Since 2009, the members of the Korean Collections Consortium of North America (KCCNA) have provided the “Ask a Korean Studies Librarian (or Ask Korea)”, a free-of-charge virtual professional reference service open to the public on matters related to Korean Studies. This is the only such resource in North America although the service is not limited to this continent. This reference service is initiated by KCCNA to reach out to institutions with small and medium sized Korean collections in an attempt to assist their resource needs by making accessible the collections developed by KCCNA member libraries. The KCCNA members have continued to provide reference helps to faculty, scholars, students and peer librarians who otherwise do not have access to Korean studies librarians’ expertise at their institutions.
Each month is managed by one designated KCCNA member who rotates the monthly duty among all 13 members. The librarian who is in charged for the month answers questions while other members are all back-up assisting users with additional information. This year 13 members took their turns filling various Korea related questions from all over the world.
January 2020: USC
February 2020: U of Michigan
March 2020: U of Toronto
April 2020: Princeton
May 2020: Stanford
June 2020: U of Chicago
July 2020: UCLA
August 2020: Duke
September 2020: Harvard
October 2020: UC Berkeley
November 2020: Hawaii
December 2020: Columbia
January 2021: U of Washington
February 2021: USC
The monthly designated institution will be subject to change
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