Annual Report 2007-2008

Unit reports Addition of web-based bibliographic instruction Establishment of the Learning Commons Installation of new workstations Lots of statisticshttps://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/library_pub/1039/thumbnail.jp

Library Perspectives, Issue 47, Fall 2012

This issue includes items about Molly Raphael \u2767, five exhibitions from the Frederick Selch Collection of American Music History, renovations to the Goodrich Room, and much more.https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/perspectives/1013/thumbnail.jp

Honorable Mention Contest Entry: A “Land You Could Not Escape yet Almost Didn’t Want to Leave:” Japanese American Identity in Manzanar Internment Camp Gardens

This is McKenzie Tavoda\u27s submission for the 2014-2015 Kevin and Tam Ross Undergraduate Research Prize, which won honorable mention. She wrote about Japanese American identity in the Manzanar Internment Camp gardens. You can read the final essay that came out of her research here

MRL7: Kagawa Toyohiko Papers, 1929-1968

Kagawa Toyohiko 賀川豊彦 (1888-1960) Japanese Evangelist, labor union organizer, poet, and pacifist; workers’ unions; American support group for Kagawa’s tours; letters, articles, speeches, photographs, administrative records, brochures, sound recordings, film and biography by E. O. Bradshaw

DeWitt Wallace Library Annual Report 2014-2015

Summary of library and media services activities for 2014-201

National Institute of Japanese Literature 2023

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Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter Spring 2020

From the Dean (Robin Wagner) Library News Mini-Golf Get Acquainted Day Edible Books Festival Moves Online! (Kim Longfellow \u2716) What do librarians do when a campus suddenly closes? (Janelle Wertzberger) Blotchy Scribblings and Spider-like Initials (Jim Ramos, Carolyn Sautter) Boxed Belongings (Natalie Hinton) Notes from the Field (Kerri Odess-Harnish) Who is helping you via email, chat & text with those questions? Our awesome librarians & sometimes their pets! (Kevin Moore) ZOOM: Teaching Moves Online (Kevin Moore, Mallory Jallas, Clint Baugess) Vietnam (Devin McKinney) Quarantined on Campus (Betsy Bein, Chakriya Ou, ’23, Dung Doan, ’23, Precious Ozoh, ’20) Conservation in the Age of Lock Down (Mary Wootton, Abigail Coakley ’20) Documenting COVID-19: Primary Sources for the Future (Amy Lucadamo ’00, Maci Mark ’21) Campus Quarantines (Carolyn Sautter) Library Bookshelf Reading Without Walls Pandemic Book Club (Janelle Wertzberger) Rev. John Vannorsdall (1924–2020) (Rev. John W. Vannorsdall) Alumni Reminiscences (Edson Whitney ‘70, Rev. Donna Schaper ’69, Mike Hobor ‘69, Richard Hutch ‘67) Focus on Philanthropy: Robert Eastlack (Robert Eastlack \u2770, John Eastlack ‘42, Carolyn Sautter) Through Our Eyes: A Digital Exhibition (R.C. Miessler, Austin Stiegemeier, Emma Lewis ’20) Battlefield Bingo (Kevin Aughinbaugh ’18) Nurses on the Front Lines Can You Piece It Together? (Amy Lucadamo \u2700

The History and Current Challenges of Libraries in Japan

Japan\u27s libraries have many positive attributes and continue to evolve. However, many library sectors struggle with serving users because of staff outsourcing, library leadership, and a focus on circulation statistics that prevent them from developing into 21st-century information and community centers. This paper reviews the history and current status of each library sector, including their services and staffing. It then examines their current challenges and how professionalism, librarian education, and community engagement are the main challenges to their success and suggests recommendations to elevate them to compete in the global arena