SEALG Survey of Library Resources in Europe
At its annual meeting in Hamburg in September 1998, the SEALG Committee agreed that the next annual meeting would take place in September 1999, preferably in France. The SEALG Committee member for France, Dr Lieu Cao Thi has informed us that it now is very probable that SEALG will be able to hold its next meeting in Marseille, tentatively from September 23 to September 25 1999. The meeting will be subvented by CNRS. Venue and the exact dates will be definitely confirmed with SEALG members as soon as possible. The theme for this meeting will be: 'Recent library-related research in South East Asia in turmoil'.
Mme Cao Thi had the good fortune of being able to visit libraries in Myanmar at the end of 1998, and will speak on that subject. Other Southeast Asian librarians, SEALG members or not, are herewith cordially invited to report on their recent library-related missions in South East Asia at our Marseille meeting. The duration of the reports is limited to twenty minutes.
The aim of the South East Asia Library Group (SEALG) is to foster contacts between librarians attached to European libraries with sizeable collections on South East Asia. Apart from organizing annual conferences, the proceedings of which are published in the IIAS Newsletter, SEALG tries to reach its aim by collecting data on libraries and publishing these for the benefit of librarians and scholars alike.
In an attempt to collect such data, a questionnaire was recently mailed to a number of Southeast Asian libraries in Europe, mainly in Great Britian, Germany, France, and The Netherlands. However, among the addresses of libraries with sizeable collections of printed materials and other specialized collections with reference to South East Asian countries, those of libraries in Southern European countries, the Scandinavian countries, and Eastern Europe are sadly missing. The SEALG Committee is very much interested in obtaining addresses of libraries with South East Asian holdings from these countries. Please E-mail or write to us if you can help.
After collecting sufficient data on South East Asian libraries in Europe, SEALG intends to present these data as a hyperlink structured electronic file on the internet and as a database file on CD-ROM for those individuals or libraries who lack internet connectivity. The internet version will be accessible free of charge, while the CD-ROM will be sold on a cost-covering basis.
The SEALG Committee will be pleased to hear from you at e-mail:
m.nicholson@acs.hull.ac.uk or karni@let.leidenuniv.nl.
or by mail:
Ms M. Nicholson
Brynmor Jones Library
University of Hull
Hull HU6 7RX
Great Britain
or
R.S. Karni MA
SEALG c/o KITLV
P.O. Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
