Short description:

Volume 1 of Inside Major East Asian Library Collections in North America presents an extensive collection of interviews that give key insights into Japanese and Korean librarianship.

Long description:

As a branch of International and Area Studies Librarianship (IASL), East Asian Librarianship has become increasingly important in an age of globalization as scholars engage in interdisciplinary research and study. Volume 1 of Inside Major East Asian Library Collections in North America presents an extensive collection of interviews that give key insights into Japanese and Korean librarianship.

East Asian Studies librarianship requires a variety of technical skills, combining deep subject background with knowledge of library processes/workflows, an awareness of research trends, and digital developments in their respective fields. Professionalism, tradition, standards, respected bodies of knowledge and individual practicing professionals? personality traits are closely examined over both volumes.

Inside Major East Asian Library Collections in North America promotes shared understanding of librarians? work and contribution to society and will enable further collaborations and new services, utilizing the unique and distributed nature of their expertise.

This compendium of interviews with East Asian librarians in the U.S. and Canada affords the reader insight on multiple levels into the careers of individual librarians and the commonalities and distinctive aspects of individual East Asian collections, particularly rare items. A valuable introduction to the world of East Asian librarianship, the book provides a variety of perspectives on daily work, career paths, administration, problems facing the field, and fulfillment found in the work. Collectively, the essays are an affirmation of the importance of printed collections and a ringing endorsement of East Asian librarianship.

Table of Contents:

Foreword; Ellen Hammond

Foreword; Loretta E. Kim

Foreword; Matthias Kaun

Volume I: Japan and Korean Studies

East Asian Librarianship and Library Collections in North America: Introduction

Chapter 1. Kuniko Yamada McVey, Librarian for the Japanese Collection, Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University

Chapter 2. Reiko Yoshimura, Head Librarian Freer Gallery of Arts and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Library, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Chapter 3. Dr. Kristina Troost, Head, East Asian Collection, Duke University(retired)

Chapter 4. Dr. Daniel McKee, Japanese Bibliographer, Cornell University Library

Chapter 5. Yunah Sung, Korean Studies Librarian & Project Manager, Asia Library, University of Michigan

Chapter 6. Hyo Jin Moon, Subject Specialist for Japanese Studies and Korean Studies, University of California San Diego

Chapter 7. Dr. Ann Marie L. Davis, Associate Professor, Japanese Studies Librarian, The Ohio State University Libraries

Chapter 8. Dr. Steve Witt, Subject Specialist Librarian for Global Studies and Japanese Studies and Head of the International & Area Studies Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Chapter 9. Adam Lisbon, Japanese & Korean Studies Librarian, University of Colorado Boulder

Chapter 10. Dr. Rebecca Corbett, Japanese Studies Librarian, University of Southern California

Chapter 11. Joy Kim, Curator, Korean Heritage Library, University of Southern California

Chapter 12. Ellie Kim, Korea Studies Librarian, University of Hawaii at M?noa Library

Chapter 13. Tokiko Bazzell, Japan Studies Librarian, University of Hawaii at M?noa

Chapter 14. Kana Jenkins, Curator, Gordon W. Prange Collection, East Asian Studies Librarian, University of Maryland

Chapter 15. Sharon Domier, East Asian Studies Librarian, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Chapter 16. Dr. Beth Sara Katzoff, East Asian Studies Librarian, New York University

Chapter 17. Hana Kim, Director, Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, University of Toronto

Chapter 18. Shirin Eshghi, Head, Asian Library, University of British Columbia

Chapter 19. Katherine Kalsbeek, Head, Rare Books & Special Collections; Saeyong Kim, Korean Studies Librarian; Tomoko Kitayama, Japanese Studies Librarian; Jing Liu, Chinese Studies Librarian; Sarbjit Randhawa, South Asian and Himalayan Studies Librarian, Asian Library, University of British Columbia

Chapter 20. David Sulz, Public Services Librarian (includes East Asian Studies)

Chapter 21. Dr. Max Dionisio, Acting Department Head, Library and Archives and the Bishop White Committee Library of East Asia, Royal Ontario Museum

Chapter 22. Cordes Tarantino, Assistant Librarian, C. Laan Chun Library, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

Chapter 23. Dr. Hermina G.B. Anghelescu and Alice Yuet Ling Law, East Asian Librarianship and Library Collections in the United States and Canada: A Selective Bibliography, 2000-2020

East Asian Librarianship and Library Collections in North America: Conclusion