(9 Nov 2025) Thousands of music archives collected in Southeast Asia during and after European colonization have remained inaccessible in European institutions for far too long. Today, these field recordings can finally be listened to and consulted in Open Access, available in several Southeast Asian languages. This milestone marks an important step toward the decolonization…
(26 Aug 2025) This year’s Annual Meeting and Conference of the Southeast Asia Library Group for the first time took place in beautiful Passau in Lower Bavaria, Germany, on 26-28 June 2025. It was hosted by the Chair of Critical Development Studies – Southeast Asia at the University of Passau. We would like to express our sincere…
(12 Mar 2025) In this issue, Libraries and Sustainability: United Arab Emirates in 30th CDNLAO 2024 Making Preparations for CONSAL XIX Asia at the forefront of library innovation UniFiji delighted with numbers for Recreational Reading in the Park National Campaign Building Community through Reading in Hong Kong Empowering Communities Through Libraries: A Success Story…
(22 Jan 2025) A new issue of the SEALG Newsletter (January 2025) has been published and is now available online. In this issue, SEALG Annual Meeting, Frankfurt am Main 2024 The Southeast Asia Digital Library: Collaboration as Sustainability Highlighting a Multi-faceted Adventurous Journey to South Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Taiwan in 2023:…
(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…