Campus reports 2019

A collection of over 4,450 volumes of republican era Chinese books were donated to the Asian Library at Claremont Colleges Library in May 2019. These books were collected and curated by Shen Zhifang and his descendants. Shen Zhifang 沈知方 (1883-1939) was a book collector and well-known entrepreneur in modern Chinese publishing industry. He was the founding father of the three most important publishers and distributors of Chinese school textbooks in the republican era: Zhonghua Book Company 中華書局, Commercial Press 商務印書館, and World Book Company 世界書局. Contents of the collection include

School textbooks (~40 %)of a variety of subjects, from humanities to social sciences, to STEM
Primers for literacy and “new learning” drives
Chinese classics with annotations for popular reading
Early Chinese translations of Western works of history, literature, philosophy, religion, science, medicine
Early dictionaries for learning English and Japanese, bi-lingual works of Chinese literature and Chinese classics

Henry Sheng Papers

Personal papers of Henry Sheng (1931-2019), professor emeritus of chemical engineering at Cal Poly Pomona (1978-96), was donated to the Asian Library at the Claremont Colleges in May 2019. The collection contains substantial amount of Prof. Sheng's manuscript, correspondence, calligraphic works, and various legal documents. It also contains caligraphy and manuscript of literary work of his mother Vena Yin Sheng, former librarian at Hoover Institute, Stanford.

Archival Processing

Ch'en Shou-yi Papers

Finding aid published in OAC: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8z325c0/

Chinese Political Posters, 1970s-1980s

145 Chinese political posters (1970-1980) were digitized and published on Claremont Colleges Digital Library. Together with another 52 Cultural Revolution posters previously digitized, the collection provides valuable visual resources in studying Chinese politics and society during and right after the Cultural Revolution. http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/tcp

Norman Gan Chao and Anne Lee Yao Papers

Physical processing of the collection has finished. Finding aid is being finalized and will be published soon. This is a collection of photos of Hong Kong in the 1950s, as well as legal documents and correspondence pertaining to the immigration from Hong Kong to Claremont of the Yao family in 1957.

Cataloging Project

Lee Lip-min Book Collection

A collection of 1400 titles and 2600 volumes of books and manuscripts in modern Chinese literature have been cataloged and made accessible to users at Claremont and beyond. The materials were collected by Lee Lip-min, a Hong Kong writer / novelist who immigrated to the Bay area in 1985. Individual books in the collection can be found from the link: https://ccl.on.worldcat.org/search?sortKey=LIBRARY&databaseList=&queryString=kw:%22lee+lipmin+collection%22&Facet=&format=all&database=all&author=&year=all&yearFrom=&yearTo=&language=all&topic=&scope=#

Books via Window to China

146 titles and 201 volumes of Chinese books were received and cataloged in April 2019 via the Window to China program hosted by the National Library of China. These are recent publications in the past 5 years, title by title selected so that they fit in faculty and students learning, teaching, and research needs at Claremont Colleges, and fill in the gap for new publications in our holdings.

Exhibitions and Outreach

An exhibition of East Asian rare books and art works was co-hosted between the Asian Library and the Asian Studies faculty from February 7-May 31 2018 at The Claremont Colleges Library. The books and art works range from the early 11th century to the early 20th century and exemplify the unique features and characteristics of traditional East Asian books and prints. A panel discussion was held to celebrating the opening of the exhibition. Digital archive of the exhibit is linked here:

https://claremontasianlibrary.omeka.net/exhibits/show/text-and-image--east-asian-rar

Manzanar Series

An exhibition to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Manzanar Pilgrimage was co-hosted between the Special Collections and the Asian American Studies faculty from April 1 to May 31 2019. The exhibition is entitled "Reclaiming Manzanar: Illegal Detention, Incarceration, and Contested Returns" and utilized the primary sources in the Japanese American World War II Incarceration collections, linked here: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15831coll18

In addition, an exhibition to celebrate the life story of Manzanar Committee co-founder Sue Kunitomi Embrey was co-hosted by the Asian Library and Monica Embrey, grand-daughter of Sue Kunitomi Embrey, alumnus of Pomona College 09, and senior campaign representative of the greater Los Angeles area for the Sierra Club. In conjunction with the exhibition, Monica also made a presentation at the library entitled "No Dust Storms Can Sweep Them Away: Sue Kunitomi Embrey, the Manzanar Concentration Camp, and the Demand for Social Justice". Monica's talk is linked here: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/lea/id/321/rec/1

