Self-Introduction

[bsk9 at columbia.edu]

Allow me to introduce myself.
I am an Archival/Public Services Librarian at Columbia University's  
Starr East Asian Library.  Over one year ago, I started processing the  
Makino Mamoru Collection on the History of East Asian Film at  
Columbia.  Some of you may have had the opportunity to work on  
materials in this collection before it arrived in NYC in 2006. It is a  
large collection of over 900 boxes of (mostly) Japanese film studies  
materials located off-site at a shared facility with Princeton and NY  
Public in NJ. I recall boxes to Columbia for processing, so I work  
from a few guides and a barcode list.  I am creating an online finding  
aid with detailed information so that users will be able to visit  
Columbia and request materials for research.  Although it is still in  
its early stages (I have mainly worked through the following sections:  
scenarios, movie theater handbills, film production company files,  
censorship, and others), I hope to hear more about what our future  
patrons would like to see (and am considering creating a blog).

I have a background in modern Japanese history and used to work as a  
public services librarian at Cornell University and before that as a  
Japanese reference librarian at the Library of Congress.

Thanks,
Beth Katzoff

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Beth Katzoff, Ph.D.
Archival/Public Services Librarian
C.V. Starr East Asian Library
319 Kent Hall
Columbia University
1140 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10027
email: bsk9 at columbia.edu
phone: 212-854-8728