[Royal Asiatic Society] Collecting books since 1900
(WorldNews South Korea)

The RASKB office is filled with books, some part of the library and others part of the bookstore. / Courtesy of Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch By Michael Welles What is it about a library that draws us in? Is it the smell and the feel of old books? Is it the accumulation of knowledge and information we can reach out and touch? Is it the sense of history as we sort through the shelves? For me, as the librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch (RASKB), it`s all three. We have books that date back to the time of Lincoln`s assassination, or to put it in terms of Korean history, we have books from the time King Gojong ascended...