April 6, 2009
*** UPDATE : May 1, 2009 ***
The move of the NDC and unprocessed Korean materials mentioned below was completed on April 17.
NDC materials are located on the first floor of SAL2 next to EAL’s Harvard-Yenching Collection. As mentioned below, these materials are accessible directly at SAL or can be paged to the EAL. Please contact EAL circulation at (650) 725-3434 or eastasialibrary@stanford.edu for questions regarding our collections in SAL.
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Beginning April 7, 2009 East Asia Library books and serials arranged by the Nippon Decimal Classification located in our mezzanine stacks will be moved to the Stanford Auxiliary Library (SAL) located on Pampas Lane across from the University Credit Union. Books in the NDC collection are Japanese language materials identified with 000-999 call numbers. Unprocessed Korean materials are also to be moved to SAL.
NDC material can be accessed and circulated directly to patrons at SAL (please see http://library.stanford.edu/depts/sal/about/access_circulation.html for more information), or requested from the East Asia Library circulation desk.
For more information or help with locating NDC or unprocessed Korean material, please contact EAL circulation at (650) 725-3434 or eastasialibrary@stanford.edu
February 26, 2009
The National Assembly Library (국회도서관) and the National Library of Korea (국립중앙도서관) provide many full-text e-resources in their online catalogs. Due to copyright issues, however, these full-text resources are available at three different levels.
- available to users worldwide who have access to their online catalogs
- available only to users who are either at the workstations in the two national libraries or at several designated workstations in libraries that signed cooperative agreements with the two Korean national libraries. Stanford University Libraries signed agreements with the two national libraries of Korea.
- available only to users who are using workstations in the two national libraries
The National Assembly Library’s online catalog: http://u-lib.nanet.go.kr:8080/dl/SearchIndex.php
The National Library of Korea’s online catalog: http://www.nl.go.kr/
The National Library of Korea Digital Library (only for full-text resources): http://www.dlibrary.go.kr/WONMUN/
In order to see full-texts, some viewer programs that are provided by the libraries need to be installed on your workstation. The National Assembly Library also requires free registration with the Library.
If you would like to view/print the e-resources available by the agreement signed with these institutions, you need to come to the East Asia Library on the 4th floor of Meyer Library. We currently have one designated workstation. Icons for the two digital libraries have been created; and all necessary viewers have been installed on the workstation. Please do not install any other programs on the workstation. When you click to open a full-text, you may see a pop-up note that indicates that there will be a copyright fee charged. Stanford University Libraries will pay for the copyright fees for opening and printing the resources. However, you need to pay the fees that you normally pay when you print documents from the Library workstations.
If you encounter any problems when using these services, please report to the service desk or contact the Korean Studies Librarian, Kyungmi Chun (kyungmic@stanford.edu 724-5934).
October 1, 2008
The East Asia Library is holding the Special Exhibition of Hangul (Korean Alphabet) Calligraphy. The exhibition features Hangul calligraphy works donated by eleven established Korean female calligraphers.
East Asia Library
Meyer Library, 4th Floor
October 9 - 31, 2008
Monday - Thursday: 8am - 9pm
Friday: 8am - 5 pm
Saturday: closed
Sunday: 1- 5 pm
Hangul is the native alphabet of the Korean language. Promulgated in 1446 by Sejong the Great (1397-1450), fourth king of the Joseon Dynasty, it was originally known as Hunmin jeongeum (“Proper Sounds for the Instruction of the People”). The original Hunmin jeongeum manuscript has been registered with the UNESCO program, “Memory of the World,” since October 1997.
After the creation of Hunmin jeongeum, the shape of Hangul gradually further developed in its use for woodblock-printed books and for practical everyday manuscripts. Today’s Hangul calligraphy as a formative art began around 1910.
We hope you enjoy Hangul as an art form through this exhibition.
July 30, 2008
Trial service for “e Korean Studies” and “e-article.”
Both “e Korean Studies” and “e-article” cover all subjects/disciplines, not only Korean studies.
“e Korean Studies” <http://www.e-koreanstudies.com/> provides an integrated search interface for 11 databases from Korea.
- DBpia — full-text articles from about 1,200 journals
- KISS — full-text articles from about 6,000 journals
- KRpia — full-text of various reference, primary, and secondary sources
- KoreaA2Z — full-text of various reference, primary, and secondary sources
- Kdatabase — full-text of resources on Korean modern and contemporary history
- KSI e-book
- History Culture Series
- Korean History & Culture Research Database
- LawnB Legal Information
- Digital Culture Art Course
- KPjournal — full-text articles of North Korean journals in the science and technology field
“e-article” <http://www.earticle.net/> provices full text articles from about 500 journals. Trial service for “e-article” is provided until January 31, 2009
Please send me <kyungmic@stanford.edu> your feedback on this integrated service and on individual databases: value and usefulness, issues and problems in using them, etc.
February 20, 2007
The East Asia Library, with the support of the Korean Studies Program of Asia-Pacific Research Center and the Stanford University Libraries, will hold a reception in honor of Dr. Lee Mun-Woong. Dr. Lee, a professor emeritus of Seoul National University, has donated about 900 volumes of books from his personal collection and about 50 ceramic pieces of Korean traditional writing tools. Please join us in this event to appreciate Dr. Lee’s donation. Refreshments will be provided.
Time and Date: 4 P.M., February 23, 2007
Place: East Asia Library, 4th Floor, Meyer Library
February 6, 2007
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’s Asian Collection since 1992. During her more than 14 years at the University of Hawaii, 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
January 10, 2007
The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that we now have both on-campus and proxy (off-campus) access to the Keijō nippō 京城日報 (Kyǒngsǒng ilbo), the largest and longest circulating Japanese-language newspaper published in colonial Korea from 1907 to 1945. The image files of the Keijo nippo, provided in PDF format, are not searchable but browsable by date. For details, please see below.
URL: http://www.kstudy.com/kyungsung/
Currently available:
June 1907-Feb. 1912 (scattered issues),
Sept. 1915-Dec. 1935
Will be made available shortly: 1936-1945
December 6, 2006
The East Asia Library has acquired Han’guk yoktae munjip ch’ongso (韓國歷代文集叢書), which is a reprint set of Korean prominent intellectuals and philosophers’ collected works originally written mostly in the Koryo and Choson period up to the early 20th century. This 3,000 physical volume set includes titles of 3,500 intellectuals’ collected works on philosophy, literature, civilization, intellectual history and cultural history of Korea. The titles have not been entered into Socrates yet. Here is a link to the analytical title list of the set. To access specific titles, please contact the East Asia Library.
