Guides: 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