JaEun Ku


Korean Studies Librarian

Department: UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library
21617 YRL Bldg
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Campus Mail Code: 157511
Phone: (310) 825-9535
Email: jaeun@library.ucla.edu)

Education

Ph.D. Public Management, Dept of Public Administration, Ewha Woman's University, Seoul, Korea.

M.A. Information Science, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

M.A. Public Policy, Dept of Public Administration, Ewha Woman's University, Seoul, Korea.

B.A. Public Administration, Ewha Woman's University, Seoul, Korea.

Research Interest

Korean studies, Collaborative Reference Services, Collection Management

Recent Publication and Presentation

Chun and Ku, 2006 "Collaborative Virtual Reference Services for Korean Studies," Scholarly Information on East Asia in the 21st Century, International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Satellite Meeting Conference Proceedings.

Ku and Lee, 2007 "Collection Development Issues Surrounding Korean Visual Materials,"
Committee on Korean Materials, Council of East Asian libraries (CEAL), Boston, 2007

Bio

JaEun Ku most recently worked as the visiting Korean Studies/Digital Services Librarian and the visiting Assistant professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her experience as a librarian and the assistant professor includes collection management and development, reference services to faculty and students, instruction to faculty and students, and technical processing of library materials. JaEun also designed several exhibits to highlight materials from the Korean Collections. The exhibits included Pioneers of Korean Studies, Korean History before the Division, Year of Asian: Korean collection, and Portraits of Yang Ban / Women in the Choson Dynasty. She is the recipient of the 2007 Diana V. Braddom Fund Raising and Financial Development Section Scholarship Award of Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA), American Library Association (ALA)


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