Category: Vietnam

Professor McLean makes a point involving "Oh, Pretty Woman."

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Law School Professor Willajeanne McLean uses the “pretty woman” case to make discuss intellectual property issues for the course, Academic Libraries. She also traced the changes in the Vietnam administrative law regarding intellectual property rights.… Read the rest

On Friday we visited the Hue Museum of Royal Fine Arts and the Bureau For Documents and Historical Research of the Hue Monuments Conservation Center. We were hoping to learn more about preservation techniques in Hue, and possibly to identify some materials that might reasonably be included in a digital library of cultural materials.… Read the rest

catalog in the library at the Bureau for Documents and Historical Research

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The library maintains both a print catalog and a computer-based catalog, using CD/ISIS. The classification system is BBK, a Russian subject classification system.… Read the rest

Library of the Bureau for Documents and Historical Research

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The red boxes contain photocopies of a history of the Nguyen Dynasty, written in Han-Nom. From these photocopies, a six volume bilingual history has been published. The originals are located in Hanoi.… Read the rest

Tuong in the library of the Bureau for Documents and Historical Research

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These are pages from the Tuong stored at the library. Note the damage at the upper edges of the paper, which was made from a tree, but was very soft.… Read the rest

In 1986, the Sixth Congress of the Communist Part of Vietnam instituted a new economic policy called “doi moi” , or renovation. As the Introduction to Vietnam and Hue by the Hue University International Center says, “doi moi” has three parts.… Read the rest