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Over a Hundred Years of Collecting:
The History of East Asian Collections in North America
 
October 18-19, 2007
University of California, Berkeley
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
 
  Thursday, October 18th
2:00-5:30 PM   Panel I: From “the Orient” to “the Far East”:
East Asian Collections through the 1940s
2:00-2:05 PM Chair: Philip Melzer, Library of Congress
2:05-2:35 PM
Historical introduction by Elizabeth Berry, University of California, Berkeley
  Part 1, Collecting for the Nation: East Asian Book Diplomacy
2:35-2:55 PM Hwa-Wei Lee, Library of Congress
Asian Collections in the Library of Congress: A Historical Overview
  Part 2, There at the Beginning: Supporting Oriental Studies
2:55-3:15 PM Ellen Hammond, Yale University
A History of the East Asia Library at Yale
3:15-3:35 PM
Zhijia Shen, University of Washington
Vistas and Vision from a Hundred Years of Collecting at the East Asia Library of the University of Washington
3:35-3:55 PM
Liren Zheng, Cornell University
The Wason Collection on East Asia: The Resonance of Cornell’s Motto
3:55-4:20 PM Break
  Part 3, Boundaries Redrawn: Collecting for Far Eastern Studies
4:20-4:40 PM Jidong Yang, University of Pennsylvania
The East Asian Collection of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries:
A Brief History
4:40-5:10 PM

Anna Liang U, University of Toronto
The Ever Beckoning Horizon: The Birth and Growth of the East Asian Library Collection at the University of Toronto

  Part 4, Transition to the Postwar Era: The UCLA Experience
5:10-5:30 PM Amy Tsiang, University of California, Los Angeles
Serving the People as Serving the Heavens:
The Sixty Years of the UCLA East Asian Library
 
  Friday, October 19th
9:00am-12:30pm
  Panel II: The Cold War Era: East Asian Collections between 1945 and the Collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s
9:00-9:05 am Chair: David Johnson, University of California, Berkeley
9:05-9:35 am
Historical introduction by Robert A. Scalapino, University of California, Berkeley
  Part 1, The Far East Connection
9:35-9:55 am

Yuan Zhou, University of Chicago
Berthold Laufer, the Newberry Library, and the University of Chicago’s East Asian Collection

  Part 2, Collecting in Times of War and Peace
9:55-10:15 am Dongfang Shao, Stanford University
Growing from Past: A Brief History of the East Asia Library, Stanford University Libraries
10:15-10:35 am Allen J. Riedy, University of Hawaii at Manoa
The Asia Collection, University of Hawaii at Manoa: A History of its Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Collections
10:35-11:00 am Break
  Part 3, The Rise of the State Institutions:
Development of East Asian Collections under NEDA
11:00-11:20 am Karen Wei, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Treasures in the Cornfield: The History of the East Asian Collection at Illinois
11:20-11:40 am
Wen-ling Liu, Indiana University
Half a Century of Growth: The East Asian Collection at Indiana University
11:40 am-12:10 pm Vickie Fu Doll, University of Kansas
Golden Vision: Fifty Years of the University of Kansas East Asian Collection
12:10-12:30 pm
Maureen H. Donovan, Ohio State University
Time and Change: Reflections on the Development of East Asian Library Collections at the Ohio State University
2:00-5:30 pm Panel III: Globalization: The State of East Asian Studies and East Asian Collections from the Early 1990s to the Present
2:00-2:05 pm Chair: Jeffrey Riegel, University of Sydney
2:05-2:35 pm Historical introduction by Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California, Berkeley
  Part 1, Regional Cooperation
2:35-2:55 pm Hsi-chu Bolick, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The East Asian Collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2:55-3:15 pm
Kristina Troost, Duke University
The East Asian Collection at Duke University
3:15-3:30 pm Break
  Part 2, Separate and Growing: New Initiatives in Collection Development
3:30-3:50 pm Jim Cheng, University of California, San Diego
Aiming for Unique and Outstanding Collections: Retrospective and Prospective Analysis of East Asian Collection Development at the University of California, San Diego
3:50-4:10 pm Su Chen, University of Minnesota
The East Asian Collection at the University of Minnesota
4:10-4:30 pm Hong Xu, University of Pittsburgh
Towards Global Resource Sharing and Information Services:
The Developmental Journey of the East Asian Collection at the University of Pittsburgh
4:30-4:50 pm Break
  Part 3, C. V. Starr East Asian Libraries: Facing the Future
4:50-5:10 pm
Amy Heinrich, Columbia University
A Better Understanding: The C. V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University
5:10-5:30 pm Peter Zhou, University of California, Berkeley
Looking to the Future: The C. V. Starr East Asian Library at University of California, Berkeley
 
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Over a Hundred Years of Collecting: The History of East Asian Collections in North America
The University Presidents Forum
Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance Annual Conference
Area Studies, Then and Now, PNC and ECAI 2007 Annual Conference and Joint Meeting
University of California, Berkeley, Center for Buddhist Studies Conference
Cal Performances and Center for Chinese Studies, Guangzhou Ballet/Mei Lanfang symposium
   
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