It might’ve heated up outside — welcome, summer! — but inside the RBML reading rooms it can be quite chilly. While we can’t let you bring in coats, jackets or other large coverings, you can bring a light cardigan or long-sleeve shirt. Please review our reading room guidelines before your visit. […]
New from RBML’s Archivists | May – June 2019
Head Archivist Kevin Schlottmann shares collections newly opened or updated by RBML’s Archivists. Barnard Family Papers “Correspondence, financial records, and legal documents of the Barnard family of Sheffield, Massachusetts. Frederick A. P. Barnard (1809-1889) was President of Columbia College from 1864-1889. His brother John Gross Barnard (1815-1882) was a career officer in the U. S. […]
New Acquisition | The Bakhmeteff Archive acquires Arkadii Belinkov’s papers
The Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian and East European History and Culture has acquired a throve of correspondence, published and unpublished manuscripts, photographs, personal documents and ephemera of Arkadii Belinkov (1921-1970), a well-known Soviet writer and dissident. Belinkov received his higher education at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute and Moscow State University. During World War II, […]
Librarian Jane Siegel picks favorites from the RBML collections
The Current, a journal of contemporary politics, culture, and Jewish affairs at Columbia, stopped in to the RBML to speak with Jane Siegel, Librarian for Rare Books. She’s all-around fount of knowledge about how so many of our rarities and oddities came to reside in Butler Library. Read more about Jane’s career here in the […]
Summer Processing of Hebraica and Judaica materials
During the summer, as things quiet down on campus, we often turn to large processing projects, providing further access to many of our otherwise unknown holdings. This summer has been no different in the Hebraica and Judaica collections. In past years, our talented students have cataloged about 2000 rare printed Hebrew books, which can now, […]