(submitted by Xiuying Zou)

Getty Research Institute

Library

The Getty Research Institute Library focuses on the history of art, architecture, and archaeology with relevant materials in the humanities and social sciences. The range of the collections begins with prehistory and extends to contemporary art. Presently, the collections are strongest in the history of western European art and culture in Europe and North America; however, in recent years, they have expanded to include other areas, such as Latin America, Eastern Europe, and selected regions of Asia.

http://www.getty.edu/research/library/overview.html

The Library has an approval plan for China, an approval plan for Japan, and an approval plan for Korea.
The majority of CJK cataloging is done by a contract cataloging agency.
In-house copy cataloging of CJK monographs is done mostly by Acquisitions assistants.
The Library has a full-time librarian whose primary responsibilities are original CJK cataloging and collection development.

Getty Research Portal

The Getty Research Portal™ is a free online search platform providing worldwide access to an extensive collection of digitized art history texts from a range of institutions. This multilingual and multicultural union catalog affords art historians and other researchers the ability to search and download complete digital copies of publications devoted to art, architecture, material culture, and related fields.

The Getty Research Portal is a collaborative project initiated by the Getty Research Institute in 2012. Founded with a group of international contributors, including the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, the Biblioteca de la Universidad de Málaga, the Frick Art Reference Library, the Heidelberg University Library, the Institut national d'histoire de l'art, members of the New York Art Resources Consortium, and the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Portal aggregates access to an ever-increasing number of digitized art-historical texts from a growing list of contributors.

http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/portal/index.html

Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties is one of the contributors.

(submitted by Susan Chow)

San Diego State University (No updates)

No updates.

Stanford University (No report)

UC Berkeley

1. New staff

On September 9th, 2019, Dr. Yuko Okubo joined the C.V. Starr East Asian Library as the new Public Services Coordinator. Yuko worked as a project coordinator of Japanese Historical Text Initiative in EAL and Center for Japanese Studies, and also as a lecturer on Japan and East Asia in UC Berkeley. Her other work experiences include working in Google as UX Research Lead and in Fujitsu Laboratories as a Social Research Scientist. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from UC Berkeley.

2. New Special Collection Materials Received

In April 2018, the C. V. Starr East Asian Library at the University of California, Berkeley, received an important donation in the archives of the Chee Kung Tong, San Francisco. Held by the Tong for over 150 years, the archives represent an invaluable, and virtually untapped, resource for the study of the Chinese Revolution of 1911, which overthrew the Qing dynasty, leading to the establishment of Modern China, and to which the Tong provided significant support. Because the Tong has always maintained chapters around the globe, the archives will also prove an important source for the study of Chinese immigration and the Chinese diaspora. Among the over 5,000 items in the archives are Tong correspondence, meeting minutes, documents and publications, ledgers and donation receipts, and numerous photographs.

Subsequently, this year, Pearl Sun Lin — granddaughter of Sun Yat-sen, founding father of the Republic of China — visited the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, gracing the space with not only her company, but also a historic gift. During her visit to the library, Pearl Sun Lin revealed the donation of a trove of family relics to the library, including materials related to her grandfather. The gift marks the first time Sun Yat-sen’s descendants have given such materials to an American institution. At the event, Pearl Sun Lin thanked the library for its future stewardship of the collection, saying she was “honored” to have it find a home at EAL. Items include an illustrated book depicting Sun Yat-sen’s state burial in Nanjing, accompanied by Pearl

3. New Digitalization Projects to Open up some Hidden Collections

The C.V. Starr East Asian Library has started the digitization of its extensive Chinese rubbings collection this year, the largest such collection among all libraries outside of Asia. This project will take approximately 2 years to complete. It is funded by Fudan University Press who will hold publishing rights for 10 years. After that, the digital collection will go to the public domain for open access.

In addition, EAL has started to digitize the lobby cards and posters from the Paul Fonoroff Collection on Chinese film studies. Those materials, after digitization, will be published in the public domain for open access.

