LibGuides: Cooperative Collection Development Working Group: Home

The purpose of this list is to develop a comprehensive list of notable Japanese Studies collections held in North American libraries, including print materials, collections that are accessible electronically, and unprocessed or partially processed collections. The completed list will provide librarians and researchers with information about the rich Japanese Studies resources available to them both in print and digitally in North American libraries.

We still accept new survey entries to add this list.

Please contact Kevin McDowell for questions about this survey. kevinmc (at) uoregon (dott) edu

Purpose / Mission & Projects Under Consideration

Newspapers

The NCC Cooperative Collection Development Working Group helps coordinate preservation and acquisition of Japanese newspapers throughout academic institutions of North America. By coordinating efforts nationally, libraries avoid duplication of work while saving time and resources and ensuring the availability of scholarly materials.

The working group determined that although Japanese institutions are also collecting and archiving Japanese newspapers, access to them cannot always be guaranteed. The lengthy suspension of services from sources in Japan following the earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear power plant disasters of March, 2011, highlighted the need to ensure that copies of these materials are available from outside Japan.

The group is currently deciding which institutions will collect which newspapers. Resources will be shared by offering a copy of the item requested via ILL.

Monographs

Identifying the strong subject areas of each Japanese collection in North America and coordinating access to them is another project of CCWG.

The purpose of this project is to 1) understand the core/non-core subject areas existing in North America; 2) avoid unnecessary duplicates and start focusing on under-collected subjects; 3) use limited budgets more efficiently by sharing resources through cooperative collection development in North America.

Future Project

Journals

Journal collaborative collection development will begin when we have established best-practices for our Newspaper Preservation Project.