[
{
"pname":"Address",
"pvalue":"173 Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, U.S.A."
}
,
{
"pname":"Contact Person <small>(Please replace the \"[ATMARK]\" with the symbol @ when e-mailing the contact person.)</small>",
"pvalue":"Daniel J Mckee<br />Phone:  607-255-4737; Fax:  607-255-8438<br />E-mail: djm53[ATMARK]cornell.edu<br /><br />Masayo Uchiyama <br />E-mail: mu44[ATMARK]cornell.edu"
}
,
{
"pname":"Collection Size",
"pvalue":"Books:  ca. 3,800 vols.<br />Manuscripts:  ca. 600 vols.<br />Single-Sheet Items:  ca. 2,500 sheets"
}
,
{
"pname":"Collection Description",
"pvalue":"A Japanese rare book material at the Wason Collection consists roughly of two separate collections - the Griffith Collection and the Maeda Collection (a recent purchase).  The former collection consists of ca. 500 rare titles, donated by the Rev. William E. Griffith to Cornell Library in 1916.  Materials are largely from the Meiji Restoration period (around 1868), and deal with topography, novels, history/historiography, woman's life, songs, and illustrated editions, among others.  The oldest book in this collection dates from the 1630s.  The latter Maeda Collection is a private library of the late literary critic and scholar Maeda Ai, and is very strong in literature (especially rare and early translations of Western works into Japanese), social history, political thought, film and theater, literary theory and various aspects of popular and local culture."
}
,
{
"pname":"Material Availability for Researchers' Viewing/Examination",
"pvalue":"Available for reviewing and studying locally (in the Rare Book reading room in Kroch Library)."
}
,
{
"pname":"Online Access to Relevant Bibliographic Information",
"pvalue":"OCLC (not the primary cataloging tool)<br />RLIN (The Griffith Collection is fully catalogued, whereas the Maeda Collection is still in process.)<br />OPAC:  <a href=\"https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/\">https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/<a />"
}
,
{
"pname":"Printed Catalogs of Relevant Titles",
"pvalue":"<p>1. Ishikawa, Kazuo.  <i>The Rev. William Elliot Griffis Collection of old Japanese books at Cornell.</i> Ithaca: Cornell University, Center for International Studies, 1978.</p><p>2. Perushek, D.E., ed., with the assistance of Howard Curtis, Kazuo Ishikawa, and Alan Wolfe.  <i>The Griffis Collection of Japanese books: an annotated bibliography.</i>  Ithaca: China-Japan Program, Cornell University, 1982.</p><p>No printed catalog of the Maeda Collection (yet).</p>"
}
,
{
"pname":"Possibility of Material Reproduction",
"pvalue":"Depending on the nature and the condition of the materials, filming, photocopying and scanning is possible, all subject to the guidelines of Cornell's Dept. of Rare and Manuscripts."
}
,
{
"pname":"Publications on the Collection, beyond Catalogs",
"pvalue":"Kotas, Fred.  \"Acquiring the Maeda Collection.\"  <i>Kaleidoscope:</i>  6-8 (Jan. 1997)."
}
]