1.The beginnings of the library collections were two bequests made shortly after the establishment of King's College in New York City in 1754.
哥伦比亚大学图书馆最初的馆藏来自于1754年纽约国王学院成立不久后所获得的两笔遗赠。
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2.First came the law library of Joseph Murray in 1759, to which was added the 1200-volume collection of the Reverend Duncombe Bristowe of London in 1763.
第一笔是1759年的约瑟夫·莫雷法律藏书,第二笔是1763年伦敦的唐克默·布里斯托尔教士捐赠的1200册馆藏。
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3.The first librarian of the college was Robert Harpur, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy who was hired by the Board of Governors to catalog the holdings and account for the books, although there is no evidence of a catalog's having been produced.
学院的第一位图书馆员是罗伯特·哈珀,他是数学和自然哲学教授,学院董事会雇用他为馆藏编目和清点图书,尽管现在还没有证据表明已经编写出了书目。
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4.Most of the collection was plundered and dispersed during the Revolutionary War. The remainder was hidden in St. Paul's Chapel, where workers coming to replace an organ discovered it in the early 1800's.
独立战争期间,多数馆藏被掠夺和失散,剩余部分藏于圣保罗礼拜堂,并于19世纪初被到礼拜堂更换风琴的工人所发现。
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5.Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the Columbia College Library was still not an essential adjunct to course instruction, and this was reflected in the appointment of a series of part-time librarians, who also held teaching positions, to maintain the collection.
在19世纪上半叶,哥伦比亚学院图书馆仍然不是教学过程的必要助手。这可以从委派到图书馆的一系列兼职馆员反映出来,他们既保持着教学地位,同样也维护着馆藏。
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