[5/2/2012]
On April 28, the University of Maryland held its annual open house, Maryland Day, with more than 460 activities campus-wide. In spite of the cool, damp weather, the event drew over 65,000 visitors.
On the 4th floor of McKeldin Library, the East Asia & Prange Collections hosted a day of East Asian crafts, including origami, Chinese calligraphy and Chinese paper-cutting.
Also featured was the Magpie Festival (the Night of Sevens), which is celebrated in China (Qixi Festival), Korea (Chilseok) and Japan (Tanabata) and a performance of Korean drumming and spinning dishes by Sanghyuk Park.
Over 300 people participated in the East Asian crafts and cultural activities.
On November 3, 2011, friends and colleagues gathered to pay tribute to Marlene Mayo, Professor of History, and to celebrate her donation of 100 interviews with Americans who served in Allied Occupied Japan to the University of Maryland Libraries.
The Marlene J. Mayo Oral Histories are housed in the Gordon W. Prange Collection.
The interviews were conducted between 1978 and 1992 and were recorded on cassette tapes. The interviews and transcripts (there are transcripts for 85 of the interviews) have been digitized and are available for use onsite in the Prange Collection.
On October 12, 2011, the Japanese Ambassador to the United States Ichiro Fujisaki and his wife visited the Prange Collection.
They were given a private tour of the collection by Eiko Sakaguchi, Curator the East Asia & Prange Collections.
[8/18/2011]
Access to books on political science in the Prange Collection with call numbers starting with
HD, HQ, HV and HX is currently suspended while the books are being digitized. This digitization is as part of a joint project of the University of Maryland and the National Diet Library of Japan (NDL) to preserve and provide access to the Prange Book Collection.
We apologize for the inconvenience. For more information, please contact
prangebunko[at]umd.edu.
[8/18/2011]
Proceedings of the Prange Collection Fukuoka symposium held on August 6, 2007, is now available for free of charge.
The symposium was entitled "被占領下の国語教育と文学" and the report contains:
- 基調講演 占領軍による図書没収の周辺：石田忠彦
- 報告 プランゲ文庫の資料整理と研究用ツールの現状：坂口英子・野田朱実
- 研究発表 1 敗戦と「敗戦期文学」：横手一彦
- 研究発表 2 『ビルマの竪琴』について—プランゲ文庫所蔵検閲初出誌を素材と して：松本常彦
- 研究発表 3 プランゲ文庫資料から見える戦後初期国語教育—国語教科書・副読本の実態とその特色：吉田裕久
- 質疑応答
The booklet is 72 pages and the language is Japanese.
If you are interested in obtaining a copy, please send an e-mail to
prangebunko[at]umd.edu with your name, institution, and address.
DVD introducing the Prange Collection (9.41 minutes; both English and Japanese; produced in 2008) is also available for free of charge upon request.
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