You are warmly invited to the next International Library and Information Group (ILIG) Informal
Title: Preserving a culture: scripts, digitisation and librarianship from Inner Mongolia
Date: Wednesday, 13th June 2012 Time: 18.00 - 19.45
Place: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
Cost: FREE - all welcome (but please book online at http://tinyurl.com/iliginformaljune12 )
Professor Delger Borjigin will be providing an insight into librarianship in Inner Mongolia. He will discuss the importance of the projects to catalogue and digitise ancient Mongolian books in order to help preserve the Mongolian culture. Delger will provide a brief introduction to the Mongolian people worldwide, their spoken language and the various script systems which they adopted or created during different historical periods.
Delger is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia at SOAS. A member of the Social Science Association of Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, he has served in a variety of capacities including as Director of the Catalogue Database of Mongolian Books (in classical Mongolian), Digitizing Program of Mongolian Documents, at the Library of Inner Mongolia University.
Directions to CILIP: http://www.cilip.org.uk/contact-us/pages/map.aspx
The access codes for the building are E, G, W, X.
ILIG Informals are not lectures; they are informal, but informative, early evening meetings with a short talk on a theme of
international interest plus plenty of time for questions and networking. They are open to all and absolutely free. Light
refreshments are served which is why we ask you to let ILIG know you are coming by booking online at http://tinyurl.com/iliginformaljune12 by 11th June. Thank you. We look forward to seeing you.
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