Time and Change: Reflections on the Development
of East Asian Library Collections at the Ohio State University
by
Maureen H. Donovan
Japanese Studies Librarian and Associate Professor,
The Ohio State University Libraries
“Time and change will surely show
How firm thy friendship, O-HI-O!”
--from “Carmen Ohio”
Pre-History
Ties to East Asia at the Ohio State University, one of the nation's premier landgrant universities, trace back to the early history of the university, which was founded in
1870. The first acquisitions of books in East Asian languages began not long after that.
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, the first professor appointed to the university's
original faculty, was invited to the Tokyo Imperial University on the recommendation of
Edward S. Morse to hold the Chair of Physics during 1878 to 1881 as an oyatoi
gaikokujin (お雇い外国人＝ hired foreigner). The Ohio State University Libraries
collections include materials that Mendenhall brought back from Japan.
During Mendenhall's absence from the
university, Ohio State's students decided
to publish a yearbook, taking as its title a
Japanese word, Makio (魔鏡 makyō) or
"magic mirror."1 First issued in 1880,
The Makio was published annually until
1994. After a brief hiatus, it resumed
publication again in 2000 and now
continues to come out each year as a
record of student life at Ohio State.2
(The Makio 1 (1880)
cover and title page.)
In December 2006 an exhibit of magic mirrors was held at the Kyoto University
Museum during a conference on "Manufacturing DNA for Optical Instruments in Pre-
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Modern Japan and An Establishment of Japanese Identity in Modern High Technology."3
The conference sought to identify early modern precursors ("DNA") of contemporary
high technology in Japan. Magic mirrors were a primary focus of attention because the
technology used to manufacture them had become the basis for an advanced technology
currently used in detecting minute imperfections in silicon semiconductor devices.4
In a similar way, the choice of the title "Makio" for the student yearbook at Ohio
State became a kind of "DNA" for the university, setting a comprehensive, global outlook
and ensuring that the study of science and technology and other subjects at Ohio State
would be conducted within a framework that always included the arts and humanities, as
well as foreign cultures, societies, and languages. Although not all current students know
the meaning or origin of their yearbook's title, its existence still serves as an important,
symbolic link, establishing a deep connection between Ohio State and East Asia.
Early Curricular and Research Support
Collecting of East Asian language resources has long been integrated into library
services supporting teaching and research at the Ohio State University. Even before
systematic acquisitions began, significant materials in East Asian languages or relevant to
East Asian Studies were being added regularly to the library’s holdings. Many of these
efforts were poorly documented, but outlines of the collecting activity in certain fields
can still be detected in the library collections.
This early collecting took place during the terms of Ohio State’s first two
university librarians, Olive B. Jones (Librarian: 1887-1927) and Earl N. Manchester
(Director of Libraries: 1928-1952).
 Miss Olive Branch Jones (1863-1933) came to Ohio State as a student (class of
1887) and never left. During her term as Librarian, she oversaw two major library
construction projects and subsequent moves of the library collections. However,
her real passion was the teaching of bibliography, something she continued even
after her retirement.5 As a pioneer in broadening the role of librarian to include
that of teacher and interpreter, Jones was decades ahead of her time. Her legacy
continues in the strong emphasis that continues at Ohio State on librarian
involvement in teaching, research and service.
 Dr Earl N. Manchester (1881-1954), her successor, was a true bibliophile who
knew the collections thoroughly.6 He had strong interests in the rare book and fine
arts collections.7 Manchester’s term as director saw an increase in the number of
department libraries and the building of a major library addition, the stack tower.
a) Ceramics
In the context of a flourishing pottery and ceramics industry in eastern central Ohio
(Roseville, Zanesville, etc) as well as the growing influence of Rookwood Pottery
(Cincinnati), Ohio State established the first school of ceramic engineering in the nation
in 1894. Ceramics at Ohio State continues to be one of the strongest programs in the US,
now offered as a specialization in Materials Science and Engineering. The Department of
Art has also continuously offered courses in ceramics. The library collections of the
American Ceramics Society, located nearby, in Westerville, Ohio, were incorporated into
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the Ohio State University Libraries, including publications in East Asian languages,
further strengthening OSU’s holdings in this field developed over more than a century.
East Asian language resources, along with artifacts from East Asia were collected in
support of these programs. Especially notable in this regard is an extensive collection of
books, ceramic art objects, glaze notebooks, test tiles, and other materials, including
books in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, that was assembled from donations of former
Ohio State students and teachers of ceramic art. Named in honor of Arthur E. Baggs
(1886-1947), a renowned ceramic artist and Professor of Art, the Baggs Memorial
Library is currently a special collection in the Department of Art.8
b) Art
Charles Fabens Kelley (1885-1960) was
Professor of Art at Ohio State during
1914-1922, when he taught a course
entitled, “Art of China and Japan.”
Elinor Pearlstein of the Art Institute of
Chicago summarized the Ohio State
phase of Kelley’s career by noting that
he “led the art department in a new
direction of ‘art for culture’s sake’ and
taught probably the first courses on
Asian art west of the Hudson River.”9
Kelley had been a founding member of
the College Art Association in 1911 and,
after leaving Ohio State, went on the
become Curator of Far Eastern Art at the
Art Institute of Chicago. After his
departure from Ohio State, a course on
"Oriental Art" was taught for many years
by Professor Ralph Fanning.
(Charles Fabens Kelley (1885-1960) in
1920, when he was Professor of Art at
the Ohio State University. Courtesy of
the Ohio State University Archives.)
Important reference works on Chinese and Japanese art published before and
during Kelley’s tenure at Ohio State are included among the East Asian collections, such
as complete holdings and an ongoing subscription of Kokka (国華) from No.1 (1889- ),
that may have been acquired on his recommendation (or perhaps Fanning’s? or
Manchester’s?), although no records establishing a connection have been identified yet.
The Kokka subscription continues to be maintained as part of the Rare Books collection,
for safekeeping due to the value of the plates that are laid into many issues.
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c) History
From 1925 through the early 1930's Paul Hibbert Clyde, a graduate of Stanford
University, taught the history of Japan, “Problems of the Pacific,” and related courses at
Ohio State.10 Some materials currently in the collections must have been acquired based
on his recommendations or with his help, particularly Ohio State's strong holdings of
works, primarily in English, dealing with issues prominent in public discourse at the time,
including the "Manchurian Question," which was also the subject of a book he published
while at Ohio State, International Rivalries in Manchuria, 1689-1922 .11 An early scholar
of East Asia, Clyde’s contributions to the Association for Asian Studies were
acknowledged by Earl H. Pritchard at the 50th anniversary of the association’s founding.12
d) Research Project in Japanese Social Relations
During 1948-1955 a Research Project in Japanese Social Relations was conducted
at Ohio State with funding from the U.S. Office of Naval Research and the Rockefeller
Foundation. Three researchers worked on the project:
 John W. Bennett (1915–2005); later Professor of Anthropology at
Washington University in Saint Louis,
 Iwao Ishino (1921- ); later Professor of Anthropology at Michigan State
University
 Michio Nagai (1923-2000); later Minister of Education in Japan (1974-76)
and Professor of International Relations at Sophia University.
Professor Kazuo Kawai (Political Science) served as project adviser. Seven “interim
reports,” numerous articles and at least one book were published under the project.
Bennett’s memoir of the field work he conducted in Japan, prepared much later -- during
2001-02, has been published on the Libraries’ web site, along with selected photographs
that he took in Japan as part of the project.13 He wrote that it “could be considered a last
report in the series produced by the Research in Japanese Social Relations Project.” This
web site won the David Plath Award of the Society for East Asian Anthropology in 2004.
