Collecting Asia

Collecting Asia

Doll, Vickie F. (2010). Fifty years of the East Asian collection at the University of Kansas. In Zhou, Peter X. (Ed.), Collecting Asia: East Asian libraries in North America, 1868-2008 (243-252). Ann Arbor, Mich.: Association for Asian Studies, Inc.

In this article, one chapter in a book describing the history of 25 East Asian libraries in the United States, Vickie Doll details the development of the East Asian collection at the University of Kansas. Her description includes the early history of the East Asian library beginning the 1950s and the expansion of the Chinese, Korean and Japanese collections in the succeeding fifty years.