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Wason Updates

As a leadup to the 90th anniversary of the Wason Collection in 2008, the Wason staff produced a monthly newsletter with information regarding the collection, its history and unique resources.  Some of this information has been incorporated into the Wason website, and future updates will be made directly on the website itself.

September 2008

In this issue:

  1. Visit of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Delegation
  2. Synopsis of Chinese Librarianship Summer Institute
  3. Visitors from Japan
  4. Acknowledgement
  5. Monthly Report on Newly Cataloged Titles

August 2008

  1. Library's Re-organizational Planning
  2. Korean Selector
  3. On-line China Statistical Yearbooks
  4. New Chinese Electronic Database: Duxiu (读秀)
  5. New Japanese Electronic Database: Okinawa Times
  6. Monthly Report on Newly Cataloged Titles
 

July 2008

  1. New Endowment
  2. China through Western Eyes – Part 9: The Addis and Geller Collections from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London
  3. Japan through Western Eyes – Part 9 and 10
  4. Monthly Report on Newly Cataloged Titles
 

June 2008

  1. FY 2008-2009 Acquisition Budget
  2.  William Eliot Griffis and the Wason Japanese Collection
  3. Exploring the Uses of Wason’s Japanese Databases, I: Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
  4. New Database: Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1974-1996
  5. Monthly Report on Newly Cataloged Titles
 

May 2008

  1. Trial of Chinese database Duxiu （读秀）  
  2. The Database of the Communist Party of China (CPC)  
  3. Beth Katzoff’s Farewell Gift to Kroch Asia  
  4. Ms. Gussie E. Gaskill – The First Curator of the Wason Collection  
  5. The Backfile of Olin’s JSTOR Journals Transferred to the Annex
  6. Monthly Report on Newly Cataloged Titles
 

April 2008

  1. Farewell from Beth Katzoff
  2. Gift from Faculty
  3. Chinese database “Guo Xue Bao Dian” (国学宝典)
  4. Documentary film on the China Science Society has been shown in China
  5. Announcing a Newly Acquired Database for Japanese Studies
  6. Monthly Report on Newly Cataloged Titles
 

March 2008

  1. The Conference Announcement
  2. 2006-2007 Wason’s Rankings
  3. Reception for Dan McKee and Beth Katzoff
  4. Gifts from Faculty
  5. Monthly Report on Newly Cataloged Titles
 

February 2008

  1. Kudos to Dr. Beth Katzoff, the Acting Japanese Bibliographer
  2. Greetings from Dr. Daniel McKee, the New Japanese Bibliographer
  3. A New Chinese Database, Guoxue Baodian 国 学 宝 典, for Trial
  4. The Academic Conference in Honor of the 90th Anniversary of the Wason Collection
  5. The History of the Wason Collection (1918-2008)
  6. Monthly Report on the Newly Cataloged Titles
 

January 2008

  1. Century Journals Project
  2. China Core Newspaper Databases
  3. Yomiuri Shinbun Online
  4. New Japanese Portal Site: NDL Digital Archive Portal PORTA
  5. New Location of Asia Microfilms and Its Appearance in the OPAC Display
  6. Proposal for Systematic Removal of Materials from the Kroch Asia Stacks to the Annex  
  7. Gifts for the Korean Collection
  8. Databases for Trial
  9. Monthly Report on Newly Cataloged Titles
 

December 2007

  1. New Japanese Studies Bibliographer
  2. New in the Chinese, Japanese and Korean Collections:
    • “China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980” Online Database
    • Online Japanese Dictionary - Nikkoku Online, 日国オンライン
    • RISS International
  3. New Voyager Locations for Kroch Asia Library’s “Medium Rare Material”
  4. CUL Books on Microsoft's Live Books
  5. New Version of CUL’s Chart: "Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States"
  6. The future of Stanford’s East Asia Library Unknown
  7. Monthly Report on Newly Cataloged Titles
 

November 2007

  1. Acquisition of Chinese films with English Subtitles
  2. Relocation of Asian Microfilm and Microfiche
  3. Documents on Liang Sicheng 梁思成and Lin Huiyin 林徽因  
  4. Workshop on Chinese, Japanese and Korean Online Legal Resources
  5. East Asia Program Administrative Staff Tour the Kroch Asia Library
  6. Monthly Report of Newly Cataloged Titles
 

October 2007

  1. Interview Schedule for Japanese Bibliographer Candidates
  2. Wason Monographs Slated for Digitization
  3.  China: Trade, Politics, and Culture 
  4. Union Catalogs in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the U.K., and Europe
  5. Elimination of International Surface Mail by the USPS and Its Impact
  6. Monthly List of Newly Cataloged Books