(John W. Bennett. “Doing Photography and Social Research in the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1948-1951:
A Personal and Professional Memoir” http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/japan/ (accessed 6/30/2007). )
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Bennett also donated his papers, photographs, and other materials to the Ohio
State University Libraries, where they form a special collection within the Rare Books
Library. A similar collection of photographs and papers from another anthropologist of
Japan, John B. Cornell, was also received as a donation, arranged by Professor Richard
Moore (Human/Community Resource Development; Anthropology).14
Research materials used in the Research Project in Japanese Social Relations were
added to the library collections later. Included are many Japanese standard sources in
sociology and anthropology from the period of the project, as well as government reports
and runs of important journals and magazines, such as Ningen 人間 (Tokyo, 1946-1951).
Preservation work (replacement photocopies, microfilming, etc) has been undertaken for
some of these fragile materials, especially when no other copy was listed in Worldcat.
e) Other Fields
In the early years after World War II several other appointments of East Asia
specialists were made, primarily in the social sciences. Of particular note was that of
Meredith P. Gilpatrick, Assistant Professor of Political Science, specializing in modern
Chinese and Japanese economics and government. The author of a study of lawmaking
under the Guomindang, he was the only member of the Ohio State University faculty
listed in the first directory of the Association for Asian Studies, published in 1949.15
Early Systematic Development
Systematic development of the East Asian collections began during the term of Dr
Lewis C. Branscomb, Jr. (1911-2005), which extended for nineteen years, 1952-1971. 16
During Branscomb’s directorship there were many milestones for the Libraries, including
joining the Center for Research Libraries (1953), the granting of faculty status to
librarians by the University (1963), the founding of OCLC (whose offices were originally
housed in Ohio State’s Main Library), and the computerization of the Libraries’ shelf list,
paving the way for early adoption of an online circulation system, an online public access
catalog (OPAC), and related services in the 1970s and 1980s.17
Growth of East Asian Studies Beginning in the 1960s
Chinese linguistics was the first field to establish deep and lasting roots at Ohio
State. It became a focus of research and teaching in the Department of Linguistics in the
1960s, led by Professors Charles Fillmore and William S-Y. Wang. Several prominent
scholars of Chinese linguistics received PhD degrees in the early days of that program,
including: Mantaro J. Hashimoto (PhD 1965), Anne Yue Hashimoto (PhD 1966), and
Sandra A. Thompson (PhD 1969).18 Over the years the focus broadened to include the
other languages of East Asia. This continues to be an area of excellence within the
university. Library collections in support of Chinese, Japanese and Korean linguistic
studies, as well as works on general linguistics published in East Asian languages have
been systematically developed since the 1960s, supporting faculty research and the
training of graduate students both in the Department of East Asian Languages and
Literatures (DEALL) and in the Department of Linguistics.
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DEALL was established as an academic department in 1970. Prior to that, the
Division of East Asian Languages and Literatures had been set up in 1961 with three
professors (Eugene Ching, Fillmore, and Wang), listing elementary Chinese as the first
course taught. By 1962 Japanese was added, along with fully developed curricula leading
to BA degrees in Chinese and Japanese. The MA in Chinese Language and Literature
was added in 1967, with the PhD in Chinese Language and Literature approved next in
1969, followed by the establishment of the Japanese Language and Literature MA in
1971, and in 1988 the PhD in Japanese Language and Literature. In 2005 the BA in
Korean Language and Literature was added.19 DEALL has also established
concentrations in Chinese and Japanese language pedagogy along with summer programs
for teachers. The current chairperson of DEALL is Professor Mari Noda.
Expanding on earlier initiatives, the history of East Asia was established as a
concentration within the Department of History through successive appointments of
scholar/researchers, all of whom required specialized library research materials. Likewise,
the Department of Political Science continuously appointed specialists on China and
Japan, with similar needs for library resources. Scholars of East Asia were also
appointed to other departments in the social sciences. The History of Art Department
hired John C. Huntington, a scholar of Buddhist art and iconography. Together with
Professor Susan L. Huntington, he went on to develop the Huntington Archives of
Buddhist and Related Art, a vast photographic and digital repository of Buddhist art,
which in recent years has contributed of images to ARTstor, the premier visual database
in art history.20 By 1968 appointments were so numerous that an East Asian Studies
Center was established and a national search conducted, bringing Professor Samuel C.
Chu (History) to Ohio State from the University of Pittsburgh to serve as its first Director.
Acquisition of Maynard Creed Collection
Maynard Creed was an independent scholar/bibliographer and book collector
living in Cambridge MA at the time the first directory of the Association for Asian
Studies was compiled.21 Creed’s goal was to compile a comprehensive bibliography of
Western language books about China and Inner Asia, an updated version of Henri
Cordier’s Bibliotheca Sinica.22 In 1963 Creed’s collection of books and journals was
offered for sale by Goodspeed’s Bookstore (Boston) for $22,500.23 Word of the
availability of this collection for sale reached the Ohio State University, and Professor
William S-Y. Wang wrote a proposal to the Mershon Committee for Education in
National Security at Ohio State, which approved funding to purchase it.24 At the time of
its acquisition the Creed Collection comprised 3,300 book and periodical titles on
Chinese and Inner Asian art, bibliography, biography, history, literature, missions,
politics, religion, travel, and language, written in Western languages.
In the 1960s the Libraries’ book stacks were still closed to students; only faculty
and graduate students had access. Therefore, the Creed collection books were shelved
throughout the main collections, according to call number, and made available for
circulation, rather than integrated into the rare book collections, which had very limited
stack area. This arrangement made the materials available for use by members of the
growing East Asian Studies faculty. However, the Creed collection included rare books:
imprints from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as well as pamphlets,
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ephemera and rare texts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. When the book
stacks were opened to student access in the 1970s, they were still on the shelves where
they remained for many years. Fortunately, this situation has been rectified. Now they
either receive attention as rare books, or have been moved to the book depository.25
(William S-Y. Wang in 1962, when he
was Professor of Linguistics at the Ohio
State University. Courtesy of the Ohio
State University Archives.)
(Wen-yu Yen (1904-2005) in 1964,
when he was East Asian Librarian at the
Ohio State University. Courtesy of the
Ohio State University Archives.)
Appointment of Wen-yu Yen
At about the same time, Dr. Branscomb, facing requests to expand collecting for
East Asia as well as other area studies, sent one of the library administrators, Rowland E.
Stevens, on a study tour in 1963 of established area studies collections at various
universities. Stevens’ report provided a blueprint for library services, including the
establishment of a separate East Asian library collection. However, due to budget
restraints, Stevens’ recommendations were only partially implemented at the time.
Priority was placed first on appointing staff with appropriate language skills. In 1963
Sze-tseng Wang was hired as East Asian Cataloger, along with Yurii Kyogoku as a parttime Cataloger. In the following year (1964), Wen-yu Yen (嚴文郁) was hired to be the
first East Asian Librarian at Ohio State. Yen remained in the position until his retirement
in 1971. Although he only spent about seven years at Ohio State, the work that he did
during that comparatively short period had a major impact.
Who was Wen-yu Yen? As a graduate of Boone Library School (Wuchang),
Wen-yu Yen numbers among the librarian pioneers of China. Yen was born in Hanchuan,
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Hubei in 1904. After graduating from Boone, he first worked at Beijing University
Library under Dr. Yuan Tongli, whom he followed to National Beiping Library in 1926.26
During1930-32 he participated in a staff exchange with Columbia University where he
worked in the Chinese collection and completed an MA in the library school in 1932,
writing a thesis on the Si ku quan shu (四庫全書).27 After that he spent a year as an
exchange librarian in Germany before returning to National Beiping Library.28 He went
on to hold several other positions in China, before coming back to New York in 1949,
where he served as Chief of the Catalog Department at the United Nations Library prior
to his appointment at Ohio State in 1964. After retiring from Ohio State in 1971, Yen
moved to Taiwan where he continued an active professional life teaching library science
and writing articles and books in the fields of librarianship and Chinese studies. His next
retirement (from teaching) took place in 1985, but he continued his research and
publishing. In 1986 he received the Chinese American Library Association’s
Distinguished Service Award.29 Yen’s publications include his collected articles (1983),
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a history of Chinese libraries (1983),31 and biographies of American librarians
(1998).32 Wen-yu Yen died on September 25, 2005 at the age of 101.33
Wen-yu Yen devised a systematic acquisition plan for the Chinese collection.
