This collection is located onsite.
This collection has no restrictions.
This collection consists of the publications of the special collection libraries at Columbia University. It includes exhibition catalogues and programs, holdings or collection booklets, and publications by the Friends of the Columbia Libraries. It includes materials related to exhibitions held at Low Library, the Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum, Barnard College, and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Butler Library.
This collection is arranged chronologically by date of publication.
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
This collection is located onsite.
This collection has no restrictions.
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); RBML Publications; Box and Folder (if known); Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.
Additional information about the RBML exhibitions, events and holdings can be found in the RBML Office Files (MS#0263).
Additions are expected.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
This collection was processed by Joanna Rios. Finding aid written by Joanna Rios in October 2018.
2018-11-20 File created.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
2019-10-22 Additions incorporated.
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) is Columbia's principal repository for primary sources. The range of collections in RBML span more than 4,000 years and comprise rare printed works, cylinder seals, cuneiform tablets, papyri, and Coptic ostraca; medieval and renaissance manuscripts; as well as art, realia and born-digital objects. Some 500,000 printed books and 90,000 linear feet (17 miles) of manuscripts, personal papers, and records form the core of the RBML holdings. One can find manuscripts from as early as the 14th century to the modern archives relating to Herman Wouk, Erica Jong, Serge Prokofiev, and Arthur Mitchell. Archives as varied as the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Random House, and Amnesty International-USA, and the archives of Columbia University are available for research.
The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.
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| Genre/Form |
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| publications (documents) |
| Name |
| Columbia University. Libraries |
| Subject |
| Academic libraries -- New York (State) -- New York |
| Catalogs |
This series contains the publications related to the special collections libraries at Columbia University. The publications are organized chronologically. At the end of the series, there are a number of article reprints related to materials currently held at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Box 2 Folder 9
(Jersey City: American Type Founders Company
Box 1 Folder 1
(Facsimile produced by David Eugene Smith of document currently held at the RBML, part of the Smith collection)
Box 2 Folder 4
(Reprint from Science, October 26, 1928 Vol. LXVIII, No. 1765 pages 390-395)
Box 2 Folder 5
(Issue 1 of The Industrial Museum of New York, from the Museum of Peaceful Arts. Features Prof. David Eugene Smith's collection.)
(Published from time to time by the Friends of the Library of Columbia University)
Box 1 Folder 2
Box 1 Folder 3
Box 1 Folder 4
Box 1 Folder 5
Box 2 Folder 10
(Illustrated from the Schoolbooks in Use in his Times. Oxford University Press.)
Box 2 Folder 11
(Includes the Columbia University Quarterly article by James Kin Finch and Talbot Faulkner Hamlin, "The Parsons Transportation Prints.")
Box 2 Folder 6
(Typographic Library and Museum of the American Type Founders Co.)
Box 1 Folder 6
Box 2 Folder 12
(This issue of the Bulletin of the Hayden Planetarium includes the article "Instruments of the Past" by Arthur L. Draper on Prof. David Eugene Smith's collection of rare astronomical instruments and books.)
Box 1 Folder 7
(Professor of Music Edward MacDowell 1861-1908)
Box 2 Folder 13
Box 2 Folder 14
(The Seligman Collection at Columbia University. Includes document reproductions.)
Box 1 Folder 8
Box 2 Folder 7
(Typographic Library, C.C. Williamson, Columbia University Quarterly, December 1941)
Box 1 Folder 9
Box 1 Folder 10
Box 2 Folder 15
(Isaac Mendelsohn, Curator of Near East Collections. Catalogue Series, Number One.)
Box 2 Folder 16
(An exhibition including selections from the books and manuscripts recently presented to the University by John Warren Hill, '11 in memory of his father John Wesley Hill. South Hall.)
Box 2 Folder 17
(Low Memorial Library, May 11-June 30, 1949)
Box 1 Folder 11
("Herein Lives Wisdom, Beauty, and Increase." For Guests of the University, Tuesday Evening, May 1st, 1951. Low Memorial Library.)
