This book is intended to serve multiple purposes. In particular, we examine the rise of the "LAM", an acronym that stands for libraries, archives, and museums and in doing so, we profile leading experts -- librarians, archivists, and museum curators -- who specialize in East Asian collections from across the world. In examining the dynamically shifting role of the cultural institution in the context of managing information and collections, this book provides important themes offered by these cultural experts in understanding the necessary professional skills, knowledge, and personalities that are required for working in such environments of varying size, scope, and composition in LAMs. As galleries, LAMs manage preservation and access of history and culture, their missions and goals as cultural institutions continue to converge.
As collecting institutions, LAMs share the common mandate to preserve and make accessible primary resources valuable for researchers and professionals, as well as the public. LAMs are mostly publicly funded, publicly accountable institutions collecting cultural heritage materials. Another aim of this book is to enhance the visibility and recognize the efforts of the LAM professionals as cultural institution leaders, since much of their great contributions in the respective fields to preserving our cultural and documentary heritages have gone unnoticed outside their parent institutions.
- Examines roles and goals of cultural institutions
- Brings collections to life through interviews with LAM experts
- Presents LAMs with a focus on East Asia
- Serves as a platform for LAM professionals to share and exchange experience and insight
Papildus informācija
Presents insights from the world's leading East Asian librarians, archivists and curators
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Authors' Biographies |
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Foreword |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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Introduction |
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1 Inside the Vatican Apostolic Library |
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2 A Library of the Venice and the Giorgio Cini Foundation's Far East Centre for Comparative Studies of Cultures and Spiritualities |
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3 From the Shang to the Qing at the British Library |
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4 A Combined Library, Archive, and Museum -- Exploring the British Library |
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5 How Popular Books From Ancient China Were Rescued by Sir Thomas Bodley: A Tale of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University |
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6 Preserving the Ewenki and Orochen People at the University of Cambridge |
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7 Worldwide and Cost-Free Access to the Geographically Scattered Materials From Dunhuang and Other Sites in Chinese Central Asia |
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8 Propaganda Art as a Powerful Weapon for Promoting Nationalism, Patriotism and Hatred Towards the Enemy |
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9 There's No Other Way but to Use the Berlin State Library |
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10 Opening up the Bavarian State Library's East Asian Collections to the World |
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11 A History That Dates Back to the 13th Century in Switzerland's Zurich Central Library |
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12 Collecting Asia at the Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic |
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13 Documenting the Cultural Exchange of Czechoslovak-Chinese Relations |
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14 From Collection Building to Web Development and Network Building in the Nordic Asian Studies Community |
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15 A Royal Library That Is Open to Everyone in Denmark and Worldwide |
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16 Exploring the Hidden Treasures |
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17 The Most Royal of Museums in Belgium |
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18 A Unique Chinese Collection for the General Public at the Lyon Public Library in France |
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19 The Kingdom of Naxi Manuscript Collections at the French School of the Far East |
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20 A Library That Reflects the History of French Interest in China and East Asia |
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21 The Most Comprehensive Collection of Asian Art at the Guimet Museum (National Museum of Asian Art), Paris |
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22 Collecting the Orient and Eastern Collections at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (National Library of France) |
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23 The Knowledge of Digital Archives and History in Japan |
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24 A Contemporary Russian Museum Combining the Traditions of Ethnography and Western Anthropology |
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25 Imperial China's Collections at the National Palace Museum in Taiwan |
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26 Witnessing the Birth of Asian Hollywood Through the Hong Kong Film Archive |
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27 Documenting Traditional Chinese Medicine Library Collections at Hong Kong Baptist University |
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28 The Politics Behind the Olympics and Sports Intelligence |
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29 Asia Art Archive: Archiving Contemporary Art in Asia as Practice |
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30 Archiving and Annotating Hong Kong Chinese Martial Arts as a Living Archive |
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31 Establishing a Permanent Kung Fu Museum in Hong Kong |
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32 There Is No Truth: There Are Only Stories |
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33 The Legend Continues: How Bruce Lee's Legacy Contributes to Our Shared Understanding of Libraries, Archives and Museums |
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34 Collecting Memories of Hong Kong in the Canadian Context |
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35 The Rise of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley |
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36 The Birth and Creation of a Leading Collection of Asian Materials at Princeton University |
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Bringing It All Together |
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Bibliography |
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Index |
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Patrick Lo is currently serving as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Library, Information & Media Science, the University of Tsukuba in Japan. He earned his Doctor of Education from the University of Bristol (U.K.), and has a Master of Arts in Design Management from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a Master of Library & Information Science from McGill University (Canada), and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Mount Allison University (Canada). He also took part in a one-year academic exchange at the University of Tübingen in Germany from 1990-91. He is efficient in Chinese (both Cantonese and Putonghua), English and German. Dr. Patrick Lo has presented about 100 research papers and project reports focusing on librarianship, humanities, and education at different local and international workgroup meetings, seminars, conferences, etc., including: Mainland China, Hong Kong, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Turkey, United States, and Sweden, and at institutions including the Library of Congress (U.S.), Austrian National Library (Vienna), University of Vienna, National Library of France (Paris), National Institute of Informatics (Japan), Konrad-Zuse-Center for Information Technology (Berlin), etc. His research interests and areas of specialty include: comparative studies in library and information science (LIS); art and design librarianship and information literacy. Dickson K.W. Chiu received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Computer Studies from the University of Hong Kong in 1987. He received the M.Sc. (1994) and the Ph.D. (2000) degrees in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He started his own computer company while studying part-time. He is now teaching at the University of Hong Kong and has also taught at several universities in Hong Kong. His research interest is in library and information management with a cross-disciplinary approach, involving workflows, software engineering, information technologies, management, security, and databases. The results have been widely published in over 150 papers in international journals and conference proceedings (most of them have been indexed by SCI, SCI-E, EI, and SSCI), including many practical master and undergraduate project results. Allan Cho is the Asian Studies librarian at Koerner Librarys Humanities and Social Sciences division. His work also supports community engagement initiatives and cultural programming at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC Library. Allan also has MLIS and M.Ed degrees from the University of British Columbia, and an MA in History from the UBC History department where his thesis, The Hong Kong Wuxia movie: identity and politics, 1966-1976, focused on the rise of the Hong Kong swordplay films across the Chinese diaspora during turbulent period of the Cultural Revolution. He is also an instructor in the Department of Library & Information Technology at the University of Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada.