Opened in January 2019, the Kyo Yamawaki Education Room is a group study space and multi-purpose room located on the ground floor of the Brennan Library building, near the Teaching & Learning Center.
The Kyo Yamawaki Education Collection is located on the second floor of Brennan Library. It is a rich collection of fiction and nonfiction books for children from birth through middle school. It serves Lasell's education students, the Holway Child Study Centers, and other patrons interested in the collection.
Brennan Library's main collection includes young adult novels for older audiences, college-level education books, test prep books, and curriculum materials.
If you have any questions regarding the Education Collection or the Education Room, please contact us at library@lasell.edu.
About Kyo Yamawaki
Kyo Yamawaki is a Japanese educator and author of picture books. Her association with Lasell began through Yamawaki Gakuen Junior College, Lasell's sister college in Tokyo. Her husband, Minoru, was chairman of the college, which was founded by his great-grandmother. Later, Kyo Yamawaki herself became the school's president. The Yamawaki family largely funded construction of the Yamawaki Art and Cultural Center, one of Lasell's main academic buildings.
Ms. Yamawaki began an endowment to fund the Kyo Yamawaki Education Library with the goal of supporting Lasell's education students, and the Education Library opened in 1988. Today, the Education Collection and Winslow Archives both contain copies of several of her books in Japanese.
