China-US Million Book Digital Library Project
Sharon Domier
http://www.cadal.zju.edu.cn/IndexEng.action
Has anyone in this group registered? Is it useful for small collections?
Sharon Domier
Tao Yang
You can find a description of this resource on my web site:
http://foreast.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/million-book-project/
What I didn't mention is that someone told me that a lot of books on the CADAL server has become inaccessible, so the ulib.org could be a better alternative, which is the primary url I provide. Plus, ulib.org does not require user to register (but you do need to download djvu).
This is definitely something useful. I'd love to hear people's experience with it.
Hope this helps! Thanks!
~Tao
Tao
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Tao Yang
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Sharon Domier
Dear Small Collections librarians,
How are all of you? Busy with classes, cataloging, and teaching? Here we are at the end of our third week of classes and the requests for library instruction continue to come in. One of my priorities is to work with the language classes.
Yesterday I did a session with 3rd & 4th year Japanese language students. Some have already gone on their study abroad, and some are heading out next semester. The instructor and I wanted to eliminate their dependence on vocabulary lists, so we needed to make sure that they knew how to choose and use appropriate dictionaries. I gathered together the usual print candidates, asked the students to either bring in what they normally use, and pulled together a libguide of resources for them. The online ones have gotten so much better, we had a lot of fun looking up people’s names, place names, and regular words.
Here is my libguide if you are curious. It is not fabulous, but I am happy to share what I have found and used so far. I would love to get your suggestions as well. I am particularly pleased with the two collections of dictionaries: weblio and kotobank. Also, Webcat Plus has gotten kind of hard to use, but is also pulling in data from Wikipedia and other sources, so it is a good site for your lit students to use.
http://guides.library.umass.edu/jpnread
Now… I wonder what you recommend for Chinese language learners? We had very good luck with nciku last year. I am wondering if you guys like it better than MDBG? Anybody willing to share a library guide designed for Chinese language learners?
Many thanks,
Sharon Domier
UMass/Amherst/Smith
Sharon Domier
One more Friday afternoon question for my friends.
Have any of you subscribed to ChinaMaxx? I see that most of the large collections have it, but I wonder if it is feasible for us small ones? Did any of you attend the vendor talks and get some idea of what it would cost a small collection? I can see how it might be very handy for me, in particular, if I could do consortial access to the five colleges in the area.
Who is using it in this group?
Sharon
Sharon Domier
While most of my thoughts are taken with the troubles of Japan, the
work piles up and I need to be even more efficient than usual to catch
up from the time spent reading news reports and email.
So... I found a website that lets me click on the hangul to create
words. I find it much easier than either using the IME pad or trying
to use the Korean keyboard to generate hangul.
http://www.wandel.person.dk/korean.html
I am getting the hang of it and enjoying the process. Has anyone found
anything easier for those of us not fluent in Korean?
Sharon Domier
today at Smith College