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, […]
Mapping the Bookstore: Retail Cartographies in Antebellum Manhattan
Kristen Highland, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, New York University March 25, 2014 (Tuesday) Butler Library, Room, 523, at 6:00 PM The romanticization of the independent bookstore—haven of booklovers, erudite employees, and serendipitous discovery—obscures the historical reality of selling books—rapid turnover, failure, and looming bottom lines. But bookstores are also more than the sum […]
Lehman Center Event Review
Tracking Changes: Harlem through the lens of Vergara By Elydia Barret Girls and Barbies, East Harlem, 1970 A group of black girls is sitting on the stoop of a building whose crumbled facade is covered in graffiti. They are so absorbed in their play that they practically do not pay attention to the photographer. […]
On Display @ Kunming City Museum: Barney Rosset, Publisher-Hero as Combat Photographer in China
Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ (CUL/IS) Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) is pleased to announce the opening of Barney Rosset, Publisher-hero as Combat Photographer in China, an exhibition at Kunming City Museum, in Kunming City, Yunnan, China, which features a collection of RBML’s photographs of China from World War II by Grove Street Press publisher […]