From February 3 to 5, 2009 Robert Britt, a Japanese legal materials specialist in the Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library at the University of Washington, presented a workshop on Japanese legal research materials in three sessions at the University of California campuses. This workshop series was co-sponsored by the libraries of UC San Diego, UCLA, and UC Berkeley, the UCSD’s Japanese Studies Program, UCLA Center for Japanese Studies, and the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC). It was part of the E-Resource Training Workshops series organized by the NCC throughout the U.S. in 2008/09, with major funding provided by the Japan Foundation.

The UCLA workshop, which was coordinated by Toshie Marra, attracted 17 participants from the Los Angeles area. The participants included faculty, students, librarians, and the general public-a mixture of Japan specialists and legal research specialists without knowledge of the Japanese language-including UCLA Library staff members Cheryl Kelly Fischer, Kris Kasianovitz, Yoko Okunishi, Stephanie Plotin, Toshiko Scott, Yoko Shimojo, and John Wilson. The session covered all major types of Japanese legal materials available for academic research in English and Japanese, and provided many concrete examples of how to find print and online Japanese laws, cases, legal articles, and monographs. The workshop presentation is available at: lib.law.washington.edu/eald/JLRWestCoastFeb2009.pdf.

Britt manages the East Asian Law Department Web site for the Gallagher Law Library, from which he makes available some guides to Japanese legal research (lib.law.washington.edu/eald/jlr/jres.html).

Hong Cheng has been selected as a 2009 Moeson Fellow and was awarded $2,000 of the Florence Tan Moeson Research Fellowship to pursue his independent research in the Asian Division of the Library of Congress for a period of ca. one week during this year.

In recent years, as a librarian and a researcher in Chinese studies, Hong has focused on Chinese non-publications and Chinese resources that are not officially published, including private archives, historical photos and images, not-published and internally-published prints and audio-visual materials, as well as grassroots gazetteers and genealogies. With the support of the Fellowship, he will investigate the environment of Chinese non-publications, and explore the future of the hidden collection. During his research at the Library of Congress, probably in July 2009, Hong wishes to access to a variety of such not commonly available new resources, and then to sketch out a scheme for developing the Chinese resources that are not officially published.

Congratulations, Hong!

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