Survey of Digital Collections on East Asia in North American Academic Libraries

Xiang Li ([email protected]) University of Colorado Boulder； Yan He ([email protected]) George Washington University

CHALLENGES FINDINGS EXAMPLES . Increasing number of digital Indicators of good Interface design: collections on East Asia 164 collections were discovered . Layout and Organization . High research value but limited . Wording and Consistency . Generalizations and Specifics visibility . Search/Browse Functions . Image Quality

METHOD

Chinese Paper Gods, Columbia University, . Identify 63 university libraries that hold http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/eastasian/paper_gods/ East Asian collections . Browse Many libraries adopt Contentdm, a  Webpages of University Libraries main software application developed Chikanobu and Yoshitoshi Woodblock Prints, Claremont College, http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/cyw  University Digital Repositories by OCLC, to create digital exhibits.  Webpages of East Asian Libraries/Collections

 Resource/Subject Guides Upper right: a data cloud showing the frequency of words used in collection titles.

Korean Digital Archive, University of Southern California, http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/cyw Left: a map showing the number SELECTION CRITERIA of collections digitized by Most common Metadata Schemes include Dublin universities. Core, MODS, and VRA. For example, Dublin Core Digital collections that are contains 15 elements: contributor, coverage, . East Asia-Focused creator, date, description, format, identifier, language, publisher, relation, rights, source, . Held by Academic Libraries in 1-4 5-9 subject, title, and type. North America 10+ . Open Access

Sidney D. Gamble Photographs, Duke University, http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gamble/?page=1 COLLECTION LIST

Area Collection Title University Area Collection Title University Area Collection Title University Area Collection Title University A.T. "Arch" Steele Photographs ASU Chinese Papercuts Michigan Jippensha, Ikku. Dōchū hizakurige. 道中膝栗毛. Selections. Dartmouth Asami Library of Korean Manuscripts and Imprints UC Berkeley Hidden Meanings of Love and Death in Chinese Painting; Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies Michigan Early Photography of Japan Harvard North Korean Propaganda posters UCSD Selections from the Marilyn and Roy Papp Collection ASU Pioneers of Chinese Dance Michigan Petzold Scrolls Collection Harvard Korean Periodicals USC Images from the Jeannette Shambaugh Elliott Collection of Ming Gazetteer Images Minnesota Japanese Art and Design Digitization Project Harvard Korea Korean Digital Archive USC Some collections include Usage Calligraphy ASU ChinaVine Oregon Kaizawa Kabuki Manuscripts Hawaii Korean Literary Collection Washington Snapshots of Yunnan China by Lola Dunaway 1988-1989 ASU Modern China Studies Pittsburgh Hawaii Karate Museum Collection Hawaii Statistics. Based on their data, Chinese Paper Gods Columbia Asian Cities - Late 19th - and Early 20th-Century Block Prints of the Chinese Revolution Princeton Sakamaki/Hawley Collection Hawaii Maps Chicago Ling Long Women's Magazine Columbia Oliver Statler Collection Hawaii users can create their own report. Chinese Materials in the Cotsen Collection Princeton Twentieth Century Posters Claremont Tibetan Mirror Columbia The Great Kanto Earthquake Hawaii East Asian Digital Library of Princeton University Princeton Cornell East Asian Series Cornell Chinese Law Registers Columbia Images of Okinawa after World War II Hawaii Shadow Figures Database Princeton Asian Studies collections Florida Sino-Viet Ritual Texts Dartmouth Japanese Commercial Graphic Design 1920s Hawaii The China Boom Project-a video archive Rutgers Botanical and Cultural Images of Eastern Asia 1907- Papers of Charles Daniel Tenney Dartmouth Magic Lantern Slides Collection from Japan Hawaii Francis E. Stafford photographs, 1909-1933 Stanford 1927 Harvard Sidney D. Gamble Photographs Duke David Plath Japanese Fieldwork Collection Iowa Friedrich Carl Peetz Photographs Duke UBC Asian Library Rare Book Collection UBC Etz-Trudell Lantern Slides of Asia Harvard Alfred Hussey Collection: Japan's Constitution Photo Album the Memory Project Duke Yip Sang Collection UBC Michigan Images of Colonialism-Africa and Asia Harvard The Chinese Rubbings Collection Harvard Chinese Stone Rubbings UC Berkeley Alfred Hussey Collection: Japan's Constitution Slides Michigan Asia at Work Hawaii Japanese Canadian Photograph Collection, University of British Columbia, Ming-Qing Women's Writings Harvard Ann Tompkins (Tang Fandi) and Lincoln Cushing Chinese Brower Fund Collection: Playing Cards Michigan Opium War in Asia Hawaii https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/jphotos Center for Japanese Studies Publications Michigan Hedda Morrison Photographs of China Harvard China Poster Collection UC Berkeley East Asia Image Collection Lafayette Naxi Manuscripts Harvard Tom Leung Collection UCLA Center for Japanese Studies: Motion Pictures Reprint Series Michigan Trans-Asia Photography Review Michigan Edwards Bangs Drew Chinese Maritime Customs Service Chinese Cultural Revolution Posters UCSD Japanese Film Materials Michigan Trans-Asia Photography Review Images Michigan Photographs Harvard International Mission Photography Archive USC Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema Michigan Shansi: Oberlin and Asia Oberlin

