Japanese Collections

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

https://library.osu.edu/wiki/index.php?title=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

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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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: https://library.osu.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Romanization
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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.

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After 3 years in Ackerman Road, we’re back on campus in the beautifully renovated Thompson Library — Room 350-B (see below)!! East Asian stacks are on 3M, while the reference books are now on 2 (outside the Grand Reading Room).

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I’ll be teaching a course in the spring quarter with my colleague, Miriam Conteh-Morgan, on What Is the Global Information Society? It is listed in the Spring ’09 course list for International Studies —

Intl Stds 501, T R 11:30-1:18 (course # 12207-1)
Prerequisites: None

** Our goal is to introduce critical thinking about the knowledge creation process in its global and societal contexts. We believe this course will give students an advantage in academics and, especially, in the job market — as well as in their future professional lives.
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During the month of June — on Tuesday and Thursdays all month! — 37 films examining the portrayal of Asians in classic movies will be featured on TCM in a festival series, Race & Hollywood: Asian Images in Film. Continue reading

Kyoto University started Open Courseware on Youtube last month. The page is about the projects on the interactive connections among users, computer, and zen in sansui artwork. English.

https://library.osu.edu/wiki/index.php?title=ZENetic_Computer

I don’t know which category this entry should go…Maybe Japanese literature?

https://library.osu.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Japanese_plants