The University of Pittsburgh Library System received two-year NEH funding for the preservation microfilming of 3000 acidic and rare volumes from the Chinese Collection, which is part of the East Asian Collection at the University of Pittsburgh.
These collections include publications produced during the Cultural Revolution from 1966-1976 and monographs published before 1949 that give insight into the political, economic, and educational conditions of China.
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In addition to preservation microfilming, 36 titles of pre-1955 texts that document aspects of the modern China period were selected to mount a pilot digitization project. The airm of the project is to offer enhanced access and investigate the adaptation of new methodologies, tools and techniques for creating, processing, indexing, and searching digital library content for foreign language materials.
The books are divided into two main categories (Primary Sources and Reference Tools), then subdivided by subjects. Subjects within the primary sources consist of history, law, literature, political science and social science. The reference tools contain ibliographies, chronologies, directories, handbooks, statistics, and yearbooks. A browse page provides primary access to the digital texts.
Please click What's New? and Modern China Studies website for more information. |
