As we are approaching the middle of the semester, I wish you a belated Happy New Year. The goal of our newsletter is to keep you informed of recent new purchases of the East Asian Collection and useful services in the Library. Please don’t hesitate to send in purchase recommendations so that we can ensure timely receipt of books and periodicals. If you have any comments, feel free to contact me. New Database Trial Choson Ilbo (Choson Newspaper) Archives Databases Related to East Asian Studies Included here are databases we currently subscribe to.
Japanese Studies English Databases Related to East Asian Studies
NEH Library Challenge Grant Thanks to your strong support, the NEH Library Challenge Grant awarded the East Asian Collection $5,500 for the purchase of the microfilm version of Asahi Shinbun (朝日新聞), 1965-1968, and $1,000 for the enhancement of the East Asian film collection. Display Cases There are currently two displays related to the course "Traditional East Asian Civilization: Focus on Korea" t
aught by Prof. Lynn Struve. Please go to the Information Commons to see the display about the "Portraits of
Korean Women." The second display, "Portrayal of Choson Scholars," is located outside room E851 on
the 8th floor, Main Library. New Purchases Since October 2004 New Purchases Onna daigaku shiryo shusei. Tokyo : Ozorasha, 2003. "Teikoku senso to bungaku", 30 vols. Tokyo: Yumani shobo, 2004-2005. Zhongguo dao guan zhi cong kan, 36 vols. Yangzhou shi: Guang ling shu she, 2000. Zhongguo dao guan zhi cong kan xu bian, 28 vols. Yangzhou shi: Guang ling shu she, 2004. New Serials Subscriptions Zhongguo jiao yu tong ji nian jian (中国敎育统计年鉴) Services and Changes in the Library Space issue The shifting project on the 8th floor is almost completed, thanks to the coordination efforts from all sides, particularly staff of the Department of Circulation and Security. The overall plan is to divide the empty shelving sections equally between the General Collection and the East Asian Collection. New Workstations With cooperation from Library Information Technology, we successfully added Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts to the new computers on the 8th floor. Please use the following "A Quick Guide on Selection of East Asian Fonts" to use the two workstations. A Quick Guide on Selection of East Asian Fonts This guide provides step-by-step instructions for selecting East Asian fonts on the two public workstations located on the 8th
floor, Main Library. It is not for other workstations in the library. |