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About Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library

The Libraries at Columbia are at the heart of the University. The collections serve the research needs of the Columbia faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, and the community, while providing a wealth of items for the use of scholars from around the world. The Rare Book and Manuscript Library, largest of Columbia's repositories for the special collections of the University, holds collections spanning more than 4,000 years, from cuneiform tablets to born-digital objects. Some 600,000 printed books and 17 miles of manuscripts, personal papers, and records form the core of the RBML holdings, along with well over one million photographs, prints and drawings, maps, coins, scientific instruments, playing cards, theater set models and other realia, and audio and moving image materials.

The collections cover a broad range of subjects, and provide researchers with a great depth of material to study. RBML holds important early manuscripts and printed books in Arabic, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and a wide variety of other languages. Particular collecting strengths include the history of English and American literature, journalism, finance and economics, mathematics and astronomy, printing and publishing, theater and the performing arts, photography, American history, Russian and East European Emigré history and culture, Hebraica and Judaica, and Latino arts and activism. RBML is home to one of the oldest oral history collections in the country, and is also the repository for archives that support the mission of the Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research.

Columbia's holdings in OPenn include many of RBML's Muslim world manuscripts. For more information on the rest of their collections, please see:

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The following are specific standards adopted by the Digital Imaging Lab of Columbia University Libraries.

Image specifications

Imaging and processing equipment

Master images are captured at a resolution of at least 400 and usually at 600 pixels per inch of the image subject. In special cases images are captured at 900 pixels per inch of image subject.

Color settings, cropping and deskewing are done at the time of capture.

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