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1987-09-01
This historical document (partially reproduced) may serve to indicate the starting point of sustained collection development of the East Asian Collection in the university library. More detailed statistics on the collection are reported every year to the Council of East Asian Libraries of the...
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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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2012-03-01
A pamphlet made for distributing to the audience at the 2012 Junior Japanese Studies Librarian Training Workshop at the University of Toronto Libraries held in conjunction with the Council on East Asian Libraries (Association for Asian Studies) annual meeting in Toronto. It introduces via...
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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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2015-06-06
This Web page was prepared as a record of the process of changing a Library of Congress subject heading (LCSH) in 2006. LCSHs are used in major university libraries in the world to provide subject access -- now sometimes called "tagging" -- to library resources such as books (including e-books)...
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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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Summary Statistics of the East Asian Collection, University of Alberta Libraries, for July 1 2013-June 30 2014
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Council on East Asian Libraries
This statistical table displays the total volumes of print books in Chinese, Japanese and Korean of the East Asian Collection in the University of Alberta Libraries as of June 30 2014. The collection size of 52 East Asian libraries in the United States and Canada is also shown.
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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.
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Video tutorial (silent) for searching East Asian (CJK) library resources in UAL: Searching for the video Dae Jang Geum (대장금)
Download2011-06-01
This 3-minute video was originally prepared for uploading onto YouTube. It shows library users how to search the University of Alberta Libraries' classic Neos Catalogue for East Asian resources such as videos. To watch the video, it is advisable to click the "Download" link on the left side of...