Dear Colleagues,
As the National Library of Korea (NLK) celebrates its 80th anniversary in 2025, it has set forth in its annual major work plan the vision statement Connecting the World with Intelligence and Culture and is implementing a number of progressive measures in response to the current information environment.
The “Kuzushiji Workshop,” continuously organised by NIJL and EAJRS since 2011, will be held 25–27 February 2026 at the Berlin State Library. Please note that this will be an in-person workshop only — it will not be offered as an online format.
Those wishing to participate should complete the application form in Japanese or English and submit it by Sunday, 18 January 2026, via email to: a.hirano@sainsbury-institute.org
The British Library is now recruiting for a Lead Curator of East Asian Collections to develop, manage, promote and make accessible the Library’s collections in Japanese and Korean and to lead the associated staff at the British Library.
The National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL) and the European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists (EAJRS) are pleased to invite you to the third Kotenseki Seminar.
This year, we will explore Japanese publishing and distribution from the late Edo to the early Shōwa.
Our speaker will discuss how Japan’s publishing industry and culture evolved following the opening of the country.
The seminar will be delivered in Japanese, without interpretation.
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Special exhibition
September 2, 2025–May 3, 2026
We cordially invite you to attend the first japanological CrossAsia Talk after the summer break: On 4 September 2025 from 6 pm (Berlin time), Prof. Sarah Panzer (Missouri State University) will give insights into her research work ‘Documenting the Lives of Germany’s “Forgotten” Prisoners of War (POWs): Photographs in the Bandō Collection’.
The Department of Art History at the University of Zurich (UZH) invites applications for a full-time, tenured Lecturer position in Digital Methods for the Study of Visual Cultural Data. The successful candidate will contribute to curriculum development across several departments—Art History, Film Studies, Archaeology, Media and Communication, and Educational Sciences— by advancing teaching and research that integrate the study of global visual cultures (past and present) with computational methods and critical approaches to digital tools and artifacts.
Saturday,26th July - Saturday,9th August 2025
Monday - Friday : 9am to 6pm
Saturday : 9am to 5pm
Sunday : Closed
BOURNEMOUTH LIBRARY
22 The Triangle Bournemouth Dorset UK
BH2 5RQ
International Conference
Conference dates: 16-17th October 2025
Conference venue: Sofia University
more information and registration
The National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan, has released an SRU API for Bibdata-EBook, a database of Japanese e-books:
https://ebooks.erds.nii.ac.jp/primo-explore/search?vid=NII_EBOOKS
Please note that authentication is required to access metadata for domestic e-books.
If you are interested in using the SRU API from institutions in Europe, please contact Mr Koji Sakaguchi at sakaguti@nii.ac.jp