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The ACMS is happy to announce the unveiling of the new Open Access Resources for Researchers in Mongolia website. This guide is meant to provide access to open access and online material relevant to research in Mongolia in a new easy to access format. This project is an ongoing collaboration between the American Center for Mongolian Studies and the Mongolian Library Consortium.

This project was sponsored in part through the ACMS-Mongolia Field Research Fellowship Program, which is funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State through a grant from the Council of American Overseas Research.

The new website can be viewed through the Quick Links Menu or at: http://oaguide.mongolianlibraries.org.mn/.

The American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS), together with the International Association of Mongolian Studies (IAMS) and the National University of Mongolia School of Foreign Service organized a conference entitled, "Owen Lattimore: The Past, Present, and Future of Inner Asian Studies" in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on August 20 and 21, 2008.

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The ACMS is pleased to announce its newest online digital collection: Selected Mongolian Laws and Regulations 1917-1940. The collection contains nearly 1,600 digital scans of laws and regulations written in Mongol script, and it covers an interesting array of topics from the Mongolian People's Republic constitution to regulations about harvesting pine cone seeds. The project received support from the US Department of Education TICFIA program under the Local Archives and Libraries at Overseas Research Centers (LALORC) project. To view the collection, visit www.mongoliacenter.org/library/digitalbooks.

The ACMS is developing online resources to facilitate research. Currently it is difficult to find relevant information while conducting research from outside Mongolia. The ACMS library website is one example of trying to centralize information about Mongolia to provide researchers a useful research portal. The ACMS is also currently working on the pilot phase of an online reference resource to Mongolia, which will eventually include information about a diverse set of topics. During the pilot phase two interns are collecting and compiling information resources in the areas of health and Mongolia's connection to the Middle East. These two topic areas will provide a solid demonstration of the value of continuing to develop this reference resource in other topic areas, including history, language, social policy, and politics.

The results of a local library survey are now available at on the ACMS library website under the "Local Libraries" menu item. Library development is a primary aspect of the ACMS's overall mission of promoting scholarship in Inner Asia. In March 2005, the ACMS initiated in cooperation with local partners the First Symposium of Mongolian Librarians to examine Mongolia's library system. This activity was subsequently built upon in March 2006 when, as part of LALORC, the ACMS began a survey of holdings in local libraries. This initial survey culminated in general descriptions of libraries in Ulaanbaatar on the ACMS website. During the summer of 2007, the survey was expanded to include detailed information about materials held in library collections. The results of the survey are available at:

LALORC SURVEY RESULTS AND LIBRARY DESCRIPTIONS

The American Center for Mongolian Studies conducted its last librarian meeting of the year at the center on December 13th, 2007. The meeting was an opportunity for the ACMS to share ideas and best practices with its local partners about issues the ACMS is learning to resolve as it develops its own library.

The Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) and its Digital Library for International Research (DLIR) program are pleased to announce a new, improved Web site for the catalog representing the libraries of CAORC member centers and their local overseas partners. The new catalog operates in conjunction with the catalog of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). This improved version of the DLIR catalog (http://catalog.crl.edu/search~S6) offers more specific online searching of library collections at individual overseas research centers in the CAORC consortium and at many of their local partners’ libraries. These collections include books, e-books, journals, maps, images, and archival collections.