In the 1800s Columbia preferred that its students live at home. And the first women students in the 1880s also had to stay at home since they could not attend lectures. But a 1919 initiative enabled Columbia to offer new educational opportunities to students at home all over the world. […]
Category: Columbia University Archives
Lighting Up the Yule Log
To help get you in the holiday spirit in this most unusual, socially-distant year, here’s what you need to know about one of Columbia’s oldest traditions, the Yule Log — a tradition that goes back to the colonial days of King’s College. […]
Records Management and University Archives 101s
On the Managing University Records site, we recently posted a section with Training Slides. These presentation slides offer some of the basics on what the University Archives does: we help Columbians manage their records, and we preserve and make accessible the institutional history of the University. The training decks are short and, hopefully, useful, and […]
News from the RBML’s Archivists | September and October 2020
Here are updates from the RBML’s archives and collections management specialists. Newly linked CLIO records for oral histories With thanks to Library Information Technology colleagues, an additional 1,329 CLIO records for digitized oral histories now have direct links to digitized content in the Digital Library Collection. This is a tremendous boon to patrons, who use […]
Columbia Football at 150!
On November 12, 1870 Columbia played its first football game, only the fourth intercollegiate contest in the history of the sport, losing to Rutgers by a score of 6-3. The game and Columbia’s program have come a long way since then. […]