Alison Raab’s MS thesis, “Manga in Academic Library Collections: Definitions, Strategies, and Bibliography for Collecting Japanese Comics,” is available online at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill’s SILS Electronic Theses and Dissertations repository:
http://etd.ils.unc.edu/dspace/handle/1901/233
Alison’s thesis makes very interesting reading! She advocates collecting manga as part of Japanese studies collections in general, and provides practical advice on selecting/collecting manga.
In Chapter V (”Manga in the Field: Manga Collection Strategies in Academic Libraries) she discusses manga collections at Ohio State and U Kansas. Alison refers to Ohio State’s approach as “comprehensive.” Actually, I describe my approach to collecting manga as “broadly representative” rather than comprehensive. In the case of manga, this distinction seems important to me. However, this small correction does not detract from an otherwise excellent paper.
Great work, Alison!!
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1. Jody Weissler | March 16th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
After recently observing a collection of comics at the Special Collections section of Cal State University Northridge, I see the importance of documenting and sharing the art of commics. Not to mention the political commentary often present in comics.
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