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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RESEARCH GRANTS FOR LIBRARIANS PROGRAM

COVER SHEET

NOTE: Grant proposals are confidential until funding decisions are made.

INSTRUCTIONS: The applicant(s) must submit two (2) copies of their proposal. Applicants send 1 (one) printed copy of this form, accompanied with the body of the proposal, which constitute an application packet to the Chair of the division Research Committee, who forwards the packet to the Chair of the University-wide Committee. Applicants must also submit a second copy of the proposal electronically as an email attachment to the Chair of the divisional research committee who will forward on to the Chair of the University-wide Committee.

DATE OF APPLICATION: January 5, 2005

TITLE OF PROPOSAL/PROJECT: The Phase II of the Korean Diaspora: An Annotated Bibliography and Its Database,

EXPECTED LENGTH OF PROJECT: Eight months to accomplish research and complete database annotations

TOTAL FUNDS REQUESTED FROM LAUC UNIVERSITY-WIDE RESEARCH FUNDS: $5,878.00

PRIMARY APPLICANT:

YOUR NAME: Jaeyong Chang

(Include your signature on paper copy)

ACADEMIC RANK & WORKING TITLE: Associate Librarian for the Korean Collection

UNIT/NON-UNIT MEMBER: Unit member

CAMPUS SURFACE MAIL ADDRESS: East Asian Library, 208 Durant Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720

TELEPHONE & EMAIL ADDRESS: 510-643-0652 & jchang@library.berkeley.edu

ABSTRACT OF PROPOSAL: (Do not exceed space available in this space)

This project is to research periodicals and monographs, as well as literary works, published in the Korean language and then to construct a bibliographically annotated database to be available on the Internet freely, using the East Asian Library server. The project will help scholars in the UC-system and improve the UC-system’s library and information services available to all users via the Internet.

DOES THE PROPOSAL REQUIRE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

USE OF UC LIBRARY FACILITIES OR OTHER SITE(S) REQUIRING PRIOR

APPROVAL? (YES/NO) No

IF YES, INCLUDE BELOW SIGNATURE AND POSITION OF PERSON

AUTHORIZED TO PERMIT USE OF FACILITIES

_______________________________________________________

RELEASE TIME (YES/NO) No

IF YES, INCLUDE SIGNATURE (S) OF PERSON(S) AUTHORIZED TO

APPROVE RELEASE TIME ON PAPER COPY OF APPLICATION:

__________________________________________________________

USE OF HUMAN SUBJECTS? (YES/NO) No

IF YES, ATTACH APPROPRIATE UNIVERSITY FORM TO PAPER

APPLICATION FORM.

LIST ANY PREVIOUS RESEARCH GRANT PROPOSALS (DIVISIONAL &

UNIVERSITY-WIDE) FROM THIS PROGRAM THAT HAVE BEEN AWARDED TO

THE PRIMARY APPLICANT OR CO-APPLICANTS BY TITLE, INCLUDE DATE

OF COMPLETION AND AMOUNT FUNDED.

LAUC Research Grant (2004)

Primary Applicant: Jaeyong Chang

Amount of the fund: $4,346

BUDGET SUMMARY

Note: This Budget Summary should be based on the detailed

statement from the body of your proposal (part 5). Do not

include budget items funded by sources other than LAUC

Statewide Research Funds in this Summary.

TOTAL AMOUNT REQUESTED FROM LAUC STATEWIDE RESEARCH FUNDS:

$5,878.00

TOTAL AMOUNT REQUESTED FROM LAUC DIVISIONAL RESEARCH FUNDS:

$0.00

OTHER FUNDING OBTAINED OR EXPECTED (AMOUNT AND SOURCE):

FISCAL YEAR OF APPLICATION: 2005/2006

NEW PROJECT? (YES/NO): No

SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING? (YES/NO): Yes. (I will request a supplemental funding to maintain a web-based database for my project to the Center for Korean Studies, UC-Berkeley.)

SALARIES: $1,200.00

TOTAL SALARIES: $1,200.00

SUPPLIES: $0.00

TOTAL SUPPLIES: $0.00

TRAVEL: $4,178.00

TOTAL TRAVEL: $4,178.00

OTHER EXPENSES: $500.00

TOTAL OTHER EXPENSES: $500.00

TOTAL REQUESTED FROM LAUC STATEWIDE RESEARCH FUNDS: $5,878.00

Background

With the support of a LAUC research grant for the year 2003–4, I was able to make a research trip to northeast China during the summer of 2004. The purpose of the trip, as noted in my proposal for the grant, was to seek out periodicals and monographs, as well as literary works, published in the Korean language in northeast China. My ultimate goal is to compile a bibliographic reference work concerning the Korean diaspora.

