Archival collections from across New York State, including those from Columbia’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML), are now searchable through the Empire Archival Discovery Cooperative. Access and browse RBML holdings. […]
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Collection Highlight | Meddlesome Practices in the Black Journalists Oral History Collection
by Kae Bara Kratcha, Entrepreneurship and Social Science Librarian The Black Journalists Oral History Collection meddles with the definition of “business oral history” by presenting business practices that center community care and activism rather than profit and providing narratives that show the success of the Black press as dependent on a network rather than […]
Collection Highlight | Meddlesome Practices in the Federated Department Stores Project
by Kae Bara Kratcha, Entrepreneurship and Social Science Librarian The catalog summary of the Federated Department Stores Project begins, “This project comprises a series of interviews with those who built the largest department store organization in the United States, Federated Department Stores.” Scholars interested in the history of retail business, business organizational structure, consumer […]
Researcher Profile | Rebecca Prime searches for animator Faith Hubley in a Black Power film
We see you every day, handing you a locker key as you check-in at our front desk, and receiving it back toward the end of the day. Most often you’re reading over a particular archive, getting to understand a portion of one of our archives even more so than RBML’s staff. We await the longer […]
News from RBML’s Archivists and Collections Managers | February 2022
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