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Volume 2 of Inside Major East Asian Library Collections in North America presents an extensive collection of interviews that give key insights into Chinese, Korean, and Asian American librarianship

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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 2 of Inside Major East Asian Library Collections in North America presents an extensive collection of interviews that give key insights into Chinese, Korean, and Asian American 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 subject area 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.

Tartalomjegyzék:

Foreword; Anita Dewi

Foreword; Martin Heijdra

Foreword; Frederick Nesta

Volume II: Chinese and Asian American Studies

East Asian Librarianship and Library Collections in North America: Introduction

Chapter 1. Jim Cheng, Director, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University

Chapter 2. Dr. Peter Zhou, Director, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley

Chapter 3. Dr. Ying Zhang, Research Librarian for Asian Studies, University of California Irvine

Chapter 4. Dr. Hong Cheng, Chinese Studies Librarian, Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Chapter 5. Katrina Lacerna, Asian Pacific Resource Center Librarian, Los Angeles County Library

Chapter 6. Xi Chen, Chinese Studies Librarian & East Asia Collection Strategist, University of California San Diego

Chapter 7. Mark Stephen Mir, Archivist & Resource Coordinator, Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, University of San Francisco (retired)

Chapter 8. Dr. Brian Vivier, Coordinator, Area Studies Collections, and Chinese Studies Librarian, Interim Middle Eastern Studies Librarian, University of Pennsylvania

Chapter 9. Joshua Seufert, Chinese Studies Librarian, East Asian Library, Princeton University

Chapter 10. Runxiao Zhu, East Asian Studies Librarian, Oberlin College

Chapter 11. John Baky, Dean of Libraries, Emeritus, Curator, Rare Books & Manuscripts and Dr. Heather Willever-Farr, Special Collections Librarian, Connelly Library, La Salle University

Chapter 12. Dr. Kenneth Klein, Head, East Asian Library (retired),University of Southern California

Chapter 13. Hsi-chu Bolick, Librarian for East Asian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapter 14. Haihui Zhang, Head, Head, East Asian Library, University of Pittsburgh

Chapter 15. Dongyun Ni, Department Chair, Asia Collection, Chinese Studies Librarian, University of Hawai?i at Manoa

Chapter 16. Dr. Timothy Davis, Asian Studies Librarian, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University

Chapter 17. Nien-lin Xie, Librarian for East Asian Studies, Dartmouth College

Chapter 18. Anlin Yang, East Asian Studies Librarian, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Chapter 19. Ying Liu, Subject Librarian for Asian Studies, Linguistics, and Religious Studies, University of Victoria Libraries

Chapter 20. Dr. Stephen Qiao, Chinese Studies Librarian, Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, University of Toronto

Chapter 21. Dr. Jack Hang-tat Leong, Founding Director (2007?2020); Helen Tang Acting Director (2020?2021) Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library University of Toronto

Chapter 22. Yue Shu, Librarian, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Library, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Chapter 23. Yue Ma, Director of Collections and Research, Museum of Chinese in America

Chapter 24. Dr. William A. Peniston, Librarian/Archivist, The Newark Museum of Art

Chapter 25. 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