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Miss Miwa Kai (1913-2011)
Miss Miwa Kai, 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 will be 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
403 Kent Hall - view press release

Earthquake and Tsunami archive 2011

• Columbia University Message on Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami
  
• Concert to Benefit Japan Earthquake Relief
• Council on East Asian Libraries blog (CEAL)
  
  • Library Guide created by Sharon Domier (U. Mass)
  • Video Stream from NHK News in Japan in Japanese or English
    

Due to the shortage of electricity, occasionally you may experience no access to "CiNII," and Japanese library online catalogs. Global Delivery Service (International Library Loan) will be delayed.

For those of you trying to access NII database services (including CiNii, GeNii, Webcat and Webcat Plus, and others), you may receive the following message:

"NII services is currently unavailable due to a scheduled blackout in connection with the Japan earthquake."

The following databases are affected: http://www.nii.ac.jp/syskan/maintenance-e.html

Beyond library-related news, refer to: Consulate General of Japan in New York

• 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)