We are delighted to welcome our new Japanese Studies Librarian, Chiaki Sakai. She started on October 1, 2019.

Ms. Sakai has more than 20 years of experience in the library profession. Most recently she worked at the Library of the Japan Foundation in Urawa, Saitama, Japan. Before that she was the Japanese Studies Librarian at the University of Iowa for twelve years.

You can contact her by phone at 212-854-1506, or by email at cs3948@columbia.edu. Her office address is 308M Kent Hall.