Interesting piece by Alice Casalini @digitalorientalist.bsky.social. "Buddhism and AI: Another Look" digitalorientalist.com/2026/03/24/b...
Buddhism and AI: Another Look
In recent months, I have come to identify as a neo-Luddite or, as a colleague said in jest, “a technophobe and a Buddhist monk.” With this change in my life came new standards in my relationship wi…
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German court rules that Google is liable for false statements made in Search's AI Overviews (via The Decoder)
Harvard-Yenching Library's Aum Shinrikyo collection is now open to research. It contains 140+ publications issued in Japanese/English/Russian in the 1980s-90s by the cult's publishing arm #JapaneseReligions #JapaneseHistory
オウム真理教 Aum Shinrikyo collection, bulk 1984-1999 (bulk) - HOLLIS for Archival Discovery
hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu
When you get rid of all the books and periodicals and switch to digital resources, you’ve given up resources you own in exchange for subscription services. Now you’re vulnerable to price increases and the disappearance of essential information. I’ve always been a fan of having MORE choices.
“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...
Lament for the MIT Libraries - MIT Faculty Newsletter
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Rare books folks attending #RBMS2026: mark your calendar for our panel on new approaches to Chinese missionary collections + Zhang Jie (@zjarthistory.bsky.social) + Mårten Söderblom Saarela (@bcricciinstitute.bsky.social) + Alexander Akin (2024-26 President, @abaararebooks.bsky.social)
When Twitter was heavily used by liberals, it was a bubble. Now that it’s mostly right-wing bots directed by a ketamine-addicted neo-Nazi billion, it’s more like real life.
Penn State University (@pennstateuniv.bsky.social) Libraries just digitized (& fully transcribed!) a mind-blowing collection of 32 Vietnamese manuscript edicts and official documents during the Lê (1428–1789) and Nguyễn (1802–1945) dynasties: digital.libraries.psu.edu/digital/coll... #sinology
Duke’s Japanese #Medical #Manuscripts Collection Now Online (via Duke University Medical Center Library & #Archives) mclibrary.duke.edu/news/dukes-j... #digitalcollections #libraries
I'll contribute a short discussion on collecting and managing paper ephemera 📎 at Asian collections. Tune in if you can!
The Bibliographical Society of America@bibsocamer.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe BSA Events Committee is pleased to support this hybrid symposium, organized in part by 2026 New Scholar Mindi Zhang, bringing together librarians, archivists, and curators across the country to discuss their ongoing work with East Asian and Southeast Asian collections. 🔗Link to learn more in bio
One perk of working at a massive university campus is that you meet people working these mind-blowing jobs that you never knew exist.
Job opening here at ITHAKA's JSTOR: Digital Collections Curator, Reveal Digital, focusing on important cultural, social, and political histories, especially those that have been dispersed, under-described, or difficult to access at scale. Full job description: www.ithaka.org/job/46724530...
Digital Collections Curator - ITHAKA
ITHAKA’s mission is to expand access to knowledge and education around the world. Our services — JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S+R — enable people everywhere to learn, to grow, and to overcome barriers t...
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The person who made this image is well versed in the iconography of the transatlantic slave trade.
A pop-up exhibition this week in our main reading room, showcasing items from our "K-pop Fandom Collection": photobooks, audiovisual, ephemera, posters, and lightsticks from 1990s-present. This collection was developed in support of a new Harvard undergrad class on "Korean Stars" (📸: Adrianne Gren)
Appreciate this helpful and detailed review by @devinfitz.bsky.social
H-Net Reviews@hnetreviews.bsky.social · 5mo agoNew book review: Fitzgerald on Huang, Shih-Shan Susan: _Dynamic Spread of Buddhist Print Culture: Mapping Buddhist Book Roads in China and Its Neighbors, The_. Brill, 2024. Published by H-Buddhism. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20143268
After a year of hiring pause, we have finally resumed our search for Harvard's next #Librarian for #JapaneseStudies. Please help us spread the word! Friendly reminder: you don't need to check all the boxes to be a competitive candidate. careers.harvard.edu/job/libraria...
Librarian for Japanese Studies
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Two horse illustrations from 北平箋谱 Beiping jian pu (1951), a renowned collection of polychrome woodblock-printed Chinese artworks. This 1951 edition was the first in the iterative series to include artworks of all twelve Chinese zodiacs. id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/9900809...
Check out a new blog post by Benjamin Landauer on the Chinese and Japanese editions of 百美新詠圖傳, a 18th-century pictorial catalogue of "poetry, painting, and historical anecdote for 103 women hailing from Chinese history and mythology." #bookhistory #womenshistory #sinology
百美新詠圖傳 - Harvard-Yenching Institute
Original images held by the Harvard-Yenching Library of the Harvard College Library, Harvard University Summary written by Benjamin Landauer (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Ci...
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Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) invites nominations for its annual Best Book Award. Titles eligible for nomination must be in Chinese, English, or French, authored by Chinese writers or those of Chinese descent, and published in 2025. Nomination form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
"Scriptures and Liturgy in Inner Asia: A Symposium on Religious Books & Manuscripts" (2/27, hybrid) @harvarddivinity.bsky.social @rarebookschool.bsky.social RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #bookhistory
I'd like to add that like in all industries, when we stop understanding how our tools work, we become entirely dependent on the corporate entities that own the mold. We are trading the ability to build and repair for the convenience of being permanent tenants in someone else's infrastructure/subs.
Rami Ismail (رامي)@ramiismail.com · 6mo agoVibe coding is working as expected: it'll kill the open-source, secure, and ideologically maintained alternatives to make sure you have to pay the oligarchs to do anything at all, and they can control what you're allowed to make. www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...
@nature.com can we make obituaries like this open-access due to their educational value to the general public?
Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 6mo agoNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I am excited and exhausted to finally release my annual data report on job advertisements in East Asian Studies! 📊🌏 This marks 5 years of collecting job data, so it's possible to see changes over time. For interactive visualizations, view via browser rather than phone. prcurtis.com/projects/job...
Love notes like this left in books by earlier librarians. This profession runs on the hope of ever having time to love things as they deserve, and our archives are full of the epitaphs of good intentions.
Everything happening now has a precedent. This is not new. Please understand that everything happening now is very American. The only change is that it is happening on camera to middle income white people. Ask BIPOC and low income white people about abuses by the state.
RBS is now accepting applications for our summer 2026 courses—including new course offerings & partner locations! Details: rarebookschool.org/schedule The first-round deadline is 𝟭𝟳 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆. Applications received after that date will be reviewed on a rolling basis. #BookSky #RareBooks
Teaching the events of January 6—which are not a “moment” but the product of a long history—presents a familiar yet urgent challenge: how can students use historical knowledge & thinking to understand recent crises? Here are some resources that might help. 🗃️
The Assault on the Capitol in Historical Perspective: Resources for Educators | American Historical Association
We know teaching the events of January 6, 2021 presents a challenge: how can students use historical knowledge and thinking to understand current crises?
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