East Asian Library > About > What's New?
Did you know...
New Acquisitions / Arrivals
Service Updates
- Research Guide on Chinese Local History / Gazetteers
- Reserach Guide to Chinese Statistic Information
- Research Guide to Japanese History
- Guide to Basic Reference Works in Chinese Studies
- Guide to Starting a New Chinese Collection
- China Data Online Available
- PITTCat Upgraded with Unicode Enhancement
- Service Guideline Update for Chinese East Asian Gateway Service
- Korean Document Delivery Services
- More Accesses to Mitsui Collection
- New Partner Libraries in China
Outreach
- Visit of Consul-General of the People’s Republic of China
- Dr. Kim Hakjoon Visited the East Asian Library
- East Asian Library Outreach to Community Users
- East Asian Library Outreach to International Students
Staff News
Travel Grants
Projects
Archived EAL News
Click here for archived EAL news.
PROJECT
|
|
We are very pleased to announce the release of the Modern China Studies website which provides access to 36 titles (37 volumes) about Modern China published in the first half of the twentieth century. During the past year, the Digital Research Library (DRL), the East Asian Library, and Preservation Department of the University Library System (ULS) have worked closely to digitize selected monographs from the Chinese collection as part of an NEH grant awarded to the ULS. The grant called for the microfilming of 3,000 acidic texts as well as the digitization of several dozen texts that formed a pilot project. We selected the pre-1955 texts that document aspects of the Modern China period. The books are divided into two main categories (Primary Sources and Reference Tools), then subdivided by subject or type. Subjects within the primary sources consist of history, law, literature, political science and social science. The reference tools contain bibliographies, chronologies, directories, handbooks, statistics, and yearbooks. A browse page provides primary access to the digital texts. We welcome any comments and feedback from you. |
SERVICE UPDATES |
|
| The East Asian Library recently made a research guide to using Chinese local history / gazetters at the East Asian Library. The gudie briefly introduces the definitions, types, contents, and functions of Chinese local gazetteers, lists major catalogs and reference works about Chinese local history, and most useful to users, tips on locating and accessing the Chinese gazetteers held by the East Asian Library. Please click Here to read the guide. |
|
| The guide covers print and electronic resources such as majors statistic yearbooks, reference works, CD-ROM databases, Online databases that are available at the East Asian Library, and how to locate and access them both on and off-campus. Please click Here for more information. |
|
| The guide covers general reference books, primary sources, CD-ROM titles for Japanese history that are available at the East Asian Library. It also lists major online databases for Japanese history. Please click Here for more information. |
|
| This guide lists major reference works that are available at the East Asian Library to help users answer questions such as how to find Chinese characters, how to locate citations of classic Chinese books, how to locate materials in Chinese newspaper and periodicals, how to locate biographical materials, how to find geographical information, how to convert Chinese and Western time, how to find statistic information, etc. |
|
| With the rapid growth and development of Chinese Studies programs in American universities and colleges, more and more schools feel the pressing need for collecting books and journals in the original Chinese language, and providing faculty and students with essential reference tools, primary sources, and archival materials in the original Chinese language. This guide is made with this purpose in mind, and is meant to serve as a starting point for those institutions that are starting a Chinese collection from scratch. |
|
China Data Online is provided by the China Data Center at the University of Michigan. This resource provides statistical data on China: national, regional, and local; economic, social, and historical. Census data is included. You may access the database through Database A-Z at the library's home . You may access the database through Database A-Z at the library's home page. Off-campus users please first login to the SSL VPN Service: https://sslvpn.pitt.edu/. As always, if you have any problems accessing this resource, please report via the online feedback mechanism using the "Contact Us" button available on any page of the ULS web site. |
|
PITTCat, the online catalog of the University Library System has recently been upgraded with Unicode enhancement. It is now capable of displaying bibliographic information in the original Chinese, Japanese, or Korean characters. In addition, users now can search PITTCat for Chinese, Japanese, or Korean materials using the original characters as the search terms. This is an important feature that is particularly useful for patrons looking for East Asian materials. Searching guides are available for users to effectively search PITTCat for East Asian materials. Please refer to the Searching Guides for more information. |
|
Effective immediately, the Chinese East Asian Gateway Service will provide document delivery service to individual researchers or non-profit institutions / organizations only. If you need an academic jouranl article for reserch or teaching, but the needed item is not held by any libraries in the United States, you or your Interlibrary Loan staff on your behalf may submit the request to the East Asian Gateway Service by filling out the request form. We will try to obtain it for you from our partner libraries in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. |
|
We are pleased to offer Korean Document Delivery Service at the East Asian Gateway Service, East Asian Library, University of Pittsburgh. The KDDS at Pitt is focused on Korean academic publications not held by or available from libraries in the United States. We will provide this service in collaboration with KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), one of prestigious IT schools, in Asia. It operates strictly under the copyright laws of the United States and Korea. Any Pitt faculty/students who need full-text Korean academic journal article(s) for their research/teaching may request documents via the Web. |
|
The University Library is pleased to announce that the Mitsui Collection is open for circulation. More modes of access to the collection have been added, such as by card catalogue, online bibliography of pre-war books, and on-site browsing. Click here for details. |
