[Internet] Southeast Asia Digital Library - International Directory of Southeast Asia Librarians.

 

"The Southeast Asia Digital Library began work in 2005 as a result of funding provided by the United States Department of Education's TICFIA (Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access) Program. The project is based at Northern Illinois University Libraries in DeKalb, Illinois, USA and collaborates actively with the Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia (CORMOSEA) [http://www.cormosea.org/] and partner institutions.

The 2005 award supported eight major initiatives :
* Upgrades to an online bibliographic index at Thammasat University (Thailand), creating an interface to access the index and providing a full-text article delivery service;
* Digitization of palm leaf manuscripts from Northeastern Thailand at Khon Kaen University (Thailand).
* Creation of an archive of historical photographs covering a century of life in Cambodia, in partnership with Arizona State University;
* Provision of training seminars for librarians at the University of San Carlos' Cebuano Studies Center (Philippines), covering the latest techniques in preservation, conservation, and digitization, resulting in the creation of an online archive of images and textual materials;
* Creation of a video archive of contemporary Indonesian television programming, in partnership with the University of Hawai'i, Manoa;
* Digitization of rare early printed works in the vernacular languages of the region, in collaboration with the British Library and Vietnamese Nom Preservation Foundation;
* Creation of a video archive of interviews with former political prisoners in East Timor, in partnership with the Living Memory Project (Australia);
* Conversion of the Berita Database at Ohio University, a collection of journal articles and other resources from Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region, to a free-use resource.

In 2009, the Southeast Asia Digital Library received a second round of funding from the TICFIA program, supporting the development of nine new initiatives. These include :
* Digitization of Buddhist murals and cloth paintings in Thai temples, supported by interpretive materials, in partnership with Chiang Mai University (Thailand);
* Digitization of Vietnamese art objects and criticism, supported by interviews with artists, from the Doi Moi (Renovation) period in Vietnam;
* Digitization of printed Vietnamese Nom materials, in partnership with the Vietnamese Nom Preservation Foundation;
* Development of a bibliographic database of digitized Islamic manuscripts from Indonesia, in partnership with the State Islamic University of Indonesia; (1)
* Digitization of archival photographs and videos discussing and documenting Indonesian literature and culture, in partnership with the Lontar Foundation (Indonesia);
* Creation of a video archive of interviews with surviving victims of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia;
* Digitization of selected works from the Malay and World Civilization Library, National University of Malaysia;
* Digitization of Buddhist murals in Laos, supported by interpretive materials."

(1) "International Directory of Southeast Asia Librarians, Compiled by Virginia Jing-yi Shih, University of California, Berkeley, February 2009.
[...] This International Directory of Southeast Asia Librarians supersedes the International Directory of Southeast Asia Librarians & Catalogers that I compiled in 1999. It is produced on behalf of the Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia (CORMOSEA) which is a committee of the Southeast Asia Council (SEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies. This directory primarily lists the individuals who work with the Southeast Asia collections [... in the countries listed below.] It is my hope that this directory will serve as a useful reference guide to facilitate professional communications and promote international cooperation of Southeast Asia scholarship and librarianship in the future.

Each entry includes the following information as submitted to the compiler : 1) Full name; 2) Job title; 3) Institution address; 4) Telephone number; 5) Fax number; 6) Electronic mail address; 7) Home page (if available); 8) Language expertise (optional) [...]."

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[Source : Southeast Asia Digital Library (SEADL).]