The CLIR grant-funded project to digitize Japanese historical maps will be completed next June, and this digital collection will go public shortly after its completion.

4. New Exhibit

This month, the Starr EAL in Berkekely opened a new exhibit featuring some of the library’s most precious materials related to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Buddhism. Filling the first floor of the Starr Library are stunning prints of Buddhist temples and maps of pilgrimage routes; popular texts and treatises from Buddhist scholars; an excerpt of a 600-volume accordion-fold sutra; and more.

Berkeley has been collecting materials in the field of East Asian Buddhism for close to 100 years. This exhibit shows how that collection has grown.

At the event, speakers discussed the closely intertwined history of Buddhist studies at Berkeley and the legacy of the Numata family. Convinced that the teachings of Buddhism could inspire world peace, Numata, a UC Berkeley alum, started the philanthropic organization Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai, or BDK, in 1965. Over the decades, the organization has supported Buddhist studies at UC Berkeley from all sides, endowing professorships, bolstering EAL’s Buddhist collection, and helping fund the library’s now 11-year-old home.

See images Clockwise from left: The Rev. Dr. Shoryu Katsura speaks at the event; Mitutoyo president Yoshiaki Numata presented a gift to the library; an item from the Buddhist collection now on display.

UC Davis

The principal relevant news from UC Davis is in the area of organizational redesign. The Research Support Services Department where I have been based the last several years is being divided into two units, shifting from a subject-based to a user-based organizational model with the transition taking place over the course of this quarter and year.

The Student Services Department (Alesia McManus Department Head) will focus on the needs of undergraduates, including staffing the Research Consult (reference) Desk, library instruction for undergraduate classes, and more.

The Researcher Services Department (Stephen Kiyoi, Department Head) will address the research needs of faculty and graduate students.

As of October 1, I am in Researcher Services, and expect to continue to be responsible for East Asian Languages and Cultures along with my other duties.

(submitted by Daniel Goldstein)

UC Irvine

Faculty and graduate students

Three new EA studies faculty members joined UCI in the past two years: they are Samantha Vortherms of China political science (social welfare), Margherita Long of Japanese literature and culture, Elizabeth Tinsley of Japanese culture and religion. Prof. Long along with another Japanese studies faculty applied and received Japan Foundation Institution Grant, which allow UCI to create a new position on Japanese environmental humanities. As an international recruiting result, Jon Pitt, a current ABD at UCB, will be on board in January 2020. Meanwhile, there is also a recent retirement – Michael Fuller of Chinese classic literature

For the graduate program, we current have 43 doctoral students (22 Chinese studies, 17 Korean, & 4 Japanese).

EA Studies Program

The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures had its name changed to Dept. of East Asian Studies to acknowledge the breadth of their research interests, teaching curriculum and plans for the future. The year of 2020 will witness many festive events from the department for its 30 year anniversary. The Center for Critical Korean Studies received continuing funding from Academy of Korean studies and has been actively sponsoring talks and events. See https://www.humanities.uci.edu/criticalkorean/

Library Budget

Was essentially flat in the past two years, and is anticipating no surprising change this fiscal year.

Collection

The libraries’ collections went through last year a Collection Optimization project, to prepare for giving up space on the six floor of Science Library to a proposed Student Excellence Center. Under the project, old books not used in a fixed year period that yet had deposit copies at RLFs, were to be removed from onsite stacks for SRLF. Over 10,000 volumes of EAC materials fall into the criteria and are being prepared for the relocation.

Next year, our East Asian Collection will turn to 30 years old. There will a library exhibit and a series of events in spring 2020 featured for anniversary. Our Korea Corner continued to receive on an annual basis gift books/DVDs from Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea, who purchased them for us per our wish list. The materials have been well used by campus and local residence communities.

Personnel

We continued to be one of 11 KF international internship hosting libraries, and have add one intern each year since 2016. Those interns has contributed a great deal in serving the expanded Korean studies community in the area of collection management, public service and technical service (we do not Korean material cataloger, and will soon lose our Korean acquisition staff).

Public Service

There have been increasing hours for library assistants (LAs) to staff reference desks as a result of decreasing librarians at UCI (vacant positions have been consolidated to positions with more responsibilities, like Research Librarian for Social Sciences was once three librarian positions). Librarians usually stay on-call for complex reference questions. Meanwhile, requests for library instructions went up.

