Starr News

Latest News

• Movie Poster Exhibition (09/21/09)
• Starr Library Receives Esther Haviland Books (07/10/09)
• Japanese Inari Fox Collection Given to Starr Library (06/04/09)
• Columbia University Libraries Launches Online Library of Rare Tibetan Newspaper, the Tibet Mirror (05/07/09)
• Tea Exhibition, March 2009
• Columbia University Libraries Hosts Two-Day Conference on Tibetan Studies (02/19/09)
• New Digital Collection: Bunraku Puppet Theater (01/23/09)
• Columbia University Libraries and the National Library of Korea to Digitize Rare Books (01/15/09)
• CJK in CLIO
• Donation of 2,200 Taiwan publications received
• The Rare Book and Manuscript Library opens Chang Archive
• Unique Agreement Between Starr and National Library of China for Transliteration and Conversion of Records for Chinese Minority Language Materials
• Western-language Journals Offsite
• Wade-Giles to Pinyin conversion
• Kent foundation restoration

Spotlight Notes

• Stack Shifts in Progress (10/15/09)
• Library Orientation Schedule
• New E-resource CHANT
• Suggestions and Recommendations
• Starr News revived
• Oracle Bones on display
• Tours and Orientations
• Godzilla Conquers Starr
• $1.5-million Challenge Grant awarded
• New Chinese database! Siku Quanshu
• New database: China Academic Journals
• Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan Online now available
• Take Note: Some card catalogs still in use!

Archives

• Columbia University Libraries and the National Library of China Sign Cooperative Agreement (11/25/08)
• Curator Lecture Series to Feature Amy Heinrich Speaking on Illustrated Japanese Books (11/06/08)
• C.V. Starr East Asian Library Receives Bon Canon Gift from the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (08/19/08)
• Founder of Japanese Studies and the Japanese Collection at Columbia University Honored with Event and Exhibition (06/26/08)
• Columbia University's East Asian Library Receives Starr Foundation Support (05/15/08)
• The Gracious Glory Buddhism Foundation Supports Columbia's C.V. Starr Library (02/19/08)
• Columbia University's East Asian Library Launches Chinese paper Gods Website (05/09/07)
• Digital Version of Rare Chinese Primary Resource, Guba hua gong diao cha lu Available Online (02/12/07)
• Columbia's Starr Library Acquires Extensive East Asian Film History Collection (09/19/06)
• C.V. Starr East Asian Library Receives Multi-Volume Set Project Grant from North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (08/28/06)
• Columbia Libraries Receives Funding for Collection Endowment in Chinese Economy and Business (01/20/06)
• C.V. Starr East Asian Library Raises $2.1 Million to Meet Starr Foundation Challenge Grant (12/02/05)
• Freeman Foundation to Fund Digitization Project for Columbia's Adachi Japanese Puppet Theater Collection (12/01/05)
• Columbia Libraries Launches Expanded Site for Ling Long, Rare Chinese Women's Magazine of the 1930s (12/01/05)
• Increasing Access to Columbia's Japanese Puppet Theater Collection (06/08/05)
• Newly Donated "Seven Years in Tibet" Photos to be Displayed at Reception (04/14/05)
• Godzilla Conquers the Globe Now on Exhibit in the C.V. Starr East Asian Library (04/26/04)
• Seventeenth-Century Chinese Hand Scroll Donated to C.V. Starr East Asian Library (01/26/04)
• Chushingura on Stage and in Print: An Exhibition of Books, Manuscripts, and Ukiyoe" March 24-April 18, 2003 (03/10/03)
• Consulate-General of the People's Republic of China Donates 500 Chinese-language Books to Columbia's C.V. Starr East Asian Library (02/25/03)
• Columbia University's C.V. Starr East Asian Library Receives $1.5 million Challenge Grant (10/31/02)
• Columbia University's Starr East Asian Library Receives 2,200 Taiwan Publications from the Information Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (07/29/02)
• Columbia University Libraries and Waseda University Library, Japan, Sign Memorandum of Understanding (06/20/02)
• The Peter H.L. Chang [Zhang Xueliang] and Edith Chao Chang Papers Open at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library 06/01/02)
• Unique Agreement Between Columia University's C.V. Starr East Asian Library and The National Library of China for Transliteration and Conversion of Records for Chinese Minority Language Materials (04/05/02)
• Columbia Receives Adachi Collection of the Japanese Puppet Theater Bunraku (03/31/00)
• Pickens Family Japanese Doll Collection (03/00)

Archive of the Starr East Asian Library Newsletter

• Fall 2004
• Fall 2002
• Spring 2001
• Fall 2000
• Spring 2000
• Fall 1999
• Fall 1998
• Spring 1998
• Fall 1997
• Spring 1997
• Fall 1996
• Fall 1995 (first issue)

Please direct any questions, comments, or suggestions related to these or any other library matters to us by email at starr@libraries.cul.columbia.edu