New Additions to the Collection
Purchased
- Zhongguo dao guan zhi cong kan xu bian = 中國道觀志叢刊續编. 28 volumes
- China local gazetteers in Southwestern China, Guangdong,
Wunan, Jiangxi, Shangdong, Xinjiang and Shaanxi provinces in the amount
of $3500.
- Zhongguo jin dai qi kan pian mu shu ju ku = [Chinese periodical index database] = 全国报刊索引数据库 1857-1919; 1950-1979; 1980-1992 Upgrade from CD version to Web version.
- Chinese Academic Journal Web:
Literature/History/Philosophy: pre 1979-1993 (the subscription does not
covers the following subjects: sport, world literature, world history
and geography)
Gift
- Mr. Cheung Tsai-hsien, a faculty member at the Department
of East Asian Studies at the University of Melbourne during 60s-80s,
passed away in April. His family donated his collection to the East
Asian Collection. Items are new to the East Asian Collection are added
to our holdings. The materials added to the Collection were in the area
of Chinese classics and literature.
- The Thomas Chong Collection
Thomas Chong was a Chinese herbalist practising Chinese herbal medicine
in the Gippsland area in the early 20th century. His book collection,
consisting of five hundred volumes of Chinese language medical books
mostly published between 1900 and 1930, were donated to the Medical
Museum at the University of Melbourne by his family in early 1990s. The
Collection has been kept at the Museum uncatalogued. An Ad-hoc
Committee has been set up recently to look at raising fund to catalogue
the Collection, making the Collection accessing via the Library's
INNOPAC system. More information about the Collection can be found from
the following bibliographic record:
http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/search/t?SEARCH=%27The%27+Thomas+Chong+Collection
Database trial
- OCLC Asian eContent databases:
1.1 Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services (TEPS)
Web site:
http://www.taiwanclassic.com/teps/ec/
1.2 National Palace Museum (NPM) Online
Web site:
http://www.airiti.com/npmoln/
- CNKI full text databases:
2.1 中国重要会议论文全文数据库 (Chinese conference articles full text database
2.2 中国重要报纸全文数据库 (Major Chinese newspaper articles full text database)
2.3 中国博士学位论文全文数据库 (China Doctoral /Master`s Dissertation Index)
Endnote 9 guides for Chinese Studies
The East Asian has been working closely with Thomson and CNKI to
prepare Endnote version 9 filters for Chinese language databases.
Research guides demonstrating users how to use Endnote 9 to build
Chinese bibliography are prepared and are available from the following
web site:
http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/asian/ChiResearchSkills.html
SuperSearch
SuperSearch is a new search interface at the University of Melbourne
libraries, whereby students and staff will be able to do one search
across library catalogue/ electronic databases/ the internet. It will
go live from December 11, and will be available at http://www.search.lib.unimelb.edu.au There is restricted access for non-Melbourne people, but do have a look. As is often the case, we are having
a few issues with searching and displaying using Chinese and Japanese and Arabic, but we expect those to be resolved soon.
Chinese Studies Research Group
The Chinese Studies Research Group (CSRG) has been very active during
2006. There were lunch seminars every six weeks. CSRG invited Chinese
Studies postgraduates across the University to present papers from
their research results. A Chinese Studies Research Day will be taken
place on 24 November. More information about CSRG can be obtained from
the following web page:
http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/asian/CSRG/CSRG.html
Visitor
Pietro de Laurentis. Petro, a PH D student from Naples
Oriental University, had conducted his researches on Chinese
calligraphy for a few months at the East Asian Collection.
Mrs Annie Lin, East Asian Librarian from UC Davis spent a day
with us on 8 September. Her visit was to collect information for her
research on East Asian Libraries in Australia relating to library's
Public/Reference services and outreach services, especially for Chinese
and Japanese users.
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