5 August 2007 ? Sunday
Wow, it is quiet on campus ? there are very few faculty around and very few students. The 2nd summer session ends in a couple of weeks. All three of my colleagues are out, either on leave or at a conference, so work is me and two student assistants.… 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
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
