Getting ready for my upcoming presentation at the Council on East Asian Libraries on “Scholarly Communication and Patron Services,” I set out today to see who’s blogging at East Asian collections. The first one I found is at Stanford:
East Asia Library Blog (Stanford) http://www.stanford.edu/group/asrg/cgi-bin/EALibraryblog/?p=79
It looks like it started in November 2006. The blog’s headline includes the Chinese translation of its title: 东亚图书馆博客. The latest post is about their subscription to Nikkoku Online, a database that is still on order here at Ohio State (being reviewed by OSU’s Legal department). Stanford also runs a feed of the five most recent posts to their web page, The East Asia Library: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/asrg/
The reason that the Stanford blog came up first in my search is that there it has information about meetings related to the recent controversy about closing Meyer Library — and those posts are widely linked. Too bad that we need controversies about our collections to spread awareness of our blogs!
Next I found a blog at Rutgers: Rutgers East Asian Librarian’s Blog: Connecting people with information and cultures http://tyang.wordpress.com/category/services/
It was started in October 2007 just after Tao Yang assumed the postion of East Asian Librarian and so far has two posts —
New article delivery service
Web resources
There are tabs for English Online Journals and Handouts from presentations. Looks great!
I found another blog — Chinese Canadian Library Weblog 加华图书馆博客 http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/jingliu/
It has some good information about meetings and discussion of issues related to East Asian library services. In contrast to the other two that I found earlier, that are both “institutional blogs,” this one is more typical of the “blogosphere” — jottings, notes, etc — from librarians who are thinking about very interesting aspects of Chinese studies librarianship! Postings at the site are by Jing and Lingbo.
