Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies grant

The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies and the University of Maryland Libraries invite applications for two $1,500 grants to support research in the library’s Gordon W. Prange Collection and East Asia Collection on topics related to the period of the Allied Occupation of Japan and its aftermath, 1945-1960. Holders of a Ph.D. or an equivalent degree are eligible to apply, as are graduate students who have completed all requirements for the doctorate except the dissertation. The competition is open to scholars in all parts of the world and from any discipline, but historical topics are preferred. University of Maryland faculty, staff, and students may not apply. More information can be found on the Prange Collection website.

The application deadline is November 20, 2015.  The grant must be used by October 28, 2016. Grant funds will be disbursed in the form of reimbursement for travel, lodging, meals, reproductions, and related research expenses. Such costs as computers or software are not eligible. Reimbursement will require submission of receipts for processing by the University.

All applications must be submitted electronically by attachment to millercenter@umd.edu with “Twentieth-Century Japan Research Awards” in the subject line. Applications must include a curriculum vitae and a two-to three-page description (double-spaced) of the research project. Applications from graduate students must be accompanied by a letter from the principal faculty advisor attesting to the significance of the dissertation project and to the student’s completion of all other degree requirements.

Materials in the Gordon W. Prange Collection include virtually all Japanese-language newspapers, news agency releases, magazines, pamphlets, and books dating from the period of Allied censorship, 1945-1949, in addition to over 10,000 newspaper photos.  There are also materials published by Chinese and Korean residents, most of which are written in Japanese.  Related collections in English include the personal papers of Charles Kades and Justin Williams.  Office correspondence documenting policies and decisions of the Publications, Pictorial, and Broadcast Division, Civil Censorship Detachment (Civil Intelligence Section), Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers Japan, are complementary to official Occupation records housed at the National Archives, College Park.  Japanese newspapers and magazines from the Prange Collection are available for research on microform. Other Prange materials are made available for research in the Prange Collection reading area after consultation with the Prange Curator or Manager.  The East Asia Collection contains Japanese-language books published during the wartime period, scholarly monographs on Occupied Japan, and a wide variety of reference works.

 A one-page summary of research findings is required at the conclusion of the grant period and sharing of research findings during an informal lunchtime talk is encouraged.

 For further information about the collections, consult the following websites: http:/www.lib.umd.edu/prange and http://www.lib.umd.edu/EASIA/eastasia.html

Katie Labor
History PhD Student 2019, University of Maryland
Coordinator, Graduate Assistant, Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies
2115 Francis Scott Key Hall, College Park, MD, 20742
millercenter@umd.edu
http://history.umd.edu/historicalstudies
Phone 301-405-4299, Fax 301-314-9399
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NDL: Training in Japan for Japanese Studies Librarians Outside Japan

Training for Japanese Studies Librarians Outside of Japan : 海外日本研究司書研修実施のお知らせ（国立国会図書館）

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Dear all:
The National Diet Library (NDL) is offering a training program (conducted in JAPANESE) for Overseas Japanese Studies Librarians [海外日本研究司書研修]. It will take place from January 13 to 22, 2016 (8 days) at the Kansai Branch of the National Diet Library.

Participants will not only be learning about the NDL's reference and other services but will also be visiting other Japanese studies information organizations, getting hands-on training and attending special lectures.

The training is free of charge, but participants are responsible for their own transportation and accommodation.

Please refer to the link below for detailed information about the training program (in Japanese):
http://www.ndl.go.jp/jp/library/training/guide/1211059_1485.html

Best,
Fabiano

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Fabiano Takashi Rocha | Japanese Studies Librarian
University of Toronto Libraries | 130 St. George Street | Toronto ON M5S 1A5
fabiano.rocha@utoronto.ca | 416-978-2300

New Japan Studies Librarian (Univ. of Washington)

Dear Colleagues:

I am delighted to announce that Ms. Azusa Tanaka has joined us at the East Asia Library of the University of Washington in Seattle as our Japan Studies Librarian as of July 1st, 2013. Ms. Tanaka received her MLS degree from Syracuse University in 2008 and her MA in Korean Studies from the Jackson School of International Studies at University of Washington in Seattle in 2005.

Prior to moving to UW, Ms. Tanaka served from 2009-2013 as the Japanese catalog/subject Librarian at the East Asia Library at Washington University in St. Louis. Ms. Tanaka has been actively involved in the National Coordinating Committee for Japanese Library Materials (NCC) and Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) committees.

