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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Fw: H-ASIA: Reducing a personal library - East Asian subjects (comment)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Monika Lehner" <monika.lehner@UNIVIE.AC.AT>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 12:39 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: Reducing a personal library - East Asian subjects (comment)

> H-ASIA
> January 4, 2010
>
> Reducing a personal library - East Asian subjects (comment)
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> From: uma.asher@gmail.com
>
> One possibility is to donate books to the library of one of the smaller
> colleges in India. This can be done on a personal basis, by people
> carrying books when they come here. Domestic shipping would not be too
> expensive, and in some cases there might be a college or institute in the
> town where your research might take you, where digital resources are hard
> to access, and books would still be greatly appreciated.
>
> Some years ago, the Jagannath Institute for Technology and Management in
> Orissa was accepting college-level books. The principal, Dhanada Mishra,
> has since moved on to another organization, but JITM can be contacted via
> its website, and Dhanada via LinkedIn.
>
> When I studied in the US, many of us Indian grads networked online to
> spread the word if we either had books to donate, or were going to India
> with room in our luggage to carry books. I recall hearing that some
> airline (I don't remember which) even allowed some amount of free excess
> baggage if it was a donation to a charitable organization (some colleges
> are run by charitable trusts).
>
> Best wishes for a happy new year.
>
> Uma Asher
> New Delhi
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: Reducing a personal library - East Asian subjects (comment)

Fw: H-ASIA: New online content at The Asia-Pacific Journal

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From: "Ryan Dunch" <ryan.dunch@UALBERTA.CA>
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Subject: H-ASIA: New online content at The Asia-Pacific Journal

> H-ASIA
> January 3, 2010
>
> New online content at The Asia-Pacific Journal (formerly Japan Focus)
> ************************************************************************
> From: "The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus" <info@japanfocus.org>
>
> Newsletter No. 1. 2011, January 3, 2011
> New Articles Posted In This Issue
>
> Gavan McCormack,
> Small Islands - Big Problem: Senkaku/Diaoyu and the Weight of History
> and Geography in China-Japan Relations
>
> Kokita Kiyohito, Tessa Morris-Suzuki and Mark Selden,
> Ko Tae Mun, Ko Chung Hee, and the Osaka Family Origins of North
> Korean Successor Kim Jong Un
>
> What's Hot?
> China and Its Neighbors; Recollections of the World War II Battlefield
>
> Our featured article this week is Gavan McCormack's analysis of the
> historical origins and contemporary geopolitics of the China-Japan
> conflict centered on the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, an issue with the
> potential to spin out of control despite the high stakes of
> maintaining peace in the region.
>
> See http://japanfocus.org/
>
>
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Monday, January 3, 2011

Fw: H-ASIA: New Hindi-Urdu Blended Teaching Resources

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Dunch" <ryan.dunch@UALBERTA.CA>
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Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 1:01 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: New Hindi-Urdu Blended Teaching Resources

> H-ASIA
> January 3, 2011
>
> New Hindi-Urdu Blended Teaching Resources
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> From: "A. Sean Pue" <pue@MSU.EDU>
>
> I am pleased to announce the release of a new website (
> http://hindiurdu.net ) that hosts Hindi-Urdu Blended Teaching Resources.
> ("Blended" in this context means partly online, not pureed.) These include
> over twenty proficiency-oriented videos aimed at various language levels
> that were filmed at and around Michigan State University in summer 2010.
> These have captions, as well as tags for level, using ACTFL, ILR, and the
> more common "basic, intermediate, advanced" scale. There is also an
> online devanagari (Hindi) writing guide, which will redraw handwriting
> samples and allow students to trace and write using their mouse, stylus,
> or finger on a tablet device. Efforts have been to make these resources
> function on older computers as well as latest mobile devices, so they will
> also work on the iPad and iPhone by using HTML5, the newly emerging web
> standard. This website was supported by a pedagogical materials grant
> from the South Asia Language Resource Center for which I was the principal
> investigator along with Vishwajeet Singh (now at the University of
> Oregon). Please let anyone know who might be interested in using them.
> We welcome comments, corrections, and suggestions through the online
> contact form, and I have a research assistant who can make any changes.
> Thanks!
>
> A. Sean Pue, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor of Hindi Language and South Asian Literature and
> Culture
> Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African
> Languages
> Michigan State University
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: New Hindi-Urdu Blended Teaching Resources

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Fw: H-ASIA: Reducing a personal library - East Asian subjects (comment)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 5:35 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: Reducing a personal library - East Asian subjects (comment)

> H-ASIA
> January 3, 2011
>
> Comment re: posting on reducing a personal library - East Asian subjects
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> From: Ian Welch <ian.welch@anu.edu.au>
>
> With reference to Brian McKnight's posting--
>
> This rings a sad bell. Trying to dispose of books, often costing thousands
> of dollars over the years, is becoming a nightmare especially when adding
> postage costs for disposal to anyone interested. It has accelerated in
> difficulty in recent years with increasingly restrictive collection
> policies of libraries, often forced by costs/staffing, on accepting
> donations.
>
>
> It has been magnified, at least in my case, by finding many books that I
> have purchased, usually from the US & UK at considerable cost and
> previously unavailable in Australia, are close to worthless in the local
> market which is not easy going in obsessed field of missionary history.
> The going rate in Canberra is around $5 a volume (if selected)
> irrespective of original purchase price. I had intended to give my
> collection to a theological college with a singularly bad missionary
> collection but the first donation was managed so poorly that I despaired
> especially when I found they had a deal with a bookseller to take surplus
> items and pay a pittance to the college, without reference, I should add,
> to the original donors.
>
>
> Add to all that the increasing (and welcome to be fair) coverage of 19C
> works in digitised form and I am gloomy about the future of my library, as
> no doubt Prof McKnight understands. I am sure this is a widespread issue
> around the world.
>
> As we start 2011 with the anticipated flood of retirements of academics of
> the older generation, I imagine this forum will be hearing more and more
> of such tales of woe.
>
>
> Ian Welch. Canberra,
> aka as the antipodean bookworm.
> Happy New Year to You-all.
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