This September, 14-17, the 27thEAJRS (European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists) took place in Bucharest University. Vytautas Magnus University was represented there by Arvydas Kumpis, a senior coordinator the Centre for Asian Studies and a librarian at VMU Library. He made a presentation on “Contemporary Japanese studies in Vytautas Magnus University: presentation of collection on Social sciences and Humanities”.
EAJRS conferences are one of most important events for the specialists dealing with Japanese resources – librarians, archivists, researchers, publishers. This year, the participants came from participants from United Kingdom, Russia, the Netherlands, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Japan, Canada and United States representing Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Princeton, Berkeley, Keio, Tokyo universities and national libraries of Japan, France, Germany, Romania.
Next EAJRS conference will take place in Oslo, Norway.