Dec. 18, 2014 Jim Cheng Director, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University Almost two years ago, on Dec. 11, 2012, immediately after the New York Times reported that Mo Yan received the Nobel Prize in Literature, Jim Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, asked me if we could invite Mo Yan […]
Library Orientation sessions this week
Library Orientation C.V. Starr East Asian Library 300 Kent Hall Come and learn about the Library’s resources and services! Wednesday Oct. 29, 2014 2:30 PM East Asian Studies (with Ria Koopmans-de Bruijn) Thursday Oct. 30, 2014 11:00 AM Japanese Studies (with Sachié Noguchi) Thursday Oct. 30, 2014 […]
Tibetan language related talk and discussion
Tibetan in Digital Communication: Corpus Linguistics and Lexicography Dr. Nathan W. Hill Lecturer in Tibetan and Linguistics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London Thursday, October 30, 2014 ~ 4:00 – 5:30 PM 523 Butler Library, Columbia University DESCRIPTION: Dr. Nathan W. Hill is co-investigator on a three-year research project “Tibetan […]
Library Open House today
C.V. Starr East Asian Library Open House Thursday, September 4, 2014 3:00-5:00 PM 300 Kent Hall Get to know the library staff, take a tour, see our new Tibetan Pecha & Graduate Study Area Refreshments will be served. […]
HathiTrust Digital Library now offers 80,000 Japanese volumes
The HathiTrust Digital Library is "an international community of research libraries committed to the long-term curation and availability of the cultural record. Through their common efforts and deep commitment to the public good, the libraries support the teaching and learning activities of the faculty, students or researchers at their home institutions, and the scholarly needs […]
Tibetan workshop
WYLIE TIBETAN TRANSLITERATION WORKSHOP Friday, November 8, 2:30-3:30pm, Kress Room (access on the 200-level) C.V. Starr East Asian Library Columbia University […]
Coming up, Open Access Week!
Open Access Week is a global event now in its 6th year, which promotes open access as a new norm in scholarship and research. Open access (OA) content is online, freely accessible, and has relatively few or no restrictions on reuse. As The Open Access Week website argues, we at Columbia should be advocating for […]
Documentary Views of Taiwan
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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