ACMS is pleased to announce the re-opening of Bruce W. Morrison Research Laboratory, from which library patrons can rent research related equipment for free of charge*. You can request the equipment through here. *There will be fee for using the 3D Printer, charged by the weight of the printed material. [...]
We're pleased to announce a new video series, titled "Mongolia Explained," where we guide and explain the basic concepts of the Mongolian way to researchers, scholars, and even visitors to Mongolia. Our first video is on public transportation. The traffic in Mongolia can be frustrating. But thanks to a first-lane regulation, buses are [...]
For the second year, the ACMS Cultural Heritage Program, with support from the Henry Luce Foundation, is sponsoring up to two Mongolians citizen who works as, or is studying to become a museum professional in a relevant field to participate in an internship at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York in Fall 2019. [...]
Roxann Prazniak, Sudden Appearances: The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art (Perspectives on the Global Past) Part of the University of Hawaii Press's continuing series Perspectives on the Global, this new book will be of special interest to ACMS members, given its emphasis on the "artistic creations and political transformations" fostered [...]
We are pleased to inform that membership cards are available henceforth to all our patrons. If you haven't done so, please visit our library and pick up your membership card. In addition, more new books have arrived at the library!
We regret to inform you that our Speaker Series lecture of June 4 with Alexandria Hill has been cancelled due to unforeseen travel difficulties for our speaker. We apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused. We do have another pop-up Speaker series lecture on June 12 with Dr. Jennifer Lander, and we look forward [...]
The ACMS Library has a complete online catalogue after two months of ILS-installation and manual book inventory efforts. The online cataloging project, led by the ACMS Library and Media Coordinator Gantungalag Tumurchudur, took two months and involved recording metadata of over 5,000 books. “Now our patrons can browse books according to topics,” says Gantungalag, “as [...]
If you're based in Ulaanbaatar, you have probably read that ACMS has started a “Survival Mongolian” course for beginners. But did you know that our upcoming June course is our last session? Until we start anew in September, that is. That's right. Our last class begins on June 17 and ends on June 28. For [...]
Over 60 participants attended our #AcademicWritingWorkshop, which was held from May 8 through 10 at Mongolian State University of Education. Our instructors, Natso, Maggie, and Julia, delivered presentations on Day 1, organized round-robin-style group exercises on Day 2, and provided individual consultations on Day 3. The participants, who were not just graduate students but also [...]
ACMS has started "Survival Mongolian" course for beginners, and our May session will be the second to last until our break in September. For those who have just arrived to Ulaanbaatar, the class gives a quick but thorough overview of the Mongolian language. If you're interested, please e-mail tuvshinzaya@mongoliacenter.org to sign up!
