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Endnotes

  1. My thanks to the following colleagues for their contributions:  Peter Colvin, Jotika Khur-Yearn, Fujiko Kobayashi, Nicholas Martland, Peter Salinger, Sue Small, Sarah Spells, Farzana Whitfield, Yoshiko Yasumura.
  2. Scarbrough Report (The Earl Scarbrough), 1947, Report of the Interdepartmental Commission of Enquiry on Oriental, Slavonic, East European and African Studies, London:  Foreign Office
  3. Hayter Report (Sir William Hayter), 1961, Report of the Sub-Committee on Oriental, Slavonic, East European and African Studies, London:  University Grants Committee
  4. Parker Report, (Sir Peter Parker), 1986, Speaking for the future:  a review of the requirements for diplomacy and commerce for Asian and African languages and area studies, London: University Grants Committee
  5. Hodder-Williams Report (Prof. Richard Hodder-Williams), 1993, Area Studies in the United Kingdom:  a report to the Area Studies Monitoring Group, Bristol:  [University of Bristol]
  6. My thanks to Nicholas Martland from whose paper information in this section is drawn: Martland, N., 2008, Asian area studies librarianship in a globalised, inter-connected world: death or transformation? Paper presented at a NACIRA [National Council on Orientalist Resources] Conference, 9 December 2008. pp.3-4
  7. Webster, K. and Seton, R., “The SOAS Library and archives”, pp.129-45 in Arnold D. and Shackle C. (eds.), 2003.  SOAS since the 60s, London:  School of Oriental and African Studies, p.120 and p.134
  8. ibid., pp.135-6
  9. ibid., pp.137
  10. 0) ibid., pp.137
  11. 1) 2016:  a vision and strategy for the centennial, London:  SOAS.  http://www.soas.ac.uk/directorate/soas2016/file23384.pdf [viewed 21 April 2010]
  12. 2) See:  http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/scolma/ [viewed 21 April 2010]
  13. 3) See:  http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/scolma/events.htm#specialization  [viewed 21 April 2010]
  14. 4)  See:  http://www.easl.org/index.html [viewed 21 April 2010]
  15. 5)  See:  http://www.jlgweb.org.uk/home.html [viewed 21 April 2010]
  16. 6)  See:  http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/apac/saalg/ [viewed 21 April 2010]
  17. 7) See:  http://www.sealg.org/ [viewed 21 April 2010]
  18. 8) Information taken from:  http://www.soas.ac.uk/ysimg/ [viewed 21 April 2010]
  19. 9) See:  http://groups.exeter.ac.uk/MELCOM/  [viewed 21 April 2010]
  20. 0) See:  http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/hebraica/hebraicam2.htm [viewed 21 April 2010]
  21. 1) See:  http://www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem36448.html  [viewed 21 April 2010]
  22. 2) See:  http://www.arlis.org.uk/ [viewed 21 April 2010]
  23. 3) See:  http://www.iall.org/         [viewed 27 April 2010]
  24. 4) See:  http://www.biall.org.uk/  [viewed 27 April 2010]
  25. 5) See:  http://ials.sas.ac.uk/flare/flare  [viewed 27 April 2010]
  26. 6) Information mostly taken from:  http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/collections/

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