Written in the Starr(s)

Starr Library, Columbia University

August 13, 2021

Here's a view of the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, which is one of the major collections for the study of East Asia in the United States with over 1,000,000 volumes of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, Mongol, Manchu, and Western-language materials. The library is nearly 120 years old. You can learn more about the history of its collections here.


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