Campus reports 2017

Xiuying Zou was appointed head of the Asian Library in July 2016, a newly created position after the retirement of the former Asian Studies librarian, Grace Chen, in December 2015.

Digital Initiatives:

Collaboration with the Academia Sinica in creating a digital archive of the Ch’en Shouyi Paper.
A digital collection of the 37 unique Korean rare books, in collaboration with the National Library of Korea.
A bi-lingual finding-aid to the Ch’en Shouyi Papers
A bi-lingual finding-aid to the Chinese political posters collection

New Initiative at the Asian Studies Program: EnviraLab Asia

In 2015, The Claremont Colleges received a grant from The Henry Luce Foundation’s Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment (LIASE) to launch EnviroLab Asia, a five-college initiative at the Claremont Colleges, aiming to train students, faculty, and staff to become active practitioners of change who develop sustainable and socially just policy-relevant solutions to environmental challenges in Asia, with a focus on East and Southeast Asia.The 2015-2016 academic year focused on the theme “From Land to Sea: Nature, Culture, and Asia’s Ecosystem.” In 2017, The Claremont Colleges received the next round of funding from LIASE program with the award of an Implementation grant to expand EnviroLab Asia’s research and activities until 2021. The theme of the Implementation grant is “Environmental Infrastructures in Asia: Nature, Networks and People in the Anthropocene.” There is funding set aside for the library to purchase materials to support relevant project needs.

San Diego State University

Received from Kora Foundation books and non-book materials in English (56 items) in 2016

Received from LC Surplus Program 38 items in 2016, and requested another 120 books in June 2017, and we look forward to receiving the distributions.

Received from Xinjiang Cultural Press and Keluge Press 35 Chinese books.

Julie Su taught a 1 ½ hour session on “Identifying and Exploring Japan-related Sources” at the Japan Studies Institute (JSI) on June 7, 2017. This Institute is a national faculty development institute aiming to incorporate Japanese Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum. The Institute is sponsored by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), and SDSU is a co-sponsor and hosting site. JSI fellows are selected from college professors who have an interest to infuse Japan into teaching but do not know the language nor have formal training about Japan.

Following the NCC T-3 Workshop at UCLA in 2004, I proposed to the JSI Chair to add this “Resource” session to the Institute’s curriculum, with the idea to present guides and resources for teaching and research about Japan. Sanae Isozumi (UCSD) and I co-developed the English language research guide focusing on freely available English language web resources about Japan, including basic research tools such as library catalogs and index/abstracts that are commonly supported at college institutions. Sanae and I co-taught this 3 hour session in 2005, and 2006 at the Japan Studies Institute. I continued to singly teach the session since 2007 when the session time is reduced to 90 minutes and the Japan Study Institute is shortened from 3 weeks to 2 weeks. I also continue to expand, maintain and update the resource guide every year for the class.

(submitted by Xiuying Zhou)

Stanford University

General Updates

Stanford Libraries is undertaking a large, multi-year digitization project in partnership with East View, with the aim of digitizing all of the newspapers held in our Newark storage facility, including a number of CJK titles. Some (but not all) originals will be retained after digitization.
Stanford Libraries has joined the IvyPlus network. We will begin borrowing books through the BorrowDirect service in Fall 2017 and will begin lending books in early 2018. RLCP lending requests will receive priority over BorrowDirect.
East Asia Library has completed adding RFID tags to all of the holdings at its Lathrop Library location.
New hire: Stanford EAL has hired a Public Service Librarian, Joshua Capitanio, who is responsible for managing public service and outreach, and collecting Western-language materials in the areas of East Asian and Southeast Asian studies.

Chinese Collection

New hire: A specialist on China economy, Hongbin Li, has been hired as a senior fellow at the Stanford institute for economic policy research. He is also appointed as the director of the China Program under Stanford center for international development. His research concerned with two general themes: i) the behaviors of governments, firms and banks in the context of economic transition; and ii) human capital and labor markets in the context of economic development.
Web archiving for Chinese NGOs is ongoing. A Spotlight exhibition is under construction.
Newspaper digitization with East View. We will still keep many print newspapers. Selection is done.
The nation’s oldest Chinese civil rights organizations, the Chinese American Citizens Alliance (C.A.C.A) has signed the deed of gifts with Stanford library. The archive collection is expected to arrive next month to Stanford. It will be housed in Stanford library special collections. EAL will be involved with processing Chinese materials.

o more info on an earlier announcement: https://library.stanford.edu/news/2015/02/stanford-libraries-acquire-chinese-american-citizens-alliance-archive

