How do you live in the same Chelsea one-bedroom — purchased for $3000 — for over 50 years and still have room for a wealth of collectibles? Apparently, by donating select objects to Columbia’s distinctive collections libraries. For its Great Rooms feature Curbed, an NY Magazine vertical dedicated to that New York obsession real […]
News from RMBL’s Collections Managers and Archivists | December 2021 and January 2022
Kevin Schlottmann, RBML’s head archivist, shares a selection of new and updated finding aids, as well as newly available collections. We have lots to share, including newly processed collections, recently digitized AV material, and some significant updated finding aids. At long last, the heavily used Random House records have an digital finding aid, replacing a […]
Jennifer E. Steenshorne and the John Jay Papers: A Commemorative Tribute
By Robb K. Haberman The John Jay Papers Project, The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and Columbia University mourn the recent loss of our esteemed colleague and dear friend Jennifer E. Steenshorne. Jenn joined the John Jay Papers in July 2005 and worked as an associate editor on the project for the twelve years following. […]
Events | OHMA’s Spring ’22 Workshop Series on Relating Oral History
Our colleagues in the Columbia Center for Oral History Research’s Oral History Master’s program have, once again, scheduled a series of innovative and though-provoking workshops for the spring semester. The workshop theme is “relationships,” with this focus: Oral history is knowledge formed in relationship. This year we plan to explore how oral historians have centered […]
Now Available | Shoup Tax Mission to Japan Records
We recently received some materials from Ellen Ruth Mayer, whose grandfather was former Emeritus Professor of Economics Carl Shoup. The records offer a personal record of the Shoup Tax Mission to Japan in 1949-1950 and its continuing legacy. These are now available to researchers as part of the Department of Economics records. […]