UBC Japanese Library Resources Blog

UBC Library will be hosting an exhibition and one-day conference to commemorate the March 11 disasters in Japan. See below and the event page for more details.

Exhibition | February 20 – April 30, 2012
Rare Books and Special Collections, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
retelling the history of the areas affected by the disasters

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Foyer
rethinking social media & the use of nuclear power

Asian Library
recovery in Japan and its ties to Canada

3.11 Portrait Project | February 20 – April 30, 2012
Ike’s Café, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
featuring picture portraits of survivors
sponsored by The Japan Foundation & Shiseido

Conference | Saturday, March 10, 2012
10am – 4pm
Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
students, faculty, alumni & community members
share their experiences & insight
co-sponsored by UBC Asian Studies Department
e-mail to register: retell-rethink-recover[at]interchange.ubc.ca

JapanKnowledge has added another 10 titles to their Shinpen Nihon koten bungaku zenshū 新編　日本古典文学全集 digital collection. The new titles are:

上代
古事記 Kojiki
日本書紀 Nihon shoki
風土記 Fudoki

中世
謡曲集 Yōkyokushū
歌論集 Karonshū
連歌論集 Renga ronshū
能楽論集 Nōgaku ronshū

近世
井原西鶴集 Ihara Saikaku shū
近世随想集 Kinsei zuisōshū
俳論集 Haironshū

To access the SNKBZ e-collection, you must sign into JapanKnowledge. A tutorial is available here on how to search within the e-books.

UBC Library is currently offering a trial of the Mainichi shinbun 毎日新聞 newspaper database, Maisaku. Please try out the database (instructions below), and remember to complete the feedback form to tell us what you think.　The database offers the newspaper’s full-text articles from 1872 to present, as well as articles from the Japanese edition of the Economist.

1) Go to the information page
2) Click on “via the web”
3) Click on the blue log in button
4) fill out the feedback form