Columbia University’s Tibetan Studies Library and its dedicated staff—including librarian Lauran Hartley, Ph.D.—have been hard at (remote) work discovering online resources and making new sources available to scholars while the campus is closed. Hartley’s efforts have included rerouting—and sanitizing—new titles purchased from China.
Through their online newsletter, the library continues to share digital content with those working in the Tibetan studies space. “I was prompted to start it when seeing students in their respective “Zoom-boxes,” each relatively isolated in their own apartment or room,” shared Hartley.