The Rev. Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Collection on Muslims in China Harvard Robert Henry Chandless Photographs of China, 1898-1908 Washington Japan Japanese Amercians in Manzanar, 1942-1945 Minnesota E-Asia Digital Library Oregon

South Central China and Tibet: Hotspot of Diversity Harvard China in the 1930's/Tianjin Collection Wisconsin Mary A. Ainsworth Collection of Japanese Artists' books Oberlin Asia East East Asian Library Digital Bookshelf Princeton Bao Juan Collection Harvard Holmes Welch Collection Wisconsin The Gertrude Bass Warner Collection of Japanese Votive Slips Japanese and Chinese Prints and Drawings donated

China Chinese Maritime Customs Harvard William Hervie Dobson Collection Wisconsin (nosatsu) 1850 to 1930 Oregon by Gillett G. Griffin Princeton Chinese Rare Books-Unique, Manuscrits, etc. Harvard West River Inscriptions WUSTL Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Princeton Diaries of General Joseph W. Stilwell, 1900–46 Stanford Chinese Rare Books Collection-Classics & History Harvard China Christian Colleges and Universities Image database Yale Japanese Prints and Drawings in the Cotsen Collection Princeton Barry Lawrence Ruderman Collection Stanford OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS Chinese Rare Books Collection-Collectanea Harvard Princeton Chinese Rare Books at Yale Yale Japanese ehon Hoover's Posters Collection Stanford Chinese Rare Books Collection-Collected Works Harvard Japanese Rare Materials Related to Travel Stanford Yale Silk Road Yale The Survey of Race Relations, 1924-1927: a survey Chinese Rare Books Collection-Oversize Harvard Japanese Canadian Photograph Collection UBC Divinity Library Photographs Yale on Asian Americans on the Pacific Coast Stanford Chinese Rare Books Collection-Philosophy Harvard Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Era UBC . Nanking Massacre project Yale East Asian Maps in the Bruman Collection UCLA How to keep ourselves updated with newly available digital Chinese Rare Local Gazetteers Harvard Tairiku Nippon (Continental Daily News) UBC Pedro Loureiro Collection USC Chinese Republican Period (1911-1949) Collection Harvard Peter Parker's Lam Qua Paintings Collection Yale Japanese Historical Maps Pacific Rim Archive USC Gaochao Ben Digitization Project Harvard Peter Parker Papers Yale UC Berkeley collections? Lecture Notes Harvard Japanese Prints from the Arizona State University Art Museum ASU Takamura (Kango) Paintings UCLA Asian maps USC Manchu Rare Books Harvard Traces of Japanese Life: Selections from the Melikian Collection ASU Japanese Issei Students USC G. William Skinner Map Collection Washington . How to enhance the visibility and accessibility of these Mongolian Rare books Harvard The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 Brown Edo Period Manuscripts USC International Collections Washington Personal Collection of Prof. Patrick Hanan Harvard Perry in Japan-a visual history Brown Posters of Taishō-Early Shōwa Japan USC Chinese Immigrants in Cuba: Documents from the Virginia Qi Brothers Collection Harvard Ichiryusai Yoshitoyo, Mashin teate kiho no ben, Makiyama Japanese Text Initiative James and Ana Melikian Collection ASU collections? Qi Rushan Collection Harvard Sensei dempo 1800s Chicago Pittsburg Japanese Language School Textbooks Collection Hawaii XXth Century, Shanghai, 1941-1945 Hawaii Hawaii American Occupation of Japan, Voices of the Key Participants Claremont Ainu Komonjo (18th & 19th century records) - Ohnuki Collection Wisconsin Japanese American Veterans Collection . How to integrate digital collections into curriculum? Shackford Collection of Photographs of China Hawaii Japan Chikanobu and Yoshitoshi Woodblock prints Claremont Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.- Korea Diplomatic Lantern Slides of the Nippon Rikkokai Hawaii Lian Huan Hua - Picture Storybook Hawaii Barbara Curtis Adachi Bunraku Collection Columbia Relations Cornell Chinese historical society of Southern California Johns . How to deal with legal issues associated with access, copying, Japanese Woodblock print Materials: Theatrical Prints and Kyujanggak - Harvard-Yenching Library Korean Rare Book Collection, ca.1880-1933 USC Hopkins Books from Early Modern Japan Cornell Korean American Digital Archive USC

Digitization Project Harvard American Asian George Chinese Social Media and the anti Corruption Campaign (2012-) Japanese American Relocation digital Archive, 1941- Washington Japanese Woodblock print Materials: Knowledge of the World in Korea Minsokwon - Harvard-Yenching Library Korean Rare Book and dissemination of digital materials? 1945 USC Georgetown the Early Modern Period Cornell Digitization Project Harvard Press Translations, Japan, 1945-46 Dartmouth National Library of Korea - Harvard-Yenching Library Korean China Society of Southern California Collection USC Rare Book Digitization Project Harvard