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Conference Session 95

Rare and special collections in the Asian or Oceanian context

Rare Books and Manuscripts with Asia and Oceania

Congress track 4: Tools and techniques.

19 August 2013 08:30 - 18:00 | Off-site

Morning Sessions:

• Mapping dreams to pin the future to: access ideas for the National Library Singapore
  TIMOTHY PWEE and MAGES PERIASAMY (Special Collections, National Library Singapore, National Library Board, Singapore)
• Taonga (treasures) at the Alexander Turnbull Library: documentary heritage in Polynesia
  RACHEL ESSON (Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand)
• Public Library and Folk Historical Document: Taking Wenzhou Library as an example
  XIE ZHIYONG (Wenzhou Public Library, China)
• Rare handwritten manuscript collection in Indic languages at Scindia Oriental Research Institute (SORI), India
  ANIL KUMAR JAIN, SUDHIR KUMAR, KEERTI BALA JAIN (School of Studies in Library and Information Science, Vikram University, Ujjain, India), SUBHAJIT CHOUDHURY (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India) and BAL KRISHNA SHARMA (Sciendia Oriental Research Institute (SORI), Ujjain, India)
• Preserving Cordillera culture and history through the University of the Philippines Baguio Cordillera Studies Collection Library and Archives
  CRISTINA B. VILLANUEVA (Cordillera Studies Collection Library and Cordillera/Northern Luzon Historical Archives, University of the Philippines Baguio)
• Exploring Filipiniana rare books and the state of Filipiniana rare books management
  ROMULO R. UBAY, JR., MARTIN JULIUS V. PEREZ, TERESITA C. MORAN (Library Services, Far Eastern University, Manila, Philippines) and JOANNA O. SIAPNO (Library, De La Salle University-Makati Extension Campus, Makati City, Philippines)

Afternoon Sessions:

Poster session presentations:

• Preserving Sri Lanka's traditional manuscript culture: role of the Palm Leaf Digitization Project of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya
  PIYADASA RANASINGHE and W. M. THARANGA DILRUK RANASINGHE
• Social construction of manuscript preservation at Rekso Pustoko, Mangkunegaran Palace, Surakarta, Central Java
  YENI BUDI RACHMAN and TAMARA A. SUSETYO-SALIM
• Content analysis of manuscripts: case study on digital library in National Library and Archives of I.R. of Iran
  SAEEDEH AKBARI-DARYAN and AFSANEH TEYMOURIKHANI
• The 1893 printing of the Tipitaka (the first ever printing of this text), which King Chulalongkorn presented to over 200 institutions world-wide
  DARYL GREEN
• Compilation of Yongle Encyclopedia kept in the National Library of China
  ZHANG TAO

Papers session:

• Asia in New Haven
  EDWIN SCHROEDER
• Books on the move": rare chinese collections at the University of British Columbia
  JING LIU (Asian Library, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) and ALVAN BREGMAN (Technical Services, University of British Columbia Library, Vancouver, Canada)
• The USEK Library: An academic library with a national mission of conserving the heritage of Lebanon
  RANDA AL CHIDIAC (Executive Director, Library, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), Kaslik, Lebanon)
• Reliving the Filipino classical music heritage: preservation and restoration of Philippine art music manuscripts of the University of the Philippines-Diliman College of Music
  IYRA S.BUENROSTRO and JOHANN FREDERICK A. CABBAB (School of Library and Information Studies, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines)
• The Cristoforo Castelli's narration: between the Word and image
  MARIETTA CHIKHLADZE (National Centre of Manuscripts, Tbilisi (Georgia)

Tour of the National Library of Singapore

Conclusion

Location:
National Library of Singapore