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Progress Report of the Asian
Division,Library of Congress
  • Hwa-Wei Lee
  • Chief, Asian Division, Library of Congress
  • hlee_at_loc.gov

2
Asian Division
  • The Asian Division, founded in 1928, is one of
    four area studies divisions under the Directorate
    of Collections and Services in the Library
    Services
  • African and Middle Eastern Division
  • Asian Division
  • European Division
  • Hispanic Division

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Reorganization Completed
  • Two sections
  • Collection Services
  • Scholarly services
  • Five Area Collections
  • China and Mongolia
  • Japan
  • Korea (South and North)
  • South Asia
  • Southeast Asia

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Vision of the Asian Division
  • To establish the collection of the Asian Division
    as the premier research and scholarly resource on
    Asia, in most Asian languages, that is compatible
    with the dynamics of knowledge and creativity of
    the Asian people.

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Mission of the Asian Division
  • The mission of the Asian Division is to make
    comprehensive collection resources and
    information services related to Asia available
    and useful to the Congress, the American people,
    and the scholarly community nationally and
    internationally.

6
The Size of Asian Collections (03/31/2006)
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Asian Collections in Other Formats
  • Legal materials, maps, music, motion pictures,
    prints, and photographs are housed and cared for
    by other divisions in the Library in
    collaboration with the Asian Division
  • the Law Library
  • the Geography and Map Division
  • the Prints and Photographs Division
  • the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded
    Sound Division
  • the Performing Arts Division
  • the Manuscript Division, etc.

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Collections not in Asian Languages
  • Other Asia-related publications not in Asian
    languages are also housed in
  • the Main Reading Room
  • the Microform Reading Room
  • The Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room
  • The Performing Arts Reading Room
  • the Science Reading Room
  • some of the other area studies and special
    collections

9
Building Asian Digital Resources
  • In the digital age, the Asian Division is moving
    ahead in supplementing its printed collections by
    a growing body of electronic resources from
    e-books, e-journals, e-newspapers, to a wide
    range of e-materials, both digitized from printed
    version or born digital.

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Types of Digital Resources
  • Subscription of e-bibliographic databases.
  • Acquisition of digitized full-text databases.
  • Digitization of rare books and other collections.
  • Capture of relevant web sites.
  • Online access and reference services.

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Subscribed to E-Bibliographic Databases
  • At present forty-five of the Librarys 219
    subscription databases deal with Asia or Asian
    studies. Some of these are
  • Aardvark (Asian resources for librarians)
  • Asian Development Bank Economics Statistics
    (Economics and Research Department of Asian
    Development Bank)
  • Asian Law Bibliographic Database (University of
    Melbourne)
  • Bibliography of Asian Studies (Association for
    Asian Studies)
  • Country Studies (Federal Research Division, the
    Library of Congress)
  • Treaties and International Agreements (Oceana
    Publications)

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Acquired Digitized Full-text Databases
  • From China and Taiwan
  • Peoples Daily ??????? - 1946-2004.
  • China Data Online.
  • Chinese Journals ????????? 7,240 titles.
  • Chinese Core Newspapers ????????? - 1,000 titles.
  • SuperStar Digital Library ??????? - 100,000
    titles.
  • Si Ku Quan Shu ????????.
  • the Academia Sinicas Chinese Civilization in
    Time Space??????????? and Taiwan History
    Culture in Time Space ??????????.
  • The Encyclopedia of Taiwan ??????.

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Acquired Digitized Full-text Databases
  • From Japan
  • Directory of Japanese Scientific Periodicals
    (from National Diet Library, covering 13,875 S/T
    serial titles).
  • Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan (11,000 entries,
    based on the 1993 publication Japan an
    Illustrated Encyclopedia).
  • Several Japanese rare books have been digitized
    and are available in full text from the Librarys
    OPAC.
  • Full-text databases of five major Japanese
    newspapers including Mainichi, Sankei, Chunichi,
    Tokyo and Yomiuri Newspapers.

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Acquired Digitized Full-text Databases
  • From Korea
  • Chosun Daily Newspaper Archive (covering articles
    from the Chosun Ilbo, the most widely read
    newspaper in South Korea)
  • Korean Studies Database (by KRPIA, covering
    history, literature, and traditional medicines)
  • Korean Studies Information Service System (KISS,
    a database of full-text articles from 6,000
    journals published by 1,200 Korean academic
    institutions)
  • Law n B-Korean Law Database (Law and business,
    available for access in the Law Library reading
    room)

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Digitized Rare Books Other Collections
  • The digitized Naxi ??collection is now accessible
    online http//international.loc.gov/intldl/naxiht
    ml/naxihome.html
  • In collaboration with the Academia Sinica, some
    21,000 maps and 840 aerial photos have been
    digitized and will be incorporated into the
    historical geographic information system Chinese
    Civilizations in Time and Space???????????.
  • In collaboration with the National Central
    Library in Taiwan a three-year project to
    digitize the Chinese rare books in the Library of
    Congress has been launched since May 2005.

