Collection ID: 15661029 UA#0048

Collection context

Summary

Creator:
Columbia College (Columbia University)
Extent:
30.69 linear feet and 76 document boxes
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Columbia College Today records; Box and Folder numbers; University Archives, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.

Background

Scope and Content:

This collections contains the photographs and some research files kept by the Columbia College Today staff and used for the production of the alumni magazine. There are photographs of former students (not from their student days), class reunions, faculty and administrators, and Columbia campus views and events.

Biographical / Historical:

Columbia College Today is the alumni magazine of Columbia College, the undergraduate liberal arts college at Columbia University in the City of New York. First published in 1954, it is now published three times a year by the Columbia College Office of Alumni Affairs and Development for College alumni, faculty, parents, students and friends. Issues include profiles of alumni, professors and students; College news; book excerpts; letters from senior staff; Class Notes; Bookshelf; Obituaries; and first-person accounts, along with event coverage (e.g., reunion, Homecoming).

Processing information:

This collection was processed by Karis E. Jihae Cha CC 2023 in 2021-2022. Finding aid was written and encoded by Joanna Rios in May 2022.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged in four series: Alumni Files, Class Files, Faculty and Administration Files, and Subject Files.

Accruals:

Additions are expected.

Access

RESTRICTIONS:

This collection has no restrictions.

This collection is located on-site.

TERMS OF ACCESS:

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the University Archivist, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

PREFERRED CITATION:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Columbia College Today records; Box and Folder numbers; University Archives, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.

LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th St.
New York, NY 10027, United States
CONTACT:
(212) 854-5590
rbml@library.columbia.edu