Overview The Korean Collection Consortium of North America was established in 1994 with the aim of developing and sharing comprehensive Korean Studies collections in North America as a whole. Through this program, Koreanists at any North American institutions can have access to Korean scholarly materials for their teaching and research through free inter-library loans (ILL). Now in its thirteenth year of productive operation, the membership has grown from six founding members to twelve prominent academic libraries by 2006. Each member library is responsible to develop in-depth research-level collections in their assigned subject fields of Korean studies and make them available freely through ILL to any Koreanists in North America.     Missions The primary mission of the Korean Collection Consortium of North America is to support Korean Studies teaching and research programs in North America. Its members select, organize, and make available Korean Studies scholarly resources, and provide library services to optimize access and use of the Korean Studies collections developed through the Korean Collection Consortium of North America. Achievement of this mission is advanced through two major goals: goal 1; Providing support to libraries serving Koreanists in higher education and goal 2; Consulting with library administrators in the interest of improving Korean Studies collections and library services for Korean Studies faculty and students.     Milestones 1994 University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, Harvard University, University of Hawaii, at Manoa, University of Southern California, and University of Washington first launched the Consortium.   1995 University of Chicago joined this program.   1996 University of California, Los Angeles, became its member.     1997 University of Toronto joined the Consortium as the first institution in Canada.     1999 The Consortium concluded an initial five-year program successfully.     2000 The proposal to the Korea Foundation for the funding of the second five year program (2000-2004) was approved.     2003 University of Michigan acquired the membership.     2005 The Consortium concluded the second five-year program successfully.     2006 The proposal to the Korea Foundation for the funding ($30,000 per year) of the third five year program (2006-2011) was approved.     2006 Two universities in west coast, Stanford University and the University of British Columbia, Canada, joined the Consortium.