The combination of her library experiences in Japanese cataloging, reference and library instruction services, and collection development, as well as her subject training in other areas of East Asian Studies will enable her to make significant contributions to our East Asia Library at the University of Washington Libraries and the university community.

Ms. Tanaka will be responsible for Japanese studies collection development, library instruction and reference services, and faculty and student liaison on campus, and she will actively participate in community outreach and all other professional activities and services associated with her primary job responsibilities as Japan Studies Librarian.

Ms. Tanaka can be reached at the East Asia Library by phone or email at 206-543-7051; azusat@u.washington.edu.

We are very excited to welcome Ms. Tanaka to join us at the University of Washington and look forward to working with her to further strengthen our collections and services.

Zhijia Shen
Director
East Asia Library
University of Washington Libraries

NCC's 2nd Team-Building Workshop

Want to offer more undergraduate Japanese studies courses?
Need more Japanese digital resources?
Want to use interlibrary loan or document delivery from Japan?
Want to infuse Open Source materials into your teaching and research about Japan?


If you answered YES to any of these questions Team UP and Take Part in NCC’s Team-Building Workshop:


Where and When?  August 12-15, 2013 at Harvard University, cosponsored by NCC and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.  (Arrival in Boston, Sunday, August 11, 2013)

Workshop Content: An intensive four-day, small-group program with lectures by leading scholars, discussion sections, and hands-on training in Japanese digital resources.  Trainees will gain hands-on knowledge of freely available and subscription-based databases, learn to use international ILL, get visual images from Japan, use the Japan Digital Archive of the 2011 Disasters in teaching, and make non-print media more central to instruction and student projects.  All instruction will be in English.

Who should be on your team? Teams should include 2-3 members who are Japanese and/or Asian studies faculty and librarians (preference will be given to librarians who are NOT Japan-specialists themselves).  Teams may come from the same institution or neighboring institutions, which are jointly developing the Team’s resources on Japan.  Teams may come from any institution where undergraduate Japanese studies if offered, worldwide. 

What kind of projects should your team develop? Team projects may include undergraduate courses on Japan, instructional websites or webinars, strategies for infusing Japanese digital resources into the curriculum, materials for language learners at any level, multi-media resources on Japan, and projects that expand your teaching to better promote understanding of Japan in your community. 

Who to Contact? Please contact NCC Executive Director Victoria Bestor vbestor@fas.harvard.edu before applying, and to learn about limited travel and lodging support for eligible trainees. 

What should applications include: Applications should contain a background paragraph on your institution, a brief summary of your existing Japanese and Asian studies programs, details on your Team-Members, a short proposal (1-3 pages) summarizing your Team-Project, and information on the travel/lodging needs of your team.  Funds are limited and applicants are asked to seek institutional and/or individual matching funds. 

Workshop Sponsorship:  NCC is offering this Workshop with principal funding from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership.  Supplemental and logistical support will come from the Japan-US Friendship Commission, Toshiba International Foundation, and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University. 

Application deadline: April 30, 2013

Visit the NCC Website at http://www.nccjapan.org/ to learn more about NCC
and its freely available resources and services.
Victoria Lyon Bestor
Executive Director
North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources
149 Upland Road
Cambridge, MA 02140
Tel: 617-833-0755
Fax: 617-812-5854
Website: http://www.nccjapan.org/
Email: vbestor@fas.harvard.edu

China-Japan-Korea Library Conference

Call for presentations

4th China-Japan-Korea Library and Information Science Conference

November 30-December 1, 2012, Busan, Korea

 

Theme: Knowledge Organization: Issues and Trends

The Fourth China-Japan-Korea(CJK) Library and Information Science Conference organized by the  School of Information Resources Management, Renmin University of China, College of Knowledge and Library Sciences, University of Tsukuba, and the Department of Library, Archive and Information Studies of Pusan National University will take place in Busan, Korea during November 30-December 1, 2012

The main theme of the Symposium this year is “Knowledge Organization: Issues and Trends”.  The CJK Conference aims to bring together both researchers and information professionals to discuss the implications of various issues in library and information science.

Paper submission

Research papers must be written in English.  Presentations should be made in English, and will be limited to approximately 30 minutes plus 10-minute Q & A.  Either full paper or PowerPoint slides are to be accepted as a final draft and be included in the conference proceeding.  However, Presentation should be accompanied by PowerPoint slides.

