CEAL Committee on Japanese Materials
“Japanese Collections as Learning Centers: Connecting Users with Libraries through Web 2.0 Technologies”
Maureen Donovan & Shirin Eshghi
Atlanta, April 3, 2008

Web 2.0

Information Architects Japan, “Web Trend Map 2008 Beta”
http://informationarchitects.jp/web-trend-map-2008-beta/
300 influential and successful websites displayed on the Tokyo-area train map

Wiki

https://library.osu.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Japanese_Studies (Japanese Studies wiki)

https://library.osu.edu/wiki/index.php?title=ShashiDB
(Japanese Company Histories wiki)

http://Wikipatterns.com
(guide to wiki adoption; collection of community-building; content-building strategies)
Book:
Mader, Stewart. Wikipatterns (Indianapolis: Wiley, 2008)

“How to Contribute to Wikipedia”
http://www.wikihow.com/Contribute-to-Wikipedia

Blogs

https://library.osu.edu/site/japanese (Ohio State’s Japanese Collections blog)

https://library.osu.edu/site/manga (Ohio State’s Manga collection blog)

Book:
Walsh, Bob. Clear Blogging. (Berkeley: Apress, 2007)

Japanese biblioblogging

Sato, Sho (min2-fly ) and katz3, “Libworld – Japan: Biblioblogs in Japan”
http://infobib.de/blog/2008/01/28/libworld-japan/

The List of Japanese Biblioblogs
http://www.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/hitslab/bloglink.html

Contact:
Maureen Donovan
Japanese Studies Librarian
Ohio State University Libraries
donovan.1@osu.edu

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Shirin Eshghi’s recommendations:

Books:

Castro, Elizabeth. HTML, XHTML & CSS. Berkeley: Peachpit Press, 2007.

Wyke-Smith, Charles. Stylin’ with CSS. Berkeley: New Riders, 2005.

Links:

http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/jllb (UBC Japanese Librarian Blog)

http://www.movabletype.org/ (platform for UBC blog)

http://feed2js.org/ (to insert blog feed into web page)

http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/reference/html_cheatsheet/

http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/reference/color_codes/

Contact:
Shirin Eshghi
Japanese Language Librarian
Asian Library, University of British Columbia
shirin.eshghi@ubc.ca