The Oral History Archives at Columbia (OHAC) is pleased to announce that it will be the sole repository of the official oral histories of the presidency of Barack Obama (CC ’83). From the University’s official announcement: Starting this summer and over the next five years, the Obama Presidency Oral History Project will conduct interviews with […]
RBML opens later on Commencement Day
As it does every year, Butler Library and the Rare Book & Manuscript Library will open at 1pm on Commencement Day. This year the celebrations fall on Wednesday, May 22nd. Please plan your research agenda and travel options keeping the festivities in mind. Here are some tunes from Columbia alumni to enjoy while you wait […]
Newly Available | Oral histories documenting the Tunisian government transition
The Tunisian Transition Oral History Project’s thirty-eight interviews document the Tunisian revolution (2010-2011) and the period of the transitional governments (2011-2014), with a particular emphasis on the technocratic government of Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa (January 2014-December 2015). Consistent with the composition of the technocratic government that it documents, the collection’s narrators come from a wide […]
Highlights from the RBML Collections | Puppets of Butler Library
From Columbia Magazine’s Spring 2019 print edition with the title “The World on a String”: The marionette shown here was purchased in Singapore in 1926 by John Mulholland, who taught at Teachers College and later became a famous magician. Matthews, a skilled conjurer himself, retired from teaching in 1924. He died five years later, leaving […]
Event | Bankers and Modernization of China’s Finance
Thursday, April 25, 2019 | 2 – 5pm | 203 Butler Library […]