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The lecture I gave on November 26 is now available in the Knowledge Bank. Here’s a link:
Keeping a Finger on the Pulse of Global Information Flow
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Keeping a Finger on the Pulse of Global Information Flow
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History 7405 class: Introduction to Graduate Level East Asian Studies
I am presenting resources for students in the East Asian Studies MA program today with my colleague, David Lincove. David’s material is posted in the course guides section of the History Resources pages: http://library.osu.edu/find/subjects/history-resources/
1. Associations, conferences:
International Congress of Orientalists http://library.ohio-state.edu/record=b3329312~S7
Name change No. 30-31: International Congress of Human Sciences in Asia and North Africa
Name change No. 32-38: International Congress for Asian and North African Studies (ICANAS)
- I (1873) Paris
- II (1874) London
- III (1876) St Petersburg
- IV (1878) Florence
- V (1881) Berlin Continue reading
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Hakubunkan’s Taiyō (1895-1928) full text!
The Libraries’ subscription for access to Meiji-era issues of Taiyō (太陽), published by Hakubunkan (博文館) during 1895-1928, is now set up, with access available for Ohio State faculty, students and staff: http://library.ohio-state.edu/record=b7114669~S7
Taiyo 3:12 (June 1897) exhibited at Yamaguchi Prefectural Library
e-resour
Published by Hakubunkan during January 1895 to February 1928 in 34 volumes (531 issues; 175,000 pages), Taiyō (The Sun) was Japan’s first general interest popular magazine. Continue reading
Posted in Digital resources, Journals
Tagged art, Biographical reference, culture, e-journal, Early Showa, full text, literature, magazine, Meiji, military affairs, politics, science, society, Taisho, world affairs
Japanese films
The best way to find Japanese films in the Ohio State University Libraries’ collections is through the library’s catalog. I found 563 Japanese films! using the advanced search, limiting to Video Recording and Language = Japanese. The titles I found include TV shows and educational films in addition to movies.
Books on Japanese cinema in the library have the subject: Motion pictures — Japan
There are many databases on Japanese film, including these: Continue reading
Posted in Databases, Distinctive collections, Films
Tagged cinema, film, motion pictures, movies, OSUL catalog, TV
Great East Japan Earthquake
Last month the world observed the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. As time passes since the Great East Japan Earthquake (2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami) some important and interesting records of this event are being added to the collection to support research. The National Diet Library has generously sent us some materials as part of their gift and exchange program, including in-depth studies of previous earthquakes and tsunamis in Japanese history. Recently I have also started to collect creative writings, such as poetry, fiction and literary essays, as well as personal accounts of those who survived. Continue reading
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Tagged earthquake, history, literature, OSUL catalog, poetry, tsunami
NCC’s Image Use Protocol Guide
The other day I was mentioning how much help the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC) Image Use Protocol Guide is for anyone trying to obtain copyright permission to use an image from a Japanese source in a conversation with colleagues, Continue reading
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Jiji Manga’s Christmas issue of 1925
http://library.osu.edu/wikis/library/index.php/Jiji_Manga_244
Readers of my other blog about Ohio State’s Manga collection know that we have a large collection of Jiji Manga 時事漫画, published 1921~1931, in the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Together with a graduate student assistant, Hyejeong Choi, and other student assistants, I have been working on an index to the issues as part of a wiki project which we call: The Jiji Manga Wiki.
Today we were looking at No. 244, published on December 21, 1925. The full newspaper-sized political cartoon by Kitazawa Rakuten 北澤楽天 (1876-1955) shows a puzzled Santa Claus, wondering how he can possibly fill his bag with the presents that people are requesting. Continue reading
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SPARC Japan
Recently I was looking into what SPARC Japan http://www.nii.ac.jp/sparc/ has been doing recently as part of the global effort, SPARC, to address imbalances in the scholarly communication system and provide better access to research results. Progress is continuing at an impressive level!
What does this mean for researchers? Be sure to do an online search in the Japanese WWW when you are looking for scholarly articles before making an inter-library loan request! Sometimes (not always….) you can find the article online.
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Japanese Art: Handout for History of Art 582
Handout for Prof. Andrews’ Art of Japan (History of Art 582) course on October 25, 2010:
Bibliography and Research Methods for Japanese Art History
1. ROMANIZATION: Hint: Stay consistent in one system of romanization!
Libraries use Modified Hepburn romanization, following the Library of Congress. LC’s hints: http://catalog.loc.gov/help/japanese-unicode.htm
Many systems are used to romanize Japanese. Search in multiple ways: http://library.osu.edu/wikis/library/index.php/Romanization
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Understanding the Global Information Society? SP 2010
I will be teaching the International Studies 501 course “Understanding the Global Information Society?” again with Miriam Conteh-Morgan in Spring 2010 (TuTh 1:30PM – 3:18PM). The course call # is 6438.
Here is the syllabus: Continue reading
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