(submitted by Ying Zhang)

UCLA

UCLA new East Asian studies faculty members since 2017

Chinese Studies

Yinghui Wu, Assistant Professor, Pre-modern Chinese Literature and Cultural History
Lei Qin, Assistant Adjunct faculty, Modern Chinese Culture & History

Japanese Studies

Kristopher Kersey, Assistant Professor, Japanese Art History, Material Culture & Design
Junko Yamazaki, Assistant Professor, Japanese Cinema & Media Studies

Korean Studies

Hyun Suk Park, Assistant Professor, Korean Literature and Culture, mid-17th-19th century
Sixiang Wang, Assistant Professor, History of Pre-modern Korean and East Asia

UCLA Library

Re-organization structure implemented

As result of the 2016-19 Strategic planning implementation, in January 2017, the EAL, Library Special Collections and International Studies formed one big new team known as Distinctive Collections and report to the same AUL for better collaboration, but the three units maintain its own operations.

Space planning

2018 the UCLA launched library space renovation project, an architect team was hired to exam all library spaces and suggest for renovation.

New Curator in the Library Special Collections

April 2019, after over 10-year vacancy of Rare Book Librarian, Devin Fitzgerald, fills the position, now known as Curator of Rare Books and History of Printing. Devin is a Harvard trained East Asian Studies specialist, his dissertation is on distributions of Ming and Qing imperial publications in the world. He co-taught with Soren Edgren on the History of the Books in China in the Rare Book School at U of Virginia in 2019 and organized and taught Rare Book Workshop at Harvard in May 2018.

UCLA East Asian Library

EAL 70th anniversary year-long celebration in 2018

A yearlong celebration, organized three workshops, talks, exhibition, and at the yearend had one day program to conclude https://www.library.ucla.edu/location/east-asian-library-richard-c-rudolph/eals-70th-anniversary-celebration
One very important finding from archives is that the East Asian Library is not built from one book but from roughly 3000 volumes donated/sold from the UC Berkeley East Asian Library.

EAL collection budgets

For the past two FY since Dr. Alison Scott joined UCLA Library, the EAL’s collection budget has been increased steadily, which enabled the EAL to add 24,000 volumes in 2018-19. The base collection budget allocation for the FY 2019-20 increased significantly.

EAL’s other new developments

Taiwan Resources Center for Chinese Studies (TRCCS) was established in November 2017 with annual donations of materials for the next 5 years. A TRCCS lectures series for every other year is offered. The inaugural TRCCS lecture will be held on 10/23 and 10/24, 2019, respectively.
Japanese collection received over 9,000 volumes from the Shoichi Ozawa Memorial Collection and donated by the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum at Waseda University.

(submitted by Su Chen)

UC Merced

The campus is currently conducting a search for a new chancellor, as Chancellor Leland retired in August 2019. According to the latest campus profile, UC Merced serves the most ethnically and culturally diverse student body among all University of California campuses. Seventy-three percent of undergraduates are first-generation college students, with sixty-four percent Pell Grant eligible. UC Merced has approximately 250 ladder-rank and 160 non ladder-rank faculty, 1,080 staff, an enrollment of more than 8,500 students including 700 graduate students. Of the undergraduate population, roughly 25% are from Los Angeles; 23% from the SF Bay Area; and 27% are from the San Joaquin Valley; the remainder are from other CA counties (less than 1% from out of state).

The largest majors are in the STEM fields. Currently, there is only one faculty member whose research areas relate to East Asian Studies (primarily Tibet and GIS) and it is unclear if there are any plans to expand faculty in related areas in the near future.

(submitted by Emily Lin)

UC Riverside

There is not much change with UCR’s CJK program. Prof. Yang Ye of Chinese Studies retired last year, and Anne McKnight of Japanese Studies joined us recently. We have 3 faculty members in Chines Studies, 2 in Japanese in 1 in Korean.

The library had the reorg 2 years ago. The former Collection Services Department became Collection Strategies Department with 3 collection strategists. Kuei is the collection strategist for social sciences and area studies, and covers CJK and Southeast Asian Studies. The position of Director of Collection Strategies is current vacant.

