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August 28, 2023

TEAL News on UW Libraries Blog

This blog will no longer be updated. For the latest TEAL news, including a new post on Field Trip: Japan and Korea, see the UW Libraries Blog.


May 24, 2022

Azusa Tanaka, Japanese Studies Librarian, Honored with 2022 Distinguished Librarian Award

Picture of Azusa Tanaka

The Tateuchi East Asia Library and its staff are proud to celebrate the recognition of one of our own, Japanese Studies Librarian Azusa Tanaka, as recipient of the UW Libraries’ 2022 Distinguished Librarian Award. Tanaka serves faculty and students across the three UW campuses associated with the Japan Studies Program, centered in the Jackson School…


May 13, 2022

Hyokyoung Yi Publishes Book on Tateuchi EAL Korean Collection

Wosington Taehak ui Hanguk chaektul: Tong Asia Tosogwan ui pomul 1900-1945 워싱턴대학의 한국: 책들동아시아 도서관의 보물 1900-1945 (Korean Books of the University of Washington: Treasures of the East Asia Library, 1900-1945). Seoul: Yuyu Press 유유 출판사의, 2021. While on research leave in the 2019-20 academic year, Korean Studies Librarian Hyokyoung Yi researched and wrote a…


April 1, 2022

Tadoku Club Returns

A poster of the Tadoku Club

Keiko Hill In the 2021 autumn quarter Tateuchi East Asia Library was pleased to welcome back the Tadoku Club and its enthusiastic Japanese language learners for on-site meetings. Asian Languages and Literature Teaching Professor Izumi Matsuda-Kiami founded the Tadoku Club five years ago. Complementing the patient, intensive reading often associated with language learning, tadoku 多読,…


November 29, 2021

My Journey as a Japanese Collection Student Specialist

Note: This article, which first appeared in the Spring-Summer 2021 issue of the Tateuchi East Asia Library Newsletter, provides a student employee’s perspective on remote work during the pandemic. Whether working remotely or on-site, student employees played an important role in maintaining library services while our physical spaces were closed to users. Miyano Sato It…


October 1, 2021

Unveiling the History of an “Orphan Colony”: The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng Project

Picture of Tateuchi EAL’s rubbing of the 1679 stele inscription “Citang shugubei ji”

Shuqi Ye Mention “Jews” and “China” in the same breath, and many might think of the Jews who traveled to China from the west in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Less well known is that a group of Jews lived in the city of Kaifeng, in today’s Henan province, uninterrupted for nearly a thousand years….


September 10, 2021

E-Books in the Time of Covid (and Beyond)

A screenshot of the Dacheng database

Ian Chapman Decades into the digital age, the Tateuchi East Asia Library remains a stickler for print. Sure, we bow down to the convenience of online journals and the power of searchable databases. We even run workshops on digital scholarship. But for books we kept faith in print—until the pandemic. In a recent online meeting,…


August 10, 2021

North Korean New Databases

Hyokyoung Yi When the pandemic hit last spring, the UW Libraries quickly established the COVID-19 Emergency Needs Fund to help our faculty and students quickly transition to remote learning and research. Our first round of purchases from this fund provided access to essential resources for autumn quarter courses. For the second round, I requested two…


June 11, 2021

Working at Tateuchi EAL in 2020: A Student Employee’s Perspective

Chun Li Working at the Tateuchi East Asia Library as a student cataloging specialist is one of my proudest achievements at UW. I still remember how excited I felt when I was officially hired in January 2020. As one of the very few international students in my Master of Library and Information Science program, I…


June 4, 2021

Engaging with Korean Books Through Booksori

Image of the cover of the book "What is the study?", by Youngmin Kim

Seyoung Nam In early October 2020, as an incoming UW graduate student, I attended all kinds of information sessions to better understand my new living environment and the facilities available to students. I was particularly impressed by the UW Libraries, which not only provided online Korean books, but hosted great events like Booksori, in which…



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