[Buddha-l] Columbia Online Research Guide For Modern Tibetan Studies

[jkirk]

Here's a resource for Tibetan Studies.
Joanna
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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor:  Jan 2009, Vol. 16, No. 1 (291)
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14 Jan 2009

Columbia Online Research Guide For Modern Tibetan Studies

Columbia University Libraries, Columbia University, New York, NY,
US.

Self-description:
"The COLUMBIA ONLINE RESEARCH GUIDE FOR MODERN TIBETAN STUDIES
was compiled by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Assistant
Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, and published for use on
Library Web by Lauran Hartley, Tibetan Studies Librarian. It is a
navigational tool for library patrons at Columbia University and
elsewhere to access bibliographies and other noteworthy resources
covering a wide range of subjects in the field of Tibetan
Studies. Drawn from an extensive syllabus compiled by Professor
Tuttle for his seminar 'Sources for Modern Tibetan History,' the
Online Guide in its current version is exceptionally strong in
its survey of resources for historical research."

Site contents:
* Tibetan Studies (Survey Articles, Journals, Book Reviews,
Scholarly Blogs, Listservs);
* General Bibliographies; * Library Catalogs (North America,
Western & Eastern Europe, East Asia, South Asia);
* Dictionaries, Encyclopedias (Tibetan Dictionaries, Chinese
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias);
* Tools, Maps, Images (Maps & Social Data, Photo Images &
Archives, Tibetan Fonts & Software, Library Search Conventions);
* Periodicals (Western Language, Tibetan & Chinese Post 1950,
Tibetan & Chinese Pre 1950);
* History (Biography, Religious & Geographic Surveys, Local
Histories, Imperial Records, Archival Materials);
* Social Sciences [under construction]; * Religious Studies
[under construction]; * Language & Literature [under
construction]; * Art & Material Culture (Engaging Digital Tibet
[http://digitaltibet.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/
], Research Materials For the Study of Tibetan and Himalayan Art
[under conctruction]); * Music [under construction]; * Contact; *
Search.

URL
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/eastasian/Tibetan/guide/ind
ex.html

Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at
the time of this abstract]

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek
(tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. -
online
guide]:
Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum -
NGO -
other]:
Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful -
interesting -
marginal]:
V.Useful [It will be an Essential resource, once it is completed]
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 -
under 1,000
  - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

Dr T. Matthew Ciolek        tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au
Head, Internet Publications Bureau, RSPAS, The National Institute
for Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University,
Canberra, Australia ph +61 (02) 6125 3124  fax: +61 (02) 62571893
skype: tmciolek also, Asia Pacific Research Online at
www.ciolek.com