“Science, Nature and Magnificence: Concord and Cosmological Views in Islamic Science” is an exhibit which showcases over 90 manuscripts, devices and objects targeted on the Islamic sciences broadly conceived, lots of which have by no means been on show earlier than since they entered our collections within the Uncommon Ebook and Manuscript Library on the…
Coinciding with Human Rights Day 2022, a two day digital convention came about December 9-10, 2022 on the subject “Afterlives of Babri Masjid: Thirty Years Later. For contextual background on the Babri Masjid, see within the library catalog topics: “Babari Masjid (Faizabad, India)“ and “Communalism India Faizabad.” For consultant publications of the convention audio system, see: -Ahmad,…
Columbia College Libraries is happy to announce the launch of a brand new part of the: “New and Featured Books” within the Butler Library Lounge, Room 214. This show will now embody a set of circulating objects from our collections which might be curated round a subject of worldwide relevance. Show themes rotate each semester,…
On Tuesday, August 29, 2023, the CUL Wikidata Group (Taylor Baker, Mollie Echeverria, Matthew Haugen, Kalliopi Mathios, Ryan Mendenhall, and Melanie Wacker) organized an in-person Wikidata edit-a-thon in Studio@Butler, which centered on collections with worldwide and/or multilingual content material, or these with attraction to worldwide audiences and students, in an effort to make them extra…
This week is the 75th anniversary of the Common Declaration of Human Rights. Fittingly, Columbia College and Barnard Faculty not too long ago hosted (from Nov. 27th by way of Dec. 8th, 2023) the Ambedkar Digital Bookmobile challenge designed by Smita Rajmane and Somnath Waghmare. This challenge paperwork and collects materials regarding singers of anti-caste songs…
Columbia College Libraries is happy to announce the launch of a brand new part of the: “New and Featured Books” within the Butler Library Lounge, Room 214. This show will embrace a set of circulating gadgets from our collections which might be curated round a subject of worldwide relevance. Show themes rotate each semester, and…
Gaza Strip, Between 1950 and 1977. Library of Congress, Matson Photograph Service, photographer. https://www.loc.gov/merchandise/2019705547/. © UNRWA Destruction in northern Gaza, 2024, posted at this hyperlink: UN Information, https://information.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147272 “The facility to relate, or to dam different narratives from forming and rising, is essential to tradition and imperialism, and constitutes one of many principal connections between…