Islamic Book Fair - Jakarta, March 5 - 14 2010
This year's Islamic Book Fair will be held on March 5th - 14th, 2010 at the Istora Senayan. Hundreds of book publishers registered for this event. Among the activities in this fair are book launchings, workshops, science theatrical story telling, Islamic children creative fun activities and also Islamic movie reviews. There is a special stand belonging to political Islam, besides there are also more 80 booths in the event. Most of the booths are selling subjects related to Islam, there are also other subjects, such as on KPK (Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi/Corruption Eradication Commission) and Agriculture from Institute of Bogor Agriculture (IPB). Some Islamic universities also participate, like UIN Syarif Hidayatullah and STAIN Sunan Ampel. This event is successful as many people attended the events. Iwan Setiawan, the Chairman of the Committee, is optimist that this fair will discover the bright and independent Islamic future generations.
We purchased several titles (12 titles) for both LOC and Participants as well. There will be more, as we will order from the publishers directly.
The Philippines through European Lenses: Late 19th Century
Photographs from the Meerkamp van Embden Collection
by Otto van den Muijzenberg
Dutch anthropologist Dr. Otto van den Muijzenberg's award-winning THE PHILIPPINES THROUGH EUROPEAN LENSES, had launched a book around photographs collected by a Dutch businessman on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City. The launch is organized by the Departments of History and Sociology & Anthropology, together with the Ateneo Press, as part of the celebration of the School of Social Sciences Week.
The book's engaging narrative revolves around photographs collected by a Dutch businessman, Meerkamp van Embden (1862-1931). He was 21 years old when he first arrived in the Philippines, at a time when the economy was gradually opening up. Throughout his whole working life as a cigar manufacturer and trader in Manila, and later as honorary consul of the Netherlands from 1889 to 1927, he kept a thousand or so photographs, which were preserved by his family in twelve albums. It was from this collection that Dr. van den Muijzenberg later chose and put together, this time from his own perspective, pictures that depict and/or comment on) the lifestyle of the expats and ordinary people, socioeconomic activities in many parts of the country, and political upheavals of the period.
The Indonesian Heritage Trust visits LOC, Thursday January 21,
2010
BBPI – Badan Pelestarian Pusaka Indonesia - The Indonesian Heritage
Trust is a national civil society organization aiming at strengthening
and assisting heritage conservation in Indonesia. Several of their
members visited the Library of Congress Jakarta. A lively discussion
ensued about the state of preservation, especially published and
written materials in Indonesia. Their visit was an opportunity in
strengthening the awareness of the importance of natural and cultural
heritage. The Library of Congress-Jakarta invited BPPI to come to
LOC’s office to see our efforts on preservation, binding,
microformatting, quality control and digital scanning. In this
opportunity, LOC Jakarta also talked about the importance of Indonesia
participating in the “World Digital Library”, Metadata as well as the
importance of bibliographic control and also our experience how we
preserve the unpublished works of Pramoedya Ananta Toer. We also
learned about possible collections and titles that the Library of
Congress maybe interested in having copies.
Hopefully in the near future, our small efforts encourage communities in general in achieving an improved sustainable Indonesian preservation culture.
Celebrating the Life and Art of Adelina Gurrea by BeatrizTardío
(28 January 2010)
The Ateneo School of Humanities and the Ateneo Library of Women Writings was launch of Beatriz Álvarez-Tardío WRITING ATHWART, a book on the life and works of Adelina Gurrea, on Thursday, January 21, 2010, at the Concourse of the new Rizal Library Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City.
Adelina Gurrea was born in 1896 in La Carlota, Negros Occidental, of Spanish parents. Everyday occurrences in the hacienda as well as the tropical environment in which she grew up figure in her works, in particular, in her collection of short stories, Cuentos de Juana. When Adelina was 25, she moved back to Spain with her mother. Though far away from the land she had come to love, she continued to contribute to Philippine writing through her poetry, short stories, drama pieces, and essays.
WRITING ATHWART, Adelina Gurrea's Life and Works/La Escritura Entrecruzada de Adelina Gurrea, is the product of Dr. Tardío’s painstaking quest for recovering Philippine identities through literature in Spanish. Through this bilingual anthology, readers can enjoy Adelina Gurrea’s original texts, as well as Beatriz Tardío’s close reading and engaging translation of them.
Universitas Indonesia (UI) Islamic Book fair 2009
Universitas Indonesia (UI) Islamic Book fair 2009 was held by Forum Amal dan Studi Islam, Fakultas Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya, Universitas Indonesia at Pusat Studi Jepang (PSJ), Kampus UI Depok from November 24 – 26 2009.
The theme was “Mengukir karya, menyemai Insan cendekia”. There were around 15 publishers in this book fair, like Leksika bookstore, Riau Press, Islamic publishers, Al-Azhar Press, Hizbut Tahrir etc. We acquired materials for LOC and Participants.
REPORT ON THE 7th BOOK FESTIVAL FOR YOUNG PEOPLE JULY 8-12, 2009 Knowledge and Wisdom Station
The Book Festival For Young People is being held for the seventh time at the Queen Sirikit Convention Center. It was held from July 8th, 2009 to July 12th, 2009 from 10.00-20.00 hrs. The admission is free. It is organized by the Publishers and Booksellers Association of Thailand (PUBAT).
The aims of the Book Festival are the following: to promote reading and develop learning skills for young people up to the age of 18, to promote Thai people from children to adults to value reading as means of learning, promote parents, teachers and librarians to provide appropriate reading materials for young people, promote the publishers to be aware of the young people’s need for reading and provide a variety of books targeting them..
