Jerome Ch'en Resource Centre for East Asian Studies
History
The Jerome Ch'en Resource Centre for East Asian Studies (formerly the East Asian Studies Program Library) was founded in 1972 and serves as the principal material resource centre of the Program.The collection housed in the resource centre supplements the East Asian Studies collection in the university library system.
Professor Jerome Ch'en
Upon his retirement in 1986, Professor Ch'en donated a large part of his personal library to the Program. In recognition of Professor Ch'en's long career of distinguished service, the East Asian Studies Program and Founders College renamed the Program Library the "Jerome Ch'en Resource Centre for East Asian Studies."
Location
The Jerome Ch'en Resource Centre for East Asian Studies is located:
030C Founders College
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario
M3J 1P3
Telephone: 416-736-2100 ext. 21011
Hours of Operation
The Resource Centre is open on Fridays 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.
The Resource Centre is also available to students by appointment. Please contact the East Asian Studies Program Office at 416-736-2100 ext. 33223.
Photocopier service is available to students using the Resource Centre at a cost of $0.07 per copy or $7.00 per copy block of 100. Students must purchase copies with exact change. Please see staff for assistance.
Holdings
In all, holdings now total more than 40,000 records, including volumes in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. There is also a collection of periodicals, maps, microfilms, videos and slides which supplements the collection in the university library system.
Other acquisitions were made possible by generous donations from the Asia Pacific Foundation, the Japan Foundation, the People's Republic of China, the Korea Foundation, the Republic of China, Faculty of Education, Founders Student Council and by individual donations by faculty, alumni and students.
At this time, the collection is non-circulating. Efforts are currently underway to catalogue the collection.
Donations
The Need
Although the JCRCEAS receives support from the university, the Resource Centre relies primarily on the Ontario Work Study Plan to meet minimum staffing and operational costs. The Work Study Plan fall under the umbrella of the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) which provides part-time employment opportunities to full-time students in order to meet part of their educational costs.
The cost for each position is shared by the provincial government and East Asian Studies on a proportional basis each academic year. As a result our income/support is often tenuous while our costs increase. So we rely on our supporters to donate books, periodicals, and other materials, and to support us financially.
Our Goal
As a service institution, the largest part of our budget goes towards staffing needs in order to keep our Resource Centre accessible during the academic year. Besides accessibility, the Resource Centre must continue to expand to remain useful to users. We should be taking out subscriptions to new periodicals, maintaining current subscriptions and purchasing new titles. Over the past few years, we have had to discontinue our subscriptions and purchases and rely solely on donations.
We Appreciate Your Support
We can give tax receipts for donations in cash or kind to the Jerome Ch'en Resource Centre for East Asian Studies. Donated materials that the library cannot use (for example, books or journal of which we already have multiple copies) is forwarded, if the donor agrees, to other libraries with which we have contact with. Regretfully, we cannot supply tax receipts for materials we do not keep.
We have on several occasions been given collections of books or materials from institutions that no longer wanted them or are able to keep them. All of these are recognized by tax receipts.
For information, please contact EASP office at 416-736-2100, ext. 33223 or email at easp@yorku.ca.