Why Put East Asian Materials in a Separate Collection? The Issue of Access.

Dunkle, Clare B.

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Publication Date: 1993

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Why Put East Asian Materials in a Separate Collection? The Issue of Access.

Dunkle, Clare B.

Journal of Academic Librarianship, v19 n4 p216-19 Sep 1993

Considers whether or not library materials in East Asian languages should be integrated into the general collection. Romanized access through a Latin-script library catalog and nonromanized access through a browsing collection are considered. After exploring the difficulties in romanizing Chinese and Japanese scripts, a separate collection is recommended. (Contains 12 references.) (EAM)

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Language Books, Higher Education, Ideography, Japanese, Library Catalogs, Library Collections, Library Materials, Non Roman Scripts, Romanization, Written Language

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Asia

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