Submit your proposal(up to 5 pages, doc, docx, pdf’s only) to the department email: july75@pnu.edu by 15th October 2012.  The submissions will be reviewed by a selection committee.  Authors will be contacted by 25th October 2012

Key Dates

Research proposal/Abstract submission: 15th October 2012.

Notification of acceptance: 25nd October 2012.

Final paper or PPT slides: 23^rd November, 2012

Venue

The Conference will be held at Induk Hall located in Pusan National University, Busan, Korea. Accommodations for all presenters and commentators will be provided by the Department of Library, Archive and Information Studies, Pusan National University

For more information please visit the conference site at

http://info.lib.pusan.ac.kr/

With kind regards,

Soo-Sang Lee, Chairman

Department of Library, Archive and Information Studies

Pusan National University

Busan, 609-735, Korea

Tel: +82-51-510-2139

sslee@pnu.edu

Japanese Materials Committee Agenda 2012

Dear Colleagues:

I am pleased to announce the upcoming Committee on Japanese Materials (CJM) program at the CEAL annual meeting on March 15, 2012 in Toronto. This year, we have a special program focusing on the lessons we have learned from the Great Tohoku Earthquake (Higashi Nihon Daishinsai on March 11, 2011) and awareness of disaster planning. The Committee cordially invites you to attend the panel on “Lessons and Messages from The Great Tohoku Earthquake: Awareness of Preparedness for Libraries, Museums, and Archives.” This will be a brainstorming session for all of us. 

Date and Time: Thursday, March 15,  9:10 am -10:40 am

Location: Dominion Ballroom South, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel

9:10-9:15         Opening remarks.  Setsuko Noguchi, (Chair, Japanese Studies Librarian, Committee on Institutional Cooperation)

9:15-9:20         Committee report

9:20-10:40       Presentations & panel discussion “Lessons and Messages from The Great Tohoku Earthquake: Awareness of Preparedness for Libraries, Museums, and Archives.”

Moderator: Mari Nakahara (Reference Librarian, Library of Congress)

9:20-9:30         Satoshi Sonehara (Professor, Tohoku University Archives) "Disaster report and

current activities at Tohoku University library and archives"

9:30-9:40         Makoto Okamoto (SaveMLAK) "Business Continuity Program and know-how for damaged materials"             

9:40-9:50         Andrew Robb (Section Head for Special Formats, Library of Congress) "Lessons Learned from the 2006 Katrina and Rita Hurricanes in the United States"

                       

9:50-10:00       Kazuko Hioki (Conservation Librarian, University of Kentucky) “Strategies for disaster preparedness and recovery“

10:00-10:30     Panel discussion

Q&A

Closing

I look forward to seeing you all at the CJM annual meeting in Toronto.

Sincerely,

Setsuko

Setsuko Noguchi

Librarian for Japanese Studies, CIC 

enoguchi@staff.cic.net

(217)244-9424, fax (217)333-2214

Asian Library, 325 Main Library

1408 West Gregory Drive,

Urbana, Illinois 61801

Japanese Romanization Task Force Report

Link to PDF Report

Dear CEAL colleagues,

On Sunday, January 22nd, the CTP/CJM Joint Task Force on the LC Proposal Regarding Japanese Romanization submitted a report to LC titled “CEAL Response to the Clarification of LCpractice concerning the use of diacritical marks in Japanese romanization,” based on the survey conducted early this month.

The Task Force is very grateful to those who responded to the survey. We received close to 60 responses in spite of the very short notice and the brief survey period. I would also like to thank some Japanese experts consulted by the Task Force. Based on the survey results, close examination of the proposed revision, and brief research on related topics by Task Force members (excellent jobs!), we have composed a seven page response (45 pages including appendixes). Click here to view the report (PDF file). We welcome further feedback.

Here is a summary:

• The CEAL community thanks LC for clarifying the long-standing issue of alif and apostrophe usage in Japanese romanization.
• CEAL members support the idea of adding a “Diacritic marks” section to the Japanese romanization guidelines, and suggested moving the section towards the beginning of the document
• The TF also suggested adding a section on macron usage, with examples, to further clarify usage in more complex macron cases.
• The TF requests that LC continue to review the guidelines, and to establish a timeline for further revisions of the Japanese Romanization Table beyond the alif/apostrophe issue. The TF identified 17 additional examples and one deleted section included on the LC website version of the table (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/japanese_table_111215.pdf), but not in the version attached to the original email to Eastlib on Dec. 14, 2011.
• The TF welcomes both LC’s and OCLC’s intention to work together with the CEAL community to do necessary cleanup work resulting from this change.
• The TF hopes that over time further improvements, bringing even more clarity to the ALA-LC Romanization Table for Japanese, will be made and that these improvements will be done in a collaborative and transparent way, with the participation of a range of stakeholders, including LC, OCLC and the CEAL community.

