South Asia Microform Project Annual Meeting

Event Logistics

Date: 
Friday, March 16, 2012
Time: 
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Contact: 
Judy Alspach - jalspach@crl.edu
Program: 

The Annual Business Meeting of the South Asia Microform Project (SAMP) will take place during the Association of Asian Studies Conference in Toronto on March 16, 2012, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the Wentworth Room of the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel.

SAMP seeks to acquire and maintain a readily accessible microform collection of unique materials related to the study of South Asia. Materials are collected both through the project’s filming efforts and through the purchase of positive copies of materials filmed by other groups, institutions, and companies.

The Impact of CRL

Stories illustrating CRL’s impact on research, teaching, collection building and preservation.

SAMP's Unique Urdu and Hindi Collections Support Teaching and Scholarship in Devotional Literature, Gender Studies, and the Arts

Prof. Robert Phillips, lecturer for the Program in South Asian Studies at Princeton University, teaches courses in Hindi-Urdu and South Asian Studies, and has used both South Asia Materials Project (SAMP) and CRL resources to support different research, writing, and teaching projects.

South Asia Specialist’s Research Enriched by CRL Collections

Wendy Singer, Kenyon College professor, explains how CRL collections supported her original research on Indian social policy and elections.