Sep 27 2010
Tokugawa Map Display and Update
From today until October 1 (Friday) Rare Books and Special Collections will be holding a small exhibit featuring a selection of maps and atlases from our Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Era collection. Rare Books and Special Collections is located on the lower level of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Please click here for more details. The display is in conjunction with the Japan Studies Association of Canada Conference, which will take place at UBC this week.
Also, I would like to announce that the digitization of the collection is now complete. Although the flat maps in the collection had already been digitized, several scrolls and monographs (mostly atlases) could not receive this treatment in the first phase of the project. Thanks to the financial support of the Asian Studies Department, Rare Books and Special Collections and University Archives have worked over the past year to digitize the many works in the collection, and they are now all viewable online.
Finally, at the beginning of this month we hosted a student intern from Tsukuba University who entered the original script for several titles. Including the original script in the database is an ongoing project, and we hope to be able to provide more Japanese-language functionality in the near future.
