2003 Japan Foundation/National Diet Library Training Program for Information Specialists for Japanese Studies NCC Open Meeting at San Diego 平成１５年日本研究情報専門家研修報告

2003 Japan Foundation/National Diet Library Training Program for Information Specialists for

Japanese StudiesNCC Open Meeting at San Diego

平成１５年日本研究情報専門家研修報告

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)

3/4/2004 bazzell (UHM) 2

Today’s 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.



What the Training has given us:

A rare opportunity to meet, learn, & interact with other

specialists, face-to-face.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


Interactions of Trainees


I-House Workshop Presentation


Librarians and Supporters from Japan


At Last but Not Least ….