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2003 Japan Foundation/National Diet Library
Training Program for Information Specialists for
Japanese StudiesNCC Open Meeting at San
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• Tokiko Y. Bazzell (U of Hawaii at Manoa)
• Sanae Isozumi (UC San Diego)
• Beth Katzoff (Cornell)
• Haruko Nakamura (Washington U at St. Louis)
• Tadanobu Suzuki (U of Victoria)

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Todays Outlines

• Information Specialists from around the world
  (Bazzell),
• Highlights of Institutional Visits (Nakamura),
  and
• Highlights of New Resources in Japan (Isozumi).
• Tad Suzuki (U of Victoria) and Beth Katzoff
  (Cornell) will report for the Journal of East
  Asian Libraries.

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What the Training has given us

• A rare opportunity to meet, learn, interact
  with other specialists, face-to-face.

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Non-Librarian Information Specialists
Jeong, Youn Woo (Korea) Coordinator of the
Japanese Documents Center, Graduate School of
International Studies, Seoul National
University. The Center supports Japanese studies
groups in Korea by providing resources, study
programs, and research services.
Ortac, Merter (Turkey) Research assistant at the
Japanese Literature Department of Ankara
University. He wants to be a Japanologist in
social science. His current research theme is
the research and development history in pre-war
Japan. Since no Japanese Studies librarian in his
university library, he needs to collect all
research materials for his study by himself.
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Librarians from Moscow Hanoi
Minakova, Yulia (Russia) Librarian, Center for
Oriental Literature at Russia National University
The largest holdings in the Collection are
Chinese - around 80,000 volumes and the Japanese
collections are about 60,000. They have a
published catalog of Edo period books (19th
century) in two volumes. There are about 2,000
volumes of Manchurian books.
Ha, Lan Phi (Vietnam) Deputy Head of Library and
Information Department at the Center for Japanese
Studies, National Center for Social sciences and
Humanities. The collections are mostly focused on
the social sciences. An average of 500
researchers and students use the library every
day.
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Librarians from the Japan Foundation
Yada, Hirofumi (Australia) The size of
collection is 7,000 items including books,
periodicals and audio - visual items. The current
task for this library is to improve ILL service.
Takahashi, Pascale (France) One of five Japan
related staffs at Maison de la culture du Japon a
Paris. The Library has three main parts to its
collection - Japanese books, English books about
Japan, and French books about Japan. Most of the
collection are Japanese books, followed by
English, and then fewer in French.
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Librarians from Germany
Kojima, Chihiro (Heidelberg) A half-time
Japanese Studies Librarian at Japanese Studies
Department Library, a branch library of the
Heidelberg University Library.The Japanese
collection was started in 1985 and currently
holds about 24000 monographs, and 450 journal
titles. Japanese bibliographic records are
created via NACSIS-CAT
Kitamura, Hiroshi (Berlin) Librarian in the Asia
Department of the Berlin State Library. The
Japanese collection started in 1861. The largest
Japanese collections in continental Europe and
one of the largest outside Japan, with its
comprehensive range of subjects and a number of
important rare documents and art works.
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Librarian from Brazil
Nagatomo, Rubens Masayuki (Brazil) Japanese
study librarian at the Japanese Studies Center
from the University of San Paulo. The collection
has around 40,000 titles in Japanese and is
mainly focused on humanities especially Japanese
literature. The library also collects materials
about Japanese who migrated to Brazil and
newspaper and journals for Japanese communities
in Brazil.
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Interactions of Trainees
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I-House Workshop Presentation
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Librarians and Supporters from Japan
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At Last but Not Least .