APSIG newsletter no. 60: March 2006

The East Asian librarians let fly

The latest issue of the EALRGA Newsletter, no. 48, has just been published on the EALRGA website.

A bumper issue this time with a special feature, 'CJK Collections and Services around the country'. The few libraries with established Chinese Japanese and Korean collections have always enjoyed the privilege of publishing their news in a regular column. It is time we learned more about other libraries around the country which have CJK collections, some with a longer history than you'd think!

There are reports of various academic conferences where librarians took an active role in promoting library resources to our user community. There are also interesting reports on other meetings and librarians' training workshops.

Authors include young as well as established academics. Postgraduate students Niv Horesh and Alex English have written on the use of electronic resources in Chinese studies and the inaugural Chinese Studies Postgraduate Forum respectively. On the other hand, Prof Wong Shiu Hon, now retired in Perth, has kindly permitted us to reproduce his article on Chinese painting, which should be interesting to our readers.

Wan Wong, Editor, EALRGA newsletter