VOL. III.      NOVEMBER  1953      NUMBER  i.

THE   FRIENDS  OF  THE   COLUMBIA  LIBRARIES

publish the Columns three times a year at Butler Library, Columbia
University, New York 27, N.Y. Current single numbers, one dollar.
 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface by the Librarians

Carl M. White...........i

Richard H. Logsdon..........2

Columbia Wakes Up!

Mary A. Benjamin..........5

The "Fifty Books" over Thirty Years

Roland Baughraan.........          16

Our Growing Collections

Roland Baughman..........20

The Editor Visits the East Asiatic Library.....29

Korean Type

Howard P. Linton..........33

Activities of the Friends..........36
 

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

Mary A. Benjamin heads the firm of Walter R. Benjavtin Autographs,
in New York City. She is author of Autographs: A Key to Collect¬
ing ......Roland Baughman is Head of Special Collections, Columbia

University Libraries......Howard P. Linton is Librarian of the East

Asiatic Library.