That he was in large part able to acquire the major collectanea and other important works
necessary for Sinological studies within the short time he was at Ohio State, operating
under a budget that was never large enough to meet his aspirations for the collection, is a
testimony to his skills. Working tirelessly to demonstrate the value of the collections he
was building, Yen also organized an exhibit of works from the growing collection,
entitled, “Story of the Chinese Book” which was held in spring 1967.34 Records show
that he began acquiring Japanese books the same year.
Wen-yu Yen established a firm foundation for the development of Chinese studies
at Ohio State and the continued growth of East Asian collections in the Libraries. It is
also remarkable that he was able, at a rather late date, to acquire many Qing and
Tokugawa editions of important works that are now considered to be rare editions.
Guoqing Li, current Chinese Studies Librarian and Professor, published an annotated
bibliography of those works in 2003.35
Summing up his own sense that an era was ending, Yen submitted his last annual
report on July 8, 1971, writing: “In the 1960’s acquisitions were predominately
concerned with traditional China and Japan and a fundamental collection was built up
which it would become more difficult to duplicate as time goes on. Although choice
materials of this kind will continue to be added, but emphasis will increasingly be shifted
to more modern and contemporary matters.”36
Establishment of East Asian Studies Reading Room
With the retirements of both Branscomb and Yen in 1971, the East Asian
collections were at a turning point. Hugh C. Atkinson (1933 - 1986) became the new
library director. A visionary and charismatic leader, Atkinson became so closely
associated with innovation, risk-taking, and what at that time was called “library
automation” that an award was named in his honor after his untimely death while serving
as Director of Libraries at University of Illinois, where he went after leaving Ohio State.37
Atkinson was only at Ohio State for about five years.
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With regard to the East Asian collection, the most significant achievement of the
Atkinson administration was the establishment of the East Asian Studies Reading Room
on the third floor of the Main Library, along with reading rooms for other international
areas. Planning for this began in 1973, with everything in place by fall of 1976. A
controversial aspect of this was that librarians, staff and student workers were assigned
places in public carrels in the middle of the reading rooms, with little privacy. This issue
was resolved under the next library director, William J. Studer, when library staff were
moved to offices along a corridor adjacent to the reading room areas.
Appointment of David Y. Hu
David Y. Hu (胡應元) was appointed as East Asian Librarian in November 1971,
coming to Ohio State from a similar position at Washington University in St. Louis. Hu
continued the structure outlined by Yen, extending and enhancing the Chinese collection.
Notable acquisitions during his time include the Si ku quan shu zhen ben 四庫全書珍本
and a comprehensive collection of reprints of Chinese local histories. He also began
building a research collection on Chinese drama, both classical and modern, in response
to the research interests of faculty in Chinese literature. This has been continued as a
priority collecting area ever since. He also undertook a major Sinological research
project during the years that he was at Ohio State, the compilation of his Chinese –
English Dictionary of Chinese Historical Terminology. 38 David Hu was still working on
this book when he retired in 1986, completing and publishing it in 1992.
Foundations of the Japanese Language and Literature Collections
As East Asian Librarian, David Hu was also in charge of acquisitions of Japanese
and Korean materials. For Korean, as materials were requested or for special projects
aimed at collecting rsources on a specific subject, he was able to hire student assistants to
help place orders. However, in the case of Japanese materials, the number of faculty
researchers was growing and the demand was greater, so other solutions were sought.
Fortunately Professor James R. Morita, who had previously built up the Japanese
literature collection at the University of Chicago where he was Japanese bibliographer,
was hired to teach Japanese literature in DEALL in 1972. Although busy with teaching
and research, Morita gave recommendations to the library for acquisition of standard
sources, collectanea, collected works and other materials to support research and teaching
of Japanese language and literature. To provide ongoing acquisition of current materials,
David Hu also set up a small annual blanket order plan with the Japan Publications
Trading Company, Ltd. At the time of Naomi Fukuda’s visit to Ohio State to conduct a
survey of Japanese collections in 1980, Ohio State’s Japanese collection had grown to
10,971 volumes. Fukuda took special note of Morita’s contribution, writing: “The section
on language and literature, especially modern Japanese literature, is strong, and could be
maintained as a special feature of this collection.”39 Emphasis on building a strong
collection on Japanese language and literature still continues.
James Morita also initiated a required graduate course in DEALL on “Japanese
Bibliography and Research Methods” that is now taught by Professor Richard Torrance,
with my frequent participation in a “team teaching” format. A similar course on
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“Chinese Bibliography and Research Methods” was taught for many years by Professor
Yan-shuan Lao until his retirement in 1998 and has been continued by other faculty in
DEALL since then. These courses have been especially important in introducing
graduate students to library resources and preparing them to conduct research.
Appointment of Maureen H. Donovan
Naomi Fukuda also noted in her brief report about Ohio State’s Japanese
collection that, “The percentage of uncataloged items is large … within this
comparatively small collection.”40 In order to address the cataloging backlog, I was hired
in 1978 as a half-time Japanese cataloger with the rank of Instructor. Previously I had
been East Asian Reference Librarian at Princeton’s Gest Library and East Asian
Collections, but moved to Columbus where my husband, James R. Bartholomew, was in
the History Department, specializing in Japanese History. My academic training had been
at Columbia University, where I earned an MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures
and an MS in Library Service. While at Princeton I had been working on my Japanese
skills, so I took the position, eager to continue learning more about Japan while
cataloging the backlog, not realizing at the time that this would be the beginning of a long
career as a Japanese Studies Librarian. Over the years I was promoted to Assistant
Professor and then to Associate Professor. At the national level, I was privileged to serve
as Chairperson of the Committee on East Asian Libraries during 1991-94.
In 1977 Dr William J. Studer, was appointed as library director. Previously at
Indiana University, he served as director for twenty-two years, until 1999. Studer’s term
was characterized by constant change, innovation, and expansion, especially in such areas
as the online catalog, user education, library cooperation (including the establishment of
OhioLINK), collection growth, and the initiation of archival and special collections,
including the Cartoon Research Library.
The early years of Dr Studer’s term coincided with the advent of Honda of
America Manufacturing, Inc. in central Ohio, along with many other Japanese companies.
The state government responded by setting up the Institute of Japanese Studies (IJS) at
Ohio State as a special line item in the state budget for several years. The founding
director of IJS was Professor Bradley M Richardson (Political Science), a strong
supporter of the Japanese collection, who donated many research materials he had
collected in Japan, especially local election data and opinion poll reports. IJS provided
significant financial support for the Japanese collection both from state funds and from
grants or donations, most notably a gift that Honda Corporation founder, Sōichirō Honda
(1906-1991), made when he received an honorary degree from Ohio State in 1979.
Furthermore IJS created a framework that promotes communication between the
Japanese studies faculty and the Japanese Studies Librarian on library and information
matters. In 2001 an Institute for Chinese Studies was established and in 2005 the Korean
Studies Initiative began, providing similar frameworks for Chinese and Korean Studies.
Appointment of Shizue Matsuda as Consultant
With increased attention to Japan at the university, Studer endorsed the need for
the attention of a full-time librarian for the Japanese collections. In February 1981 my
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appointment was made full-time, with the addition of bibliographer duties to my
cataloging responsibilities. To ensure that this arrangement would be successful, Dr
Studer enlisted the help of his former colleague, Dr Shizue Matsuda, East Asian Studies
Librarian at Indiana University, who was hired as a consultant to provide training and
support. Under Dr. Matsuda’s careful tutelage I gradually learned the skills needed to be
a Japanese bibliographer. We worked closely as colleagues and further extended our
collaboration by formalizing an agreement for “Resource Sharing and Cooperative
Acquisitions of Japanese Materials” between Ohio State and Indiana in 1982.
