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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Rare Book & Manuscript Library

6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th Street
New York, NY 10027, USA
rbml@library.columbia.edu
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Columbia University’s principal repository for special collections. We collect, preserve, describe, promote, and provide access to the material evidence of diverse individuals and activities in alignment with the University’s research and teaching mission. We build and steward deep collections in select subject areas and connect them to a global audience through reference, teaching, exhibitions, publications, and public programs.
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Columbia University Libraries Library Survey records, 1944-1957 7.51 linear feet (18 document boxes)

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The questionnaires, replies and tabulation summaries of a survey of Columbia University Libraries users conducted in 1956. This survey of students, faculty, staff and alumni was part of the larger study of Columbia University's educational program which was issued by the President's Committee on the Educational Future of the University under the title: THE EDUCATIONAL FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY, 1957.

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Columbia University Libraries. Records-Bibliograph, 9999 35 linear feet (27 record cartons 10 document boxes)

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Boxes #1-4: Clio Interface & Training; Boxes #5-6: CD-ROM Evaluation and Survey forms--unprocessed materials; 9 rsc. x 16"; 9 rsc. x 16"; 1 rsc. x 14"; 7 rsc. x 16"; 1 rsc. x 18"; 5 rsc. x 16"; 2 grey b. x 6"; 8 grey b. x 6"; 1 b. of tapes x 12".

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Columbia University Libraries Resources List records, 1940-1947 0.83 linear feet (2 document boxes)

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The correspondence and working papers of the "Survey of Resources of the Columbia University Libraries" (unpublished typescript), 1941. This guide to the Libraries' resources was prepared to supply data for Robert B. Downs' Resources of New York City libraries : a survey of facilities for advanced study and research (Chicago, A.L.A., 1942). The resulting typescript was kept at the Reference desk in Butler Library.

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Dictionary Card Catalog of Columbia University Libraries, 1938-1948 11 linear feet (ca 1800 reels in 9 record storage cartons)

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The Card Catalog is a negative 16mm. motion picture film of the Dictionary Card Catalog of Columbia University Libraries ca. 1938-1948. The film was meant to be a record copy of the catalog to be uded for reproducing it if it were ever mutilated or destroyed. Unfortunately, the quality of the film is so poor that it is unusable for reproduction. The films have been retained as a sample of the mid-twentieth century holdings of a large American academic library.

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World Trade Center collection, 9999 32 linear feet (34 record storage cartons)

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Papers from individual students, staff, or faculty members are welcome. Secondly, the Libraries will also accept collections of materials in any language or format from any part of the world that document the crisis and the continuing its continuing effects. Photographs, e-mails, letters, pamphlets, flyers, audio-tapes and other items are all welcome. These will eventually form a World Trade Center Archive, available for research or study.

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