The 46th EASL Meeting CATS Library, Heidelberg, from September 2nd through 4th, 2025
The 46th meeting The 45th meeting of the European Association of Sinological Librarians (EASL) was held in The Library of the Center for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) in Heidelberg. The meeting was attended by 30 librarians from all over Europe. As usual, it also featured a morning dedicated to new products for librarians dealing with Chinese resources and resources on China in the form of several vendor companies' presentations of their latest products and colleagues exchanged their specialiced experience, this time on the the subject of the languages and scripts of China's National Minorities'.
One day before the EASL meeting started, the Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies, conducted a workshop on the same premise the conference would take place on and some of the colleagues too the opportunity to learn about the latest development of TRCCS, a program many European institutions are partners of. TRCCS is associated with the National Central Library in Taipeh, the workshop was not institutionally connected to EASL.
Here are the minutes of the EASL-meeting
Presentations
Vendors' presentations
Yu HU (CIBTC): New Products and Services
Jeff Fan (United Digital Publications – lianhe baike 聯合百科): Taiwan Academic Classics - Lumen - The Global Hakka Culture Database
Jason Dai (Wanfang data): Wangfang Data Update
Ariane Rückebeil (East View): What Is New From Eastview?
Claire Feng (CNKI): Several new databses
Lorelei Dai (Shanghai Library): One city, many names: Republican era transcriptions of foreign names in its unregulated and therefore flowing beginnings.
Wen GONG (CASS library ): Recent Developments at CASS: The Opening of the museum of archaeology in 2023
Members' presentations
Delphine Spicq, “The Manchu and mongol collections of the Chinese library of the Collège de France” College de France
Han Lin-hsieh, “Provenance research on the Naxi (Mo-so) manuscript in the British Library” British Library
Hanno Lecher, “CATS Library’s collectionof Yao Manuscripts”, CATS library
Katarina Feriančiková “Fragments of PRC Minority Languages in the Library of Far Eastern Studies” Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
Marc Gilbert "The Wiedenhof Yingbi Collection: Gems from Daily Writing" Leiden University
Cristina Cramerotti, “The new Guimet library’s databases” EFEO, Paris
Joshua Seufert “The new Uyghur collection at the East Asian Library” Princeton University
Anna Stryjewska “New Ways of Content Discovery: The CrossAsia Newspaper Research Companion” Berlin State Library