Digital Bridges at CCNMTL
CCNMTL's Digital Bridges Initiative works in partnership with Columbia faculty and librarians to bring students into active engagement with digital collections. Digital Bridges learning environments promote hands-on use of materials from Columbia University Libraries, other academic collections, broadcast media, scientific data repositories, museums, and private collections. Read more...
Recent Projects
Apollo Theater Project
The Apollo Theater Project represents a unique partnership between the historic Apollo Theater, filmmakers documenting its central role in Harlem over the course of decades, faculty incorporating aspects of its rich history into their courses at Columbia, and divisions of...
Harlem Health History
The Harlem Health History project was created to enhance students' historical research on health-focused social movements in an African American community. The project offers students in Professor Samuel Roberts' course, "History of African American Health and Health Movements," a repository...
Virtual Forest Initiative
CCNMTL’s Virtual Forest Initiative is building innovative connections to the rich array of research, education, and community activities taking place at Columbia’s shared field station at the Black Rock Forest. An important component of this project is making real data...
News
CCNMTL Accepts Award for Innovative Use of Archives
October 27, 2009. CCNMTL received the 2009 Award for Innovative Use of Archives from the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York last Friday for its website, Mapping the African American Past (MAAP)—a uniqueStudents Learn From Apollo Theater Project's Historic Interviews
October 26, 2009. The Apollo Theater Project, a multifaceted effort to preserve and disseminate the history of the Apollo Theater and its Harlem community, made its educational debut in classrooms this fall semester. TheMAAP Wins Archivist Round Table Award
September 23, 2009. Mapping the African American Past, developed by CCNMTL in partnership with Curriculum Concepts International (CCI) and Teachers College and funded by the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, is the recipient of the 2009Our Partners
"Digital Bridges allows us to utilize primary source materials available at Columbia, such as correspondence, original manuscripts, excerpts from oral history interviews, and photographs to bring Harlem's heritage to life. Instead of studying the collective experiences of a community from...more.
- Manning Marable, Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, and History
"CCNMTL's Digital Bridges initiative has not only been extraordinarily helpful in my undergraduate teaching, but I have been able to re-conceptualize my approach to bringing ideas to life. Much of my research has been rooted in urban poor communities where...more.
- Sudhir Venkatesh, Professor of Sociology
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