Welcome to the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia |
The Wason Collection holdings comprise more than 608,300 monographs, which include 373,102 volumes in Chinese, 146,954 volumes in Japanese, 10,480 volumes in Korean, and 77,792 volumes in Western languages. Along with the Echols Collection on Southeast Asia and the South Asia Collection, the Wason Collection is housed in the Carl A. Kroch Library. Visit our About Us page to learn more about the Collection and its history. | Browse the collection's materials Find information on China, Japan, and Korea East Asian Studies Related Departments, Programs, and Projects See news, recent acquisitions and the Wason Updates |
News |
| 90th Anniversary of the Wason Collection The Wason Collection recently celebrated the 90th anniversary of the original, 1918 bequest on which Cornell University Library's East Asian collection was founded. See information on the celebratory 90th Anniversary Conference and highlights from the collection under Collection History. Guides to using the collection and East Asian materials in general are available under the Guides to Resources link. For acquisition requests, research assistance or general questions, please use the Wason Staff guide to contact us. |
Cornell & Columbia Extend Borrowing Privileges to Each Other A new agreement between Cornell & Columbia allows users of either university to borrow from the other's collections. This is the first agreement of this kind in the Ivy League. In addition, Southeast Asia experts from both universities will be shared and a collaborative buying plan for Chinese materials will be implemented. For more information, read the full article. This post is just an example and isn't long enough, so here is some filler. Adasfsdfk kl dsjlfj asdlkf s lk sadflksalfkd sda;f. |  |