Japanese Collection

New Japanese Buddhism professor: Michaela Mross
Web archiving program extended for second year: Snapshot of Japan, 2016-2018
Donation of 40 volumes of interwar period diaries : Magario diaries (written up in Stanford Report, Stanford Daily and by KQED)
Search open for premodern Japanese literature professor (replacing Prof. Carter, who retired)
Successful exhibit of the Library's nuclear-related materials recently completed: In/Visible: Nuclear Representation in Japan from Hiroshima to Fukushima
Upcoming exhibit in the fall of Buddhist manuscripts at Cantor Art Museum: the Buddha's Word at Stanford
Regan Murphy Kao elected member of council for North American Coordinating Council for Japanese Library Resources (NCC)
Regan Murphy Kao made Head of EAL Special Collections
Completed online exhibit of digitized Japanese materials: Travel through Time: Japan
Japanese newspapers are also part of the digitization program; many of the paper versions will be kept.

Korean Collection

Korean collection no longer outsources cataloging. Instead, a temporary part-time staff is working on Korean backlog cataloging.
Stanford University Libraries have begun to place digital bookplates in the cataloging records of the materials purchased with endowment funds. Books purchased with the grants from the Korea Foundation have digital bookplates.
New job posting announced: Korean studies at Stanford seeks candidates for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position in the social sciences. The position would be a joint appointment in the Department of Anthropology and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), affiliated with the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.

(submitted by Joshua Capitanio)

UC Berkeley

(from minutes)

New Chinese film studies member and new visual arts faculty member

Lecturer teaching in Mongolian studies

New Center for Silk Road studies (estab. With $5 mill gift) – focus on Dunhuang, Central Asia.

2 new Tier 2 databases. Collaboration with CADAL; contributing 3 small digitization projects and have access to their repository.

Korean – received 8,000 monographs from SNU professor; South and North Korean publications from 1950s-60s

Japanese – new professor, teaching classical Japanese fiction; lecturer in Korean

Donation of 900 volumes

UC Davis

About me (Daniel Goldstein):

I have been a UCD subject specialist for nearly 20 years. For the past two years I have been gradually trying to come up to speed on East Asian collection development and campus research. This is my first opportunity to attend a meeting of this group. Due to recent retirements, I now have greater responsibility for the East Asian online resources in our collection.

About the library:

In the coming year we will conduct a systematic review of multi-campus licenses for East Asian Databases to ensure that UCD participates in those most important for campus research.

Responsibility for East Asian subject areas currently resides in the Research Support Department of which I am a part. A pending reorganization will divide that department in two. One of the new departments will focus on undergraduate and professional school education, the other on faculty and graduate student research. Many details remain to be worked out and it is unclear where responsibility for East Asian materials and support will be located.

About the Campus:

The East Asian Studies Program is poised to expand its areas of interest into Southeast Asia, especially Vietnam. It is also closely linked to a new campus interdisciplinary project, the Global Tea Initiative, headed by art historian Katharine Burnett.

The Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures includes 6 Senate faculty and 6 lecturers in Chinese as well as 6 Senate faculty in Japanese and 10 lecturers.

(submitted by Daniel Goldstein)

UC Irvine

Faculty and graduate students

We had two faculty retirements last year. One is China political science professor Dorothy Solinger; and the other is Japanese literature professor James Fujii. Dorie’s position will be filled by Samantha Vortherms, a fresh Ph.D. degree holder from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, whose research interests is social welfare.

For the graduate program, we will expect 11 doctoral students, among whom 6 are Korea focused (3 literature and culture, 1 political science, 1 anthropology and 1 art history), 3 are China focused (political science, visual arts and anthropology) and 1 Japan (anthropology).

EA Studies Program

December 2016 witnessed the inauguration of the Center for Critical Korean Studies (CCKS) at UCI. The inauguration event was hosted inside the Langson Library in conjunction with the opening of libraries’ Korea Corner. There are currently 11 affiliated faculty members. They are Prof. Chungmoo Choi, Kyung Hyun Kim (also the CCKS director), and Serk-bae Suh from the Dept. of EALL, Prof. David Fedman (History), Prof. Laura Kang (Gender & Sexuality Studies), Prof. Jerry Lee (English), Prof. James Lee and Julia Lee (Asian American Studies), Prof. Sylvia Nam and Eleana Kim (Anthropology), and Prof. Jae Hong Kim (Planning, Policy, and Design). In addition, ten doctoral students in the area of East Asian Studies are at the various stage of pursuing their degrees doing research on Korea.

Library Budget

The Libraries received some one-time funding for collection, but will have to absorb personnel cost.