(submitted by Kuei Chiu)

UC San Diego

Library

Erik Mitchell, the new University Librarian started the position in April 2018.
Two AULs (Enterprise, and Collection Development) retired in spring 2019. The third AUL (Academic Services) will retire in Dec 2019.
A new leadership plan and new organizational chart are being planned. The Enterprise AUL will be named Chief Administrative Officer. The person doesn't need to be a librarian. The hiring of the CAO and two new AULs will start once the new leadership plan is finalized.
GLRI (revitalization project) is underway. Several sub-committees and taskforce were formed to carry out different tasks-collection, service, space etc. The media desk is permanently closed. The media circulation is incorporated into the main circulation workflow.
The new program director of Content Acquisition and Resource Sharing, Roxanne Peck is hired. She is formerly from PennState and UCLA, started in June 2019.
The Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars Digital Collection was launched in Jan 2018. There are three sub-collections (three donors). More materials will be included and rolled out by phases.
We are still working on the Norman Spencer photograph collection (underground artists photographs)
UCSD and Fudan University Libraries will renew their MOU in Oct 2019 (interns and librarians exchange program).

New resources acquired:

Chinese: Renda Periodicals, Chaoxin Journals, Apabi Historical Newspapers, China Geo Explorer, Socialism on Film, EPS statistical database.
Korean: Korea times, NKpro

Pubic events during the past two years include:

Anti-Confucian Propaganda in Mao’s China - Book exhibit and opening talk 5/19
Pickowicz’s book talk “China Tripping” 5/19
Prof. Zhang Letian's talk on grassroots archive in China.
HERSTORY Exhibit -Legal History of Chinese American Women in 5/18
“China through the Lens of Friendship Delegations in the 1970s”, launching event of the Digital Collection of Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) in 1/18
Norman Spencer Photograph Exhibit and Opening Event in 10/2017
An accompanying film poster exhibit for Taiwan Film Workshop in 8/2018
Collaborated with Chinese Studies faculty to develop and implement educational events
Film screening “Nowhere to call home” with director Jocelyn Ford 11/2018
Taiwan Film Workshop 8/18
Book talk “Middle Kingdom Beautiful Country” with author John Pomfret 3/2018
“What is Kpop” exhibition, 11/20/2017
“Kpop and its marketing strategies” exhibition (collaboration with 2 courses), 6/6/2019
Film screening “I am Sun Mu” – documentary on North Korean artiest, 3/7/2018

East Asian Studies Faculty

Chinese Studies

Paul Pickowicz of History retired.
New history program chair was hired 9/2018: Micah Muscolino (Environmental History)
Yiqing Xu - Political Science left for Stanford

Korean studies

New Korean faculty : Patty Ahn (communication/marketing – kpop), Dredge Kang (anthropology), Munseob Lee (economics – GPS)

Japanese studies

New faculty : Andrea Mendoza (literature)

CJK Acquisitions & Cataloging

Staffing:
- Hired Yu Guo in May 2018, a part-time person (0.5 FTE) at LA III to refill a vacated position and manage CJK serials acquisitions. Guo is fluent in Chinese and Korean.
- After Chinese Professional IV position vacated in May 2017, Job analysis was prepared during 2017-2018, and decision was made for not to refill the position
Operations:
- Approval plan and shelf-ready services were set up in April 2019 with Zhenben, still in process to get the workflow details straighten out with Zhenben on both acquisitions and cataloging
- Providing cataloging/metadata support for new collections:
  - the new CJK Graded Reading Collection established in 2017-2018
  - assigning FAST headings and/or name authority work for the CCAS Project

Shared Cataloging Program

Chinese: Bie-hwa worked with SCP colleagues, developed strategies and started to use OCLC Data Sync Services and loaded records for following packages:
- Chinese periodical full-text database (1911-1949) online journals (October 2018: 20,150 records)
- Late Qing dynasty periodical full-text database (1833-1911) online journals (October 2018: 301 records)
- Airiti CDL DDA online monographs (November 2018: 3,278 records and ongoing quarterly)
- CNPeReading CDL DDA online monographs (January 2019: 4,200+ records and ongoing monthly)
Chinese: To assist with the UCSD data cleanup project, Bie-hwa Ma ceased the workflow of loading and keeping brief records into UCSD’s local catalog. Subsequently, she reviewed and cleaned up existing brief records. She has also been reviewing and cleaning suppressed problem records.
Japanese: Cataloging provided mostly at the database level; title level records provided for EBSCO DDA and Maruzen DDA with the assistance from Naomi Shiraishi and Toshie Marra from UC Berkeley. Thank you both very much.