Shizue Matsuda’s strongest recommendation to Bill Studer was the creation of a
separate East Asian library collection. Requests to do this had been coming from faculty
for twenty years. The 1963 report by Rowland E. Stevens also recommended it. An East
Asian Studies faculty library committee chaired by Professor James R Bartholomew
(History) had compiled a report in 1976 that was submitted to Dr Studer, providing
details about shelving of East Asian materials at universities throughout the nation.
Realizing that he faced unanimity among East Asian Studies faculty and librarians,
including the consultant whom he had hired, Dr Studer made the decision to establish a
contiguously shelved East Asian library collection. Working with Rob Kerr, Book Stacks
Supervisor, I developed a detailed plan for the project, which was undertaken without
changing online bibliographic records of the books at that time (since language codes
were not available in the records prior to retrospective conversion). Despite difficult
logistics involved in clearing space, collecting East Asian books, and relocating them to
the designated space on 9th floor of the stack tower, the project was completed ahead of
schedule in spring 1982.
Rapid Growth of Japanese Collections in the 1980s and 1990s
Even before being assigned duties of Japanese bibliographer, one of my first
findings was that holdings of Japanese studies reference books, especially the kinds of
sources needed for checking pronunciation of names and other bibliographical problems,
were not adequate for cataloging purposes. Working together with Ichiko T. Morita (wife
of James R. Morita who later became Head of the Catalog Department and after her
retirement from Ohio State, Head of the Japan Documentation Center of the Library of
Congress), I prepared a proposal to the Japan Foundation Library Support Program in
1979, which was successful. With this grant a firm foundation of reference books in
Japanese studies was established, and has been maintained continuously ever since.
The Japan Foundation Library Support Program provided important support for
the Japanese collections at Ohio State through seven successful proposals:
 The 1979 grant for reference works was followed by two others, in 1982
and 1984 for related projects.
 Works on Japanese landscape architecture were the focus of a proposal
funded in 1989, to support faculty and student researchers in that field.
 When Professor Thomas Kasulis came to Ohio State he found the
Japanese collections weak in holdings of the works of Japanese
philosophers, so that became the focus of a successful proposal in 1993.
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When Lucy Shelton Caswell, Curator of the Cartoon Research Library,
and I decided to develop a research collection of manga, it became the
focus of a proposal that was funded in 1998.
 As Ohio State’s Interlibrary Loan office became aware of a national need
for access to the back files of Japanese psychology journals indexed in
PsychInfo, those became the focus of a proposal that was funded in 2001.
These grant-funded, targeted acquisitions projects had the effect of shaping Ohio
State’s Japanese collection in ways that differentiated it from other collections nationally.
Therefore, although a relative newcomer among Japanese collections, Ohio State quickly
began contributing actively to the pool of Japanese studies research resources available
through OCLC’s Worldcat database. This was in contrast to a kind of “collective
wisdom” that existed at the time which held that newly established collections would be
bogged down duplicating the holdings of existing collections rather than adding anything
new or unique to resources available nationally. Since many Ohio State faculty in
Japanese studies were working in specialized fields or using sources that had not been
well developed at traditional centers of Japanese studies (such as modern poetry,
biographies of Meiji-era scientists, public opinion polls, rice farming practices, etc), it
seemed prudent to collect the sources that they needed, rather than to duplicate what was
already available at other libraries. By the mid-1980s a two-pronged Japanese collection
strategy was already in place:
 supporting local researchers and the training of graduate students through
a strong reference collection and in-depth holdings in Japanese language,
linguistics and literature (fields with large, regular graduate enrollments)
 developing unique strengths based on research interests of OSU faculty or
graduate students or in areas of excellence and distinction at Ohio State.
Three grants received from the Japan-US Friendship Commission for targeted
collection development projects addressing national needs were also important in creating
momentum for this Japanese collection development strategy:
 Project to collect scholarly works cited in the Kodansha Encyclopedia of
Japan and catalog them into OCLC (1987-88)
 Project to collect works dealing with Japanese business, industry,
technology, labor, and policy-making and catalog into OCLC (1988-90)
 Project to expand Japanese collection of materials on Japanese science,
telecommunications, productivity, employee training programs, and
dictionaries of technical Japanese language (1990-91)
Ohio State’s East Asian Studies Center (EASC) also began to gather momentum.
Under the leadership of Professor Chung-min Chen (Anthropology) in 1981 EASC first
gained status as a comprehensive National Resource Center for East Asian Studies,
supported under the auspices of Title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965 and the U.S.
Department of Education, and has retained it during 1981-91, 1994-2003, and 2006-2010.
Center funding provides significant support for library acquisitions and initiatives.
Further, EASC provides another framework for consultation and collaboration between
faculty and librarians. The current EASC director is Professor Patricia Sieber (DEALL).
The Ohio Board of Regents' Academic Challenge Program designated EASC a
Center of Excellence in 1986. Some of the funds from the Academic Challenge program
were used to establish a permanent budget line for a professional librarian in the
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Library’s Catalog Department, bringing personnel support for the Japanese collection
into parity with that for the Chinese collection (two professional librarians each). Due to
frequent turnover in the position (and not to a budget cut), however, the position was later
converted into support for graduate administrative assistants (GAAs), covering tuition
waivers plus stipends for qualified graduate students in any field of study. GAAs with
Japanese language skills were hired and trained in cataloging. Later the same approach
was adopted for Chinese and Korean cataloging as well. These GAAs are currently
supervised and trained by Professor Sherab Chen, Non-Roman Cataloging Coordinator.
Gustavus Basch Endowment
Gustavus Basch (1904-89) was an Ohio
State University alumnus (’26) and
successful businessman in Miami,
Florida. A quiet, unassuming man,
Basch died without any heirs, leaving
most of his fortune to charities in
Miami.41 However, he bequeathed $1
million in his estate to the Ohio State
University, with the stipulation that
income from the endowment be used to
“create and maintain a library for
Japanese and Russian books and
literature for language and cultural
studies.” The Gustavus and Sidney L.
Basch Memorial Fund which was
thereby established has enabled the
purchase of many important resources
and allowed acquisitions in new areas.
For example, recently collections of
maps for premodern geographical
studies were purchased to support
research of Professor Philip Brown
(History) and his students. Much of the
funding for purchase of the Meijiki
Kankōbutsu Shūsei (JMSTC): Bungaku
Gogaku hen 明治期刊行物集成 (JMSTC) 文
學•言語編, a microfiche collection of
12,866 titles of Japanese publications on
language and literature from Meiji
period, also came from this
endowment.42 (Additional funding came
from special allocations by the Libraries
and, most recently, from the NCC MVS
program, which enabled the completion
of the acquisition of this title in 2007.43)
Gustavus Basch in 1923, when he was a
student at the Ohio State University and
a member of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.
Photograph from The Makio (1923), 418.
Courtesy of the Ohio State University
Libraries.
Leon K. Walters collection and other special collections
In 1982 the Libraries purchased a collection of Japanese research materials about
Okinawa that Leon K. Walters, an Ohio State alumnus, had developed while working as a
civilian employee of the U.S. federal government in Okinawa during 1964 to 1972. His
main collecting interests were in Okinawan history, dialects, literature and folklore, but
included other areas as well. An avid book collector, Walters scouted out rare and
unusual items during his eight-year stay in Okinawa. In 1997 he donated his English
language collection about Okinawa to his alma mater as a complement to the Japanese
part, including some U.S. government documents and ephemeral materials related to the
U.S. occupation of Okinawa. Materials about Okinawa continue to be collected.
The Japanese collections received many other donations that are an important part
of their history. In 1980 Hiroshima University Library donated about 900 volumes of
duplicates of basic materials that helped establish a foundation for the collection. Gifts
and exchange materials received from other Japanese universities and, especially, from
the National Diet Library have also been essential.