Please let Task Force members or me know if you have any questions or comments regarding our report. We intend to do follow-up work, including the review of any counter-response from LC, and further research on Japanese romanization, with the aim of improving the Japanese Romanization Table with broad input from the community. Please share your opinions, ideas, or insights on this issue. Also let us know if you notice any misunderstandings or inaccuracies in our report.

We are looking forward to hearing from you. Thank you.

- Keiko

For CEAL CTP/CJM Joint Task Force on LC Proposal to Japanese Romanization

Rob Britt

Yoko Kudo

Mieko Mazza

Hikaru Nakano

Keiko Suzuki, Chair

Shi Deng, ex officio (CTP Chair)

Setsuko Noguchi, ex officio (CJM Chair)

Ms. Keiko SUZUKI  鈴木啓子

Japanese Catalog Librarian, East Asia Library

Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University

P.O.Box 208240

New Haven, CT 06520-8240

Tel.: 203-432-2778 / Fax: 203-432-7231

keiko.suzuki@yale.edu

Japanese Rare Book Directory

Directory of North American Collections of Old and Rare Japanese Books, Other Print Materials, and Manuscripts: Now Available at the NIJL Website

Dear Librarians and Curators of the Participating Institutions in the Directory of North American Collections of Old and Rare Japanese Books, Other Print Materials, and Manuscripts:

We are pleased to let you know that the Directory has been updated and is now available at the National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL) website:

In the NIJL Database page http://www.nijl.ac.jp/pages/database/, click 98."北米日本古典籍所蔵ディレクトリ," or,

go to: http://base1.nijl.ac.jp/~overseas/

Below please find the announcement in Japanese on the availability of the Direcotory at the NIJL website by Prof. Jun Suzuki. We would like to join Prof. Suzuki to express our sincere appreciation for all the support each of you provided to join this project.

Please notice that the Japanese page is available by clicking "日本語ページ" link in the menu bar right beneath the Directory name. We hope that the Directory will gradually include more information in Japanese also.

At this point, we would like to ask each of you to review your institution's entry in the NIJL website, and let Prof. Osamu Furuse of NIJL (email: furuse@nijl.ac.jp‎) and Toshie Marra (email: tmarra@library.ucla.edu) know as soon as possible of any changes that should be made to update the directory.  If possible at all, we encourage you to provide the Japanese version of the directory enty for the same content as well. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Toshie Marra any time.  

Thank you very much for your attention to this matter.

Best regards,

Subcommittee on Japanese Rarebooks, CEAL Committee on Japanese Materials

Toshie Marra

Hideyuki Morimoto

Hisako Rogerson

Reiko Yoshimura

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ディレクトリ公開のお知らせ

このたび人間文化研究機構 国文学研究資料館では、北米日本古典籍所蔵機関ディレクトリの公開に向けた準備が整いましたので、二〇一一年一二月下旬を目途に当館のウェブサイトから発信することになりました。ご承知のように、本ディレクトリは、北米を中心とする、日本の古典籍やその他の文化資料を所蔵する大学図書館、美術館などの機関について、コレクションの概要やコンタクト方法などの情報を集約したものです。本ディレクトリの公開によって、今後、各所蔵機関の日本資料コレクションが日本及び世界各国の研究者、学生などによって、さらに有効活用されることが期待されます。

現段階では、英語表記が基本で、日本語は不十分ですが、情報のリニューアルとともに、言語表記の面も追々充実を図って行きたいと思います。また、北米以外では、欧州の参加機関が少数参加しているに過ぎませんが、これも徐々に拡大していければと願っています。どうか今後ともご協力のほど、お願い申し上げます。

最後に、本ディレクトリの公開が、もっぱらこれまで長い間、作成に携わって来られた、東アジア図書館協議会（CEAL）の日本資料委員会の元に組織された日本古典籍小委員会の皆様のご尽力と、各所蔵機関のご協力の賜物であること、またシステムについては、当館の事業部が担当させていただきましたことをお断りし、関係各位には、この場を借りて厚く御礼申し上げます。

国文学研究資料館教授　鈴木淳

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Toshie Marra
Japanese Studies Librarian
UCLA East Asian Library
21617 Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Tel. (310) 825-2765
Fax: (310) 206-4960