(submitted by Xi Chen)

UC Santa Barbara

Departmental Changes

The physical location of the East Asian Studies unit that was located on the 5th floor of the library no longer function as unit as of January 2019. One of the staff members at Area Studies is reporting directly to Karen Scott in Content Management Service Department, while the other one is reporting to the head of Acquisition Department. Further the operations of the Area Studies will be reevaluated.
Functions of the East Asian Studies staff before the relocation? East Asian staff receive books in Chinese language, participate in book exchange and cataloging of materials. They also assist staff members in acquisition with pre-ordering search; contact vendors about missing issues of Chinese serials, and help interlibrary loan folks to get the right article in Chinese serials patrons need. Cataloging of Chinese books and maintenance.
What functions are not being done anymore? Chinese book exchange and pre-ordering search have been placed on hold until the arrival of the East Asian Studies librarian.

Personnel

Yuan Wu and Yinoly Wisdom, staff members of the East Asian Studies Unit have been re-assigned to the Technical Services.
A new East Asian Studies Librarian will arrive in January 2020 since the retirement of Cathy Chiu in June 2018.

Unit Activities

Completed re-shelving comic books and graphic novels from East Asian Collection to Art & Architecture collection.
Corresponded Japanese gift books to Concordia College Library (about 250-300 books).
Researched East Asian collection serials (D-vendor) whether full text available on the internet
Conducted re-marking projects for East Asian collections, as a result, created/updated more than 2,500 old item records
Conducted re-marking projects for East Asian collections, as a result, re-labeled about 1,750 items.
Implemented a re-shelving error from East Asian collection room to East Asian periodical room (about 50 reference books), worked with the shelving department.
Communication with vendors (Chinese, Japanese) for acquiring missing issues.
Newspaper Collection Relocation
Since the current serials collection on the first floor was removed with most of the current serials re-shelved together with the back issues by call numbers, the East Asian languages newspapers were relocated as well. These are now located to the East Asian periodical room on the fifth floor.

Collections and Technical Services

The library accepted a donation of about 500 donated books from Professor Kenneth Pai (Korean Japanese studies). 20 books needed original cataloging in Japanese.
About 250 English books in English about Korea and Japan - sent to acquisitions unit for review.
About 150 Korean books - need to review,
Over 100 Japanese '78 RPM records (ca 1880-1960) have been sent to Special Research Collections for digitization. Yinoly is creating original cataloging for these records.
Receiving/checking-in of CJK periodicals plus all the periodicals for the main library, SEL, Art, as well as the music department.

Reference Services for East Asian collections

Helped a graduate student who studies a Japanese history to acquire books for his dissertations. (The student just came to the East Asian collection office)
Assisted prospective graduate students for accessing computer and software with IT team for their required assignments

Reference Statistics for the East Asian Unit from 2014- 2019

Reference activity in the East Asian Studies Unit was about 15 reference questions per month. After the physical relocation of the East Asian staff and disbanding of the unit on the fifth floor reference activities has decreased and the types of questions have been reduced to interlibrary loan for verification.

See statistics table for details.

(submitted by Gerardo "Gary" A. Colmenar)

UC Santa Cruz

UC Santa Cruz welcome our 11th Chancellor Cindy Larive this fall as Chancellor George Blumenthal retired in June. Another positive note the University Library has been doing a lot of hiring more than we have in a long time! We recently filled the Special Collection Digital Content & Metadata Librarian position. We are recruiting a Library Human Resources Manager, an Electronic Resources Librarian, a DSC Digital Scholarship Librarian, and Special collection archivist.

The Library's Journal Utlization and Cancellation Survey it is completed. This is a survey exclusively focused on local journal subscriptions for longer term research and teaching needs, not CDL subscriptions. The library is processing the result and studying the feedback of the survey.