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Digitized Rare Books Other Collections
  • In collaboration with the International Research
    Center of Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Japan
    four rare books in the Nara Ehon collection were
    digitized and are accessible online through LCs
    OPAC.
  • Also in collaboration with Nichibunken some 3,000
    prints from the Japanese Ukiyo-e collection were
    digitized and will be available online in 2006.
  • The complete set of 207 large-scale maps of Japan
    made by Inoh Tadataka ???? (1816-1819) were
    digitized and is now accessible from the
    Librarys webpage http//www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/

17
Capturing Relevant Web Sites
  • The portals of the Asian Division are
    increasingly a useful web resource on all the
    Asian countries and regions. http//www.loc.gov/rr
    /asian/area_AD.html
  • Planning is being made to begin web harvesting
    and archiving on special topics or events of
    importance. Example the tsunami disaster.

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Providing Online Access and Services
  • The Librarys online public access catalog.
    http//catalog.loc.gov
  • American Memory. http//memory.loc.gov/
  • Global Gateway. http//international.loc.gov/intl
    dl/intldlhome.html
  • The portals of the Asian Division
    http//www.loc.gov/rr/asian/area_AD.html
  • QuestionPoint. http//www.oclc.org/questionpoint
  • Asking a Librarian. http//www.loc.gov/rr/askalib
    /ask-asian.html

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The World Digital Library
  • Proposed by Dr. James Billington in June 2005.
  • To bring together online rare and unique cultural
    materials held by libraries and repositories in
    all parts of the world.
  • Digitization will be done through public and
    private collaboration.
  • On November 22, 2005, Google Inc. responded with
    an initial funding of 3 million.

20
The World Digital Library
  • The current large-scale digitization projects
    undertaken by the Asian Division in collaboration
    with major libraries in Asia will be the first
    group of projects which will make up the World
    Digital Library.

21
Published Report on E-Resources
  • Dr. Mi Chu Wiens article, World Digital Library
    and E-Resources in the Asian Division, Library of
    Congress, published in the February 2006 issue
    of the Journal of East Asian Libraries, No. 138,
    pp. 1-4.

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The Friends Society of Asian Division
  • It was established on January 20, 2004 as a mean
    of outreach to a broader user community.
  • We now have more than 200 individual and
    corporate members.
  • Through the generosity of Florence Tan Moeson, up
    to 15 research fellowships will be awarded each
    year.
  • For information about the Friends Society, please
    visit the website http//www.lcasianfriends.org.

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The Florence Tan Moeson Research Fellowship
  • Established through the generosity of Florence
    Tan Moeson, the Moeson Fellowship provides
    individuals with the opportunity to pursue
    research on East, Southeast, or South Asia
    (including the overseas Asian communities), using
    the unparalleled Asian collections of the Library
    of Congress in Washington, DC.

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Scholarly Programs Launched
  • An International Symposium on the Significance of
    Admiral Zheng Hes Voyages (1405-1433).
  • In the Footsteps of Marco Polo An International
    Symposium on Italy-China Cultural Exchangein the
    13th--17th Centuries.
  • America Is in the Heart for the 21st Century The
    Carlos Bulosan Symposium - In Commemorating the
    Centennial of the First Wave Migration to Hawaii
    by Filipino Nationals.

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An International SymposiumOn the Significance of
Admiral Zheng Hes Voyages (1405-1433)In
Commemoration of the 600th Anniversary of Zheng
Hes First Voyage
Monday, May 16, 2005, 830 a.m. 430
p.m. Mumford Room (6th floor) Madison
Building The Library of Congress
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Asian Division, The Library of Congress Embassy
of Italy/Italian Cultural Institute, Washington
D.C. The Honorable Henry E. Brown, Jr. Present
In the Footsteps of Marco PoloAn International
Symposium on Italy-China Cultural Exchangein the
13th--17th Centuries
Thursday, March 23, 2006 830am-1200pm Members
Room LJ-162, Jefferson Building
Sponsored byThe National Italian American
Foundation - Frank J. Guarini Public Policy Forum
Alitalia

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The Asian Division Friends Society The Embassy of
The Republic of The Philippines Our Own
Voice Invite You to Attend
America Is in the HeartFor the 21st CenturyThe
Carlos Bulosan Symposium In Commemorating the
Centennial of the First Wave Migration to Hawaii
by Filipino Nationals
Friday April 28, 2006 915am-500pm Room
LJ-119 Jefferson Building
Carlos Bulosan is the literary icon of early
Filipino migrant experience in the United States.

SPONSORS Philippine American Writers and
Artists, Inc. (PAWA, Inc.) / The Asian Pacific
American Labor Alliance (APALA AFL-CIO) / Carayan
Press, San Francisco / Remedios G. Cabacungan
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