Throughout the fall 2021 semester, the Harriman Institute (based because the Russian Institute in 1946), celebrated the 75th Anniversary of its institution. The oldest institute of its variety in North America, the Harriman has additionally performed a key position within the improvement of Columbia’s library holdings within the vernacular languages of Japanese Europe and former Soviet Union.
Introductory panel to the second part, as put in within the Harriman Atrium, September 2021
From September 7 by means of October 26, 2021, the Harriman Atrium within the Worldwide Affairs Constructing hosted a 26-panel exhibit dedicated to the event of Columbia’s Slavic and East European collections from 1903 so far. Additionally documented was the expansion of library accomplice Cornell’s collections from 1884 to the current: Columbia’s Librarian for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Collections is
Part One of many exhibit, as re-installed close to the World Research Division, Lehman Library, April 2022
chargeable for the event of Cornell’s collections as effectively. Divided into three chronological sections—1903-1946, 1946-early Nineteen Nineties, and the Nineteen Nineties-2021—the exhibit traced a line from the early gifts-in-kind of people as various because the Tsarist diplomat Depend Sergei Witte, and the banker Felix Warburg, by means of the advocacy of figures equivalent to Slavic Division founder John Dyneley Prince, first Russian Institute Director Geroid T. Robinson, and Central Asianist Edward Allworth, to distinctive accumulating initiatives of current years.
Panel on the early twentieth century benefactions of the Seligman brothers, and Professor Simkhovitch
Now, the exhibit—designed by grad scholar Erica Stefano—is on show in Lehman Library, exterior of the World Research Division of the Columbia College Libraries. This “second life” for the exhibit brings house to the viewer a greater appreciation of the various threads which have come collectively over greater than a century to type the wealthy cloth of the collections we now have entry to right now.
Robert H. Davis
Rhd2106@Columbia.edu
