Library Projects and Activities in or about CENTRAL, EAST, SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
For further information, visit the East Asia Library and the Southeast Asia Collection
Joint Seminar on Archival Methods
The Joint Seminar on Archival Methods is
a formal program established in 1999 between the University of
Michigan’s
Bentley Historical Library and the State Archives Administration
of China (SAAC). The seminar and visit to Yale are intended to
introduce young Chinese professionals to the current practice
and theory of archival administration in the United States. The
thirty delegates come from throughout China and are selected by
the SAAC based on their knowledge of archival administration in
China and their ability to understand and speak English. The first portion of the program took place
at the Bentley Historical Library. The second portion was participation
in the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists in
Washington, DC. The program continued thereafter at Yale University,
where the theme was “Yale and China.” Planned sessions
explored American archival practices by focusing on the preservation
and documentation of American-Chinese interaction and history,
primarily in Manuscripts and Archives, but also including the
Divinity Library and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Time frame: August 7-10, 2006
Contact: Christine
Weideman, Interim Director,
Manuscripts and Archives
Kwok Library Fellowships
Three-year program launched in January
2006 with funding from the Kwok Foundation of Hong Kong, to bring
librarians from Chinese universities to the Yale Library for six
to twelve months each. The first three fellows were the Director
of the Medical Library, the Head of the new East Campus Library,
and the Assistant Librarian and Head of Acquisitions and Cataloging at Sun
Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Time frame: 2006-09
Contact: Ellen
Hammond, Curator, East Asia Library
Documenting Christianity in Asia Programme
DCAP is a consortium focused on improving documentation
of Christianity in Asia. Each of the Asian partners is assuming
responsibility for increasing awareness of the need to gather and
preserve the documentation of Christianity in their region. They
will do such things as holding consultations for area denominational
groups and institutions of higher education, as well as sponsoring
training events. The work of the DCAP will be coordinated via a
website sponsored by Yale.
Time frame: 2005 onward
Contact: Paul
Stuehrenberg,
Divinity Librarian
The Fall of
Saigon: April, 1975
A comprehensive exhibition of Nayan Chanda’s
personal photographs and memoirs documenting this historic event.
on display from April 25–May 6, in the right hall exhibit
cases on the main floor of Sterling Memorial Library. More...
Sterling Memorial Library Exhibition, April 25
- May 6, 2005
Contact: Rich
Richie, Curator,
Southeast Asia Collection
Cambodian Genocide Documentation
Program
Started in 1994, the Cambodian
Genocide Documentation Program, a project of the Genocide Studies
Program at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies,
has been studying these events to learn as much as possible
about the tragedy. Yale University Library has microfilmed and
made available to scholars worldwide the 100,000-page archive
of the Pol Pot regime's security police, the Santebal. The Library
has also filmed other key sources from the DC-CAM offices in
Pnom Phenh and made these available at cost recovery to the
research library community. Time frame: 1994 onward
Contact: Rich
Richie, Curator, Southeast Asia Collection
Southeast
Asia Microform Project (SEAM)
The Southeast Asia Microform Project (SEAM)
is a cooperative endeavor established to provide subscribing
institutions with better coverage of research materials related
to the study of Southeast Asia. SEAM will film or acquire films
of such research materials and make them readily available to
subscribers to the project. From an initial focus on cost-effective
sharing of resources in microformat, SEAM has become, with cooperating
institutions and foundations, a major sponsor of efforts to
preserve and provide access to rare or unique resources from
Southeast Asia. Rich Richie, Curator
of the Southeast Asia Collection, is member of
the Executive Committee (2004-2007). Time frame: 1970 onward
Contact: Rich
Richie, Curator, Southeast Asia Collection
South
Asia Microform Project (SAMP)
The South Asia Microform Project (SAMP) is a cooperative
program that seeks to acquire and maintain a readily accessible
collection of unique materials in microform related to the
study of South Asia. Materials are collected both through
the filming efforts of the project and through the purchase
of positive copies of materials filmed by other groups,
institutions and companies. SAMP strives to cooperate with libraries and archives worldwide
in preserving unique or endangered materials for the study
of South Asia. Created in 1967 and affiliated with the Association
for Asian Studies, the subscribing members of SAMP acquire
and maintain materials from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh,
Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives in microform.
To provide convenient access to subscribers, the collection
is housed and administered by the Center for Research Libraries
(CRL).
Time frame: 1967 onward Contact: Rich
Richie, Curator, Southeast Asia Collection
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