[
{
"pname":"Address",
"pvalue":"Columbia University, 300 Kent Hall, MC 3901, 1140 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027, U.S.A."
}
,
{
"pname":"Contact Person <small>(Please replace the \"[ATMARK]\" with the symbol @ when e-mailing the contact person.)</small>",
"pvalue":"Chiaki Sakai, Japanese Studies Librarian　<br/>\nPhone: +1-212-854-1506; Fax: +1-212-662-6286 <br/>\nE-mail: cs3948[ATMARK]columbia.edu  (Please CC to starr-spec[ATMARK]columbia.edu)\n\n"
}
,
{
"pname":"Collection Size",
"pvalue":"Books:  ca. 750 titles<br />Single-Sheet Items:  ca. 150 titles"
}
,
{
"pname":"Collection Description",
"pvalue":"Primarily Woodblock printed books and some manuscripts, primarily from the Edo period, but some before and  after( early Meiji) the Edo period (745 titles cataloged)."
}
,
{
"pname":"Material Availability for Researchers' Viewing/Examination",
"pvalue":"<p>\nPlease refer to the appointment procedure, on-site use policy, hours, etc. at: <br/>http://library.columbia.edu/indiv/eastasian/special_collections.html\n</p>\n<p>\nAlso please read the access information to enter the Starr Library at: <br/>https://library.columbia.edu/libraries/eastasian/directions.html\n</p>\n<p>\nThe Rare Book Room use is on an appointment basis during the Rare Book Room opening hours and it needs to be made via CLIO, our library catalog, or for archival material via the Archival Collections Portal<br/>  (https://library.columbia.edu/collections/archives-portal.html).\n</p>"
}
,
{
"pname":"Online Access to Relevant Bibliographic Information",
"pvalue":"<p>\nOCLC/WorldCat<br/>\nCLIO Catalog: https://clio.columbia.edu/<br/>\nRare Books, Special Collections, & Archives website:<br/>\nhttps://library.columbia.edu/libraries/eastasian/special_collections/japanese_rarebooks.html\n</p>"
}
,
{
"pname":"Printed Catalogs of Relevant Titles",
"pvalue":"<p>Kai, Miwa.  <i>Japanese woodblock printed books and other unique Japanese materials at Columbia University</i>. 1996.  (mimeographed)</p><p>Okuda, Isao & Sachie Noguchi ed. <i>C. V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University Catalogue of Japan-Related Rare (~1900) Items</i> (PDF file mounted on the Japanese Rare Books & Special Collections  homepage: <br /> <a href=\"http://library.columbia.edu/indiv/eastasian/special_collections/japanese_rarebooks.html\">http://library.columbia.edu/indiv/eastasian/special_collections/japanese_rarebooks.html</a>)</p>"
}
,
{
"pname":"Possibility of Material Reproduction",
"pvalue":"<p>\nPlease refer to the Starr Library's Rare Books, Special Collections, & Archives website for Reproduction information (https://library.columbia.edu/libraries/eastasian/special_collections.html) as well as Digitization & Copying Services website (https://library.columbia.edu/services/preservation/reproductions.html).</p>"
}
,
{
"pname":"Publications on the Collection, beyond Catalogs",
"pvalue":"Ryusaku Tsunoda, \"The gift from the Imperial Household of Japan in the Japanese collection, Columbia University,\" New York, Friends of  the Columbia University Library, 1933. (Reprint from the <i>Columbia University Quarterly</i>, 1933 p. [293]-302.). <br /><br /> Hiroshi Aijima, \"Koronbia Daigaku Higashi Ajia Toshokan ni okeru was&#333;bon no seiri sagy&#333; (h&#333;koku),\" Kokuritsu Toshokan Gepp&#333;, no. 392 (Nov. 1993) p. 12-15.<br /><br /> <i>Columbia Library columns,</i> v. XLV, no. 1 (spring 1996), was a special issue on Starr and contains four articles on the collection:  Henry D. Smith II, &quot;Pictured fiction: popular novels of nineteenth century Japan in the Starr East Asian Library,&quot; pp. 5-14; Robert Hymes, &quot;Writing places: Chinese local histories,&quot; pp. 15-20; Amy V. Heinrich, &quot;Labyrinths: the Abe K&#333;b&#333; Collection,&quot; pp. 21-26; and Amy V. Heinrich and Amy Hai Kyung Lee, &quot;A tree with deep roots: the Starr Korean rare book collection,&quot; pp. 27-30.<br /><br />Amy V. Heinrich, yaku : Tsuchiya Reiko, \"Koronbia Daigaku C.V. Sut&#257; T&#333;a Toshokan : yori yoki rikai no tame ni,\"(&#256;kaivuzu sh&#333;kai) <i>Interijensu</i> no. 3 (Oct. 2003) p. 57-62.<br /><br />Nobuyuki, Kanechiku, \"Kunaish&#333; Zushory&#333; kara Nichi-Bei Bunka Gakkai e no tosho kiz&#333;,\" <i>Waseda Daigaku Nihon Kotenseki Kenky&#363;jo nenp&#333;</i> dai 2-g&#333; (2008), p. 20-22."
}
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{
"pname":"Other Relevant Information",
"pvalue":"The David Eugene Smith collection in Butler Library includes ca. 360 titles of early Japanese imprints on mathematics.  (Kai, Miwa.  <i>The David Eugene Smith collection of works in Japanese on Japanese mathematics.</i>  New York: Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, 1986.)  <br /><br />Early Japanese imprints on medicine housed at Columbia University's Health Sciences Library were transferred to C.V. Starr East Asian Library in 2012."
}
]