Tibet: Donation and Display
A significant donation of books, journals, NGO reports and other documents and A-V materials regarding the Tibetan democracy movement and
human rights situation was received from the Australia-Tibet Council in February. Items from this donation are a centrepiece in a recently installed
exhibition of Library and other materials on Tibet, which is intended to mark the visit to Monash University of the Dalai Lama on June 8. The
display also includes four rare Tibetan Buddhist manuscripts, a student's writing primer and some writing materials (two ink wells, a pen and case,
and a seal) generously loaned to the Library by David Templeman, a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism in the Monash Asia Institute. Other items in the
display are some nineteenth and twentieth century accounts of Tibet by European writers from the Monash Rare Books Collection, some Chinese
publications on Tibet, some Tibetan prayer flags and an an image of the Dalai Lama as reincarnated Buddha, acquired by ASRC Library Assistant,
Hueimin Chen, on his recent visit to the Dalai Lama's home town in Tibet.
New Electronic Resource
Monash University Library commenced a subscription the Dragonsource Database in 2007. It is a sub-set of the Net Library database. It
includes a selection of full text Chinese periodicals in the fields of literature, art, finance, education, science and technology, social sciences,
current affairs, history and children's entertainment.
Visit to U.S. libraries
While on long-service leave in the United States in March, Monash Korean Studies librarian, Jung-Sim Kim, visited a number of libraries with
Asian collections: the Harvard-Yenching Library at Harvard University, Boston, the Library of Congress, Washington DC, and the Korean Heritage
Library, East Asian Library at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She also visited the Family History Library and Salt Lake City
Public Library in Salt Lake City. And she attended the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference and the Council on East Asian Libraries
(CEAL) Meeting (20-25/3) in Boston.
Visitors in 2007
Overseas academics who visited the ASRC in 2007 included:
Professor Tsui Yenhu, Institute for Social-cultural Anthropology, Xinjiang Normal University
Jane Cho and Jae Eun Kim, Associate Researchers at the Korea Education and Research Information Centre
Professor Hisao Tomizawa, Dept of Cultural Anthropology, University of Tokyo
Professor Kazuomi Hirai, Faculty of Law, Economy and Humanity, Kagoshima University
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