Korean Heritage Library Receives Video Bonanza
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The donated videos - nearly 1,000 - will include programs on economics, industry, politics, military history, philosophy, culture, nature, folklore, education, performing and fine arts, as well as some literary dramas with English subtitles. They will also include serialized dramas and documentaries produced by Korean Americans for KBS's Los Angeles subsidiary, the Korean Television Enterprise (KTE).
Anam Electronics, a leading manufacturer of electronic appliances in Korea, is also donating two sets of viewing monitors and video players.
"These materials will make it possible for students and scholars in this country to more directly view many aspects of Korean culture," said Jerry D. Campbell, chief information officer and dean of university libraries.
He added that his department planned eventually to house the Korean Heritage Library in a building of its own. The 13-year-old collection - which includes more than 37,000 books, 620 video cassettes, 2,000 reels of microfilm, 200 maps (including 150 antique maps), several hundred photographs, and other archival materials - is currently split between the Doheny Library and the Von KleinSmid Center.
The collection is generally recognized as one of the six leading Korean collections in North America. Its particular strengths are in Korean newspapers, immigration history, Korean cinema, journalism and mass media, and local materials of the Cholla-do region.
USC is commited to making the materials available to scholars anywhere in the U.S., said Joy Kim, curator of the collection. The videos will be cataloged in the international networks of library databases.
Among the donated videos, which will arrive at the library over the next few years, are a documentary about the Korean automobile industry; programs about the Korean independence movement against the Japanese, including the stirring March 1, 1919, demonstrations; a study of traditional Korean agricultural implements; and a series of historical dramas.
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