I have two general conclusions concerning the trip. First, I should have made the trip earlier. Some publications have already been discontinued or are unavailable. While people can speak of their publication, lack of complete bibliographical records makes all but impossible any reliable identification of these publications. Second, even late, the trip was worthwhile since it allowed me to establish connections with scholars and professionals in the publishing world that will prove invaluable, with respect to both my current project and future acquisitions.

During the course of my trip, I learned that since the 1945 liberation of Korea, about 600 monograph titles have been published by 7 publishing companies; 5 newspapers are currently in circulation, while 35 others have been repeatedly circulated, discontinued, and subsequently revived; 14 periodicals are currently being issued, while 26 others have been repeatedly issued, discontinued, and subsequently revived. The subject matter of the publications ranges from literature to education, politics, economics, agriculture, and engineering. The target audience is similarly diverse, encompassing scholars, adults, youths, and women.

More significantly, I learned that Korean language publishing in northeast China falls into four distinct periods. The first period dates up to 1945, and was initiated by the first generation of Koreans who moved into northeast China with the intention of gaining independence from Japan. The second period, from 1945 to 1965, was driven by the subsequent generation of settlers, who can be said to have had a Chinese-Korean identity. The third period, from 1966 to 1978, could be characterized as a time of hardship, coinciding as it did with the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The Chinese government forced most of the Korean language publishing companies in the northeast to close down during this time. The fourth period, from 1979 up to the present, has been a period of revitalization, with the number of Korean language newspapers in circulation reaching 35 at times.

Completion of the first phase of the project has allowed me to begin selecting title and bibliographical information to be entered into a database. Due to budget limitation, the data has not yet been input.

Purpose

The second phase of my research for the work on the Korean publishing diaspora will take me to two former Soviet republics, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, to seek out publishers of monographs, periodicals, and literature, as I did in northeast China. The results of my research will be summarized in a database with bibliographic annotations and posted on the Internet, using the East Asian Library server.

I had originally proposed this trip last year, in conjunction with my trip to northeast China, but was granted funds sufficient only for the trip to northeast China. I am now applying for funds for a trip to Central Asia because I consider such a trip indispensable. Of the three million Koreans living outside Korea in Asia, two million reside in China and one million in Central Asia.

The purpose of the Korean diaspora project is two-fold: to provide bibliographic support to scholars in specifically related disciplines within the U.C. system; and generally to improve the support provided students and scholars in indirectly related disciplines, such as comparative politics, linguistics, history, sociology, and anthropology.

The Korean diaspora is primary among the research topics being pursued by scholars connected to U.C. Berkeley’s Center for Korean Studies. In a report submitted to the Korea Foundation in 2003 by Prof. John Lie, Dean of International and Area Studies wrote:

We hope to develop three programmatic strengths. First, we hope to become a major center of Korean diaspora studies. The study of overseas Korean[s], long neglected, demonstrates that Korea has always been, so to speak, already globalized. . . . We cannot but take cognizance of the widespread dispersal of ethnic Koreans not just in North America but in virtually every part of the world.”[1]

In addition, in April 2003, UCLA held a conference entitled “100 Years of Korean American Experience: Historical Perspectives and Historical Materials” with the general purpose of studying the background of the Korean diaspora and airing scholarly exchange on topics ranging from the social sciences to humanities.

With the development of China’s new economy, the collapse of the USSR, and the emergence of sovereignty among the Central Asian breakaway republics since the 1990s, research on the Korean diaspora has gained ground. During the past ten years, the number of well-received publications has increased. Publications such as “The Korean Diaspora in the World Economy” (2003), edited by Fred Bergsten and Inbom Choi, and “The Korean Diaspora and Korean Ethnic Identity from the Global Perspective”, by In-jin Yoon, deal with the topic from the broad viewpoint of economics and anthropology. Recent articles concerning the Korean diaspora and the diaspora in China include “Diaspora Koreans in China: An Introduction,” by Edward Taehan Chang, associate professor of Ethnic Studies and former director of the Center for Asian Pacific America at U.C. Riverside; and “Ethnicity as Political Instrument among the Koreans of Northeast China,” by Bernard Olivier. Recent articles about the Korean community in the former Soviet Union include “The Deportation of 1937 as a Local Continuation of Tsarist and Soviet Nationality Policy in the Russian Far East,” by German Kim, and “The Language Policy in Central Asia,” by Sung-chol Ho.

