New issue of SEALG Newsletter published

A new issue of the SEALG Newsletter (December 2022) has been published and is now available online.

Included in the Newsletter is the report of our group’s Annual Meeting that took place in Paris on 1 July 2022, in collaboration with the 12th EuroSEAS Conference. In addition to this detailed report by Marije Plomp and Jana Igunma, the latest issue of the Newsletter contains the following articles:

• Laos Cultural Vignettes in the British Library’s Philatelic Collections by Richard Scott Morel (The British Library)
• Talipot and Ceremonial Fans in Thai Manuscript Art by Jana Igunma (The British Library)
• The Current Status of Cataloging Southeast Asian Language Materials at CORMOSEA Consortium of Research Libraries in the Unites States by Virginia Shih (South/Southeast Asia Library, University of California, Berkeley) and Zoë McLaughlin (South/Southeast Asia Librarian, Michigan State University)
• Malay Comic Books from the 1950s and 1960s in the British Library by Annabel Teh Gallop (The British Library)

Finally, included is also a report of a Laboratory on “Lao Collections in the Digital Age: Libraries, Archives, Museums” held at the 7th International Conference on Lao Studies, 15-18 November 2022.

Previous issues of the Newsletter in electronic format are also available on the SEALG homepage.

New issue of SEALG Newsletter

The latest issue of the SEALG Newsletter has now been published and can be viewed and downloaded freely from our homepage.

It contains the following articles:

• Nicholas Martland, 1957-2021 (obituary by Pauline Khng)

• The EFEO in Indochina: A History of Maps and Archives (by Magali Morel and Sovannara Mey)

• Collecting Information and Artifacts about the South East Asian Peninsula (SEAP) Games 1959 – 1979 (by Lim Peng Han)

• Malay Manuscripts in Johor (by Annabel Teh Gallop)

• Burmese dhammasattha manuscripts at the British Library (by Maria Kekki)

• Illustrated Yogāvacara meditation manuals from Thailand and Laos (by Jana Igunma)

• Celebrating Peter David Koret’s Intellectual Legacy at the University of California, Berkeley (by Virginia Shih)

Previous issues of the electronic newsletter which covers all aspects of Southeast Asian librarianship, curation, collection, custodianship and research can be accessed on the SEALG homepage.

New issue of SEALG Newsletter published

The latest issue of the SEALG Newsletter has been published recently and can now be downloaded from our group’s homepage at http://www.sealg.org/pdf/newsletter2020.pdf. Please feel free to circulate the link to anyone you think may be interested in reading the newsletter, which is an open-access publication freely available to anyone.

Contents of the newsletter include:

• Researchers’ archives on the ODSAS platform: examples from Vietnam and Burma by Louise Pichard-Bertaux 
• The Malay Studies Library, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia by Awang Azman Awang Pawi and Haslan Bin Tamjehi
• Celebrating 50 years of excellence: Southeast Asia scholarship and stewardship at Berkeley, 1970-2020 by Virginia Shih 
• The Javanese Manuscripts from Yogyakarta Digitisation Project by Annabel Teh Gallop 
• Place names and descriptions of local landscapes recorded in the colophons of Shan Buddhist manuscripts by Jotika Khur-Yearn 
• Textile book covers in the Shan manuscript tradition by Jana Igunma

Previous issues of the Newsletter that were published in electronic format are also available on the SEALG homepage.

(Jana Igunma)

New issue of SEALG Newsletter online

A new issue of the SEALG Newsletter (2019) has been published and is now available online.

Included in the Newsletter is the report of our group’s Annual Meeting that took place in June 2019 in Leiden. In addition to this detailed report by Marije Plomp, the latest issue of the Newsletter contains the following articles:

• A brief account of traditional Shan manuscript culture by Chaichuen Khamdaengyodtai
• Calendars and horoscopes in mainland Southeast Asia by Jana Igunma
• Two Bugis Manuscripts in the Library of Seminar für Südostasienwissenschaften (FB 9), Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt by Sirtjo Koolhof
• Exploring Southeast Asia Scholarly Resources in Taiwan by Virginia Shih

Previous issues of the Newsletter in electronic format are also available on the SEALG homepage.

New issue of SEALG Newsletter published

The latest issue of the SEALG Newsletter has now been published and is available freely on our homepage www.sealg.org.

It includes articles on Thai royal editions of the Buddhist scriptures by Larry Ashmun, two previous exhibitions in Mandalay and Rangoon by San San May, special collections at the Southeast Asia Studies Library in Frankfurt/Main by Holger Warnk, and on the preservation of endangered archives (and manuscripts) in Southeast Asia by Jana Igunma and Jody Butterworth.

Previous issues of the electronic newsletter which covers all aspects of Southeast Asian librarianship, curation, collection, custodianship and research can be accessed on http://www.sealg.org/newsletters.html.

New issue of SEALG Newsletter available online

The latest issue of the SEALG Newsletter has been published recently and can now be downloaded from our group’s homepage at http://www.sealg.org/pdf/newsletter2016.pdf . Please feel free to forward the link to anyone you think may be interested in reading the newsletter.

Contents of the newsletter include:

–SEALG Annual Meeting 2016, Copenhagen (report by Doris Jedamski and Holger Warnk)

–Early newspapers in Burma (article by San San May)

–Vietnamese manuscripts at the British Library (paper presented at the annual meeting by Sud Chonchirdsin)

–The mystery of the ‘naughty monks’ in Thai manuscript illustrations of Phra Malai (article byJana Igunma)

–Call for Papers: EUROSEAS Conference, Oxford 2017

Older issues of the newsletter can be downloaded freely from our homepage www.sealg.org. Feedback is always welcome by email to myself (jana.igunma AT bl.uk) which I will forward to the contributors of the newsletter.

