Journal of East Asian Libraries Journal of East Asian Libraries

Volume 1997 Number 113 Article 15

10-1-1997

Meeting of the International Association of Orientalist Librarians Meeting of the International Association of Orientalist Librarians

Maureen Donovan

William Wong

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MEETING internationalRNATIONAL association orientalist librarians

tenth general meeting international association orientalist librarians IAOLheld conjunction 35th international congress asian north african studiesICANASO budapest hungary july 7127 12 1997

excellency arpad goncz president hungarian republic opened 35th ICANASjuly 7thath presided elegant reception held evening parliament building

banks danube river welcoming speech participation congressevidence respect oriental studies commands field hungary longtradition field going back tibetologistTibetologist alexander csoma korosi 178418421784 1842continuing aurel stein lajos legeti others giving speech openingceremony royal Ihighness el hassan bin talal crown prince hashemiteshemitehashimiteHa kingdom

jordan stressed growing importance oftransregionaltransregionaltransregional interdisciplinary approachesscholarship need explore global viewpoints encompass nonwesternnon western readings

world history congress provided ample opportunities just sparserepresentation western europe north america fact noted many

william wong convened IAOL symposium oriental librarianship crossroadscentury see detailed listings below tenth general IAOL meeting business session

july 8 vasarelyvasarhelyVasarely hall library hungarian academy sciences dr eva aporcurator oriental collection library hosted meeting providedwonderful refreshments breaks lunch arranged special open house rarebooks exhibit attendees july 10 compiled new illustrated guidebook orientalcollection hungarian english honor meeting

magyar tudomanyos ademiaakademiaacademiaAk Konykonyvtarakonyviaravidraviara keleti gywjtemenygyujtemerry orientalcollection library hungarian academy sciences I1 compiled evaapor budapest magyar tudomanyos akademiaacademiaAkademia konyvtara 1997 3322 p ISBN

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IAOL membership business meeting held following symposium program two formerpresidents warren tsuneishi library congress lai bin kai universityhong kong sent greetings william wong reviewed term IAOL presidentbegan previous 1993 hong kong IAOL meeting highlights included obtainingtwo year grant 1500 china inner asia council association asianstudies support publication IAOL bulletin holding special IAOL panel session

publishing collection development oriental libraries post eelaIFLAEFLAdela sessionbeijing 1996 expanding area representatives IAOL current officers kenneth klein

university southern california raymond lum harvard university submittedrespective financial editorial reports covering past four years close sessionlynette wageman university hawaii chaired nomination committeeannounced election results thomas H hahn sinology institute heidelberg universitygermany benedicte vaermanbaerman china europe institute KU leuven universitybelgium elected president secretary treasurer respectively raymond lumlurnharvard university electedreelectedre IAOL bulletin editor closing remarks outgoinggoingpresident william wong said our very meeting present century new team

officers lead us continuing growth twenty first century 1997 IAOLSthirtieth anniversary confucius once said age thirty stood firm thirty yearsIAOL reached degree maturity confidence old italian proverb eggs ofanafanhour bread day wine year friends thirty years 1 lets hope our association

centuries our profession scholarship millennia next IAOLmeeting held conjunction 36th ICANAS held montreal 2000

addition IAOL meeting panels events relevant east asianlibrarianship special ICANAS symposium computers oriental studies followed byabusiness meeting organize workshops develop better methods communication amongscholars developing databases asian language materials washeldwashellheldheid july 9 further panel

information science asian languages held july 11 details both givenbelow two day symposium dunhuangDunhuang turfanturban held additionmany interesting papers given panels throughout conference

details programs

IAOL symposium oriental librarianship crossroads century july 8 1997

panel chair harold M otness

1 meri E trifonenkoTrifonenko russian state library moscow oriental center russianstate library Iiihistorystory collections

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2 eva apor hungarian academy sciences budapest oriental collection libraryhungarian academy sciences

3 harold M otness southern oregon university ashland oregon nurturing rootsoriental studies development libraries royal asiatic society branchesaffiliates asia nineteenth century

panel two chair roger tol

1 serguei kazantsevKazantsev russian state library moscow collection chineseblock books manuscripts russian state library

2 roger tol leiden bugis manuscripts library congress

panel three chair lynette wageman

1 nikita sokolov russian state library moscow new approach organization dataclassical literature south asia

2 william wong university california irvine development chinese textualbibliography twentieth century

panel four chair william wong

1 raja abdullah yaacobyaacobi norma abu seman MARA institute technology Selangormalaysia library information services multilingual multiculturalMulticultural societymalaysia

2 said oryan national library iran tehran words frahangiFrahangi pahlawa pazandfazandmstd2

3 avi shivtielShivtiel cambridge university cambridge UK arabismsArabisms modem hebrewlanguages contact reciprocal influences between oriental languages

B symposium computers oriental studies perspectives processing textualmanuscript data july 9 1997

section 1 chair jost gippert

1 john lehman alaska overview standards electronic text development

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indexing URL httphsomunixuafsomalaskaedu johnpapersbudapesthtmi

2 thomas hahn heidelberg chinese fulltextfuntextFullfulitext database standards non standards

3 susan huntington ohio state introduction huntington archive buddhist art

4 janice glowski ohio state overview huntington archive electronic database URLhttpkaladarshanhttpkaladarshanartsohioarts ohio statestateeduedu

section 2 chair lewis lancaster

1 alexander stolyarov moscow hypertext database diplomaticsdiplomaticaDiplomatica indica

2 boris ivanov moscow hypertext database nepalicaNepalica

3 colette establetEstablet provence ottoman history database

4 jost gippert frankfortmainFrankfort Main TTIUS project database

section 3 chair john lehman

1 maureen H donovan ohio state collaboration development online scholarlyresources asian studies

2 eugene I1 golovanovgologanovGolovanov moscow structure russian academy sciences orientalinstitute internet server URL httpwwwhttpwwworientruorienorlenorientrutru

3 hansje braam marc vandaammeVandaamme utrecht report computer activity

section 4 chair maureen donovan

1 yuri khudyakovkhudyakova novosibirsk method using computer technologies systematizedimensional piercing weapons distance action

2 helen jarvis sydney computerization southeast asian studies cambodia

3 christian witternwittem rottingengottingenGottingen beyond paper printing

C panel information science asian languages july 111119971997

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convenorconveyorConvenor toruTomtommatsuimatsui

1 torutom matsui introduction Ihistorical background information scienceasian languages panel

2 tadayuki K sato filling gap between humanities science

3 harumichiHammichimichl ishizuka han unification rules

4 yoshio togawa iestlEsthistoricalorical background proposed center ofkanjikanji documents

5 eiji matsuoka kanji database coded character set

6 christian wittemwittern computerization buddhist texts

7 martin J1 durst analyzing kanji structures

compiled reports maureen donovan william wong

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