Notes from Asia Library

The Asia Library hosted three Third Thursday open houses in Fall 2025, showcasing visually and intellectually inspiring, and even somewhat whimsical, materials on East Asia.

CHOP (China Ongoing Perspective) film series to present a film screening and discussion on documentary film "Made in Ethiopia."

We invite you to look back with us at some of the Asia Library’s most meaningful moments from the past academic year.

Kelly Goodknecht, Physical Collections and Access Supervisor, who has provided care for the Asia Library stacks for ten years since 2015, shares her experience managing the stacks of one of the largest East Asian collections in North America.

Welcome Yung-hui Chou, our new Chinese Studies Librarian.

Soojin Lee, Korean Acquisition Assistant, shares her experience co-planning the Library's International Mother Language Day event.

The Asia Library would like to welcome three new interns, Hao Zhang, Suparna Hande, and Jisu Han. Each of them works on one of the three main subject areas of the Asia Library (Chinese studies, Japanese studies, and Korean studies).

Asia Library Technical Services colleagues share their reflections on CEAL 2024 annual conference.

CHOP (China Ongoing Perspectives) Film Series presents a mini-film festival showcasing documentaries about China through the lens of European and Chinese directors.

Starting this month, Liangyu Fu will serve as Director of the Asia Library, leading the development of programming and services in order to partner with and support East Asian Studies scholars and students at U-M. Following more than 10 years of engaged service as Chinese Studies Librarian, Liangyu brings a record of partnership and ingenuity into her new role.