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A review of the National Library and Archives of Bhutan (འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་དཔེ་མཛོད་དང་ཡིག་རིགས་གཏན་འཇོག་ཁང་།) in Thimphu, Bhutan

Asia Pacific, Digitization, LibrariesNovember 10, 2015

(9 November 2015) In Bhutan, as with many Himalayan Buddhist cultures, key texts were considered auspicious objects that were traditionally kept in temples, monasteries and private homes, for ritual use and/or propitiation. When the National Library and Archives of Bhutan (འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་དཔེ་མཛོད་དང་ཡིག་རིགས་གཏན་འཇོག་ཁང་། or NLAB) was founded in 1967, the country did not yet possess a strong…

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HKUST hiring Digital Scholarship & Archives Manager

Asia Pacific, Digitization, Jobs, LibrariesSeptember 20, 2015

(19 September 2015) Reporting to the Head of Systems and Digital Services, the appointee will be responsible for developing and managing the University Archives and Special Collections; and initiating and coordinating digital scholarship projects. The appointee will be responsible for appraising, acquiring, arranging and preserving Library’s special collections and University records of enduring value, and…

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British Library turns down Taliban archive because of UK terror laws

Asia Pacific, Censorship, Digitization, LibrariesAugust 30, 2015

(28 August 2015) The British Library is refusing to store a collection of Taliban material because of UK anti-terrorism legislation. It took the decision not to store the archive, which has been compiled over the past three years, on legal advice. The library was told that it could be in breach of the law if…

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On the road: some user guides to libraries and archives

Asia Pacific, LibrariesJuly 31, 2015

(30 July 2015) The British Library’s Asian and African Studies Blog has published a list of archives and libraries, often in out of the way places, of value to researchers. All have links to reviews published in the last couple of years of the 80 or so libraries. Most of the libraries are in Asia. …

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Work of Australian Libraries and Archives

Asia Pacific, Digitization, LibrariesJuly 22, 2015

(21 July 2015) Yvonne Perkins appreciates Australian libraries and archives in her Stumbling Through the Past blog. Participants at the recent Global Digital Humanities conference will remember the prominent contributions of Australian historians, Tim Sherratt, Julia Torpey and Peter Read. But I also want to highlight the more low profile but no less important contribution of Australian cultural…

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25 million scattered pages reveal the Dutch East India Company

Asia Pacific, DigitizationJuly 8, 2015

(6 July 2015) Next year will mark the 400th anniversary of exploration of the west coast of Australia by Dirk Hartog and the Dutch. As part of an ongoing program of activities related to the upcoming anniversary, the National Archives is hosting Professor Charles Jeurgens, Professor of Archival Studies, Leiden University and advisor to the…

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Archival neglect in India

Asia Pacific, DigitizationJune 28, 2015

(26 June 2015) In this article about saving India’s recorded past, Brig (Retd) VAM Hussain considers the sound archives of All India Radio (AIR). From 1954 it has become the home of 53,000 tapes of music and spoken words. Among the latter are speeches by Mahatma Gandhi from the 1940s, and broadcasts by successive Indian…

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‘Tragic’ threat to Fairfax photo archives reflects bigger challenges facing Australia’s cultural heritage

Asia Pacific, DigitizationJune 18, 2015

(10 June 2015, Canberra) The Australian Library and Information Association, Australian Society of Archivists, National & State Libraries Australasia and Museums Australia have expressed deep concern following this week’s news that the US company handling the digitization of Fairfax Media photo archives has gone into receivership. It is tragic that these valuable photographs, capturing some…

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Southeast Asia in the British Pathé Film Archive

Asia Pacific, DatabasesApril 24, 2015

(23 April 2015) British Pathé was once a dominant feature of the British cinema experience, says the Southeast Asia Library Group, SEALG. Before the advent of television, millions around the globe came to movie theatres for their weekly dose of filmed news. British Pathé is considered to be the most comprehensive newsreel archive in the world and…

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Stanford Libraries to acquire the Chinese American Citizens Alliance archive

Databases, LibrariesFebruary 7, 2015

(7 February 2015, Stanford, CA) The United States’ oldest Chinese civil rights organizations, the Chinese American Citizens Alliance (C.A.C.A), announced its Grand Lodge archives will be placed with Stanford Libraries. The announcement took place at C.A.C.A. headquarters on Stockton Street in San Francisco. Established in San Francisco in 1895 as the Native Sons of the…

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