Collection

Funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of South Korea, the Korea Corner was established earlier this year in the first floor of Langson Library with the East Asian Collection area. The corner features with some 300 copies of books and DVDs in English and Korean for people to learn about Korean popular culture, language, literature, history, art and society. Also in the Korea Corner are cozy seating and technologies (TV/DVD play combo and computer) for people to study, relax, watch films, and get access to digitized materials from the National Library of Korea under our agreement. We are expecting to receive more books from MFA next year.

Personnel

Since 2016, we have had two Korea Foundation sponsored interns (Ms. Hyein Sohn in 2016, and Mr. Jun Sup Kim in 2017), each staying with us for 10 months. While receiving trained in collection development, public service, special collections and technical services, the interns has contributed a great deal in serving the expanded Korean studies community on campus.

Public Service

There have been increasing hours for library assistants (LAs) to staff reference desks as a result of decreasing librarians at UCI (very few position vacancies due to retirement, resign and decease get filled up). Librarians usually stay on-call for complex reference questions. Meanwhile, IL instruction workload is up.

(submitted by Ying Zhang)

UCLA

(from minutes)

4 faculty in Chinese studies left; 2 new faculty

Taiwan Literature Series renewed

Yanae Japanese company funded $2 mill Japanese language and modern literature studies

Libraries strategic plannin g in stage of implementation

New division under new AUL: Library Special Collections, EAL, International Studies to increase coordination and collaboration

Ithaka launched study on Asian studies; invited 11 US institutions to participate in ethnographic study. 4 librarians from UCLA library and 2 from international studies program participated. In process of writing report, Ithaka will issue report by next March to understand how faculty conducting research and their needs

Pleased to welcome new Chinese cataloging specialist

New Taiwan studies position to be established and finalized by end of year

EAL collection received 200,000 additional funding; $450,000 total funding

Japanese collections: received over 900 volumes from Waseda University, mainly theatre studies; in process of cataloging

Su Chen’s position has been endowed by UCLA alumni, along with Management and Law positions

UC Merced

AY2016-2017, UC Merced hired 45 new members of the Academic Senate faculty, about 35 of whom are already on campus as of this fall. The remainder will join the faculty primarily within the next academic year. Additionally, we are actively recruiting to fill 14 other positions this academic year. In all, we can expect to add about 60 new Senate faculty to UC Merced by the beginning of the Fall 2018 semester.
Most new hires in STEM. Undergoing academic restructuring among three schools, also to be in place by Fall 2018. New major in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies.
Construction on track for 2020 plan to double physical footprint of campus. Total student population for 2020 will be 10,000 (350 ladder-rank faculty) and will be expected to remain at that level for the next decade.
UC Merced achieved “R2” status last year, significant given the young age of the campus.

(submitted by Emily Lin)

UC Riverside

(from the minutes)

No new hires in this area; only 2 faculty actively seeking EA support

0 budget increase this year in collections; if cost increase of 2% or above, either renegotiate with vendor or mandate of cutting something else

