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Public Service Contacts
Please feel free to contact the Reference and Information Office for general questions or any of the subject specialists for your research needs.
Reference and Information Office
180 Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: 607-255-8199
Asia Reference email: asiaref@cornell.edu
Questions to the Asia Reference email address will be answered where possible by Reference staff or referred to the appropriate specialist.
ATKINSON, Carole
Senior Information Assistant
180 Kroch Library
Email: cea1@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-8199
Responds to asiaref email questions, handles general reference questions, supervises student staff, and gives tours of Asia Collections
Echols Collection On Southeast Asia
GREEN, Gregory
Curator
179 Kroch Library
Email: ghg4@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-8889
Curatorial responsibilities, selects and maintains materials on Southeast Asia, handles reference on Southeast Asian topics.
Languages: Lao, Thai, Khmer
PETERSEN, Jeffrey
Southeast Asia Librarian
178 Kroch Library
Email: jwp42@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-7229
Selects materials on Insular Southeast Asia (Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore), assists with reference.
Languages: Tagalog, Indonesian
NASH, Lorena
Administrative Supervisor
177 Kroch Library
Email: ld286@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-4189
Office administration, including materials assistance and the hiring and direct supervision of student workers. Selects General Asia materials.
ATKINSON, Carole
Senior Information Assistant
180 Kroch Library
Email: cea1@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-254-8392
Responds to asiaref email questions, handles general reference questions at Asia Desk, supervises student staff, and gives tours of Asia RR, Echols special projects.
South Asia Collection
BLEDSOE, Bronwen
Curator
181 Kroch Library
Email: bb246@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-9479
Curatorial responsibilities, Selects and maintains materials on South Asia, handles reference on South Asian topics.
Sanskrit, Hindi, Nepali, Bengali, and other languages of northern India.
LEFEVER, Lisa
Collections Assistant III
South Asia Collection
182 Kroch Library
Email: ll31@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-9777
Office administration, including materials assistance and the hiring and direct supervision of student workers.
Wason Collection on East Asia
ZHENG, Liren
Curator
172 Kroch Library
Email: lz14@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-5759
Curatorial and administrative responsibilities, directs selection of Chinese, Korean and western materials on East Asia, supervises staff, develops projects, public relations, fund raising and grant applications, general logistics, inter-departmental relations, specific reference service.
MCKEE, Daniel
Japanese Bibliographer
173 Kroch Library
Email: djm53@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-4737
Responsible for the development, promotion and maintenance of the Japan collection, including Japanese reference, selection of Japanese language materials and western language materials on Japan.
Carlson, Jing
Collections Assistant
171 Kroch Library
Email: jlc523@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-4357
Office administration, including materials assistance and the hiring and direct supervision of student workers.
Library Technical Services Staff who work on Asia materials
ABEL, Ben
Southeast Asian Serials Assistant
Email: ba16@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-5118
Indonesian, Malaysian languages
BUI, Yen
Original Cataloger
Email: ytb1@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-5752
Burmese, Vietnamese languages
CHEN, Mei-Hsi
Copy Cataloger
Email: mc17@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-5752
Chinese, Japanese languages
KIM, Sung Ok
Original Cataloger
Email: sok1@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-5752
Korean language
HAVANANDA, Sutani
Orderer/inputter
Email: sh549@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-5752
Thai language
LIN, Shu-jan (Grace)
Orderer/inputter
Email: sl53@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-9487
Chinese Language
LYONS, Chun Mei
Serials Processing
Email: cl26@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-5118
Chinese language
MCCARTY, Apikanya
Original Cataloger
Email: am224@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-5752
Lao, Thai, Khmer languages
MEI, Teresa
Original Cataloger
Email: tkm2@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-5752
Chinese, Japanese languages
MYINT, Swe Swe
Inputter/receiver
Email: sm89@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-9488
Burmese language
ROSS, Sarah
Original Cataloger
Email: str1@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-5752
Indonesian, Malaysian, and Western languages
TALMADGE, Chip (Daniel)
Database Management
Email: dct6@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-5757
Chinese, Japanese languages
TSENG, Wei
Database Management
Email: wt32@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-5757
Chinese language
UCHIYAMA, Masayo
Orderer/Inputter
Email: mu44@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-9487
Japanese language