Inside the World's Major East Asian Collections examines the rise of the “LAM,” an acronym
that stands for libraries, archives and museums. In doing so, this book profiles leading
experts—librarians, archivists and museum curators—who specialise in East Asian
collections from across the world. In examining the dynamically shifting role of the cultural
institution in the context of managing information and collections, this book provides
important themes offered by these cultural experts in understanding the necessary …

… The subtitle of this collection of interviews with caretakers of important East Asian collections
alludes to the PRC financed and controlled trade routes it hopes to build across central and
Southeast Asia, and gives the impression, on first glance, that this will book will examine some
of the PRC’s great collections. According to the authors, for political reasons, there are no …
Fellow East Asian librarians and archivists should read this volume for a greater understanding
of how their colleagues cope with the multilingual texts under their supervision, the problems …