United States

For archival materials held by various universities and research institutes across the United States, see Yang Key P. 량기백 compiled. Mi'guk nae Han'guk kwallyŏn kirok mit sŏryu mongnok (Yŏngmun p'yŏn) (A List of Americans' Records and Papers on Korea. The Korea Foundation, 1991.

  • Library of Congress 
    • Library of Congress Korean Rare Book Collection (total 743 titles as of Dec 13, 2023) 
    • Korean Rare Book Digital Collection
      • Description from the website: "The digital collection draws from the 654 titles in the Korean Rare Book Collection housed in the Asian Division of the Library of Congress. The initial online presentation includes 11 digitized rare titles. . . . As part of a cooperative project between the Library of Congress and the National Library of Korea, 84 titles of rare works found in the Library’s collection, but otherwise unavailable in South Korea, were digitized in 2008. Rare books digitized through this project are accessible through KORCIS (Korean Old and Rare Collection Information System)."
    • Lee, Sonya, "The Korean Collection in the Library of Congress." Journal of East Asian Libraries 142 (2007): 37-43.

  • Korean Rare Books at the Claremont Colleges Library
    • McCormick Korean Collection  
      • "The Frederick McCormick Collection at The Claremont Colleges Library was donated by Adelaide Gillis McCormick in 1952 as a bequest from her husband Frederick McMormick (1870-1951), who served as a correspondent in Korea, China, and Russia. Donated in the hope of promoting Asian studies at the Claremont Colleges, this unique collection is considered one of the most valuable ancient Korean book collections in the United States today. The collection comprises a total of 128 titles and 808 volumes, and possess considerable scholarly value due to the inclusion of a number of complete sets of titles, rare books that are not easily found even in Korea, and collections of works and anthologies stamped with collectors from famous literati figures."
    • Asian Library Digital Collections 
      • "The Asian studies digital collections range from Chinese manuscript and archival collections, Korean rare books, Japanese traditional woodblock prints, to oral history interviews on key figures of the American occupation government in postwar Japan."
  • Princeton University
  • University of Utah
    • From Jikchi to Gutenberg
      • "From Jikji to Gutenberg is a collaborative research project involving nearly 40 scholars living in 13 different time zones who will investigate the technological evidence related from the invention of book printing. This interdisciplinary team is made up of historians, material specialists, conservators and scientists who will apply nondestructive multispectral and XRF imaging at Stanford University’s state-of-the-art Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource to study what appears to be independent developments that lead to thriving print cultures in Eastern Asia to Western Europe.
      • "The project will produce a catalog of scholarly essays to be published by The Legacy Press (Ann Arbor, MI) which will accompany an international exhibit to be held simultaneously in 44 research libraries, each a major cultural destination in its own right. This cooperative transnational exhibit will commemorate the 650th anniversary of the printing of Jikji in July 2027. The goal for the core interpretive element of each library’s exhibit will be a 42-line Gutenberg Bible displayed for the first time together with its complement: an earlier Korean book printed from cast-metal type. In the Chinese tradition of the Four Great Inventions (the compass, gunpowder, papermaking, and printing), each exhibit will direct attendees toward the Bibliothèque nationale de France where its beautiful copy of the 42-line Gutenberg Bible will be showcased with the venerable Jikji. With UNESCO’s participation, these synchronized exhibits will acknowledge Korea’s monumental gift to civilization while celebrating the interrelated origins of printing with a firsthand look at the range of rare cultural artifacts that epitomize the global historic foundations of book printing."
  • Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  • University of Washington
    • James Palais Papers
      • Description from the website: "James Palais was the professor of Korean history at the University of Washington for 33 years (1968-2001). During his long career at the University of Washington, Prof. Palais became one of the most important founders of the Korean studies field in the United States, both through his own publications, and through the training of graduate students who are now teaching Korean history at most of the important centers of Korean Studies in the United States."