pratt Institute in New York City. Read more about the […]
Promotions and Retirements
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Welcome New Hires!
Gholamerza Yaghobi Library Assistant 4, Social Sciences Business/Economics – Access Services 9/4/2008 Youngmie Han Clerical Assistant 3, Rare Book & Manuscript 9/8/2008 Julia Weldon Office Assistant 7, University Librarian/Administration Financial Services 9/8/2008 Elizabeth Grefrath Coordinator Rare Book & Manuscript, Oral History Research Office 9/10/2008 Beth Katzoff Archives/Public Series Librarian, Starr East Asian 9/15/2008 Joanna Barrett […]
Chris Sala, recipient of the New Directions Award, describes her tour of Dutch libraries
At the end of October, Chris Sala, Architecture Bibliographer, attended the Study Tour of the Netherlands sponsored by the International Relations Committee of the Arts Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA). She joined them thanks to the Librarian III/New Directions Award. Five days. Five cities. Twelve libraries. Chris describes a few of the highlights of […]
RBML GAs Win Contest
A team from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library recently won first place in the Smith Annual Pimp My Bookcart competition. Check it out: http://www.unshelved.com/PimpMyBookcart/2008/ Said Iwalani Wall, “I’m so proud! The students involved were Ben Heller (CC ’09), Nate Trunnell (CC ’10), Darragh Martin (Theater, PHD candidate CU), Andrea Vazquez (MA School of Arts […]
Carnegie Corporation: RBML’s David A. Hamburg Papers
RBML received a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York for support to preserve and make available the papers of David A. Hamburg, president emeritus of the Carnegie Corporation and one of the world’s leading voices on international security issues and science policy. […]