Asian Library, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC CANADA

Asian Library, University of British Columbia

Vancouver, BC CANADA

The Historical Chinese Language Materials in

British Columbia (www.hclmbc.org)

http://www.hclmbc.org

Background of the project– uniqueness and volume of the materials– inaccessibility of the materials– need of a finding aid for the collections

scattered across the province– under-researched– urgency and timeliness of initiation in 2000

http://www.hclmbc.org/


Methodology– identify 27 resource centres & pioneer families in

British Columbia

– site visits and interviews of pioneer families and curators / librarians

– evaluation of documents & artefacts

– documentation / scanning / digital imaging by David Lam Centre, SFU technical support & UBC students

– batch upload at SFU / UBC





Scope of coverage– manuscripts, newspapers, correspondence,

genealogical records– business records, receipts, certificates, etc.– association records– readers, textbooks, creative writings– artefacts with vernaculars– photographs with Chinese captions





Structure of the Web page & major waves of Chinese settlements in British Columbia– database– image gallery– associations, religious bodies– Chinatowns– related materials





Challenges in documentation & maintenance– language related– limitation of MySQL– collaboration– storage as a special collection in the library– workload– as a model for Japanese, Korean & S. Asian

projects




Challenges in transnational networking

• start at home– with N. America & Europe

– with PRC, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Asia


New tools and collections– publications of 150 clan and family

organizations in Guangdong, PRC– 180 textbooks and readers used by the Yip

Sang family in the pre-WWII years (1920 -1945)

– Learning Objects on WebCT

Asian Library, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC CANADA

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