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Providing Global Access to Local Treasures: UW-NCL Chinese Rare Book Digital Project. Zhijia Shen ,Charles Chamberlin, University of Washington Karl Min Ku, National Central Library on Taiwan PRDLA Shanghai October 21, 2010. Outline. UW Libraries and its digital initiatives - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Providing Global Access to Local Treasures: UW-NCL Chinese Rare Book Digital Project
Zhijia Shen ,Charles Chamberlin,
University of Washington Karl Min Ku,
National Central Library on Taiwan
PRDLAShanghai
October 21, 2010
OutlineUW Libraries and its digital initiativesUW-NCL digital collaboration on Chinese rare booksBrief History of the EAL Brief History Chinese collection at UWUW Chinese rare book collectionPlans and impact of the project
University of Washington
One of the oldest public universities on the West Coast, 1861-3 campuses: Seattle, Tacoma, and BothellPublic research university
30,000 undergraduates12,000 graduate students4,000 faculty
1st in US federal research funds8 DOE NRC for area studiesSince the 20th century, known for its
Far East StudiesFishery Forestry
University of Washington Libraries
Uni
University of Washington Libraries
Large, public research library
17 geographically distributed library facilities
Over 7 million volumes
7 days a week
24 hours a day
Research commons
East Asia Library
Digital Initiatives
Just opened Oct. 7th 2010: Research Commons
R
UW Digital Initiatives
Over100 collections featuring materials from the UW Libraries, local and regional partners.American Indians of the Pacific Northwest digital collectionKing County SnapshotsOlympic Peninsula Virtual Community Museum.Research Works
ResearchWorks Services
ResearchWorks Archive ServiceResearchWorks Media Publishing ServiceResearchWorks Open Journal Hosting
Media Publishing Service: Digital Collections
UW-NCL Digital Collaboration: Chinese Rare Books
Agreement
Timeline: January 1, 2010 –Dec. 31, 2012
Scope: Chinese rare books held at UWL
Digitization scheduleDivision of responsibilities
in the cooperationScan and metadata catalogingArchiving copies of the
digital filesAccess
National Central Library on Taiwan (NCL)
NCL Chinese Rare Book Collection and Digitization
NCL rare booksNCL-LOC digitization collaboration project
2005: Signed agreement
2009: 1,494 volumes had been completed, totaling 734,566 image file.
2012: project slated to complete
•Taiwan Fan She Feng Su [Customs of Taiwan’s Aboriginal Tribes]
Started 1998 and expanded to include Mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, Australia, and other overseas rare book collectionsover 609,941 recordsSearchable through 14 search valueslinked searches in collections in Mainland China, Japan, U.S., and Europe
NCL Chinese Rare Book Catalog
East Asia LibraryTop 12 EALs in North
AmericaTotal 616,700 vols;
280,000 Chinese.Support Jackson school
and AL&L Department and other EA related programs, and local EA Communities.
Third most used collection of the 17 UW libraries
UW EAL collections can be traced back to1909 when UW first started teaching about Asia .
Mostly private collections of faculty and on loan to the library and department, which all ended in the EAL.
1937: the library received first official funding from a Rockefeller Foundation grant to acquire Chinese books
1947: Library hired the first EAL curator, and named the library Far Eastern Library, thanks to another grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.
1950s and 1960s: acquired major rare book collections- J. F. Rock and H. Wilhelm Collections
1968-1990: Karl Lo was its second curator
EAL Collections
1976: changed to its current name and moved to its current location in Gowen Hall
1975: Chik-Fong Lee published A Descriptive Catalog of the Ming editions in the Far Eastern Library of the University of Washington
1977: Purchased Wu Xianzi manuscript from Hong Kong
1989: EAL purchased the warehouse of Hong Kong Universal Book Store of over 100k vols of Chinese books
1990: EAL Chinese rare book preservation and cataloging project initiated
1995: EAL became the official repository library of Taiwan government publications
2006: EAL became one of the recipients of the Five-Year Donation Plan of Window to China
UW EAL was build by the joint efforts of faculty and librarians : one-hundred partnership in developing a world class academic program and library
Historical Timeline of UW Chinese studies
Herbert H. Gowen (1864-1960)George E. Taylor (1905- 2000)Helmut Wilheim (1905-1990)Karl A. Wittfogel (1896-1988
李方桂( 1902-1987 )
萧公权 ( 897-1981 )
施友忠 ( 1902-2001 )
Chinese Rare Book Collection at UW
Chinese Special Collections
Hellmut Wilhelm CollectionSpecial Collection of Qian Qianyi’s worksJoseph Rock CollectionWu Xianzi Papers
Bibliographies on UW Chinese Rare Books
A Catalog of the official gazetteers of China in the University of Washington. Compiled by Joseph Dzen-His Lowe. Zug, Switzerland: Inter Documentation Co. [1966]Ad descriptive catalog of the Ming editions in the Far Eastern Library o fthe University of Washington.(华盛顿大学远东图书馆藏明版书录) compiled by Chik-Fong Lee (李直方 ). San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center, Inc, 1975.Wang Jue. “Rare works by Qian Qianyi and other Qing Dynasty Rare books of peotry and literature. Bulletin of NCL. V. 25, no. 2.
Hellmut Wilhelm Collection
Collection of Qian Qianyi Works
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牧齋初學集詩註 東京 : 擁書城印行 , [ 明治 16, 1883],
據淸康熙間玉詔堂本刻字排印
J.F. Rock Collection
Joseph F. Rock (1884-1962)
The Wu Xianzi Papers
Wu Xianzi (1881-1959)Purchased from the Sino-American Book Co.,
Hong Kong, 1977. Collection includes 120 items of diaries,
documents such as certificates of official appointments, etc.), letters, manuscripts of essays, poems, etc., newspaper clips, and notes, and manuscripts of Kang You-wei, Sun Yat-sen and other significant figures of the Chinese Republican period.
Plans
Over 255 titles selected for the first digitization NCL is sending 3 technicians to scan the book and develop metadata at UW in November EAL sets up space and workflow for the NCL crewEAL Staff continues recon-cataloging of its rare booksProject schedule
1st List of rare books for digitization from UW East Asian Library: 255 titles and 2759 volumes
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Take Kong Zi Jiayu for example:
UW copy of Kong Zi Jiayu
NCL Rare Books Image Search Systemhttp://rarebook.ncl.edu.tw/rbook/
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Making this local treasure accessible globallyAll digitized UW Chinese rare books will be listed and searchable in the NCL Chinese Rare Book Catalog—more accessibilitypreservation of these rare materialsThrough the UW-NCL collaboration, we not only make our local treasures available to global users, but also allow UW users to access rare materials owned by NCL and its other digital partners.
Gen zhi tu (Cultivating and Weaving)48
Beckman Reading-room of East Asia Library
University of Washington Libraries
Thank you!
谢谢!