Tuesday, February 10th at 4pm EST This event offers a chance to hear from The Mahjong Project’s history keeper, Nicole Wong about her efforts to preserve mahjong’s rules, etiquette, and personal anecdotes for generations. Her beautiful website and companion book, Mahjong: House Rules from Across the Asian Diaspora illustrates how the game bridges families across […]
Blog post by Cathy Ricciardi, Processing Archivist The paperback book business had started in the 1930s, but really took off after World War II. The paper rationing that had been in place during the war was over. New methods allowed for paperbacks to be produced cheaply and distributed to a public that could now buy […]
Congratulations to our colleagues in Avery Library on their acquisition of a set o oral memoirs that are “reflections of twenty-five Skidmore, Owings & Merrill partners including Gordon Bunshaft and David M. Childs, Srinivasa Iygenar and J. Walter Severinghaus.” We love to spotlight the use of interviewing methods across the Columbia University Libraries’ collections! […]
The CU Amateur Radio Club is not a broadcasting radio station (what we now know as WKCR). Amateur radio involves two-way communication between radio operators known as “hams.” Hams used to exchange QSL cards to confirm two-way radio contact between stations. In our display case, we feature some of these colorfully illustrated postcards. These include […]
By Michelle Lopez, SCSU student and RBML Fall 2025 archives intern In 2020, the Rare Book & Manuscript Library acquired the papers of Puerto Rican playwright, director, educator, and cultural leader Myrna Casas (1934–2022). A major figure in Caribbean and Latina theater, Casas’s work addressed questions of identity, politics, and women’s experience through realism, satire, […]