Yurii Kyogoku (1916-2001), who was a cataloger at Ohio State, donated her
father’s (Kyōgoku Itsuzō 京極逸藏) collection of literary and Buddhist works (523
volumes), most of which were published between 1920 and 1940. The collection
comprised part of the public library at the Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah during
World War II.44 The Libraries have also received the papers of Toyo Suyemoto
Kawakami (1916-2003), another former librarian at Ohio State as well as a published
poet, who was librarian of the Topaz Public Library during her internment. She has been
hailed as the Japanese-American “poet laureate.”45
Special strengths in the Japanese collections also developed when distinguished
scholars were recruited. Most memorable in this regard was the arrival of Professor
Masanori Hashimoto (Economics). He submitted a list of sources needed for his research,
including a complete run of the Japanese population census (back to 1920) along with full
runs of scholarly journals and statistical sources on Japanese labor economics, his field.
Funding for the acquisition of these materials was provided by the provost, dean, and
other university administrators eager to recruit Hashimoto to Ohio State.
Faculty have also donated Japanese materials to the libraries, often contributing to
general strengths but sometimes creating special pockets of excellence. For example,
Professor J. Marshall Unger donated primary sources related to the romaji (romanization)
movement. At the time of their retirements several faculty members donated large
collections, including Osamu Fujimura’s (Speech and Hearing) strong collections on
Japanese linguistics and Katsumi Tanaka’s (Physics) collection of Japanese textbooks in
physics and mathematics. When its federal funding ended in 2005 the Eisenhower
National Clearinghouse for Science and Mathematics Education at Ohio State transferred
a collection of Japanese science education films from the 1960s to the Libraries.46
Donations that came from people not affiliated with Ohio State include Marius B.
Jansen’s (Princeton University) gift of his personal copies of Dai Nihon Shiryō 大日本史
料 and Dai Nihon Komonjo 大日本古文書, and the frequent contributions of popular
Japanese novels from Martin Wang (Chemical Abstracts Service), amounting to perhaps
a thousand (or more?) volumes over the years.
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Shashi Collection
Ohio State's collection of Japanese company histories or shashi 社史 began in
1984 with the purchase of about 900 titles from Nagatoya (a used book store in Kanda
Jinbōchō, Tokyo) with funding provided from two sources: a portion of the donation
from Sōichirō Honda (through IJS) and a portion of some special funds that University
President Edward M. Jennings made available to the Libraries. The original idea to
collect Japanese company histories was suggested by Professor Bradley M. Richardson,
Director of IJS, who had seen company histories in Nagatoya during a research trip to
Japan. The Japan Publications Trading Company, Ltd. handled the transaction.
Beginning in the late 1980s, I began contacting Japanese companies directly to
request donations of their company histories for the collection. The response from
Japanese companies has been overwhelmingly positive and supportive. Without their
cooperation this collection could not have been achieved! Correspondence with Japanese
companies has been handled mainly by GAAs and other students working under my
direction. Form letters are used to simplify the process. An archive of the correspondence
is being maintained. Donations of shashi have also been received from Japanese libraries,
including Waseda University and Meiji Gakuin University, who made their duplicates
available to help build this collection. Their cooperation has also been essential to the
success of this project. Selective purchases have also been made from used book stores.
A database constructed initially as a means of keeping track of correspondence
and acquisitions was revised into web pages and posted in 1995, a pioneering effort to
promote awareness of these research materials. This was enhanced with scans of some
tables of contents. During 1997-99 the data was incorporated into a searchable database.
Most recently a Japanese Company Histories wiki project has been initiated to provide
access to the collection.47 It is being adopted as a collaborative project of the Shashi
Interest Group, which meets annually at the Association for Asian Studies. The goal of
the wiki project is to promote awareness of shashi, coordinate with other librarians,
support the activities of the Shashi Interest Group, and reach out to researchers in a more
interactive way. It is the latest in a long series of efforts undertaken at Ohio State using
emerging, collaborative Internet technologies to support Japanese studies researchers
dating back to the 1990s through such projects as the “East Asian Libraries Cooperative
WWW,” Kinema Club and the Kinejapan mailing list, the “Union List of Japanese
Serials and Newspapers,” and the “Portal to Asian Internet Resources.”48
Manga Collection
The Cartoon Research Library was established in 1977 with a founding donation
from Milton Caniff, an OSU alumnus. It has grown since then to become the largest and
most comprehensive academic research facility documenting printed cartoon art. From
the time I began working as Japanese bibliographer, I considered it important that the
Cartoon Research Library include examples of manga 漫画 (also:マンガ; まんが), along
with histories of cartoons and comics in Japan.
It was only after the sabbatical year that I spent on a Japan Foundation Research
Fellowship at Keio University’s School of Library and Information Science in Tokyo
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during 1995-96, though, that I fully realized the importance of manga in Japanese culture.
After returning from Japan, I discussed this with Lucy Shelton Caswell, Curator of the
Cartoon Research Library. She and I decided to begin a coherent and systematic
collection of Japanese historical, modern, and contemporary manga and related secondary
literature, so beginning in 1997 I took up the challenge of doing that. This effort was
endorsed by a grant from the Japan Foundation Library Support Program in the following
year. Funds that we have put together from our own budgets were further matched with
central library funding. Recently the collection has grown at about 1,000 volumes a year.
During my sabbatical year at the International Research Institute for Japanese
Studies (Kyoto) in 2003-04, I was able to devote time to expanding my understanding of
what I increasingly think of as an “alternative bibliographic universe” of manga,
developing the kind of familiarity and expertise needed to develop this collection further.
My strategy for the manga collection is to develop a “broadly representative”
collection of manga, including at least some works by all of the most famous cartoonists.
Further, I seek out works about manga, writings by and/or about mangaka, “how to draw
manga” books, guides to manga and other related materials aggressively. Important
works are identified and then pursued actively until a copy at a reasonable price can be
located and purchased. Recent acquisitions include Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi manga emaki
東海道五十三次漫画繪卷 (1921), over 300 issues of Jiji manga 時事漫画 from the
1920s, about 100 issues of Manga: Shin Nihon Mangaka Kyōkai kikanshi 漫画 / 新日本
漫画家協會機關誌 (the political humor magazine that carried caricatures of Roosevelt
as a devil on its cover during World War II), and an original drawing of a page of manga
drawn by Tezuka Osamu. Recently original cartoons drawn by inmates of Sugamo
Prison in the early postwar period were donated to the collection.49 Shimizu Isao (清水
勳) also donated examples of early postwar akahon manga 赤本マンガ, a long run of
Comic Box, and many other valuable research materials for manga studies.
Many people at Ohio State and elsewhere, especially in Japan, have provided
advice to me as I have been building the manga collection since the 1980s. In particular
Professor Mineharu Nakayama (DEALL) not only shared his in-depth knowledge of
manga during the early stages of my work developing the collection, but also
collaborated with me in planning events in celebration of the April 7, 2003 “birthday” of
Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atomu 鉄腕 アトム) when he was director of IJS. At that time I
also curated an exhibit mounted at the Cartoon Research Library. The current IJS
director, Professor Richard Torrance, and I are also collaborating on programming related
to the manga collection. Over the years I have also learned a great deal about manga
from Ohio State’s students, especially those who have participated in my freshman
seminar, “Analyzing the Appeal of Manga,” since the 2005-06 academic year.
Appointments of Carmen Lee and Daphne Hsueh
Throughout this period the Chinese collections continued to grow and develop.
Following the retirement of David Hu in 1986, Carmen Lee, who previously had been
Librarian of the Needham Research Institute and the East Asian History of Science
Library (Cambridge, UK), assumed the position of Chinese and Korean Studies Librarian
in 1987. During about five years in the position Carmen Lee concentrated her efforts on
filling in gaps that had developed in areas such as reference books, periodical back files
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and fill-ins, and other essential sources needed to improve the collection’s research
potential. She also undertook a special project to collect Chinese contemporary fiction in
all genres, which continues today as a priority collecting area. With the arrival of
Professor Julia Andrews (Art), collecting in support of modern and contemporary
Chinese art began -- another continuing area of Chinese collection development.
