Retired Curator of Drawings & Archives Janet Parks delves into the "scarce, valuable, and splendid books" that comprise the personal libraries of American architects Alexander Jackson Davis and Ithiel Town, held by the Avery Drawings & Archives collection.

In partnership with the M.A. in Art History program, Avery Library announces a new initiative, "M.A. in Art History Presents," that offers candidates an opportunity to conduct and publish research on understudied objects in the Art Properties collection.

Michelle Lopez, a Fall 2025 archival intern in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, helps to process the papers of Puerto Rican playwright and director Myrna Casas, whose archive will aid research in theater and performance history in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean among many other fields.

January 1 is celebrated as Public Domain Day, which acknowledges works that enter the public domain on that day after 95 years of copyright protection. The Libraries' Open Scholarship team highlights works by Columbia University authors that entered the public domain on January 1, 2026.