These publications demonstrate modern scholars’ interest and research activity in the field of the Korean diaspora from a range of viewpoints. Unfortunately, these scholars historically have been limited to consulting research materials available in the United States and South Korea even while the focus of their research has been the Korean diaspora, including the diaspora in China and the former Soviet Union. A bibliographic study and systematic analysis of existing Korean-language periodicals and monographs in China and the former USSR is very much needed. Such a work would be a milestone in the field. The annotated bibliography I propose compiling and making available over the Internet would provide users of the U.C. system library and information services a unique resource.

Methodology

The first part of the second phase of this project will require a research trip to Tashkent, in Uzbekistan, and Almaty, in Kazakhstan, where over 90% of the Chinese-Korean and 80% of the “Soviet-Korean” (a term not redefined since the fall of the USSR) are living. Visiting leading scholars, libraries, publishers, and research institutions in the field will allow me to document thoroughly unique resources previously known only to those who had traveled to Central Asia.

In Almaty, Prof. German Kim, chair of the Department of Korean Studies, Kazakh State National Al-Farabi University, will assist me in my research. This recently published “The History, Culture, and Languages of Koryo Saram” presents a general historiographical and bibliographical sketch of the pre-Revolutionary, Soviet, and international scholarly literature on Koreans living in the former Soviet Union. It has been difficult to draw up a tentative schedule of other scholars or sites to visit because of the geographical distances, information gaps, poor communications common in Central Asia. I am currently trying to contact the publisher of the Korean weekly Koryo Ilbosa in Almaty and Association of the Korean Culture in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. I will continue to attempt to establish other contacts before traveling to Central Asia.

The second part of this phase of the project will be the creation of a database accessible over the Internet via the East Asian Library’s server. It will include an annotated bibliography of Korean language materials published in China and the former Soviet Union. Using Microsoft Access, I will first input bibliographical data that I have and will have collected on my trips. The database will basically be composed of a table, including author as the primary key, title, publisher, publication year, and holding information; a form to input the data; another form to show search results. I will then provide the databases on Internet by decoding and compiling the data, using ASP (Active Server Pages) to establish contact between the database and the Internet. Thereafter, the database will be searchable by author, title, publisher, year, and holdings information in North America.

The database will be updated periodically. Maintenance of the web-based database will be performed twice a year, and new bibliographical information will also be added at that time. For this, I will request supplemental funding from the Center for Korean Studies, U.C. Berkeley. I will also present my project proposal at the next annual Committee on East Asian Libraries conference.

Timetable for completion of this project

July, 2005 Preparation for research trip including researching more bibliographical information and arranging schedules with visitors

August or September, 2005 Research trip

October - December, 2005 Analysis of collected information

January - April, 2006 Constructing and uploading a database

Budget

Travel

Airfare

San Francisco – Tashkent (round trip) =$1,550.00

Tashkent – Almaty (round trip) =$250.00

Meal & Accommodation[2]

Tashkent, Uzbekistan $178 @ 5 nights =$890.00

Almaty, Kazakhstan $248 @ 5 nights = $1,488.00

Travel Total = $4,178.00

Salary

A student will be hired to input bibliographical data for the annotated bibliography.

Student 100 hours per hour ($12.00) = $1200.00

Other expenses

Acquisition and copy of some sample materials will be needed.

Materials and copy = $500.00

Total anticipated expense $5,878.00

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SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET INFORMATION

This Sheet Must Accompany the Grant Application

PER DIEM

Please indicate the source of the per diem rates used in the application

a. Federal Government

b. University

c. Other _____________________________________________________

d. Other _____________________________________________________

Location Rate Source

1. Tashkent, Uzbekistan $890.00 ($178 @ 5 nights) A

2. Almaty, Kazakhstan $1,488.00 ($248 @ 5 nights) A

This per diem includes accommodation and meals.

