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Libraries of Columbia and University of Toronto Announce Agreement to Collaboratively Support Tibetan Studies (January 22, 2013) 
The research libraries at Columbia and the University of Toronto will collaboratively support Tibetan Studies collection development and research activities at both institutions.

Columbia University's 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.

• Miss Miwa Kai (1913-2011), former Head of the Japanese Collection at Columbia University Libraries, passed away from natural causes in her residence in the early afternoon of December 10, 2011. She was 98 years old. A memorial service was held at Starr Library on Friday, April 20, 2012 from 11:00am to 1:00pm.
• Symposium - "The Makino Collection at Columbia: the Present and Future of an Archive", 11/11/11 (11/03/11)
  
• Cinema China, Culture China: A Chinese Film and Culture Festival (10/17-10/21/11)
• The Tibet Mirror Project Expands With Help From Yale and French Institutions (04/28/11)
• Columbia University Message on Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami (03/23/11)
  
• Concert to Benefit Japan Earthquake Relief (03/27/11)
  
• The C.V. Starr East Asian Library Receives Chinese Film Collection (02/28/11)
  
• Starr Library Receives Book Donation from Taiwan's National Central Library (05/12/10)
  
• Jim Cheng Appointed Director of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library (03/01/10)
  
• Columbia Libraries Receives Support to Preserve Tibet Information Network Archives (02/05/10)
• 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 (3/09)
• 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)
• 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
• 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)