(17 Apr 2024) From Library of Congress announcement: The South Asian Digital Collection (SADC) is the new online home for the Library’s digitized books, serials, and manuscripts related to the histories and cultures of South Asian countries (i.e., Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka). The creation of SADC will provide easy access to…
(10 Feb 2024) A six-year collaborative research program in global and diplomatic history that investigates the often overlooked role of international treaties in imperial expansion is currently being hosted by Linnaeus University in Kalmar and Växjö, Sweden. Historical Treaties of Southeast Asia is a project to systematically analyse all of the approximately one thousand bilateral treaties concluded between…
(22 Jan 2024) A new issue of the SEALG Newsletter (December 2022) has been published and is now available online. It contains the following reports, articles and a book review: SEALG Annual Meeting, Marseille 2023. Report (Marije Plomp and Jana Igunma) The collection of the late Prof. Dr. Wilfried Lulei in the Library of Southeast…
(20 Nov 2023) Manuscripts and artworks from Southeast Asia are varied and to some extent differ significantly from those found in other parts of Asia. For example, palm leaves, bamboo slats, tree bark, ivory and metal sheets, fabrics, and paper made from mulberry tree bark or from bamboo shoots have been popular materials used for…
(2 Feb 2023) A new issue of the SEALG Newsletter (December 2022) has been published and is now available online. Included in the Newsletter is the report of our group’s Annual Meeting that took place in Paris on 1 July 2022, in collaboration with the 12th EuroSEAS Conference. In addition to this detailed report by…
(27 Nov 2022) In the past decade, various online tools and Open Source software that can be useful in Southeast Asian librarianship have been developed. This article looks at a selection of online tools that are available to help in areas like cataloging and creation of Romanised versions of Southeast Asian scripts, text recognition, text…
(30 Sep 2022) Applications for the Chevening Fellowship 2023-2024 “Shan Collections at the British Library” are still open until 1 November 2022 for individuals from Cambodia, China, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand who are fluent in Shan language and able to read a variety of Shan scripts, including Old Shan. This 12-month fellowship will be hosted…
(4 Sep 2022) Compiled by a research team from Yale-NUS College, the online platform has maps from three other libraries besides the Bodleian Libraries – Singapore’s National Library Board, Leiden University Libraries and Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The research team was headed by Yale-NUS urban studies professor Jane Jacobs, who said…
(20 Apr 2022) The fundamental existence of academic libraries depends on how well they serve their library users. Supporting the faculty to meet their needs and in return, working together towards the common goal of meeting the institution’s objectives, has become paramount to the modern academic librarian in the 21st century. In a recent survey,…
(1 Mar 2022) The 12th conference of the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) will take place at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), on the new Campus Condorcet at Paris-Aubervilliers, France, from 28 June to 1 July 2022. One of the panels is organised by Marije Plomp (Leiden University Libraries) and Jana Igunma (British Library) on behalf of the Southeast…