|
| In 2005, the East Asian Library of the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh established partnership with two more Chinese Libraries: the Zhejiang University Library (浙江大学图书馆）, and the Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院文献情报中心）. The new partnership will provide the East Asian Gateway Service with more channels to deliver Chinese academic journals and further enhance our first-rate services. |
| In March 2006, the East Asian Library of the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh established a new partnership with Shanghai Information Center for Life Sciences, Chinese Academy of sciences(SICLS, 中国科学院上海生命科学信息中心). |
OUTREACH |
|
On November 2-4, 2006, Mr. Liu Biwei, Consul-General, the Consulate-General of People’s Republic of China in New York, and his delegate visited the University of Pittsburgh. During their stay in Pittsburgh, they visited the East Asian Library of the University Library System. Dr. Rush Miller, Director of the University Library System, and Dr. Hong Xu, Head of the East Asian Library, briefed the delegate on the partnership and cooperation between the University Library System and libraries and research institutions in China. For Mr. Liu’s visit and activities at Pitt, please refer to the news at the website of the Consulate-General in New York: http://www.nyconsulate.prchina.org/chn/lgxw/t278890.htm |
|
On October 18 2006, Pitt Alumnus KIM Hakjoon visited the East Asian Library in conjunction with his designation as a 2006 Legacy Laureate, an honor bestowed by Chancellor Nordenberg on a selected few alumni who have achieved exceptional success and whose personal and career achievements inspire by their example. Dr. Hong Xu, head of the East Asian Library, met Dr. Kim. She briefed Dr. Kim with the Korean Collection development at Pitt, and partnership that Pitt has established with Korean and Chinese libraries concerning collecting Korean materials. Dr.Kim was very impressed by the significant progress of the collection in recent years. He donated his latest book, North and South Korea: Internal Politics and External Relations since 1988, to the East Asian Library. He also donated the book to 18 other libraries in the United States, and the East Asian Library help distribute them. At the meeting were Ms. Eileen Weiner, the Director of International Advancement, University Center for International Studies, Ms. Xiuying Zou, the Public Services Librarian, and Ms. Donghee Sinn, the Korean specialist at the East Asian Library . |
|
The 2006 Pittsburgh Dragon Boat Festival was celebrated on Saturday, September 16th at Southside Riverfront Park. The festival featured dragon boat races with teams from around the country, stage performance of Asian songs and dances, artist drawings, delicious food, and much more. |
|
Cosponsored by the Asian Studies Center, East Asian Library, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, the Asian Karaoke Night was successfully held 7-10:30pm, September 29, at Kurtzman Room, William Pitt Union. The Asian Karaoke Night was part of the International Week coordinated by University Center for International Studies , Office of International Services, and Student Affairs (www.studentaffairs.pitt.edu). Following an exciting talk on adult karaoke learning in Japan at Asia Over Lunch by Dr. Watanabe, Assistant Professor from William Paterson University, the Koraoke Night featured fabulous Asian food and snacks, and attracted 217 visitors to sing along, 18 solos and 8 groups to participate in the contest. 3 individual prizes, 3 group prizes, and 4 honorary prizes were awarded. The East Asian Library set up a table to display materials, brochures, art-crafts, etc. East Asian Library staff participated in organizing the event, serving as one of the judges for the contest, and introducing the East Asian Library services and resources. Click here to see the photo. |
STAFF NEWS |
|
Ms. Sachie Kobayashi has joined us at the East Asia Library of University of Pittsburgh as the Japanese Cataloger starting from June 15, 2007. Ms. Kobayashi received her bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the University of Maryland and MLS from the same university. She had worked as a contract cataloger at the National Library of Medicine for three years for the Japanese History of Medicine project and created bibliographic and authority records of the Library's Japanese rare medical books published between the 15th and 19th century. From 2005 to May 2007, being a contract cataloger for Kinokuniya, she cataloged records for the Library of Congress and university libraries in the U.S. Ms. Kobayashi’s rich cataloging experience will be of great benefit to the East Asian Library at the University of Pittsburgh. Ms. Kobayashi can be reached at the East Asia Library by phone (412-648-8842) or email (pikos3@pitt.edu). |
|
The East Asian Library is pleased to welcome Ms. Tao Luo and Ms. Huili Fan for a six-month stay until July 2007 at the East Asian Library and participate in library-wide service and research activities. Tao and huili are on the librarian exchange program between the University Library System and Wuhan University Library, and Nanjing University Library, respectively. Tao can be reached at luotao@pitt.edu, and Huili can be reached at huilifan@pitt.edu. |
| In exchange, two librarians from the University Library System will visit Wuhan University and Nanjing University in March and April 2007. |
TRAVEL GRANTS |
|
The East Asian Library at the University of Pittsburgh is pleased to
announce travel grants for the 2007 calendar year. The purpose of these grants is to support scholars who wish to do research at the East Asian Library, University of Pittsburgh. They are sponsored by the Asian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh. The grants are available at the range of $250-$500 for each candidate depending on the need and the location of the individual. Special consideration will be given to those researchers in Pennsylvania and the nearby region who have no major East Asian collections. |
|
The East Asian Library is pleased to announce the recipient of two travel grant recipients: Dr. Lisa Yun
|
Yurong Yang Atwil Ms. Atwill will be using the East Asian Library for her research project on compiling a sourcebook of Chinese documents that supports multidisciplinary courses in Chinese studies. |
EAL ARCHIVED NEWS |
Click here for Archived News of East Asian Library. |
Modern China Studies Digital Project