When Lee left in 1992, her position was filled by Daphne Hsueh, who had
previously been a serials and rare book cataloger at Ohio State. Daphne Hsueh continued
the work begun by Lee, while also putting considerable efforts into establishing
relationships to receive gifts of Chinese books and periodicals, especially from
universities, and research institutes in Taiwan. She retired from the position in 1995.
Appointment of Guoqing Li
Guoqing Li (李國慶) was hired as Chinese and Korean Studies Librarian in 1996.
With an MA in East Asian Studies and an MLS, both from Indiana University, Li came to
Ohio State from the University of Florida where he had been East Asian Studies
Librarian. A prolific author, Li has been promoted to Associate Professor and then to
Professor, a rank he achieved in 2006.
Building on earlier efforts aimed at improving collection management for Chinese
materials at Ohio State, Li first addressed the situation of Chinese serials and periodicals,
which had already drawn the attention of his predecessors. By 1999 the records were
under control and he issued a guide.50 Li also took on responsibility for bringing older
Chinese materials out of the circulating collections and under proper treatment as rare
books or through placement in the remote book depository, as appropriate. In the process
he also compiled an annotated guide to the Chinese rare books in the collections.51 He
has conducted a similar evaluation for materials in the Creed collection.
Responding to new teaching and research interests in DEALL, where what was
formerly a concentration in “Chinese Literature” is now designated as “Chinese
Literature, Performance and Media Studies” and described as “going beyond canonized
literary texts to include visual, material and performative cultures,” 52 Guoqing Li has
built up a large collection of Chinese movies made since the 1930s. He continues to
develop the modern Chinese literature, classical and modern Chinese drama, Chinese art,
and Chinese language and linguistics collections. With two historians of Chinese print
culture in the History Department (Cynthia J. Brokaw and Christopher A. Reed), he is
also collecting resources for the study of print culture, both at the national level and at the
regional or local level, especially for Fujian, Guangdong, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
China’s minority cultures, especially the Yi minority, are the focus of another collecting
initiative, in support of research and teaching. Chinese materials in electronic formats are
also collected intensively. With the establishment of the Korean Studies Initiative in
2005, systematic development of the Korean collection is also underway.
Many gift and exchange arrangements that Guoqing Li negotiated have further
strengthened the collections, including 1,350 volumes from China’s National Office for
Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and 500 titles from the Taipei Economic and
Cultural Representative’s Office. Recently the library also received the collections of
Steven C. Averill (1945-2004) who had been a Professor of Chinese History at Michigan
State University until his untimely death. The Chilin Yu Endowment Fund for the
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Chinese Studies Library Collection was established in February 2007 with a gift from
Chilin Yu, Librarian at the Columbus College of Art & Design. The Fred M. A. and
Sandra Jones Wu Endowment for the Chinese Studies Collection was established in 2006.
Meanwhile, Ted and Carolyn Schmidt made regular donations over many years to the
Fine Arts Library for the purchase of research resources on Asian art, with an emphasis
on Buddhist art, the focus of Carolyn Schmidt’s PhD and ongoing research.53
In January 2000 Joseph J. Branin became library director with a mandate to
undertake planning, fundraising, and oversight of the renovation of the Thompson or
Main Library, originally constructed in 1913.54 This project is currently underway with a
projected completion in 2009. Despite his primary focus on the renovation and especially
on the fundraising needed for the project, Branin has demonstrated considerable interest
in East Asia. In particular, he endorsed exchanges of Ohio State librarians with
counterparts in China, especially at the Shanghai Library and Wuhan University’s
Library as well as its School of Information Science. The Wuhan exchange is part of a
long tradition of exchanges between the two universities that began in the mid-1980s.
The specific terms of these exchanges have been negotiated by Guoqing Li. 55
Profile of the Current East Asian Collections:
“OSU Libraries’ nationally distinctive strength is the combination of expanding physical
holdings with innovation in digital access to holdings elsewhere in the state, in the region
and in the world, resulting in a virtual library exponentially greater than any physical
collection could encompass. OSU’s own East Asian holdings have quadrupled in the past
thirty years … and contain nationally unique strengths due to a policy of acquiring major
source material neglected by other libraries.” 56
Librarians responsible:
Sherab Chen
chen.1140@osu.edu
Non-Roman Cataloging Coordinator and Assistant Professor
Maureen H. Donovan donovan.1@osu.edu
Japanese Studies Librarian and Associate Professor
Guoqing Li
li.272@osu.edu
Chinese and Korean Studies Librarian and Professor
Collection Statistics (as of June 30, 2006):
Chinese
166,433 volumes
Japanese
106,047 “
Korean
4,971 “
Total volume holdings:
277,453
Web Sites:
Chinese Studies http://library.osu.edu/sites/eac/
Korean Studies: http://library.osu.edu/sites/eac/kindex.php
Japanese Studies Blog: http://library.osu.edu/blogs/japanese
Japanese StudiesWiki: http://library.osu.edu/wikis/library/index.php/Japanese_Studies
Shashi Wiki: http://library.osu.edu/wikis/shashidb/
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Manga Blog: http://library.osu.edu/blogs/manga
East Asian Libraries Cooperative Web site: http://eas.lib.ohio-state.edu
Non-Roman Cataloging blog http://library.osu.edu/blogs/nonromancat
Non-Roman Cataloging Web site: http://library.osu.edu/sites/cataloging/NonRoman/
Works about the East Asian collections of the Ohio State University Libraries:
Donovan, Maureen H. and Yuji Tosaka. "Report on the Information Needs Assessment of the Japanese
Collections at The Ohio State University" (issue date: 4/25/2005) http://hdl.handle.net/1811/6180 (accessed
6/30/2007)
Donovan, Maureen H. "Daigaku Toshokan ni Okeru Manga Korekushon no Kadai to Shiten”「大学図書
館におけるマンガ・コレクションの課題と視点」ドノバン・モーリーン (Problems and
Perspectives from a University Library Manga Collection) Manga Kenkyū 6 (2004): 156-165.
Donovan, Maureen H. "Japanese Company Histories May Offer an Advantage" Success Stories: Japan,
June 2002, 8-9.
Donovan, Maureen H, and Lucy Shelton Caswell. "Ohaio Shūritsu Daigaku Toshokan no Katūn Risachi
Raiburari: Sōritsu 25 shūnen no ayumi to tenbō”「オハイオ州立大学カトゥーン・リサーチ・ライブ
ラリー創立２５周年の歩みと展望」ルーシー・シェルトン・キャスウェル＆モーリーン・ドノヴ
ァン 訳：小野耕世(The Cartoon Research Library of the Ohio State University Libraries: its 25 year
history and outlook for the future), trans. Ono Kōsei, Intelligence インテリジェンス, 2 (2002): 37-44.
Donovan, Maureen H. "Challenges of Collecting Research Materials on Japanese Popular Culture: A
Report on Ohio State's Manga Collection," in In Praise of Film Studies: Essays in Honor of Mamoru
Makino, ed. Aaron Gerow and Abe Mark Nornes (Yokohama: Kinema Club, 2001), 225-232.
Hu, David Y. “The East Asian Collection in the Ohio State University Library,” Committee on East Asian
Libraries Bulletin 57 (October 1978): 5-8.
Hu, David Y. Classified bibliography of Chinese Literary Works Held in The Ohio State University
Libraries. Columbus : The Libraries, 1981.
Li, Guoqing. Chinese Periodicals and Serials in The Ohio State University Libraries = Ehai'e zhou li da xue
tu shu guan Zhong wen qi kan mu lu 俄亥俄州立大學圖書館中文期刊目錄 Columbus : Chinese
Collection, the Ohio State University Libraries, 1999.
Li, Guoqing. “Sharing Chinese Bibliographic Resources in a Networked Environment: The Ohio State
University Chinese Collection and the OhioLINK.” in Proceedings of the International Conference on
Cooperative Development of Chinese Bibliographic Databases. (Taipei: National Central Library, 2000),
85-96.
