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- New Visiting
Librarian from Korea --posted 6/8/00
- The East Asian
Library welcomed a new Visiting Librarian from the Korean National
Assembly Library (KNAL) on May 15, 2000. Ms Eulsoon ("Eunice") Ma
comes from the Korean National Assembly Library (KNAL) where she
has performed a variety duties since 1985, including acquisitions,
indexing, access services, and collection development of non-book
materials. Her most recent position at KNAL was overseeing the creation
of metadata for the Korean National Assembly Library's digital archive.
She has a BA in business adminstration from Inha University and
a graduate degree in library science from Songgyungwan University
in Korea. From March 1987 to Febrary 1990, she attended the prestigious
Korean Classics Research Institute. During her year-long term at
the East Asian Library, Ms Ma 1987 to Febrary 1990, she attended
the prestigious Korean Classics Research Institute. During her year-long
term at the East Asian Library, Ms Ma will work as a Metadata Indexer
for the Korean American Digital Archive (a grant project). Her email
is <esma@usc.edu>. She does
not have her own phone, but can be reached by any EAL staff number.
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- Kwangju:
After Two Decades --posted 3/20/00
- Kwangju Conference
will be held at April 20-22, 2000 in LA. The conference is sponsored
by the Centers for Korean Studies at UCLA and USC, the College of
Letters, Arts, and Sciences at USC, and the 5.18 Memorial Foundation
of Kwangju. For details, please visit <http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/EASC/kwangju.html>.
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- Full-Text
Korean Databases Available --posted 1/15/00
- The East Asian
Library is pleased to offer an extensive array of full text databases
to the University community. Hundreds of scholarly association and
commercial journals and many classics are accessible anywhere from
campus via the KHL homepage. The databases are available at: <http://www.usc.edu/libraries/locations/ssh/korean/khl_fulltext.html>
or just click <Full-Text Databases>
from the KHL homepage.
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- Korean
First Lady's Visit to the East Asian Library --posted
1/25/00
- Madame Lee Hee-Ho,
First Lady of Korea (wife of South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung)
will be honored at a luncheon in the East Asian Library on Monday,
January 31. The visit to the Library is part of a program sponsored
by School of Social Work. Madame Lee is being honored as the recipient
of the International Social Welfare Prize.
- As part of
the program following lunch, Madame Lee will participate with Sharon
Davis (wife of California governor Gray Davis) in a broad-based
discussion on issues including non-governmental organizations (NGOs),
the feminist movement and Christianity.
- Lee Hee-Ho
attended Lamuth College and received an MA from Scarritt College
(both in Tennessee); her career includes positions as vice-president
of the Pan-Pacific Southest Asia Womens' Association (Korea Chapter),
president of the Research Institute for Womens' Problems, and general
secretary of the National YWCA of Korea. She is the author of [Praying
for Tomorrow: Letters to My Husband in Korea] and [My Love, My Country].
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- East Asian
Library receives an LSTA Grant for a Korean American Digital Archive --posted
10/1/99
- The East Asian
Library received $92,190.00 in federal Library Services and Technology
Act (LSTA) funds to develop a Korean American Digital Archive. The
purpose of this one-year project, which will run from October 1,
1999 to September 30, 2000, is to bring the heritage of the Korean-American
community within the reach of the community itself, as well as that
of the research community. In this project, several disparate collections
of documents, correspondence, photographs, oral histories, and other
forms of archival materials will be digitized and made available
on the Web. The East Asian Library has formed agreements with the
Korean Independence Historical Association, Inc. (KIHAI), the Korean
American Museum, and others in the community to digitize their archival
materials. Along with the KHL's own archival holdings, these separate
collections will be brought together in a single integrated digital
database. Ken Klein was the principal investigator.
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- New Korean
Studies Librarian arrives --posted 11/1/99
- Ms Sun-Yoon
Lee has been appointed as the library's new Korean Studies Librarian.
Ms Lee arrived on October 18th, 1999, thereby filling a position
that has been vacant since June 1997. Sun-Yoon received her BA in
library science from Yonsei University in Korea, and an M.S. in
Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, where she also received A Certificate of Advanced
Study in Library and Information Science. She is currently working
on her doctoral dissertation at the Graduate School of Library and
Information Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation
topic is "An investigation of the attributes of the World Wide Web
Resources: Using Sample Web Sites of Software Companies." Before
coming to USC, she taught an undergraduate course "Information in
Cyberspace" at UT Austin, where she also served as a TA and RA for
various courses and research projects. She has very strong computer
skills and has co-authored two scholarly articles. Sun-Yoon can
be reached by phone (213-821-1567), email sunyoonl@usc.edu
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