OHAC announces the availability of the New York City COVID-19 Narrative and Memory oral history collection, a significant archive covering the period of 2020-2022. The materials are available by appointment in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library reading room, with select interviews and materials available online in the Digital Library Collection. This vital collection, […]
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Return to Campus: Records Management Considerations
As Columbia begins the return to “normal University life in September,” it’s time to think about our offices and our records. Here are some recommendations in an effort to ease our transition back to campus life. […]
Now Available | Columbia Students’ COVID-19 Oral History Interviews

The Columbia University student COVID-19 oral history collection is comprised of eighteen interviews conducted by students of Professor Ana Paulina Lee’s course Contemporary Civilization II. Students took the interviews in April and May of 2020, shortly after the pandemic hit New York City, and Columbia University’s courses converted from in-person to online. As such, they […]
OHAC Event | Moving from Collecting to Interpreting and Analyzing Covid-19 Oral Histories
The Columbia University student COVID-19 oral history collection has been processed and now we await its appearance in the oral history section of the Digital Library Collection. [Update 04/28/21: interviews are now available in the DLC!] Until they’re ready for use, the Oral History Archives at Columbia continues to sponsor the The Journal of the […]
OHAC Event | Working with the COVID-19 Archive
The Columbia University student COVID-19 oral history collection has been processed and now we await its appearance in the oral history section of the Digital Library Collection. Until they’re ready for use, join us for a series of workshops run by Journal of the Plague Year: A Covid-19 Archive (JOTPY). OHAC is co-sponsoring the workshops […]