Li, Guoqing 李國慶. Meiguo Ehai'e zhou li da xue tu shu guan Zhong wen gu ji shu lu 國俄亥俄州立大學
圖書館中文古籍書錄 = A descriptive catalogue of Chinese classic books in the Ohio State University
Library. Guilin Shi : Guangxi shi fan da xue chu ban, 2003 桂林市 : 廣西師範大學出版, 2003.
Raab, Alison A. “Manga in Academic Library Collections: Definitions, Strategies, and Bibliography for
Collecting Japanese Comics,” MA thesis, University of North Carolina, 2006. Note: See especially
Chapter V (”Manga in the Field: Manga Collection Strategies in Academic Libraries”)
http://etd.ils.unc.edu/dspace/handle/1901/233 (accessed 6/30/2007)
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Walters, Leon K. “An American Collector in Okinawa,” Biblio: the Magazine for Collectors of Books,
Magazines and Ephemera 2:12 (December 1997), 52-57.
1
Robert William Atkinson (1850-1929), who taught chemistry at Tokyo University, along with William E.
Ayrton and John Perry, who taught physics, are primarily associated with early research on magic mirrors,
followed by numerous studies by Japanese researchers. At the time that Mendenhall was conducting
experiments on magic mirrors with his students in Tokyo, Edward S. Morse returned to the United States,
visiting Ohio State on his lecture tour. It was from him that students learned the word “makio” (makyō).
On behalf of the students he is said to have visited “a Japanese employed now in the Boston Museum of
Fine Arts and asked him for the equivalent for Magic Mirror in Japanese and got the same word “Ma-kio”
or Ma-kyo, as the later and better spelling has it. He also gave Professor Morse the Japanese, or rather
Chinese characters representing those words.” (J. C. Galbraith, “The Makio …. Through the Years, 18801982,” The Makio 1982, 23). See also: Teijiro Muramatsu, “Chemistry: Catalyzing Indigenous Industry,”
Age of Tomorrow 126 (1993): 11.
2
http://www.ohiounion.com/makio/ (accessed 2/17/2008). None published 1881, 1893, 1979. Publication
temporarily suspended 1995-2000; resumed 2001- .
3
Exhibit: “Higashi Ajia kara Sekai e: Makyō” 東アジアから世界へ -- 魔鏡, Kyōto Daigaku Sōgō
Hakubutsukan , December 6-8, 2006.
Conference: Dai 8-kai Edo no Monozukuri Kokusai Shinpojiumu: “Kinsei Kagaku Gijutsu no DNA to
Gendai Haiteku ni Okeru Wagakuni Kagaku Gijutsu Aidentiti no Kakuritsu,” 第 8 回江戸のモノづくり国
際シンポジウム: 近世科学技術の DNA と現代ハイテクにおける我が国科学技術アイデンティテ
ィの確立, Kyōto Daigaku, December 6-8, 2006. (Note: The English translation of the conference title in
the text of this essay is from a poster promoting the conference.)
4
Kugimiya, Kōichi 釘宮公一, “Onkochishin no Kyōmen Hyōka Gijutsu: Makyō” 温故知新の鏡面評価
技術 : 魔境, Hyōmen kagaku 表面科学 16:1 (1995): 82-85.
http://www-surface.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sssj/Vol16/16-01/16-1-17.pdf (accessed 2/17/2008)
See also: Ferenc Riesz, “Makyoh topography: a simple yet powerful optical method for flatness and defect
characterization of mirror-like surfaces,” Proceedings of SPIE 5458 (Optical Micro- and Nanometrology in
Manufacturing Technology), (August 2004): 86-100.
5
George Schoyer, History of the Ohio State University Libraries: 1870-1970 (Columbus: Ohio State
University, 1970), 3-4. Also, Raimund Goerler, “Olive B. Jones and You” Convocation Address for Kent
State University, LIS, Columbus 2003, in the Ohio State University Knowledge Bank,
http://hdl.handle.net/1811/294 (accessed 2/17/2008).
6
Schoyer, 15.
7
“Interview with Ilse Wilhelmi November 7, 1984 conducted by Jay Ladd”
http://library.osu.edu/sites/archives/manuscripts/oralhistory/iwilhelmi.php (accessed 6/30/2007)
8
Carney, Margaret. Not just another library : the Arthur E. Baggs Memorial Library Collection at the Ohio
State University ... thirty-third annual NCECA conference special exhibition, March 17-20, 1999.
[Columbus: Ohio State University College of the Arts, 1999?]
9
Elinor Pearlstein, “The Chinese Collections at The Art Institute of Chicago: Foundations of Scholarly
Taste,” Orientations 24:6 (1993): 40.
10
Edward C.Carter, China and Japan in Our University Curricula (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1930), 140.
11
Paul H. Clyde, International Rivalries in Manchuria, 1689-1922 Columbus: Ohio State University Press,
1926 & 1928. (two editions)
12
Earl H. Pritchard, “News of the Profession: The Foundations of the Association for Asian Studies, 192848: the Introduction of Guests Honored at the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Association for
Asian Studies,” Journal of Asian Studies 22:4 (August 1963): 521.
13
John W. Bennett. “Doing Photography and Social Research in the Allied Occupation of Japan, 19481951: A Personal and Professional Memoir” http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/japan/ (accessed
6/30/2007)
14
Professor Richard Moore arranged for the donation of the photographs and papers of his mentor, John B.
Cornell (1921-1994). A finding aid is available: “The John B. Cornell Collection: a Guide”
http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/finding/cornell.php (accessed 6/30/2007)
21
“Membership of the Far Eastern Association: February 10, 1949,” Far Eastern Quarterly 8:2 (1949): 245.
Meredith P. Gilpatrick, “The Status of Law and Lawmaking Under the Kuomintang 1925-46,” Far Eastern
Quarterly 10:1 (1950): 38-55.
16
From this point in the paper, unless otherwise noted, my sources are office files that I inherited and have
maintained, but which have not yet been submitted to the University Archives, although my plan is to do so
in the near future, before the move back from a temporary office to the renovated Thompson Library in
2009.
17
Schoyer, 16-23. Also, “History of OCLC,” http://www.oclc.org/about/history/default.htm (accessed
2/17/2008)
18
Marjorie K. M. Chan, “Chinese Linguistics Program: History, Focus, Orientation”
http://deall.osu.edu/programs/graduate/chiLxProg.cfm also: http://people.cohums.ohiostate.edu/chan9/chlxprog.htm (both accessed 6/30/2007)
19
“History,” Ohio State University Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures,
http://deall.osu.edu/about/deallhistory.cfm (accessed 2/17/2008)
20
“The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art: a Photographic Research
and Teaching Archive” http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/ (accessed 6/30/2007)
21
“Membership of the Far Eastern Association: February 10, 1949,” Far Eastern Quarterly 8:2 (1949): 243.
22
I heard about this from Mr. Silverstein of Goodspeed’s bookstore, formerly in Boston MA when I visited
there in the 1980s with my father, Alfred M. Donovan, a longterm customer. When Silverstein heard that I
was a librarian at Ohio State, he asked if I had heard of the Maynard Creed collection. When I indicated
that I had not, he produced a detailed title list in 69 pages from his files, although the sale had occurred
more than twenty years earlier. He also mentioned that the collection had been evaluated by Achilles Fang.
Original files related to the acquisition of this collection were not readily available at the Libraries, so the
copy furnished by Mr. Silverstein brought renewed awareness of this very special collection.
23
“Ohio State University Acquires Big Chinese Collection,” Columbus Dispatch October 3, 1963.
24
The Mershon Committee for Education in National Security was the predecessor of today’s Mershon
Center for International Security Studies, established with a bequest from Ralph D. Mershon.
http://mershoncenter.osu.edu/about/mission%20and%20history/mission.htm
25
Examples of materials from the Creed collection now in the Rare Books Library include: Juan Gonzales
de Mendoza. Dell'historia della China. (1590); Nicolas Trigault, tr. Histoire de l'expedition chrestienne en
la Chine. (1618); Athanasius Kircher. China monumentis. (1667).
