New Collaboration | Oxford Network of Armenian Genocide Research x OHAC

Dr. Meryem Suzan Rosita Kalayci turned up in the RBML reading rooms to review the Columbia Armenian Oral History Collection with an offer the Oral History Archives at Columbia (OHAC) couldn’t refuse: she had a major research grant to transcribe all 130+ interviews in the collection. The collection has been in various states of processing […]

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New Digital Collection | Photographs from Coney Island’s Heyday

  The Columbia University Libraries have digitized a collection of around 500 photographs capturing Coney Island’s golden age as America’s preeminent working-class leisure destination. The images depict bathing beauties, sideshow performers, exotic animals, thrilling amusement rides, and opulent pleasure palaces, while also containing rich details about transit networks, social and cultural life, and  New York […]

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News from RBML’s Archivists | March 2020

Columbia University Libraries (CUL) are closed until further notice to aid in the containment of COVID-19, RBML’s archivists  won’t be physically processing materials. We do, however, have these updates about our collections. Please be safe and take advantage of this time to engage with materials you may have collected on previous visits to the RBML. […]

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Important news regarding RBML and Butler Library access

Beginning Saturday, March 14, 2020 and until further notice, Columbia University Libraries will remain open only for valid Columbia ID card holders. No visitors, including researchers with previously scheduled appointments, will be permitted to enter any library location. For questions about visitor status, please contact the Library Information Office. Hours of Operation Hours of operation for […]

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