By Jade Atwill

In 2013, the University Libraries received a generous gift from the Jenks family given in Memory of Darrell A. Jenks by his widow, Thelma Coyoc Jenks and his parents, George and Zoya Jenks. The Jenks gift contains about 2,500 volumes of publications from mainland China, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, ranging from the 1980s, 1990s to the early 2000s, covering the areas of history, languages and literature, political sciences, economics, popular culture, folk music, and children’s literature. Processing of the gift is underway and items will be added into Libraries’ collections accordingly. The gift greatly enhances University Libraries’ East Asian collection and provides a broader selection on contemporary East Asian Studies.