The 2012 NACIRA Conference and AGM will be held on Tuesday December 4th
at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge. Details are in
preparation.
Please
contact Gill
Goddard if you need further details.
Previous
Conferences
2011
The conference theme was Revealing hidden gems: Asian collections in the 21st century
- Gillian Evison and Andrew Skilton of the Bodleian Library on the union catalogue of Buddhist Shan manuscripts project.
- Annabel Gallop of the British Library on the work of the South East Asian section of the British Library, with a visit to the collections
- Chris Dillon of University College London on the future scenario for non-Roman script domain names
- Peter Kornicki of Cambridge University on the growth of Tangut studies
2010:
The conference theme was The medium is the message: new digital
resources for Asian and Middle Eastern studies.
- Ishida Takeshi, Director of the
Japan Foundation, London and our host. Opening remarks.
- Rachel Rowe, Smuts Librarian in
South Asian and Commonwealth Studies, Centre of South Asian Studies,
University of Cambridge.Progress in
the digitisation of the Centre’s film and oral history collection
- Malcolm
Raggett, Technical Advisor to the project at SOAS. The Fürer-Haimendorf Archive
Digitisation Project at SOAS: creating an online resource for the
historical study of tribal cultures in South Asia and the Himalayas
- Jane
Lewisohn, Research Associate at SOAS and Principal Researcher for the
project. Preserving the Intangible
Heritage of Iran: 20th Century Classical Persian Music: The Golha
project sponsored by the Endangered Archives project and the Iran
Heritage
- Sam van Schaik, Senior Researcher
for Dunhuang project Developments in
the International Dunhuang Project at the British Library
2009:
The conference theme was Expect
the unexpected : hidden resources in the UK.
- Nicholas Martland as Chairman of
NACIRA (British Library: Curator, Australia, New Zealand and Pacific
collections): Opening remarks
- Dr John McAleer, Curator of
18th-Century Imperial and Maritime History at the National Maritime
Museum at Greenwich: on the archives and collections, with particular
reference to the new Indian Ocean/ Asian Seas Gallery and the
maritime history of the East India Company
- Caroline Lloyd, Head of Library
& Archives at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine:
The diverse range of subjects covered in the printed and archival
collections and how they provide a rich resource for historians and
social scientists.
- Steven Cable, Principal Records
Specialist, Maps, Plans & Photos, the National Archives : Revealing
maps and photographs relating to Asia in the National Archives
- Beth McKillop, Director of
Collections and Keeper of Asia at the Victoria and Albert Museum: The
Victoria and Albert Museum Collections of Asian Works on Paper, and the
new 'Search the Collections' feature of the V&A website
2008:
The
Theme
of the conference was “Expanding the boundaries of
information resources on Asia in the UK” marking the
establishment of NACIRA, the emphasis was on reaching the
widening range of customers for our resources.
- Opening Address on the
future role for NACIRA and UKIRA {formerly the Mapping Asia}
- Nicholas
Martland (Faculty Librarian
for Arts and
Humanities/South
and South East Asia and Pacific at SOAS
- RIN and its aim to improve
communication and
access
to information resources for researchers. - Ms Sally Curry
(Library
Collaboration Programme Manager, Research Information
Network)
- Project to create the
Dictionary of the Wa Language with Burmese (Myanmar), Chinese, and
English Glosses and the Internet Database for Minority Languages of
Burma (Myanmar). Dr
Justin Watkins
(Senior Lecturer in Burmese, SOAS)
- Dr.
Alison Ohta
(Curator, Royal Asiatic Society of Great
Britain and Ireland)
2007:
The Theme of the conference was
“Asian and North African Studies – 40 Years
On”,
marking the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the NCOLR,
emphasising the future needs for library
resources and the role of librarians within the wider context of
academic developments relating to the regions covered by our members.
- The future of Oriental
studies research and the role of libraries in supporting it. - Prof.
Peter Robb (Pro-Director, SOAS)
- The study of Sanskrit in
India’s ‘early modern’ moment. - Prof.
Christopher Minkowski (Boden Professor of Sanskrit, University of
Oxford)
- Starting from
scratch: Developing Chinese studies library resources at Nottingham.
Dr. Jackie Sheehan (School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University
of Nottingham)
- John
McIllwaine presented a personal view of 40 years of NCOLR and
its future.
2006:
- Update
on the Mapping Asia
Project - David Pearson (SOAS Library)
- Piet
van der Loon's
collection of Chinese books at the Bodleian Library - David
Helliwell (Bodleian Library)
- South
Asia Oral History
Digitisation Project - Kevin Greenbank and Ivan Coleby
(Centre of South
Asian Studies, Cambridge)
- An
introduction to ARTstor -
Gillian Evison (Bodleian Library, Oxford)
- Manuscripts
: beyond the
texts - Nikolai Serikoff (Wellcome Institute)
2004:
- Graham
Shaw (British
Library): The Endangered Archives Programme: an Introduction
- Gillian
Evison (Bodleian
Library): An Introduction to MODS and METS: the Metadata Object Schema
and the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
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