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The 5th National Rare Ancient Book Directory and the 5th group of National Key Ancient Books Preservation and Conservation Institutions are announced by China

Asia Pacific, LibrariesJune 2, 2016

(1 June 2016) On 27 March 2016, the State Council officially printed and distributed the Circular on Announcing the 5th National Rare Ancient Book Directory and the 5th group of National Key Ancient Books Preservation and Conservation Institutions, approved and issued the 5th National Rare Ancient Book Directory, with 899 ancient books selected, including 754…

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China adds ancient manuscripts to state protection catalogue

Asia Pacific, LibrariesMay 25, 2016

(24 May 2016, Beijing, Xinhua) The Chinese government has added 899 valuable ancient manuscripts to the catalog under state protection. They include oracles, manuscripts on bamboo strips and silk scrolls, ancient paper copies of tablet inscriptions, rare manuscripts in ethnic minority languages and in foreign languages such as Latin and English, said Zhang Zhiqing, deputy…

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Glimpses of early Siam and Burma

Asia Pacific, ToolsMay 11, 2016

(9 May 2016) The Royal Commonwealth Society Library has just created an electronic catalogue for one of its largest and most significant manuscript collections: the papers of the diplomat, colonial administrator and orientalist Henry Burney (1792-1845). Burney was born in Calcutta, the son of a Senior Master of the Calcutta Military School for Orphans. His…

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Music manuscripts and documents related to modern Japanese composers are available

Asia Pacific, LibrariesMarch 11, 2016

(10 March 2016) On March 1, the National Diet Library released music manuscripts and documents related to modern Japanese composers. Now, approximately 600 items in the collection of composer Hikaru HAYASHI (1931-2012) are available. Advance reservation is required to use music manuscripts. Materials already digitized are available only in digitized form to preserve the originals.…

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Panel on Southeast Asian Manuscripts Studies, ASEASUK Conference London 2016

Asia Pacific, EventMarch 2, 2016

(29 February 2016) The next Association for Southeast Asian Studies in the United Kingdom (ASEASUK) Conference, to be held 16-18 September 2016, is being hosted at SOAS, University of London. This conference provides a major venue for the dissemination of research on South East Asia in various disciplines for academics both from the UK and…

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‘Libraries have to ask what people want to read’

Asia Pacific, Digitization, LibrariesNovember 10, 2015

(8 November 2015) The changing educational, social and recreational role of the library is a hotly debated subject among planners and readers alike. On a visit to Delhi, Bruno Racine, director of Bibliotheque Nationale de France (National Library of France), explains to The Hindu how public libraries need to become more interactive spaces. France and…

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New standard: Guidelines for Planning the Digitization of Rare Book and Manuscript Collections

DigitizationFebruary 26, 2015

(24 February 2015) A new IFLA standard, the Guidelines for Planning the Digitization of Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, was endorsed by the Professional Committee on advice by the Committee of Standards in August 2014. The standard was developed and written by the Rare Books and Special Collections Section. Digitization guidelines have proliferated in many…

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Southeast Asian manuscripts digitised through the Ginsburg Legacy

Asia Pacific, DigitizationFebruary 14, 2015

(15 February 2015) The Southeast Asia section of the British Library is fortunate in that a legacy from the estate of the late Henry D. Ginsburg (1940-2007), who was for over thirty years the Library’s curator for Thai, Lao and Cambodian collections, has enabled the digitisation of a small number of significant manuscripts, some representing…

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Ancient documents online in Tamil Nadu for first time

Asia Pacific, DatabasesJanuary 15, 2015

(14 January 2015, Chennai) Palm leaves, ancient texts and manuscripts that were accessible only for a select few on poring through rows of dusty records are now just a click away for anyone from anywhere across the world. For the first time in India, 2,600,000 pages of historic records are being made available to the…

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Searchable Tibetan texts now a reality

Asia Pacific, Databases, DigitizationSeptember 27, 2014

(26 September 2014) The Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center has announced the release of its Tibetan eText Repository on tbrc.org. The eText repository is a collaborative effort between TBRC and many publishers, authors and institutions to archive and make available a large corpus of searchable Tibetan texts. Since it’s inception, TBRC has endeavored to make Tibetan literature of…

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