Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library is named after a graduate student in Anthropology, who died while in residence in the Department. Sheldon was well known on the Columbia campus and was enormously popular with staff, faculty and students. When he died his family provided funds to start a student library, and over the years faculty and alumni have donated many books and journals to this facility. The library is for the students and is staffed by graduate students in the department.

Scheps Seminar Series consists of seminars given by faculty (ours, visitors from other departments, and visitors from other Universities) who cannot be accommodated in the Boas Seminar and the Wednesday Faculty Workshop but with whom we would very much like to engage in a critical exchange; presentations made by graduate students; and screenings of interviews with major thinkers conducted for the Series Paths of Thought (for the Greek Public Television).