| 12/02/05 | C. V. Starr East Asian Library Meets $2.1 Million Challenge from Starr Foundation | |
| 12/01/05 | Freeman Foundation to Fund Digitization Project for Starr Library's Japanese Puppet Theater Collection | |
| 12/01/05 | Columbia Libraries Launches Expanded Site For Rare Chinese Women's Magazine of the 1930s | |
| 11/30/05 | Columbia Libraries Host Symposium in Honor of Jean Ashton | |
| 11/29/05 | Amnesty International USA Archive to be Housed at Columbia University’s Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research | |
| 11/29/05 | Digital Library Demo & Panel Discussion Hosted by Area Studies | |
| 10/31/05 | Rare Book and Manuscript Library Acquires Papers of Hubert Harrison, Father of Harlem Radicalism | |
| 10/24/05 | Rare Book and Manuscript Library Acquires BOMB Magazine Archives | |
| 10/14/05 | Columbia University Libraries Welcomes Mark Phillipson, Association of Research Libraries Academy Fellow | |
| 10/12/05 | Columbia University Seeks Nominations for the 2006 Bancroft Prize | |
| 10/11/05 | Friends of Columbia Libraries to Host Lecture and Book Signing by Science Journalist Charles C. Mann | |
| 10/04/05 | New York State to Fund Preservation Photocopy Project for Endangered Oversize Materials, Coordinated by Columbia University Libraries | |
| 09/29/05 | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Columbia Grant to Survey Audio and Film Collections | |
| 09/27/05 | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Columbia a Grant to Study Contemporary Art History and Architecture Scholarship | |
| 09/22/05 | The Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum at Columbia University, a Special Exhibition of Theater History, Opens September 30, 2005 | |
| 07/07/05 | Human Rights Watch Archive Film Program Commemorates Srebrenica | |
| 06/22/05 | Living to Tell: Narrating Catastrophe through Oral History | |
| 06/08/05 | Increasing Access to Columbia’s Japanese Puppet Theater Collection | |
| 05/25/05 | NEH Grant Supports Preservation of Brittle Slavic-Language Texts | |
| 05/19/05 | New Grant Supports Creation of Human Rights Documentation and Research Center | |
| 05/05/05 | MacArthur Foundation Supports Columbia Libraries’ New Human Rights Center | |
| 05/04/05 | Librarians from Brown, Yale, Cornell, MIT, Maryland, and NYPL attend GIS Presentation at Columbia | |
| 04/28/05 | Avery Library Acquires Rare Album Once Belonging to French Neoclassical Painter Guérin | |
| 04/21/05 | Symposium and Exhibition to Celebrate Ellery Queen: Author, Detective, and Editor | |
| 04/21/05 | Columbia University Senate Endorses Resolution on Open Access and Scholarly Communication | |
| 04/14/05 | RBML to Host Reception Celebrating the Arrival of a Rare 12th Century Manuscript | |
| 04/14/05 | The Atlantic Philanthropies Awards Columbia $1.1 Million to Record the Organization’s Oral History | |
| 04/14/05 | Newly Donated “Seven Years in Tibet” Photos to be Displayed at Reception | |
| 04/07/05 | New Collections at the Bakhmeteff Archive Have East European Roots | |
| 03/24/05 | IPI Selects Preservation Division for Advanced Training to Improve Collections Storage | |
| 03/16/05 | Columbia Announces 2005 Bancroft Prize Winners | |
| 03/10/05 | Photos of Historic North American Banks Donated to Avery Library | |
| 03/03/05 | New York Chamber of Commerce Archives Come to Columbia University Libraries | |
| 03/03/05 | Friends to Host Launch of Online Exhibition Featuring Ziegfeld’s Designer | |
| 02/15/05 | Columbia Libraries to Host Exhibition Opening The Faces of the Orange Revolution | |
| 02/11/05 | New Wireless Technology Safeguards Collections | |
| 02/09/05 | What Is the Future of the Electoral College? A Dialogue With Two Leading Experts | |
| 02/03/05 | Preservation Division Awarded Two Grants to Preserve Endangered Research Materials | |
| 02/02/05 | Columbia Partners with the London School of Economics and Political Science to Use New Internet Technology that will Increase Access to Scholarly Materials | |
| 01/26/05 | Libraries Embark on Major Initiative to Increase Access to Special Collections | |
| 01/14/05 | Libraries' Jewels in Her Crown Exhibition Extended to February 26, 2005 | |
| 01/13/05 | Rare Book & Manuscript Library to Host Its 11th Annual Book Arts Lecture | |