Libraries Staff Publications
This collection contains publications of staff at the University of Alberta Libraries.
Items in this Collection
- 3Chinese characters
- 3Text direction
- 3Vertical text direction
- 2Chinese text direction
- 2Chinese writing
- 2Journal of East Asian Libraries
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2016-08-31
This is the English translation of a short essay published on April 11th 2002 in The Canadian Chinese Times, a community newspaper in Edmonton. It is on the validity and sustainability of the traditional vertical text direction of written and printed Chinese texts. The original Chinese essay is...
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2012-07-01
Discussions on the unique vertical text direction of written or printed Chinese are scarce. A common view on why Chinese characters were invented to move vertically across the writing medium maintains that vertical text was the result of using bamboo strips for writing Chinese characters in the...
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2007-01-01
This essay introduces simple HTML coding for creating vertical text on the Web. This coding can also enable images to move horizontally across the screen in a panoramic presentation. The coding is originally a Microsoft adaptation of a version of Cascading Style Sheets 3 (CSS3), and as such in...
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2007
From November 26 to December 11, 2007, I was one of the participants in the Training Program for Japanese Information Specialists organised by Japan Foundation and the National Diet Library of Japan. The program took place in Tokyo and Kyoto Prefecture. This foldout leaflet was compiled for...
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2011-04-21
Seale, Linda, Dorgan, Marlene, Campbell, Sandy, Storie, Dale, Chan, Liza, Chor, Louis
On October 26, 2011, The John W. Scott Health Sciences Library at the University of Alberta opened a Traditional and Indigenous Healing Collection.