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Korean Collections Consortium of North America: About KCCNA

Milestones

1994 University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, Harvard University, University of Hawai‘i, at Mānoa, University of Southern California, and University of Washington first launched the Consortium.
1995  University of Chicago joined the Consortium
1996  University of California, Los Angeles join the Consortium
1997  University of Toronto joined the Consortium as the first institution in Canada.
1999  The Consortium concluded an initial five-year program successfully.
2000  The proposal to the Korea Foundation for the funding of the second five-year program (2000-2004) was approved.
2003  University of Michigan joined the Consortium.
2005  The Consortium concluded the second five-year program successfully.
2006  The proposal to the Korea Foundation for the funding ($30,000 per year) of the third five-year program (2006-2011) was approved.
2006  Two universities on the West Coast, Stanford University and the University of British Columbia, Canada, joined the Consortium.
2011 The Consortium concluded the third five-year program successfully.
2012 The proposal to the Korea Foundation for the funding ($20,000 per year) of the fourth five-year program (2012-2016) including two new memberships, Duke University and Princeton University was approved.
2016 The Consortium concluded the fourth five-year program successfully.
2017 The proposal to the Korea Foundation for the funding ($18,000 per year for collection development, $10,000 per year for research grant, and $8,218 for LibGuides and LibAnswers) of a three-year program (2017-2020) was approved. University of British Columbia withdrew its membership from the Consortium.
2020 The proposal to the Korea Foundation for the funding ($15,000 per year for collection development, and $8,975 for LibGuides and LibAnswers) of a three-year program (2020-2021 through 2022-2023) was approved. 

Statistics

Growth of CJK Volumes from 1994 to 2021

Year*

Chinese

Japanese

Korean

Korean Share %

1994

          6,765,314

          4,202,447

            592,720

5.13%

1995

          7,286,079

          4,454,549

            656,637

5.30%

1996

          6,861,491

          4,267,173

            688,238

5.82%

1997

          7,401,967

          4,504,650

            721,148

5.71%

1998

          7,814,036

          4,756,808

            740,449

5.56%

1999

          5,922,473

          3,580,239

            536,635

5.35%

2000

          7,911,381

          4,895,226

            852,481

6.24%

2001

          7,851,505

          4,831,111

            880,661

6.49%

2002

          8,023,641

          4,971,403

            926,154

6.65%

2003

          8,634,668

          5,306,405

          1,010,028

6.76%

2004

          9,111,816

          5,416,832

          1,047,714

6.73%

2005

          8,892,483

          5,306,933

          1,054,452

6.91%

2006

          9,606,071

          5,634,434

          1,158,262

7.06%

2007

          9,419,647

          5,689,267

          1,175,131

7.22%

2008

          9,786,345

          5,942,392

          1,250,464

7.36%

2009

        10,022,336

          6,000,024

          1,316,669

7.59%

2010

        10,159,730

          6,106,210

          1,383,976

7.84%

2011

        10,289,582

          6,255,088

          1,467,545

8.15%

2012

        10,848,684

          6,385,561

          1,548,669

8.25%

2013

        11,204,185

          6,607,579

          1,622,748

8.35%

2014

        11,156,557

          6,624,800

          1,694,461

8.70%

2015

        11,530,051

          6,849,249

          1,769,737

8.78%

2016

        10,883,118

          6,345,672

          1,762,888

9.28%

2017

        11,182,496

          6,500,362

          1,856,888

9.50%

2018

        10,845,432

          6,358,703

          1,886,501

9.88%

2019

        11,168,412

          6,517,195

          1,968,205

10.01%

2020

        10,118,746

          6,080,098

          1,779,448

9.90%

2021

        10,238,791

          6,122,095

          1,939,089

10.60%

*The number of reporting institutions varies each year, thus yearly differences may not represent the actual increase or decrease.

Number of Korean Records in WorldCat as of 2021

Year

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

Number

219,639

230,877

251,299

289,027

327,062

374,376

Year

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

Number

408,691

464,931

501,317

542,606

590,240

628,127

Year

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

Number

680,223

1,015,814

1,389,952

1,953,796

2,371,513

2,668,549

Number of Korean Records in WorldCat

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