No. 001 Newsletter - Association for Asian Studies. Committee on American Library Resources in the Far East

              sano y yft0 0 adwin 6wn fdwin beall beat raol gaol jr THE LIBRARY OP congreos congress CON GREoS Z washington 2jdc al 1 ats eal ael fts L 1 refe REPE REFERENCE RENcE department ORIENT orientalia ALIA DIVISION may 22 1963 dear colleagues on CALRFE and friends herewith my first attempt at a newsletter As most of you will recall fr9m frpm fram my letter dated april 25 though reproduced and mailed somewhat later permission for U us s to have such a newsletter has been granted by the association I 1 fear that my letter of april 25 did not reach several of you in those cases copies ofit mofit of it are enclosed herewith n 1 ta ilu kung pao those of you who were in philadelphia may recall that I 1 mentioned the problem we were encountering with the page numbering of prewar pre war issues it seems that we have found the only feasible solution this is to use an automatic exposure counter a device which resembles themileage the mileage counter of an automobile speedometer it is attached to the camera and is photographed with each exposure thus numbering each exposure as it is made although references to newspapers areusually are usually by date only rather than by page this device will make it possible to locate without difficulty any specific reference to the film this counting device of course cannot be applied to film madefor defor madeford ma us in otherjaboratories other laboratories of the issues we cannot film here ai 2i 2 microfilming Micro filming of chinese journ journals aisi alsi the carnegie cor poration horation po ration ofnew ofner of new nev york has recently made a two year grant total ling 30000 to the library of congress for the purpose of producing negative microfilms of as many issues published in october 1959 and later as can be located of 166 chinese periodicals in the social sciences and humanities the titles were selected chiefly through correspondence conducted by thejoint the joint committee on contemporary china in 1961 we are beginning work on this project immediately and I 1 am nows nowN nowdoing nowndoing nondoing now nov doing the bibliographical work on the first installment though no detailed procedures dures shave have yet liep bjeen lien bien bjern worked outt out we expect that we shall work on the titles in groups gibups of from eight to ten we shall in each instance first see what is availablehere available here in LC next we shall ascertainwhat ascertain what is issues aes ues we can borrow from other U S Go verment government abenr agenr agencies les leb ies andcthlwe and ana then we shall circularize to you lists of the issues still missing the resulting product is to be made generally available at standard rates 1 both in positive madro midro macro microfilm film clim or in xerox reproductions we shall coordinate this effort with