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Library Conferences

Hong Kong/China Symposium on Library & Information Services, Jun 98
(http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/symposium/)
Language: English.
Description: Supplied note: "A 'Joint Symposium on Library & Information Services' will be organized by the Hong Kong Lingnan College Library together with Zhongshan University, China, on 17 - 19 June, 1998. Topics for the Symposium are as follows: 1. Regional Cooperation; 2. Resources Sharing; 3. Information Exchange & Standardization."
International Federation of Library Associations
(http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/IV/index.htm)
Language: English.
Description: Site contents future IFLA conferences and past conferences and proceedings.
Asia -Pacific Library Conferences Calendar
(http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/CAL/APConfTop.html)
Language: English.
Description:Provided by the Australian National University Library. This site gives information on Asia-Pacific Libary conferences and workshops. Minutes are not published!
62nd IFLA conference in Beijing
(http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/IV/ifla62/62intro.htm)
Language: English.
Description:The was held in Beijing (25. 31. August 1996). You will find information arround the conference. The motto of the conference was: Challenge of Change: Libraries and Economic Development. For papers and other materials please refer to the Index of the 62nd. IFLA meeting or to East Asian Librarianship: Articles, Essays, Documents (provided by CEAL).
First China-United States Library Conference
(http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~felsing/ala/first.html)
Language: English.
Description: Provided by CEAL. This site gives information on the conference held in Beijing (21 - 23. August 1996). Published are the final report (http://darwing.uoregon.edu/~felsing/ala/final.html) and the conference papers (http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~felsing/ala/papers.html)!
Seminar on Chinese Information Processing in Libraries (January 22-23, 1998)
(http://library.ust.hk/scip/)
Language: English.
Description: "Libraries with collections of Chinese materials have for years faced unique challenges in providing information access. Despite rapid advances in information science, and increasing technology convergence, little progress has been made on fundamental issues affecting Chinese information processing. This intensive seminar will bring researchers, vendors and users with different backgrounds together to find solutions to the Chinese automation issues facing libraries today." Information on the discussion list can be found here: http://library.ust.hk/scip/lib-chinese.html. Or go to the discussion list section of this page: http://www.uni-kiel.de/netguide/jrls.htm#dis.
EASL - Minutes of annual EASL conferences
(http://www.uni-kiel.de:8080/ORIENTALISTIK/easl/min.html)
Language: English.
Description:Minutes of EASL meetings (since now only 1996 - more are coming soon!)
European China Library Groups
(http://www.uni-kiel.de:8080/ORIENTALISTIK/easl/acta.html)
Language: English.
Description:Actas of the three European China Library Groups published on EASL homepage. You will find the actas of the meetings of the China Library Group (UK), Sinodoc (FR), and Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Sinologischer Bibliothekare (D).

Reports & Guides

For more information please refer to conference papers and also to Journals and Newsletters for Librarians in the Field of Asian Studies.

Workshop on the Global Information Infrastructure for Asian Studies
(http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/GIIAS/workshop.html)
Language: English.
Description: This workshop was held in conjunction with the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) (11. April 1996). Papers are published!
Asian Reading Room of the Library of Congress
(http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/asian/)
Language: English.
Description: Information on Asian Section of the Library of Congress. "The Asian Division Reading Room serves as a focal point to orient and assist researchers who seek to avail themselves of the immense opportunities afforded by Asian materials throughout the Library of Congress. This reading room also serves as the gateway to material in all languages about Asian American Studies, the Asian Diaspora, and the Pacific Islands."
The Harvard-Yenching Library Homepage
(http://www-hcl.harvard.edu/hyl/hylprofi.htm)
Language: English.
Description: The profile of the Harvard-Yenching Library. Besides this information this page contains links to other WWW sites and a guide to various other East Asian resources of interest.
Guide to Processing Chinese, Japanese and Korean Serials, by Scott Edward Harrison
(http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~felsing/kstuff/harrison.html)
Language: English.
Description: "This manual is intended as a guide to the processing of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean serials by people who have little or no familiarity with any East Asian language. I have attempted to keep the explanations concise and easy to understand. In some instances I have simplified complex areas of date conversion and the more difficult details of the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. In other areas more information has been given so as to eliminate any ambiguity."
Last update of this page: June 1996.
Guides to East Asian Libraries in Europe
(http://www.uni-kiel.de:8080/ORIENTALISTIK/easl/beasl.html)
Language: English.
Description: This is a collection of guides to East Asian libraries in Europe published in the Bulletin of the European Association of Sinological Librarians:

In the world of Chinese characters - Readers of Chinese in the Royal Library of Denmark, by Bent L. Pedersen (BEASL, no. 10, 1997)
Plans for a tour of sinological libraries in France, by Vincent Durand-Dastès (BEASL, no.10, 1997)
Chinese Collections in Leuven, by Benedicte Vaerman (BEASL, no. 9, 1996)
Brief Report on the Sinica Collection of the Austrian National Library and Notes on Current Problems of Cataloguing, by Basilia Fang (BEASL, no. 9, 1996)
The Vittorio Emanuele II National Central Library, Rome; by Marina Battaglini (BEASL, no. 7, 1994)
The Russian State Library, Moscow; by Sergei Kazantsev (BEASL, no. 7, 1994)
The Royal Library, Copenhagen; by Bent Lerbæk Pedersen BEASL, no. 7, 1994)

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