Columbia University Libraries, School of the Arts, Film Studies M.A. Program, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Weatherhead East Asian Institute and Asia-Pacific Development Society, in partnership with Ministry of Culture, Republic of China, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office present: "Documentary Views of Taiwan": A Taiwan Documentary Film Festival and Symposium at Columbia, […]
Coming up: East Asian Library Resources sessions
Do you want to learn more about the many resources available for East Asian Studies? During the first week of October we will be offering sessions for each of our languages explaining those resources, and the best way to use them in your research. See the schedule below. Tuesday, October 1 9:30 AM Western […]
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More Library Tours
In recent days we have been offering tours of our library. If you have not had the opportunity yet to attend one, there are more tours scheduled for today and tomorrow, so be sure to catch one, and learn how to find your way around (and pick up on some fun trivia along the way!). […]
Taiwan’s Digital Resources and the Study of Chinese Religious Culture
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Take a tour of Starr
C. V. Starr East Asian Library 300 Kent Hall Library Tours, Fall 2013 Thursday 9/5 @ 11:00 AM Thursday 9/5 @ 3:00 PM Friday 9/6 @ 10:30 AM Saturday 9/7 @ 2:00 PM Monday 9/9 @ 3:00 PM Tuesday 9/10 @ 11:00 AM Tuesday 9/10 @ 3:00 PM Tuesday 9/10 […]
Xu Bing event was great success!
On Tuesday April 30 a dual event entitled "Meeting with Xu Bing and His Work at Columbia" took place in the Starr Library and the EALAC lounge. Guest of honor was the famous Chinese artist Xu Bing, who recently donated one of his artworks Reflections While Reading to the Library. The program started off with […]
Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC) releases Core Text Collection 10
Columbia users may now access the contents of another 1,000 Tibetan volumes scanned by the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center. Since 2006, the C. V. Starr East Asian Library has purchased all ten collections released by the TBRC, thus enabling online access to a total of 10,000 Tibetan volumes (about 7,000 titles). Users can access these […]
New exhibitions in Starr
We currently have selections from two donated collections on exhibit in our library. One collection was received relatively recently, and is on display for the very first time. The other collection was received longer ago, and was on display once before. We hope you will enjoy viewing them both. On view in our reading […]
Tibetan Studies collaboration with U. Toronto
Tibetan Studies Librarian, Dr. Lauran Hartley, will lead the work of coordinating Tibetan-language acquisitions at Columbia and the University of Toronto in a new pilot project. She will also provide research-support services to University of Toronto faculty and students via email, phone and video conferencing and will visit the University of Toronto annually. This international […]