Alison Scott, AUL for Collections, moving to UCLA

Library undergoing reorganization for collections and reference services

All collection responsibilities to collection strategists

UC San Diego

In summer of 2015, the Library launched the Geisel Library Revitalization Initiative (GLRI) to “transform and revitalize the interior public spaces” of the Geisel Library. The vision of the GLRI is to develop a more cohesive, holistic user environment and provide a better user experience. Three floors are included in the Initiative — the main (2nd), ground (1st), and top (8th) floors. The construction on the 8th floor will start in fall 2017. Renovation of 1st and 2nd floor will follow in fall 2018. The entire project is expected to finish by fall 2019.
University Librarian, Brian Schottlaender, retired in June 2017, after his 30 years of service in UC. Tammy Dearie is currently serving as the Interim University Librarian.
UCSD and Fudan University Libraries signed MOU in Oct 2016 (interns and librarians exchange program). Two MLS interns came to UCSD Library in August for internship.
East Asia Collection
- 20,000 volumes of CJK materials on the 4th floor of Geisel Library (EA Collection) were moved to off-campus facility during the summer 2016, which left sufficient space for the collection’s growth.
- New and retired Faculty
  - Chinese Faculty
    - Paul Pickowicz of History retired in Jan 2017, but is still teaching some courses.
    - Yiqing Xu - Political Science
    - Weiyi Shi - Global Policy and Strategy
  - Korean Faculty (new faculty)
    - Patty Ahn - Communications
    - Erica Cho - Visual Arts
    - Byung Chu (Dredge) Kang - Anthropology
- New Resources:
  - Subscribed to a major statistical database in 2016 - CEIC upon faculty’s request (tier-3).
  - Subscribed to a major legal database in 2016 - ChinaLawInfo/北大法宝 upon faculty’s request (tier-3).
  - Subscribed to Central Daily News, a Taiwan newspaper database in 2017 through tier-2.
  - Subscribed to additional database in BKSQ - North China Daily News in 2017 through tier-2.
  - Subcribed to KISS and KSI e-Book in 2016 - They were dropped from EKS package and faculty requested it back
  - Purchased Japan Times Digital Archive - includes up to 2016 currently
- Digital Project
  - Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars Digital Archive (1971-1972)
  - Norman Spencer’s photographs collection. (1990-2000s)
- Public events
  - Iron Road - History of Chinese Railroad Workers in North America, a traveling exhibit at UCSD Library from January to February of 2016.
  - The Dark World of the Dead in the Founding of the Ming Dynasty, a public talk given by Prof. Sarah Schneewind of Chinese History at UCSD Library in Oct 2016.
  - Korean Studies Welcoming Night - over 175 students attended - Oct 2016
  - UC San Diego, China Partnership: Looking Back, Looking Forward, a public event co-hosted with 21st Century China Center at UCSD Library in Nov 2016.
  - Book talk with Rebecca Karl : The Magic of Concepts - January 2017
  - 10th Annual Korean Film Festival 2017 with Mannam - April 2017
  - Norman Spencer’s Photographs of Chinese Underground Films Photographs Exhibit at UCSD Library in Oct 2017. Opening Event on 10/10/17. (to be held)
  - Tom Mullaney (of Stanford University)’s book talk “The Chinese Typewriter” at UCSD Library on 11/5/17. (to be held)
  - Launching event of Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars Digital Collection on 12/4/17. (to be held)
CJK Acquisitions & cataloging:
- Staffing:
  - staff for JK acquisitions has changed several times due to vacancies, currently being managed by one of staff and will be taken over by the new foreign vendor specialist once the position is filled.
  - Japanese cataloger transferred from CJK Unit to Book & Serial Unit and will continue to catalog Japanese titles which has been reduced significantly (597 titles for 2016/2017).
  - Chinese cataloger’s position currently vacated and in the process to get approval for recruitment.
  - Shi gave up 20% acquisitions responsibilities starting Jan. 2017 due to added SCP responsibilities.
- Operation:
  - Approval plans for all CJK languages continue
  - Outsourcing cataloging for Chinese and Korean continues, while Japanese outsourcing cataloging was terminated by UCSD after 10 years with OCLC due to low number (73 titles for 2016/2017) and OCLC price increased)
  - UCSD is still in negotiation for a cloud-based ILS/LSP, will be busy to prepare for migration in the coming year
Shared Cataloging Program:
- Staffing: Shi was appointed the unit head position (30%) in October 2016 after interim the position during March-October 2016.
- Chinese titles cataloged by June 2017: Monographs 21,771 ( 2.7% of total 809,418, includes DDA, net increase 39%); Serials 12,998 (20% of total 65,097, net increase 1.14%); database 31 (4% of total 762, net decrease 1%)
- Chinese titles of new big packages will be primarily cataloged through collaboration projects with CEAL member libraries. Contact Bie-hwa if your library is interested in participating any of the projects and obtaining catalog records from participating libraries.
- Japanese titles cataloged: Monographs 3809 (includes DDA); Serials 142; database 14

(submitted by Xi Chen)

UC Santa Barbara

Report 2017

1. Personnel

UL Denise Stephens left for Washington U. at St. Louis in June 2017; new UL recruitment in progress. Alan Grosenheider, AUL for Organization Development and Effectiveness, was appointed as Acting UL.

Japanese staff, Seiko Tu, retired, replaced by Yinoly Wisdom. Yinoly speaks Japanese and Arabic. She worked as a dietitian in Japan before moving to California.

Chinese staff, Xiaohong Li, took a two-year personal leave of absence, replaced by Yuan Wu. Yuan was a researcher in the UCSB Material Science Department since 2009. She has a Ph.D. in physics from Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing.

2. Library Renovation

UCSB library addition and renovation project – 2013-2016. The project, completed in Janaury 2016, added 100,000sqft. It has become the center and the pride of the campus since. Details can be found: https://www.library.ucsb.edu/exhibitions/uc-santa-barbara-library-future

3. Kenneth Pai Collection Exhibit & Digitization

In honor of his 80^th birthday of famous author and faculty emeritus, Bai Xianyong (Kenneth Pai), UCSB library held an exhibit of selected works and manuscripts from the Kenneth Pai Collection. The exhibit accompanied by the curator’s table talk was part of a four-day campus-wide celebration events: http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/event/celebrating-pai-hsien-yung-through-film-discussion/

The Kenneth Pai Collection is one of the most frequently used collections in the UCSB Special Research Collection. Visitors and scholars from all over the world have come to consult the collection, including three TV stations from Taiwan and Hong Kong. Digitization of Prof. Pai’s manuscripts has received funding commitment and will be taken up as a preservation project in the near future.

