Keio university is organizing a 3-week on-line course entitled "Japanese culture through rare books : explore the important roles that books have played in the cultural history of Japan"
The aim of the course it that at the end you will:
The Isaac Alfred Ailion Foundation now accepts applications for fellowships at Leiden University’s Asian Library. All information is in this file and can be found on the website at http://library.leiden.edu/special-collections/scaliger-institute/research/isaac-alfred-ailion-fellowship.html
Summary notes follow below:
The JAL (Japanese Art Librarian) Project Executive Committee at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo is pleased to announce the JAL Project 2016** for inviting, giving training to, and exchanging with, Japanese-art librarians from outside Japan.
Ms. Fujimori passed away on Feb 15th. She was in office from October 1958 to April 1994. She created from scratch the Japanese collection at what was then INALCO. Her beginnings is concomitant with the increase of students consecutive of Japan's recovery.
The European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists (EAJRS) especially wishes to encourage the participation of resource specialists and young scholars from institutions with limited financial means or that have seldom or never attended an EAJRS conference. Therefore, with support from the Japan Foundation, the organizers of the 26th EAJRS conference in Leiden would like to offer three scholarships, which will include
The International Academic Forum is organizing conferences in the coming months this year focusing on librarianship and literature in Japan. For more information see: http://iafor.org/conferences/librasia2016/
Dear EAJRS members, dear friends,
I am writing this message on the morning of New Year’s Day. All is quiet on the human front of ambition and contest. Most of the revellers are still asleep, no traffic jams, no queues. Quietness is all around. I hope that you have spent a pleasant and peaceful Christmas and end of year, and have safely and happily made the transition into 2016.
The University of Hawai'i at Manoa Library seeks an innovative, collaborative, and service-oriented librarian to join a team of library and information professionals. Under the general direction of the Head of the Asia Department, the Librarian for Okinawan Studies will work collaboratively to lead in collection development and management of all materials in all formats related to Okinawan studies, provide research assistance, and library instruction.
Job opportunity: Head of the Japanese Section in the Division of Special Collections at the Library of the University of Cambridge.