The first goal of the Book Festival was to provide children with books and textbooks by letting them have the opportunity to know the publishing houses. The second goal was to target 300,000 people to come to the Book Festival. The target were teachers, librarians, children, youth, and the general public to come to see the exhibitions, purchase books and participate in the activities at the Book Festival.
The Education Ministry says youths are keener on reading nowadays. In 2003, Thai children read an average of seven lines a day, and that number had increased 7.9 per cent by 2005. In 2007, children were reading an average of 12 lines a day and the ministry is hoping to build on that success. Children were reported to be the largest reader group at 87.7 per cent, followed by teenagers at 83 per cent. The 2005 National Statistics Office survey showed 45 per cent of Thais read cartoons, novels and miscellaneous books, 36 per cent read magazines and 34 per cent read textbooks.
The Book Festival contained many booths selling cartoons, chic literature, and translations of international best-seller books, for e.g. Harry Potter. Since it was not a summer break there were not that many children and perhaps with the H1N1 flu in Thailand many were wearing masks to protect themselves. There were 180 publishing house booths. Everyday there are activities on the stage as well as meetings and seminars.
The Library of Congress, Bangkok Office acquired many titles that were published in Thailand. Most of the monographs are award-winning or runners-up. LC Bangkok purchased 35 titles of Thai monographs; these materials would be offered to the CAPSEA in the circular lists sent out on a monthly basis.
Philippine 13th Academic Book Fair
The Philippine 13th Academic Book Fair was held on June 23-27, 2009 at the Megatrade Hall 1, 5th Level Building B, SM Megamall, EDSA, Mandaluyong City. This was organized by the Academic Booksellers Association of the Philippines (formerly, the Association of Booksellers for the Academe and the Professions). This year’s theme is “The Filipino booksellers: responding to academic & information needs in the midst of global challenges”. The trade fair featured the latest academic books, journals, references and other materials for educational institutions, school heads/administrators, librarians, teachers and students. More than 40 publishers, booksellers and university presses participated in this five-day event.
Ms. Nanette Abas and Dexter Dalay of LOC-Manila attended and acquired more than 20 good titles from the said fair. From their feedback, it was gathered that most of the booksellers who participated displayed foreign publications and textbooks. The 3 big Metro Manila presses (Ateneo University Press, University of the Philippines Press and UST Publishing House) were there as well as some of LOC Manila vendors with BPAs. During the times that the LOC staff were in the book fair there were not too many people/buyers thus confirming the statement of some stall owners that the sales was not that good. Contrary to the expectation, no booksellers from the provinces were present.
The 4th World Book Day, 2009 Reading for love (Jakarta)
World Book Day 2009 (WBD) is the biggest annual celebration of books In Indonesia is being held for the fourth time.
This celebration is taken place starting from April 23 – May 17 2009 at Museum Mandiri.
Along with this festive is formally open the library@batavia which is the escalating of
Forum Indonesia Membaca library (Indonesian Reading Forum).
This world book day was opened by Mr. Kusmayanto Kadiman of The Ministry of Research and Technology
and CEO Bank Mandiri, Mr. Agus Martowardoyo.
There were many variety activities such as exhibition, workshop, discussion, art-culture performance
and social gathering for communities for only one aim “Reading for Love.” Dessy Sekar Astina,
Festival Director WBD 2009 says “We would like to diffuse the feeling of love in reading to
our attach surrounding: our family. The Library of Congress staff was able to collect a number of works on science and technology by attending WBD.
Jakarta Office
On 9 April 2009, Indonesian went to the polls and voted directly for legislative candidates. Indonesian’s election system is based on a party proportional representation. The voters choose a candidate or a party. Indonesia is the 3rd largest democracy and largest Muslim country in the world. This project focuses on issues related to the Indonesia Elections 2009 in Asia continually updated from various sources around the internet, election advertisements and election materials. Over 170 million voters across the country participated in the parliamentary election that went off relatively peacefully. The first round of Presidential Election is scheduling in July 2009, and second/final round is September 2009 (Presidential Election dates TBD)
Jakarta is part of the Library of Congress as one of the major centers for the world’s archive whose mission is to make available and preserve knowledge and information through out the world in various media and format. The Jakarta Overseas Operations Office has developed in partnership with Washington the Web Archive about the Indonesia General Election 2009. The project does not analyze but provides original data. The end result will includes at least one hundred websites including party, NGO, government and candidates’ personal sites, hundreds of posters and campaign memorabilia and campaign advertisements. This is the first time the Jakarta office has comprehensively covered both digital and traditional data. During this 2009 election, selective websites that provide significant content and carries the information on the election will be resource for future generations that will be forgotten and lost, if not well archived and preserved.
The collection substantially concentrates on the ongoing process of Parliamentary election, the Legislative election, and the Presidential election in Indonesia. The sites will include campaign and party websites, and sites with information about bio-marine environment issues, an important campaign issue in 2009. At a later date LOC Washington will make the information available.
Kuala Lumpur Office
The 27th Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair 2008 (KLIBF)
April 4 – 13, 2008 at Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The book fair this year has achieved yet another new record by
having almost 700 booths involving 193 companies and the total area
of the fair ground is 12, 666 square meters. However, the National
Library statistics report of books register under the Library
depository Act, 1986 is showing a slide drop compare to the year
2006.read
Bangkok Office
The 6th Bangkok International Book Fair & The 36th National Book
Fair
March 26, 2008 - April 7, 2008. Publishing business in Thailand has
continuously grown no less than
10% since 2003. This figure has shown that Thailand is still
far behind the developed countries regarding new titles launched and
the reading habit as shown by number of books read and amount of
money spent on book expense. read