SEALG New Website Launch

Following discussions at the AGM 2022 in Paris regarding the future of the SEALG website, members of the committee and especially the chair of the Southeast Asia Library Group, Christophe Caudron, have been working hard to find a solution for the migration of our old website to a more suitable platform that allows us to preserve and improve all the existing content.

We are now in the fortunate position to launch the new SEALG website with an improved structure and updated content. It is hosted on Hypotheses, an OpenEdition platform for humanities and social sciences. Supported by a French national research infrastructure, Hypotheses offers the option to combine blogs with websites in numerous languages and is entirely free to use.

The new SEALG website retains all the previous content, improved with updates and added content relevant for Southeast Asia librarians. Issues of the electronic SEALG newsletter from 2008 to 2022 can be found in the section “Newsletter”, and in the section “Meetings” the reports of annual general meetings from 2002 onward can be accessed. Most importantly, the section “Resources” has been updated and expanded, and now includes not only links to resources related to cataloguing, but also links to useful tools like script and calendar converters, digital libraries with Southeast Asian materials across the world, as well as projects and archived historical lists of Southeast Asia libraries in Europe which illustrate the development of Southeast Asian librarianship in this part of the world.

While the front page of the new website allows us to post organisational updates in the format of a blog, for thematic blog posts and short articles related to Southeast Asian librarianship and research we will keep our usual SEALG blog (hosted on the WordPress platform) for the time being. A version of the previous website of SEALG dating to February 2022 has been archived in its full extent.

SEALG 2013 in Lisbon!

The SEALG Annual Meeting 2013 will take place in Lisbon. Our proposal for a panel within the 7th EUROSEAS conference has been accepted! Thanks to Jana’s initiative and commitment, I should say.

The 7th EUROSEAS Conference will be held on 2- 5 July 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal. The complete list of the panels is available on http://www.euroseas.org. Our Panel is listed in group 9 – Theory, Area Studies and Science Studies.

Please check the EuroSEAS website (or the SEALG website and this blog) for regular updates regarding important developments. Jana and I will function as coordinators of the panel and hope to receive many abstracts of potential participants. But of course you can also attend without  giving a presentation yourself.  The final version of our panel with all the abstracts accepted will be published around end of December 2012.