Credits 

“Jappalachia”: Connections Between the Appalachian Trail and Japan’s Shinetsu Trail was curated by Sarah Adams '20 for the Student Research at YUL exhibit, 2020. Sarah was advised by Haruko Nakamura 中村治子, Librarian for Japanese Studies. Sarah would also like to thank the Shinetsu Trail Club, senior thesis advisor Professor Daniel V. Botsman, Masato Takenouchi 竹ノ内雅人, the Chase Coggins Memorial Fund, and the Yale Environmental Studies Department for all of their guidance and support. Planning for this exhibit was managed by Kerri Sancomb, Library Exhibits Program Manager and Sarah Davis, Library Exhibits Technician, and this online exhibit was produced by Megan Czekaj, Library Exhibits Technician.

We would like to thank the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC) for providing permission request templates to facilitate receiving consent to use images for this exhibit.

Student Research at YUL is a student curated exhibition opportunity available to Yale students to learn how to present their research using the unique narrative form of an exhibit. Students awarded with this opportunity are paired with advisors and work with the library's exhibit staff who assist in choosing, describing, sequencing, and arranging objects from the library’s diverse collections. Click here to learn more about the Student Research at Yale University Library exhibit program and the available opportunities, and explore other student curated exhibits here.

Questions and comments related to “Jappalachia”: Connections Between the Appalachian Trail and Japan’s Shinetsu Trail and the research for this exhibit are welcome to go to Sarah Adams (saoyagiadams@gmail.com).