East Asian Studies Library Resources Fall 2023 Orientation Area-specific Workshops (1.5-hour sessions): (sign-up required; all sessions take place in Room 306, Butler Library) Chinese Studies: Wednesday, 9/20, 1:00-2:30 PM Sign up: https://events.columbia.edu/go/Chinese1 Friday, 9/22, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM Sign up: https://events.columbia.edu/go/Chinese2 Japanese Studies: Friday, 9/29, 3:00-4:30 PM Sign up: https://events.columbia.edu/go/Japanese1 […]
Category: Announcements
General Library announcements, not specific to Starr.
Starr Duplicate Book Sale/Giveaway, April 6–7
The C.V. Starr East Asian Library Duplicates Sale is returning April 6–7, 2023. Every year, the library accumulates duplicate books and journals which we make available to the public through an annual book sale, raising funds for the library in the process. This year, because of a large surplus due to a Covid-related hiatus of […]
Visit our newly-expanded Reading Room
The Starr East Asian Library is delighted to announce the opening of the recently-renovated west wing of our Reading Room. In a special ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Columbia Vice Provost & University Librarian Ann Thornton, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Eugenia Lean, faculty from the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and other CUL friends and colleagues, […]
Spring hours
We are very happy to announce that, starting January 31, 2022, barring any unforeseen circumstances, we will return to our pre-pandemic opening hours for the spring semester, including late evening and weekend hours. Please refer to our hours calendar for detailed day-by-day information. Please note that, while we return to our pre-pandemic opening hours, for […]
The Treasury of Lives receives NEH grant to expand its online Encyclopedia of Tibet
On April 8, 2020, The Treasury of Lives database project announced receipt of a substantial grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Collections and Reference Resources (Division of Preservation and Access) to support the long-term sustainability of its Biographical Encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia and the Himalaya. The three-year grant will enable a […]
New database
With the print collections unavailable while the libraries remain closed, we are all working hard to assist you remotely, and to make more electronic resources available. Your Libraries Online summarizes all the various ways the Libraries offer these online services. The Starr Library collection development librarians are, of course, doing their part too. We try […]
New Japanese Studies Librarian
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 […]
PhD Reception 2019
The Libraries will be hosting a reception especially for all PhD students. Come and join us. Eat, drink, have fun, and meet students from all across campus, as well as many friendly librarians. You can RSVP at https://events.columbia.edu/go/CULPhD2019 The reception takes place on Thursday, October 3, from 4:00-6:00 PM, in room 319 of Lehman Library. […]
BI sessions schedule
Fall 2019 Language-specific orientation sessions Chinese Studies Resources Wednesday, September 18, 2019 2:00-3:30 pm Chinese Studies Resources Tuesday, September 24, 2019 2:00-3:30 pm Korean Studies Resources Thursday, September 26, 2019 2:00-3:30 pm Tibetan Studies Resources Friday, September 27, 2019 1:00-2:30 pm All sessions take place in the Kress Seminar Room (access via the 200-level stacks) […]
An American Missionary and Her ‘Paper Gods’
Dr. Mingjie Li, professor in the Folklore Institute, School of Social Development at East China Norma University, as part of her research project on our Paper God Collection, has just published an English-language article on Anne Swann Goodrich, the original collector, and subsequent donor of the collection. The article, along with other pieces by Dr. […]