Acknowledgement
- Catherine Quinlan (Dean of USC Libraries) who awarded the 2019 Dean’s Challenge Grant to support the project titled “Exploring Chinese Rare Books at USC” and led by Tang Li (Chinese Studies Librarian), Ken Klein (Head Emeritus of East Asian Library) and Professor Bettine Birge (East Asian Languages and Cultures and History). With the grant, we were able to invite Dr. Soren Edgren, the renowned Chinese Rare Book Specialist from Princeton University, to USC to review our rare book collection in November 2019, and to conduct, for the first time, a systematic review of Chinese rare book holdings at USC Libraries from September 2019 to March 2020.
- Sue Luftschein (Head of Special Collections), Masoud Farajpour (Library Manager of Special Collections) and other Special Collections staff who helped retrieve Chinese rare books in the Special Collections and provided spaces and equipment to accomplish the project.
- Zhaohui Chu (master student in Computer Engineering) and Zhijin Shen (master student in Architecture) who assisted in the systematic review of Chinese rare book collection, including checking physical holding and condition and scanning bibliographic pages from each Chinese rare book title.
- Curtis Fletcher (Director of the Ahmanson Lab) and his team who provided technical and design support to the online exhibition.