26
Sally Tseng, “Mr. Wenyu Yan: the 1986 CALA Distingtuished Service Award Recipient,” in Bridging
Cultures: Chinese American Librarians and Their Organization (Guangxi: Guangxi Normal University
Press, 2004), 274-276.
27
Yen, Wen-Yu. Ssu k`u ch`uan shu, "The Four Treasures Library" and its influence upon Chinese culture
an historical and critical study. MA thesis, Columbia University, 1932. [1], VII, [1], 124 leaves.
28
Tseng (2004)
29
Tseng (2004). See also: http://www.cala-web.org/award/dstngush.htm (accessed 6/30/2007)
30
Yan Wenyu 嚴文郁. Yan Wenyu xian sheng tu shu guan xue lun wen ji 嚴文郁先生 圖書館學論文集
[Xinzhuang shi] : Fu ren da xue tu shu guan xue xi ; Taibei Shi : Jing xiao chu Shu yi shu ju, min guo 72
[1983] [新莊市] : 輔仁大學圖書館學系 : 台北市 : 經銷處書藝書局, 民國 72 [1983]
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Yan Wenyu 嚴文郁, Zhongguo tu shu guan fa zhan shi : zi Qing mo zhi kang zhan sheng li 中國圖書舘
發展史 : 自清末至抗戰勝利 [Taipei] : Zhongguo tu shu guan xue hui 中國圖書館學會[1983]
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Yan, Wenyu 嚴文郁.Mei guo tu shu guan ming ren lue zhuan 美國圖書館名人略傳 . Tái-bei shi : Wen
shi zhe chu ban she, Min guo 87 [1998] 臺北市 : 文史哲出版社, 民國 87 [1998]
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Library Association of the Republic of China. LAC e-News (10/12/2005) 中華民國圖書館學會電子
報 (LAC eNEWs)民國 94 年第 22 期 (10/12)
http://www.lac.org.tw/LacBulletin/bulletinShow.aspx?NewId=371&type=1 (accessed 6/30/2007)
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Wen-yu Yen, “Annual Report 1966-67.” The report states that the exhibit was organized around five
themes: “1) The evolution of the form of Chinese script and the development of styles of writing, 2) The
materials of writing, 3) The form of the book with its different bindings, 4) Writing instruments: brush-pens,
ink-tablets, ink-stones, and paper specimens, 5) Chinese seals, the forerunner of block printing.”
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Guoqing Li 李國慶. Meiguo Ehai'e zhou li da xue tu shu guan Zhong wen gu ji shu lu 國俄亥俄州立大
學圖書館中文古籍書錄 = A descriptive catalogue of Chinese classic books in the Ohio State University
Library. 美 Guilin Shi : Guangxi shi fan da xue chu ban, 2003 桂林市 : 廣西師範大學出版, 2003.
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Wen-yu Yen, “Annual Report 1970-71” (July 8, 1971)
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ACRL/LAMA/LITA/ALCTS Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award
http://www.ala.org/ala/alcts/alctsawards/hcatkinsonaward/hughcatkinson.htm (accessed 6/30/2007)
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David Y. Hu. 胡應元編撰. Zhongguo shi xue ci hui 中國史學辭彙 = Chinese-English dictionary of
Chinese historical terminology. Taibei Shi : Hua xiang yuan chu ban she, Min guo 81 [1992] 台北市 : 華
香園出版社, 民國 81 [1992]
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Naomi Fukuda, Survey of Japanese Collections in the United States, 1979-1980 (Michigan: Center for
Japanese Studies, 1980), 112.
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Fukuda, 112.
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Geoffrey Tomb,”Who’s Who at Zoo? Mysterious Donor Leaves $2 Million,” Miami Herald November
14,1990. p. 1A.
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Published by Yushodo: http://yushodo.co.jp/micro/kensaku/meiji-1.html (accessed 6/30/2007)
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For more information: Maureen Donovan, “Meiji Publications,” Japanese Studies Blog
http://library.osu.edu/blogs/japanese/?p=33 (accessed 6/30/2007)
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The Ohio State University Board of Trustees. Board Meeting Minutes August 29, 2001, 52.
http://trustees.osu.edu/Minutes/2002/Aug2901FinMin.pdf (accessed 2/17/2008)
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“The Toyo Suyemoto Papers: a guide -- SPEC.CMS.161” (Compiled by Maureen H. Donovan and
Shelley Bloom in 2006) http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/finding/suyemoto.php (6/30/2007)
See also: Toyo Suyemoto, I Call to Remembrance (Rutgers University Press, 2007) which includes
reproductions of drawings and other materials from the collection.
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These were part of an official exchange of science education films between the US and Japan. Glenn D.
McMurry, Director of the National Information Center for Educational Media at USC led the American
delegation and described the project on the following web site-- (The films are still being processed.)
http://www.gregssandbox.com/mcmurry/sec10/10-trips.htm (accessed 6/30/2007)
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Japanese Company Histories http://library.osu.edu/wikis/shashidb/index.php/Main_Page
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East Asian Libraries Cooperative WWW: http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/ (accessed 2/17/2008)
Kinema Club and Kinejapan mailing list
http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Welcome.html (accessed 2/17/2008)
Union List of Japanese Serials and Newspapers. Revised edition (September 30, 2000)
http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/uljsn/ (accessed 2/17/2008)
Portal to Asian Internet Resources: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/PAIR/ (accessed 2/17/2008)
These projects were supported by the Ohio State University Libraries and by grants from the U.S.
Department of Education Title II-A (1994-96), Japan-US Friendship Commission (1994-2000), Sun
Microsystems, Inc (1995), AAU/ARL Global Resources Program (1997-98, 2000), and Honda R + D
Americas, Inc (1998-99), and U.S. Department of Education Title VI (2000-2006)
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Barrette, Bill. “Art and Exchange at Sugamo Prison, 1945–52: Visual Communication in Americanoccupied Japan,” JPRI Occasional Paper No. 33 (October 2004)
http://www.jpri.org/publications/occasionalpapers/op33.html (accessed 6/30/2007) Many of the cartoons
discussed in this paper are now part of the Cartoon Research Library collections. Fumio Fujiki, uncle of
Mutsuyo Okumura Unger, created the character P-ko for the Sugamo Prison newspaper. The donation of
over 200 of his original cartoons and drawings to the Cartoon Research Library was arranged by Mutsuyo
Okumura Unger. 27 original cartoons of prison life by inmate Tokio Tobita were donated by Buck
Langdon, a former prison guard who befriended Tobita while stationed at Sugamo. These materials have
been exhibited in New York, Philadelphia and Princeton.
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Chinese periodicals and serials in the Ohio State University Libraries = 俄亥俄州立大學圖書館中文期
刊目錄 Columbus: Chinese Collection, the Ohio State University Libraries, 1999.
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Guoqing Li (2003).
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Chinese Literature, Performance & Media Studies http://deall.osu.edu/programs/graduate/chiLiProg.cfm
(accessed 6/30/2007)
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Schmidt, Carolyn Woodford. Bodhisattva, headdresses and hair styles in the Buddhist art of Gandhāra
and related regions of Swāt and Afghanistan PhD diss, Ohio State University, 1990
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Thompson Library Renovation http://library.osu.edu/sites/renovation/projectoverview.php (accessed
6/30/2007)
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The Libraries’ Chinese Studies web site has news and photos related to the exchange:
http://library.osu.edu/sites/eac/news.php (accessed 6/30/2007) Also see: University Libraries’ News Notes
December 16, 2005 – “Delegation from Wuhan University, China, Visits OSU Libraries”
http://library.osu.edu/sites/staff/Newsnotes/nn051216.pdf (accessed 6/30/2007)
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The text of this profile is taken from the 2006-2007 Handbook for East Asian Studies M.A. Students .
http://easc.osu.edu/souce_files/eas_degree_programs/EASMA%20Handbook%2006-07.pdf (accessed
6/30/2007)
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