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Archivist Highlight: Jocelyn Wilk
(NEW YORK, January 15, 2008)
Public Services Archivist |
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Librarian:
Jocelyn Wilk |
Subject
specialties: Columbia University History
Contact
info: 212 854 1338; jkw19@columbia.edu
Library:
Columbia University Archives (6th floor, east Butler Library)
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| @ Columbia Libraries since:
1999 |
| Education Info:
M.S. in Library and Information Science (with a concentration in archival
management), Simmons College, Graduate School of Library and Information
Science, 1998; B.A., Brandeis University, 1995 |
About me:
“After more than eight and half years of working with the collections
in the University Archives I have become well acquainted with the people
and events that make up Columbia’s varied and rich history. When
approached with questions I can usually find some piece of relevant information
- or I will direct the patron to someone else who can help.”
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What's new at my library:
Our location! After years and years of being located in Low Memorial Library,
the University Archives and its collections moved across the campus to
a new home on the 6th floor of Butler Library, within the Rare Book and
Manuscript Library. Please come visit us.
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| Personal favorite:
A letter sent by Lou Gehrig (CC 1921) to the Columbia Alumni News on January
13, 1936. He wrote in response to a questionnaire he was sent and noted
(among other things): "I have been in the employ of the New York Yankees
owned by Colonel Jacob Ruppert since June 1923….My hobbies are good
books, and good athletic contests." |
| Recommended resources:
- The Barnard Electronic
Archive and Teaching Laboratory (BEATL): Created by Professor Robert
McCaughey of Barnard College’s History Department this site has
some really great information, all in one place, about certain aspects
of Columbia’s history. It has a particularly useful and informative
section about the events of 1968
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: This database is great for finding
information about Columbia people and Columbia events as they were written
about in newspapers such as The New York Times.
- The Barnard
Bulletin Online: Although The Spectator has not yet been digitized,
the student newspaper of Barnard College, across the street, has been.
You can search issues of the paper from 1901-2002. A wonderful primary
resource you can search from anywhere!
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