The records of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) have been processed and are now available for use by researchers at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The ICCR is a coalition of predominantly faith based institutions that are committed to socially responsible investing. The strength of the records lies in their documentation of […]
Processing is the Process of Processing
Clifford Odets and Margaret Brenman-Gibson, circa 1950s Margaret Brenman-Gibson Papers, Box 15 I started working at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library as a processing archivist in August of this year. It's been just four short months and already I've seen some amazing things. But before getting to a few of the goodies, let me […]
Going Online: Special Collections Research Accounts
Columbia’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library is rolling out a web-based circulation system to streamline how our users request material at the RBML. Researchers will have a new, web-based Special Collections Research Account to create requests for immediate or future use, with the added benefit of having access to their complete history of requests from […]
CURRENT EXHIBITION– The People in the Books: Stories from Columbia’s Hebraica and Judaica Manuscripts
Columbia University’s collection of Judaica and Hebraica is the third largest in the country, and the largest of any non-religious institution. The following link connects to the online version of the current exhibition being held at the RBML from September 12, 2012 through January 25, 2013. Spanning the 10th to the 20th centuries, the exhibition features […]
Book History Colloquium: “The Golden Age of Theatrical Scrapbooks, 1880-1930”
Sharon Marcus, Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University December 3, 2012 (Monday) Butler Library, Room 523 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Theatrical scrapbooks are some of the least utilized documents in theater history archives, yet also among the most useful, replete with cast lists, advertising imagery, ticket […]