Kuzushiji seminar in Paris February 2019
A blogpost by Kaoru Baba and Marie Preziosi about the Kuzushiji workshop organized at the Collège de France in February 2019:
NDL: Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries
The NDL is now accepting applications from overseas institutions for approval to receive the Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Libraries. Patrons at libraries subscribing to this service will be able to search and browse digitized versions of the more than two million books, periodicals, rare books and old materials that comprise the NDL Digital Collections, including about half a million materials which are also available on the website.
2019 conference scholarships
The European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists (EAJRS) especially wishes to encourage the participation to its conference of resource specialists and young scholars from institutions with limited financial means or that have seldom or never attended an EAJRS conference.
Member publication: Rekihaku
Two publications edited by The National Museum of Japanese History (国立歴史民俗博物館), both freely available:
Job opening at Princeton University Library
Princeton University Library is seeking candidates to lead a newly-combined team of professional experts and highly-skilled support staff in the creation and management of metadata critical to the effective use of the Library’s collections.
Job Opening at the Hosei University Research Center for International Japanese Studies (HIJAS)
The Hosei University Research Center for International Japanese Studies (HIJAS) would like to invite applications, following the below procedure, for the post of Fixed-Term Full-time Researcher.
Detailed information is available on the official website of the HIJAS:
https://hijas.hosei.ac.jp/en/news/hijas_bosyu.htmlEhon/emaki symposium at Chester Beatty
Ehon/emaki symposium at Chester Beatty, Dublin, 7-8 March 2019
More information in the pdf below and/or on their website
Member publication: Dirk de Graeff and the Opening of Japan
Dirk de Graeff and the Opening of Japan
This book by Dr. Herman J. Moeshart treats the history of the Dutch-Japanese relations in the years 1857-1869 and focuses on the Dutch representative in Japan, Dirk de Graeff (Van Polsbroek). De Graeff was from 1859 Acting Vice Consul at Kanagawa,1863 Political Agent and Consul General and from mid 1867 (titular) Resident Minister. He played an important role in the history of his time and was active in the conclusion of treaties with Japan for Switzerland, Prussia, Belgium, and he concluded the treaties for Denmark and Sweden-Norway.
Appel à contributions DocAsie 2019
19 - 21 juin 2019, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique.
Les journées annuelles DocAsie vous proposent d’entrer dans l’univers du web de données et des nouveaux apprentissages…
Open data, datalibrarian, data management, web sémantique, Learning center etc…. Autant de concepts qui induisent depuis quelques années une transformation profonde des pratiques mais aussi des espaces des bibliothèques.
Position: C.V. Starr East Asian Library
Japanese Studies Librarian
C.V. Starr East Asian Library
Columbia University Libraries
The C.V. Starr East Asian Library is one of the major collections for the study of East Asia in the United States with over 840,000 volumes of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, and Western language materials and over 7,200 periodical titles.