4. Workforce Needs Assessment Project

UCSB Library has undertaken a Workforce Needs Assessment since July 2016. Library staff at all levels are asked to reflect upon the priorities of existing services, new services to move the Library forward, determine if resources are aligned with the priorities, and what changes should be made to better align with these priorities. The focus is on the work being done, the work needed to be done, if we have the people with the right skills to do this work, if they are properly classified to do this work, and what training they might need. Every library department is required to submit an assessment report. The reports are being evaluated by a steering committee. No action has been taken as a result of the assessment yet.

5. East Asian Collection Budget and Collection Space

EA collection budget and collection space have stayed the same for many years. Meanwhile, the Library is working on reducing reliance on external storages, renting one or two annex buildings instead of the current three. Low circulating materials are being sent to SRLF, or discarded if SRLF already has a copy. Purchasing e-format is another strategy to cope with the space shortage. In addition, the collection is constantly being reviewed for weeding to make space for new acquisitions.

6. Kanopy Film Streaming Service

In response to faculty request, UCSB library conducted a one-year PDA (Patron Driven Acquisition) pilot project with Kanopy for its film streaming services. Kanopy offered many international films, especially Japanese films. The service is so popular that we had to discontinue it because of budget sustainability. The library will still provide film streaming for class instruction through Kanopy upon faculty request, but will purchase DVD in most other cases.

(submitted by Cathy Chiu)

UC Santa Cruz

We’ve conducted the first weeding project with East Asian Collection since the beginning of this collection over 30 years ago.
Thank you so much for Zhang Ying’s assistance: UCSC successfully finalized the negotiation with Shanghai Library and we now has the access of 民国时期期刊全文数据库 – Ming-guo shi qi qi kan quan-wen shu ju ku.
This year we also participate the contract of The North-China Daily News & Herald Newspapers with other UC campuses.
I’m assisting our faculty to acquiring expensive large sets of Minguo fojiao qikan wenxian jicheng 民國佛教期刊文獻集成, (Complete Collection of Republican-Era Buddhist Periodical Literature) (MFQ), and its supplement the Minguo fojiao qikan wenxian jicheng bubian 民國佛教期刊文獻集成．補編, (MFQB) Any suggestion and feedback from our UC colleagues will be appreciate.
Comprehensive redesign of the library website: The appearance and navigation of the library site will change significantly. It aslo significantly improve the discovery layer and benefit the user experiences.
UCSC is moving forward with plans to migrate our ILS and add a public-facing discovery layer.

There are few new recruitment in the library since the group last met:

Kerry Scott, Associate University Librarian for Collections & Services
Jessica Pigza, Outreach & Exhibits Librarian.
Kristy Golubiewski-Davis, Digital Humanities Librarian in the Digital Scholarly Common.
Katharin Peter, Head of RSS

(Submitted by Yi-Yen Hayford)

University of Southern California

New ILS. As of July 1, 2017, USC Libraries has migrated from Sirsi to ALMA/PRIMO.

Personnel changes

Dr. Rebecca Corbett is our new Japanese Studies Librarian (as of January 2016)
Tang Li is our new Chinese Studies Librarian (as of July 2017)
JungYeon Hong is our Korea Foundation visiting scholar (Feb-Dec 2017)

Digital initiatives

Robert Kapp stereopticon images of the Upper Yangzi
Lawrence Bischoff. Yangzi riverboat captain, early 1930s.
James Daily / Maury Albertson hydraulic engineering visit to China, 1974
Ying Ong correspondence. Monitored radio communications from Chongqing during the war
AASCU Japanese Studies Summer Institute lectures (1988-2000). About 350 lectures in all.
Nomonhan interviews. As part of his research on the key battle between Japan and the Soviet Union, Alvin Coox recorded interviews with over 30 Japanese military and political leaders.
Crystal City. Videotaped interviews, newsletters, images from American internment camp for Japanese-German-Italian nationals during the War.
Peace Corps in Korea. Beginning archive of the Peace Corps program in South Korea, 1966-1980.
Susan Hanley photographs. Over 900 photographs from Korea, 1956-1959.
Roberta Chang. Extensive collection of research materials on Koreans in Hawaii.

(submitted by Ken Klein)