TRAVEL

Please indicate the source of the travel information used in the application

a. Federal Government

b. University

c. Internet Search (list which service used)____________________

d. Travel Agency

e. Other ________________________________________________

Location Type Amount Rate Source

1 Tashkent Air $1,550.00 D

2. Almaty Air $250.00 D

Jae-Yong Chang

2038 Donald Dr.

Moraga, CA 94556

Tel: 925-377-0684

Jchang@library.berkeley.edu

EDUCATION

• M.L.I.S. University of Washington August 1999

School of Library and Information Science

Seattle, WA

• M.A. University of Washington June 1998

Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies

(Korean Studies)

Seattle, WA

• B.A. Chonbuk National University August 1995

History (Major Emphasis: Asian History)

Chonju, South Korea

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Associate Librarian for Korean Collection (Full time)

University of California, Berkeley, East Asian Library

May 2003 – Present

• Developing and maintaining the Korean language collection

• Performing original cataloging in all formats for Korean language materials

• Providing reference and consultation service on Korean Studies

• Supervising and training support staff for the Korean language materials

Korean Studies Librarian (Full time)

University of Toronto, The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library

March 2001 – April 2003

• Developing and maintaining the Korean language collection

• Evaluating Korean language materials in all formats

• Performing original cataloging in all formats for Korean language materials

• Providing reference and consultation service on Korean Studies

• Supervising and training support staff for the Korean language materials

• Coordinating Korean language materials gift & exchange

Korean Specialist (Full time)

OCLC, Online Computer Library Center, Inc., Technical Processing Department

January 2000 – February 2001

• Performed original cataloging in all formats for Korean language materials

• Developed and maintained the Korean language collection

• Consulted with clients to develop project specifications for Korean language collection

Cataloging Internship (Part time)

University of Washington, Suzzallo and Allen Libraries, Monographic Services Division June 1999 – December 1999

• Performed cataloging (copy and original) of monographic materials and Internet resources

• Learned how to establish authority files in NACO and SACO

• Developed expert knowledge of cataloging

Library Assistant (Part time)

University of Washington, East Asian Library

May 1997 - December 1998

• Assisted staff with processing of new material, bibliographic searching, and sorting and shelving for the Korean language materials

• Performed copy cataloging of Korean language materials

• Performed variety circulation desk duties

NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Korean Excellent (Native Speaker)

• Chinese (classical) Excellent (Read the Four Books and the Five Classics)

• Russian Good (Studied for two years)

• Japanese Good (Studied for three years)

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

• November, 2004 2004 Autumn Seminar for Academic and Research Libraries hosted by Korea Education & Research Information Service, “The consortial purchase of Korean online databases in North America”, Seoul, Korea

• September, 2003 41th Annual Conference for Librarians hosted by Korean Library Association, “A case study of building California Digital Library”, Cheju, Korea

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Member of the East Asian Digital Library Group (EADLG) of the University of California, 2003 -

• Member of Committee on Library Technology, the Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL), 2002 -2004

• Chairman of the Korean Collections Consortium of North America, 2002 - 2003

• Member of Ad Hoc CEAL Membership Committee, 2002 – 2003

• Secretary of the Korean Collections Consortium of North America, 2001 – 2002

• Member of Task Force on American Library Association (ALA) Affiliation,

Association for Korean-American Library and Information Science Professionals (provisional), 2000 - 2002

OTHER ACTIVITIES

• Instructed on XML for East Asian Librarians in the Pre-Conference Workshop, March 2, 2004, San Diego, CA

• Attended the CEAL/LC Workshop on the Cataloging of Buddhist Titles, March 24-25, 2003, New York, NY

• Attended the LC-CEAL East Asian Art Cataloging Workshop and CJK Rare Book Cataloging Sessions, April 1-2, 2002, Washington, D.C.

• Attended the Workshop on the Korean Studies Librarianship, March 20, 2001, Chicago, IL

GRANTS & FUNDS

• $10,000 Center of Korean Studies, the University of California, for technical processing on the books of Asami Collection, the rare Korean language materials (October, 2004)

• $4,346 The Librarians Association of the University of California (LAUC) for the research project named “The Korean Diaspora: An Annotated Bibliography” (May, 2004)

• $2,810 Korea Foundation for updating a web site for the Korean Collections Consortium of North America (April, 2004)

• $100,000 Korea Foundation for cooperative acquisition within the Korean Collections Consortium of North America, the University of Toronto (January, 2002)

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[1] http:kf.or.kr/english/oversears/o6_3.html

[2] Per Diem is based on the US Federal government rate includes three meals, accommodation, and local transportation.

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