The MVS Project Committee is comprised of five Japanese studies scholars and librarians who are appointed by the NCC. The current MVS Committee Members are:
Co-Chairs Professor Michael Bourdaghs, University of Chicago and Sanae Isozumi, University of California, San Diego;
Members are: Professor Brett Walker, Montana State University; Hitoshi Kamada, University of Arizona; Mari Nakahara, Asian Division of the Library of Congress and Victoria Lyon Bestor, NCC Executive Director (ex-officio).
The Committee screens applications, confirms the absence of duplicate holdings in North American collections, and functions as a clearinghouse for the purchase of funded sets. The Committee keeps records of titles requested; both funded and not funded titles, and publishes those records on the NCC's Website. All funded titles are also contained in the NCC's fully searchable database linked to the OPAC records of the holding institutions at
http://www.nccjapan.org/mvs.asp.
The MVS Committee determines which sets will qualify for support and which libraries will receive support to purchase them. In determining distribution of awards, the Committee will consider each applicant institution's areas of specialization, unique character, and collection development traditions; in addition, it will also consider the presence of actual users of a specific set, the accessibility of catalog data, and the library's readiness to freely share purchased materials. Individual faculty at institutions without a professional Japanese studies librarian may submit an application on behalf of their institution provided they can document how the above criteria will be met.
The optional prescreening deadline for 2009-10 MVS Awards is
October 26, 2009 and the final application deadline is
December 22, 2009. Please address any questions to Committee Co-Chair Sanae Isozumi at
sisozumi@ucsd.edu, and check the MVS homepage at
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ncc/mvs.html.
The Multi-Volume Sets Project receives major funding from the Japan-US Friendship Commission with supplemental support from the Japan Publications Trading Company (JPT). Funds are deposited in a JPT account from which they are disbursed following the instructions of the MVS Committee.
One electronic version of the final application (PDF or Word Files) together with all supporting materials (PDF or Word Files) must be emailed to:
mvs2009-10application@nccjapan.org
A confirmation email will be sent within 24 hours listing all items received.
All proposals must be emailed by
December 22, 2009. Announcement of the awards will be made in March.