Annette Marines, our Research Support Services Librarian, Liaison to the Arts & Humanities has been working with East Asian history professors on their senior seminar courses to integrate principles of the information literacy framework in their research project. Faculty have reported seeing improvements in the primary and secondary sources cited.

Professor David Keenan, our long time Chinese language and literature faculty retired in Spring. Chinese Lecturer Ting Ting Wu continues teaching methodology for non-heritage speakers as well as other department courses

(submitted by Yi-Yen Hayford)

University of Southern California

East Asian Library (EAL) highlights

Chinese rare books lecture and workshop. Sören Edgren will be at USC the week of November 11th to help us to more closely identify and assess the library’s 340 Chinese titles published prior to 1911. He will deliver a lecture entitled, “Facsimiles, Forgeries, and Mistaken Identity among Chinese Rare Books” on Wednesday November 13th, 4-5pm. This lecture is co-sponsored by the USC Libraries Dean’s Challenge Grant, East Asian Studies Center, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and EAL. Dr. Edgren will lead a Chinese rare books workshop the following day.

Finding aids project. The EAL has received funding to help to prepare finding aids for several archival collections, including:
- Mao Zedong Writings Project. The working files of a project to translate everything written by or attributed to Mao between 1949 and 1976. Only two volumes of translations, including writings through 1957, were ever published.
- LA Times Beijing Bureau Files. From the time it opened in 1979 until 2010, the Los Angeles Times’ Beijing Bureau maintained a subject file of clippings and other items for use by reporters stationed there. Rather than throw them out, the newspaper donated them to the EAL.
- James W. and Sarah A. Daily papers. James Daily was a Professor of Fluid Dynamics and Hydraulic Engineering at the University of Michigan. In 1974, he was invited to join a delegation of American hydraulic engineers in a visit to the People's Republic of China. A digitized set of slide photographs taken by Maury Albertson, another participant in the 1974 visit, is available as well.
- Tamotsu Shibutani papers. Shibutani is regarded as the most prominent Japanese American sociologists. His most well-known book is The Derelicts of Company K: A Sociological Study of Demoralization. The collection is comprised of his extensive research files and several photo albums.

Japanese backlog project. The Library has begun a project to prepare a number of recently acquired Japanese collections for cataloging, including:
- Yoshimura Takehiko (Meiji Univ) collection. Pre-1600 Japanese history.
- Bukkyo University of Los Angeles. Japanese Buddhism.
- Gordon Berger collection. Japanese political history, 1930s-1960s.

Peace Corps in Korea. EAL launched a digital collection of materials relating to the Peace Corps presence in Korea between 1966 and 1981. At present the collection consists of 4,625 records.

Korean National Association (Kungminhoe) attic collection. A large cache of documents, discovered in the attic crawl space of the KNA building in Los Angeles, were loaned to EAL for the purpose of digitizing and publishing in USC’s Digital Library. A total of 18,150 pages in 438 records were scanned, of which 143 records relating to 1919 were published in time to celebrate the centenary of the March First Movement.

Nak Chung Thun manuscripts. Nak Chung Thun (1876-1953) was a classically-educated emigrant to California who worked as a laborer before retiring to write several novels and stories. None were published, but his daughter and granddaughter kept them for many years before giving them to EAL with the hope of finding a scholar who could read the 19th-century style texts and translate them into contemporary Korean and English. The author and his works were subject of an AAS panel this year and a translation (in Korean) of one of the novels is expected to be published early next year.

(submitted by Ken Klein)

University of the West

UWest Library has a small collection focused on the subject areas in Buddhist studies and in East Asian cultural studies. Most of our instructors are bilingual, trilingual. Hence our library reflects this with the collection in the languages of English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, Pali, Sanskrit, Thai, Vietnamese, French, German...etc.

Our library supports UWest "Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon" Project. All the online entries are cataloged and searchable at OCLC Worldcat in June 2019.

Our library is participated in the project of Hai wai Zhong wen gu ji zong mu, 海外中文古籍總目, by Beijing-based Zhonghua Book Company. The part of “Catalogue of Chinese ancient books in University of the West” is just finished and will be published in a volume along with the other 2 institutes.

We welcome cooperative resource sharing from our community.

(submitted by Ling-Ling Kuo)