New Member Announcement ‏

Dear Library colleagues,

The East Asian Collection is very pleased to welcome two new members, Jee-Young Park, the new Korean Studies Librarian, and Jiaxun Benjamin Wu, the new Chinese Studies Librarian. Both started yesterday (June 1).

Jee-Young comes from Columbia University while Jiaxun comes from the University of Southern California. They bring in years of experience in the East Asian librarianship as well as new enthusiasm and energy to the East Asian Collection. We are excited to have them joining us.

Jee-Young’s office is 526 in the Regenstein Library. She can be reached at jeeyoungpark@uchicago.edu or 773-702-0187.

Jiaxun’s office is 520C in the Regenstein Library. He can be reached at jiaxun@uchicago.edu or 773-702-5049.

Please join me in welcoming Jee-Young and Jiaxun on board!

Yuan Zhou
Curator
East Asian Collection

Posted September 15, 2011

ASK a Korean Studies Librarian!‏

As the new chair of the KCCNA (Korean Collections Consortium of North America) for the 2009-2010 year, I'd like to call your attention to the launch of a new cooperative reference service called “ASK a Korean Studies Librarian!” This service was developed by member librarians of the KCCNA in an attempt to share our expertise and subject knowledge by offering free reference assistance to colleagues, scholars, and students who don't have access to a Korean subject specialist at their own institutions. Therefore, we hope you will try our service and that our efforts will be of some help to you. http://groups.google.com/group/askkorea This free service is managed via the Google Group software handling questions from anyone anywhere in both the English and Korean languages. You can post your questions from the Google group website above or send an email directly to askkorea@googlegroups.com. KCCNA’s member librarians will be responsible to answer your questions within 48 business hours. Our trial experiment on Google Group site is somewhat limited so we'd love to hear your feedback while you explore this service. Thank you!

-- Hyokyoung Yi
Korean Studies Librarian
East Asia Library
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3527 Tel. 206-543-6603

From Eastlib Mailing List. September 12, 2009

New Korean Studies Librarian at University of Hawaii Hamilton Library

Please welcome Yoon Lim (Jude) Yang, the new Korea Studies Librarian in the Asia Collection at the University of Hawaii. Jude is a recent graduate of the UH Library and Information Science Program. She has previous experience working as script writer for the Korean and Seoul broadcasting systems. Those of you attending the March AAS annual meeting will have a chance to meet Jude in person.

-- Allen Riedy
Head of Asia Collection
Telephone: (808) 956-2309 Fax: (808) 956-2318
406 Hamilton Library University of Hawaii Honolulu, HI 96822

From Eastlib Mailing List. March 3, 2009

It is my great pleasure to announce Dr. Kyungmi Chun to begin her work at Stanford East Asia Library on February 1, 2007. Dr. Kyungmi Chun has accepted Stanford's offer to be the Korean Studies Librarian in the East Asia Library last November. I am delighted to welcome Kyungmi to join us. Kyungmi earned her doctoral degree in Information Science at the University of North Texas in 1999, an MLS degree from the University of Tennessee, and a bachelor’s degree in history from Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. Kyungmi has served as the Korean Specialist Librarian in the University of Hawaii, at Manoa’s Asian Collection since 1992. During her more than 14 years at the University of Hawaii, at Manoa, Kyungmi's responsibilities have included collection development and management, reference and public services for the Korean Collection. Beyond her breadth of work experiences in academic libraries, Kyungmi will bring her boundless enthusiasm and a solid work ethic for the building of our new collection. We are very fortunate to have her expertise and enthusiasm included in our mix of terrific staff and eagerly anticipate her contributions we expect her to make to the East Asia Library.

SHAO Dongfang, Ph.D.
Curator and Head Librarian
East Asia Library
Meyer Library, 4th Floor, Room 451
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6004
U.S.A.

From Eastlib Mailing List. February 3, 2007

It gives me great pleasure to welcome Helen Kim, our new full-time Korean librarian who will assume duty, February 1, 2007. After obtaining her MLS at Columbia University in 1986, Helen took up counseling in Canada before joining the Asian Library at UBC library in 2003 as the Korean cataloguer. The position of Korean librarian became vacant in mid-December last year when our beloved Lucia Park left the library field or greener turf. Lucia graciously undertook to remain our supporter and would help the Asian Library in other capacity. Beginning January 2007, Jing Liu, Chinese Language Librarian started her year-long study leave, working on a MAPPS program at UBC. In the meantime, we are still in the process of recruiting a replacement for her position.

Eleanor Yuen
Head, Asian Library tel: (604) 822-5905
871 Wear Mall fax : (604) 822-0650
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z2