Korean Studies

Korean Instruction Introduction

Korean Collection at UCLA

• Where: East Asian Library /Young Research Library
• How many: 43,000 books, Journals, non print format materilas in Korean language as of June 2006
• Charatersitics: The largest Korean studies program in North America/ 7th largest Korean collection in North America
• Subject Strength: Archaeology, Premodern and modern Korean history, buddhism, Crhistianity, Folklore, Korean literature
• Assigned subject areas from Korea Foundation: Non contemporary language, Library and Information science, publications on Korea and Koreans publisehd in South America, Publications on Korea and Koreans published in South East Area in U.S. including religion, archaology, folklore.

Search and Uses

1. How to Find Library Materials:Library Catalogs

• From US:
  
  • UCLA library catalog :Print and non print format Library materials from UCLA
  • Melvyl catalog:Union catalog of UC campuses
  • WorldCat :Union catalog of OCLC member instituions
  • RLG Union catalog :Research Library Group(RLG) member institution
    *Melvyl, WorldCat, RLG union catalogs are providing necessary information for requesting the Interlibrary Loan service
  
  
• From Korea: RISS/ National Library of Korea/ National Digital library*
  • Korean Online Union Catalogs (Korean Education & Research Information Service)
    Union catalogs of 300 university libraries in Korea.
  • National Library of Korea (National Deposit Library of Korea)
  • National Assembly Library (Korean Dissertation Database)
  • Digital Library 국가전자도서관
    List of digital libraries sites including the National Library of Korea, the National Assemgly Library of Korea, the Supreme Court Library, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST) library and etc

2. How to borrow and use library materials in distance

• Interlibrary loan request to libraries in US as well as in Korea
• Document Delivery Service for UCLA user and Non UCLA user
• Subscribed E-resources from off campus (VPN connection required) and on campus(Authentificatio is not required)

3. Search Strategy of Korean studies E-resource: Examples

By Type

• Monographs-> KSI E books
• Scholarly Journals-> DBpia and KISS
• Newspaper articles -> KINDS/Choson Ilbo Archive
• Archival materials -> The History of Korean Independent Movement Online
• Audio/Visual materials ->EncyKorea/E-museum

By Subject

• History -> Korean History Data Integration System
• Performing art -> Munhwa Yesul Chonbo System
• Film ->Korean Film Archive

Korean Studies E-Resources

Please refer the Remote E-resource pages and Web resource pages for this section.

 

Search Practice

Search Practice Questions

1. Search the full text article:임영철, 이민 커뮤니티의 언어의식(A Study of Language Identity in Immigrant Communities), 사회언어학 제14권 1호, 2006.
2. Search special exhibtion of "Life cycle of Koreans" and its visual materials from the internet.
3. Find a full text newspaper article on "the fire at Ilin Yokwan(일인여관화재)" on 1910 from the Taehan maeil sinbo(대한매일신문).
4. Search the letter of Tosan An,changho sent to his wife, Hye ryon Ahn in 1932, "安昌浩가 이혜련에게 보낸 서신(1932.6.19)"
5. Seach E-book title, "모바일인터넷 이용자연구(research on Mobile internet users)"

Search Practice Answers

1. From DBPIA, online Full text articles database, search by author name or Journal title
2. Visit the E-museum site to find special exhibtions in Korean museums.
3. Use KINDS newsarticle database, Click the old newspaper(고신문) and search the keyword "일인여관화재"
4. Go to the The History of Korean Independent Movement Online(독립운동사자료) and search the 독립운동가 문건류-안창호 5. Use KSI E-book service and search the book title..