Box 1 Folder 12
(An exhibition of fine books of all periods selected from the Columbia University Libraries with special emphasis on the typographic collection. Publication for the Friends of Columbia Libraries and their Guests, March 27, 1952.)
Box 1 Folder 13
Fifteen annotated programs of gramophone recordings from the collection of Edward B. Wisely; The Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum)
Box 2 Folder 18
Box 1 Folder 14
Box 2 Folder 19
Box 1 Folder 15
Box 2 Folder 20
(With a list of the titles)
Box 2 Folder 21
(On view in Butler Library, 535 West 114th Street, October 6, 1958 to January 3, 1959)
Box 1 Folder 16
Box 2 Folder 22
(Under the auspices Columbia University, the Society for Italian Historical Studies and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura)
Box 2 Folder 8
(By Francis T.P. Plimpton, reprinted from the November 1960 and February 1961 issues of the Columbia Library Columns.)
Box 2 Folder 23
(Foreword by Alfred C. Berol and introduction by Richard B. Morris)
Box 1 Folder 17
(A commemorative exhibition arranged and described by Roland Baughman)
Box 1 Folder 18
(Presented by Solton and Julia Engel)
Box 1 Folder 19
Box 2 Folder 24
Box 1 Folder 20
(Part Two held at the Low Library Rotunda, 1968-1969)
Box 1 Folder 21
(Columbia Library Columns special edition for the Columbia $200 Million Campaign)
Box 2 Folder 25
(On the cover, Cuneiform Tablet no. 322. "Pythagorean Triangles." Clay tablet, incomplete, ca. 1900-1600 B.C. Old Babylonian cuneiform script. Plimpton Collection.)
Box 1 Folder 22
Box 2 Folder 26
Box 1 Folder 23
(By Donald Pace. Exhibition on the Barnard College campus.)
Box 2 Folder 27
(Reprinted from the February 1974 issue of Columbia Library Columns, with a foreword by Warren H. Haas.)
Box 1 Folder 24
(Gifts in honor of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Friends of Columbia Libraries)
Box 2 Folder 28
(Low Memorial Library, January 28-February 20, 1976)
Box 2 Folder 29
(The Russian Institute of Columbia University in the City of New York, December 2-16, 1976)
Box 1 Folder 25
(An exhibition prepared by the Seminar on Problems of Style, Department of Art History, Barnard College)
Box 1 Folder 26
(An exhibition of first editions, letters, manuscripts, photographs, drawings and portraits)
Box 2 Folder 30
(Low Memorial Library Rotunda, November 6-26, 1980)
Box 1 Folder 27
(An exhibition held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America)
Box 2 Folder 31
(The Rotunda, Low Memorial Library, April 13-24, 1981. Center for Israel and Jewish Studies)
Box 1 Folder 28
(Compiled by Harry R. Murphy)
Box 1 Folder 29
Box 1 Folder 30
Box 1 Folder 31
(An exhibition compiled by Patrick T. Lawlor, foreword by Kenneth A. Lohf)
Box 1 Folder 32
(Papers presented at a Symposium sponsored by the Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Interdepartmental Committee on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, March 31, 1990 edited by Beatrice Terrien-Somerville.)
Box 1 Folder 33
(An exhibition of selected rare books and manuscripts acquired by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library while Kenneth A. Lohf as its Librarian, 1967-1992)
Box 1 Folder 34
(Edited by Pauline Ames Plimpton with a foreword by George Plimpton)
Box 1 Folder 35
(Compiled by Rudolph Ellenbogen and Bradley D. Westbrook; Remembering the Spewacks by Arthur and Lois Elias)
Box 1 Folder 36
(By Mead T. Cain)
Box 1 Folder 37
Box 1 Folder 38
Box 1 Folder 39-40
Box 2 Folder 1
Box 2 Folder 2
(By Duane Tananbaum)
Box 2 Folder 3
(L.E.L. The English Improvisatrice, by Francis J. Sypher, Jr.)