(Jana Igunma)

New issue of SEALG Newsletter available online

The latest issue of the SEALG Newsletter (2015) has been published and is now available online at http://www.sealg.org/pdf/newsletter2015.pdf .

Included in the Newsletter is the report of our group’s Annual Meeting that took place in July 2015 in Paris. This Annual Meeting was the second successful collaborative conference with the South Asia Archive and Library Group whom we owe a debt of gratitude. The theme of the conference “The French Connection – with South and Southeast Asia” gave us the opportunity to look at Southeast Asian materials from a different angle.

In addition to a detailed report from our Annual Meeting in Paris, the new issue of the Newsletter contains the following articles:

Under the Eyes of French Adventurers: Social Conditions of the Upper Mekong Region in the 1860s (Jotika Khur-Yearn, SOAS, University of London)

Archives about Indochina in the National Overseas Archives (ANOM) (Olivia Pelletier and Isabelle Dion, Centre des Archives nationales d’outre-mer (ANOM), Aix-en-Provence)

French Studies of Nusantara: A Glance from Russia (Liubov Goriaeva, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)

Indonesia calling! Crowdsourcing catalogue records for the British Library’s Indonesian collection (Annabel Teh Gallop, British Library, London)

Previous issues of the Newsletter in electronic format are available on the SEALG homepage.

New issue of SEALG Newsletter online

The latest issue of the SEALG Newsletter (No. 46, 2014) has been published recently and is available online at http://www.sealg.org/Newsletter2014.pdf or via the SEALG homepage (under ‘Newsletter’).

Included in the newsletter is the report of our group’s annual meeting that took place in June 2014 in Frankfurt, Germany, as well as articles and project reports, some written by SEALG members and others authored by members of the research community. We are very glad to be able to establish and to further enhance the links between librarians and researchers with this new issue of our newsletter.

The contents of the newsletter in detail:

– Report of the SEALG Annual Meeting 2014 in Frankfurt

– A study of nineteenth century Malay school books in the Malay Peninsula (by Lim Peng Han, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur)

– The Museum and Ethnic Struggles (by Gumring Hkangda, Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove)

– Burmese royal barges and boats (by San San May, British Library, London)

– The beautiful art of Tai palm leaf manuscripts (by Jana Igunma, British Library, London)

– Indonesian manuscripts in the Vatican Library (by Anthony Reid, Australian National University, Canberra)

– A preservation project for Cham manuscripts in Vietnam (by Hao Phan, Northern Illinois University Libraries, DeKalb)

– Announcement: 2015 Annual Meeting of SEALG and SAALG in Paris

To receive regular information about the publication of new issues of the the SEALG Newsletter, and of news from our group in general, you may either become a member of SEALG via the SEALG homepage or you may subscribe to this blog. Please feel free to forward this information to anyone who may be interested in our work.

Jana Igunma (SEALG committee member)

New issue of SEALG Newsletter online

The latest issue of the SEALG Newsletter  is now online on the SEALG homepage.

It contains a variety of articles – most of them had been presented at our Annual Meeting last year in Lisbon, which we used to convene a panel on “Digging up hidden (re)-sources: The changing roles of libraries and archives in Southeast Asian Studies” at the 7^th EUROSEAS Conference in Lisbon. You will find the details about this panel in the report about our Annual Meeting on page 2 of the Newsletter. You will also find information about our upcoming Annual Meeting 2014 which will take place in June 2014 in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. As usual, the meeting is open not only to librarians and area specialists but also archivists, students and members of the research commmunity

Contents of the SEALG Newsletter 2013:
● SEALG Annual Meeting 2013 Report (Jana Igunma)
● Identifying and collecting primary sources of information in the archives and libraries in England, New Zealand, United States and Singapore to reconstruct the details of daily lives and activities of the civilian internees at the Changi Prison and Sime Road Camp during the Japanese occupation of Singapore, 1942-1945 – issues and challenges (Peng Han Lim)
● Accessing Malay manuscripts worldwide through ICT (Wan Ali Wan Mamat)
● Commoners in traditional Vietnamese society – accounts from late 19^th and early 20^th century records (Sud Chonchirdsin)
● The importance of primary source materials with special reference to the Buddhist manuscripts of Thailand (Yohei Shimizu)
● Roles of the Thai Library association in the development of Thai libraries, librarianship and library cooperation (Prachark Wattananusit)
● British Library’s Malay Manuscripts Digitisation Project (Annabel Teh Gallop)
● Announcement SEALG Annual Meeting 2014

Former issues of the Newsletter are also available online via our homepage (click on “Newsletter”).

SEALG Newsletter 2012

A new issue of the SEALG Newsletter is now available to download from the SEALG homepage http://www.sealg.org .

It contains some of the papers which were presented at the 87th SAALG Conference / SEALG Annual Meeting 2012, including “Cartoons and propaganda from North Vietnam during the early stage of the Vietnam War” by Dr Sud Chonchirdsin, “Operation ‘Nip-Off’. Some aspects of the repatriation of Japanese troops from South East Asia at the end of the Second World War in the Far East” by Dr Sue Sutton, “Ancient Buddhist Monasteries in Burma” by San San May, and “Islam, Trade and Politics across the Indian Ocean” by Dr Annabel Gallop.

The direct link to the newsletter, which is now published in electronic format only, is http://www.sealg.org/newsletter2012.pdf .

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