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Inside the World's Major East Asian Collections
One Belt, One Road, and Beyond
- 1st Edition - May 3, 2017
- Authors: Patrick Lo, Dickson KW Chiu, Allan Cho
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 1 4 5 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 1 4 6 - 0
Inside the World’s Major East Asian Collections examines the rise of the “LAM,” an acronym that stands for libraries, archives and museums. In doing so, this book profiles… Read more
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Request a sales quoteInside the World’s Major East Asian Collections examines the rise of the “LAM,” an acronym that stands for libraries, archives and museums. In doing so, this book profiles leading experts—librarians, archivists and museum curators—who specialise in East Asian collections from across the world. In examining the dynamically shifting role of the cultural institution in the context of managing information and collections, this book provides important themes offered by these cultural experts in understanding the necessary professional skills, knowledge and personalities that are required for working in such environments of varying size, scope and composition in LAMs. As galleries, LAMs manage preservation and access of history and culture, and their missions and goals as cultural institutions continue to converge.
As collecting institutions, LAMs share the common mandate to preserve and make accessible primary resources valuable for researchers and professionals, as well as the public. LAMs are mostly publicly funded, publicly accountable institutions collecting cultural heritage materials. Another aim of this book is to enhance the visibility and recognise the efforts of the LAM professionals as cultural institution leaders, since much of their great contributions in the respective fields to preserving our cultural and documentary heritages have gone unnoticed outside their parent institutions.
- Examines the roles and goals of cultural institutions
- Brings collections to life through interviews with LAM experts
- Presents LAMs with a focus on East Asia
- Serves as a platform for LAM professionals to share and exchange experiences and insights
Academic librarians, archivitsts, and curators; LAMs practitioners; graduate students and researchers in library and information science, archival science, and museum studies
- No. of pages: 466
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 3, 2017
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081021453
- eBook ISBN: 9780081021460
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Patrick Lo
Patrick Lo is currently serving as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Library, Information & Media Science, the University of Tsukuba in Japan. He earned his Doctor of Education from the University of Bristol (U.K.), and has a Master of Arts in Design Management from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a Master of Library & Information Science from McGill University (Canada), and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Mount Allison University (Canada).
He also took part in a one-year academic exchange at the University of Tübingen in Germany from 1990-91. He is efficient in Chinese (both Cantonese and Putonghua), English and German. Dr. Patrick Lo has presented about 100 research papers and project reports focusing on librarianship, humanities, and education at different local and international workgroup meetings, seminars, conferences, etc., including: Mainland China, Hong Kong, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Turkey, United States, and Sweden, and at institutions including the Library of Congress (U.S.), Austrian National Library (Vienna), University of Vienna, National Library of France (Paris), National Institute of Informatics (Japan), Konrad-Zuse-Center for Information Technology (Berlin), etc. His research interests and areas of specialty include: comparative studies in library and information science (LIS); art and design librarianship and information literacy.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba, JapanDC
Dickson KW Chiu
Dickson K.W. Chiu received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Computer Studies from the University of Hong Kong in 1987. He received the M.Sc. (1994) and the Ph.D. (2000) degrees in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He started his own computer company while studying part-time. He is now teaching at the University of Hong Kong and has also taught at several universities in Hong Kong.
His research interest is in library and information management with a cross-disciplinary approach, involving workflows, software engineering, information technologies, management, security, and databases. The results have been widely published in over 150 papers in international journals and conference proceedings (most of them have been indexed by SCI, SCI-E, EI, and SSCI), including many practical master and undergraduate project results.
Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer, University of Hong KongAC
Allan Cho
Allan Cho is the Asian Studies librarian at Koerner Library’s Humanities and Social Sciences division.
His work also supports community engagement initiatives and cultural programming at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC Library. Allan also has MLIS and M.Ed degrees from the University of British Columbia, and an MA in History from the UBC History department where his thesis, “The Hong Kong Wuxia movie: identity and politics, 1966-1976,” focused on the rise of the Hong Kong swordplay films across the Chinese diaspora during turbulent period of the Cultural Revolution. He is also an instructor in the Department of Library & Information Technology at the University of Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada.
Affiliations and expertise
Asian Studies Librarian, Koerner Library’s Humanities and Social Sciences divisionRead Inside the World's Major East Asian Collections on ScienceDirect