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Dear Reader,

The ASIAN STUDIES WWW MONITOR
(including all its subsidiary (and/or sister) pages on "coombs.anu.edu.au" server) has permanently ceased its publishing operations on Friday 21st January 2011.

All of the online resources reported here have been thoroughly checked at the time of their listing. However, it is possible that, with the with the passage of time, many of the originally reported materials might have been removed from the Internet, or changed their online address, or varied the scope and quality of their contents.

Fortunately, in several cases it is possible to access many of the older versions of the resources listed in the MONITOR. This can be easily done via the free services of the "The Internet Archive" http://web.archive.org/, a remarkable brainchild of Brewster Kahle, San Francisco, CA.

- with warm regards -

Editor, Dr T. Matthew Ciolek.

Canberra, 21 January 2011.


23 September 2010

Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia / National Library of Indonesia

http://www.pnri.go.id/en/default.aspx
4star
23 Sep 2010

Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia (PNRI), Jakarta, Indonesia.

[The PNRI does not seem to carry a note of self-description. However, a Wikipedia entry [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_of_Indonesia] contains the following words: "The origins of the national library date back to the 1778 foundation of the Royal Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences, the first of its kind in Asia. [...] The library serves the entire Indonesian people and is primarily a humanities library. [...] Under the national library, Indonesia began its own International Standard Book Number and Cataloging in Publication programs. The library maintains bibliographies of the state ideology Pancasila and Javanese manuscripts. It also develops an an independent computer housekeeping system and implements the MARC standards. Both the United States Library of Congress and the National Library of Australia maintain regional offices in Jakarta." - ed.]

Site contents:
* Directories (Government Institutions, Health Institutions, Important Days, Important Phone Numbers, Internet Service Providers, Online Mass Media, National Libraries world-wide, Online Library [links to web sites of Indonesian libraries], Press Agencies, Publishers);
* Dictionaries (Computer terms, Digital library terms, Library terms);
* Digital Collection (# Books [incl. Seminar dan Bedah Buku 1 Abad Kebangkitan Nasional, Sosialisasi INLIS Makassar, Seminar Naskah Nusantara Sabdopalon Nayagenggong, Naskah Kuno Nusantara Sebagai Warisan Budaya Luhur), # Gray Literature, # Guides & indexes, # Johannes Rach, # Manuscripts [in Sep 2010 this section was not available online], # Newspapers and Magazines [incl. Sikap Terbuka dan Ciri Khas, Muziek Vereeniging V.O.P. Takengeun Di Laoet Tawar Atjeh, Pada Suatu Hari dengan Daud Beurueh, Tjoet Nja' Dhien dan Filem Sebagai Media Dakwah, Sebuah Potret Ketidakpuasan], # Photographs, # Public Policy Regulations, # Rare Magazines, # National Library Standards);
* Online magazine (Majalah : Visi Pustaka (issues Vol. 9 (3) December 2007 - Vol. 10 (1) April 2008);
* E-Resource (ProQuest E-Journals [access via password], Gale E-Books [access via password], Westlaw E-Books [access via password], Ulrichs Global Serials Directory [free access], EBSCO databases [access via password], MyiLibrary [access via password], Sage Reference Online [access via password]);
* Search (Library web site, Library Catalog);
* Location;
* Membership Services;
* ISBN Services;
* Discussion Forum;
* Johannes Rach's paintings (1720-1783);
* National Library of Indonesia's Picture Collections;
* Manuscript Collections National Library of Indonesia [in Sep 2010 this section was not available online];
* Video Collection National Library of Indonesia.

[A bi-lingual (ID, EN) website - ed.]

URL http://www.pnri.go.id/en/default.aspx

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.pnri.go.id/en/default.aspx

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate info. / Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3,000 [in fact, 19,500 links]

Please note that the above details were correct on the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com