Handbook for Asian Studies Specialists: A Guide to Research Materials and Collection Building Tools

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An indispensable tool for librarians who do reference or collection management, this work is a pioneering offering of expertly selected print and electronic reference tools for East Asian Studies (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). Handbook for Asian Studies Specialists: A Guide to Research Materials and Collection Building Tools is the first work to cover reference works for the main Asian area languages of China, Japan, and Korea. Several leading Asian Studies librarians have contributed their many decades of experience to create a resource that gathers major reference titlesboth print and onlinethat would be useful to today's Asian Studies librarian. Organized by language group, it offers useful information on the many subscription-based and open-source electronic tools relevant to Asian Studies. This book will serve as an essential resource for reference collections at academic libraries. Previously published bibliographies on materials deal with China or Japan or Korea, but none have coalesced information on all three countries into one work, or are written in English. And unlike the other resources available, this work provides the insight needed for librarians to make informed collection management decisions and reference selections.

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As an example of the comprehensiveness of this work, if a librarian should be asked for facsimiles of real-size signatures or seals of major Japanese historical figures, a dictionary of North Korean artists, or an online database of Korean movies, they can be found in this reference. . . . Among the unique dimensions of Asian Studies librarianship discussed, we learn about the additional classification systems specifically developed for the complexities of this specialty. * ARBA *
The variety of resources makes this handbook stand out as a significant resource for Asian Studies specialists. * Reference Reviews *

Author Bio

Noriko Asato, PhD, is associate professor of library and information science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She previously taught Japanese Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.