On Wednesday, October 8, Butler Library’s open stacks will become both hunting grounds and laboratory. That day we are pleased to welcome Andrew Stauffer, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, and the Book Traces project to Columbia. The Book Traces project is a crowd-sourced web project aimed at identifying unique copies of nineteenth- […]
Sept. 8th, 6pm — A Panel Discussion with Former Gov. David Paterson and Leading Scholars and Community Organizers
A conversation on libraries, government, and activism, with: Former-Governor David Paterson. Jim Neal, Columbia University Librarian. Dr. Khalil Muhammad, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Ester Fuchs, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science, SIPA. Peggy Shepard, founder director of West Harlem Environmental Action. Monday, Sept. 8, 2014, 6pm. The Kellogg Center 1501 […]
Commemorating World War I
John Abell, a British artist, selected excerpts from Arthur Graeme West’s The Diary of a Dead Officer (published posthumously in 1919), and created powerful linocuts to go with them. The new edition, printed letterpress by The Old Stile Press, was issued this year in an edition of 150 copies. West managed to enlist in 1915, […]
Prokofiev Archive Received from London
The Serge Prokofiev Archive that has been housed for many decades at Goldsmiths College, University of London, has arrived in RBML and is now available for use by Prokofiev researchers. Constituted in successive stages over a period of 60 years, this impressive collection was gathered by Prokofiev himself and by members of his family, but […]
Comedy, Censorship, Policing — April 21st, 6pm
On Monday April 21st, at 6pm, the Rare Book and Manuscript Library is hosting a significant — and hilarious! — discussion to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the arrest in New York City of comedian Lenny Bruce on charges of obscenity. Our Speakers for the Evening: Martin Garbus, one of the country’s top trial lawyers, […]