Handbook for Asian Studies Specialists: A Guide to Research Materials and Collection Building Tools

The Handbook for Asian Studies Specialists is designed to be useful for library and information science students as well as librarians working in the area of Asian Studies research support and collection development. Within the handbook, Asian Studies is defined as a cross-disciplinary area of study related to East Asia, including China, Japan and Korea.

The majority of content is dedicated to an annotated bibliography of reference and research resources, with preceding chapters providing an introduction, instructions on use and a definition of the scope of Asian Studies. Within this scope, the cross-disciplinary needs of an Asian Studies collection are...