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Library Workshop Series: Access the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Home

Editor's note:

Given that most Chinese/Asian students cannot come to the Morningside Heights campus due to the COVID-19 pandemic and they have increasing needs for various types of library support, the Beijing Center, in partnership with C.V. Starr East Asian Library, developed a five-week “Library Workshop Series” to enhance CU library’s engagement with off-campus students and help strengthen the Chinese/Asian students’ affinity with the University. The library workshop series provided Columbia University students who focus on East Asian studies with the basic and advanced library resources, tools, and methods to help their remote learning and research. There were more than 100 students, alumni, and community members in the Greater China Area and other parts of Asia joining us for learning and discussion.

August 12, 2021
CGC Beijing Library

Learn more about each workshop and watch the full recordings below.

Instructors:

  • Chengzhi Wang, Director of Chinese Studies at C.V. Starr East Asian Library
  • Jim Cheng, Director of C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University

 

Library Workshop Series I —— Access the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Home

February 26, 2021

During the first session, Jim Cheng, Director of the C.V. Starr Library, and Dr. Chengzhi Wang, Chinese Collection Librarian of the Starr Library, gave a brief introduction about the history of C.V. Starr East Asian Library, what services and resources including databases and e-resources that it can bring to you, as well as how the students can get access to them.

 

Library Workshop Series II —— Chinese Studies: Useful Databases for Course Assignments, Papers, and Theses

March 5, 2021

In this session, Dr. Chengzhi Wang further provided essential and useful databases where students can find almost all the Chinese studies-related materials for their assignments, research papers, and theses.

 

Library Workshop Series III —— Online Searching and Research: Tools, Strategies, and Methods

March 12, 2021

In this session, Dr. Chengzhi Wang emphasized the importance of library resources in teaching, learning, and research. He also illustrated how to apply specific tools, strategies, and methods to evaluate data/information, search terms, narrow down or expand search to the students.

 

Library Workshop Series IV —— Searching and Using Primary Source Materials: Accessing Databases and Services of Archival and Special Collections

March 19, 2021

During this session, Dr. Chengzhi Wang specifically introduced students about the concepts of primary and secondary resources, and showed them where and how to get access to databases and services of archival and special collections, as well as obtain them if they were not scanned and digitized yet.

 

Library Workshop Series V —— Proud to be Columbian: Columbia China Collections

March 26, 2021

In this final session of this successful series, Jim Cheng, Director of the C.V. Starr Library, and Dr. Chengzhi Wang, Chinese Collection Librarian of the Starr Library, jointly introduced the 119-year history of the Library and its vast resources and unique Chinese collection that is particularly strong in history, philosophy, traditional literature, and increasingly film studies.