Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Korean Librarians Visit KU Libraries and Museums!





A group of 17 librarians from Korea and the Emporia SLIM Dean Jeong came to visit KU libraries and museums on June 20, 2017.
They viewed art collections in Spencer Museum of Art, toured Watson Library and its East Asian Collection, and viewed several old manuscripts in Spencer Special Collections including a 14th century Korean Buddhist sutra, and a 19th century Korean Confucian woodblocks, the Book of Hours, a Ramayana palm leaf manuscript, the Book of the Dead Egyptian papyrus manuscript, and a Hebrew Torah scroll.