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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear colleagues,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On March 26th at 6:00 pm (CET), Martin Weiser (FU Berlin) will give a talk titled Closing in on the Unknown: Measuring DPRK/North Koreas publication output traced through library holdings, ISBN and the domestic registration
number. The speaker will explore how North Koreas publication landscape can be captured through the systematic evaluation of library holdings, ISBN assignments and previously untapped domestic registration numbers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Here is the abstract:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Comparatively little is known about the DPRK and its print publications remain a key source for academics. But little to no tools exist to deal with the limited but nonetheless overwhelming number of publications we now
have access to and the diverse information they contain. This presentation will look at one particular kind of information those publications provide: changes in the countrys publication output. It begins with a comparison of library holdings in Seoul and
the USA with the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, and then decodes information included in ISBN assignments and the domestic registration numbering gathered from several thousand print publications to provide new insights into changes in publication output. The
domestic numbering was not decoded before neither by scholars nor librarians, although it provides minute insights into yearly outputs divided by field as well as the delay between registration and eventual publishing. These three measures are then combined
to give a fuller view of the DPRK publishing scene and developments which the traditional method of merely consulting libraries for available publications would have missed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Please more information on the lecture and the
<b>link</b> to the lecture, please check: <a href="https://blog.crossasia.org/crossasia-talks-martin-weiser/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQt-bNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETAwd2NpTXBERzVxd2hacG12c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHva74wqMZlpBJdOIJ6EuIvFt8yHGdVuzRyiXi5-GMs2gy5hnynXX1syzUbFi_aem_QFhngijC3Iu6p-thUQvyOQ">
https://blog.crossasia.org/crossasia-talks-martin-weiser/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQt-bNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETAwd2NpTXBERzVxd2hacG12c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHva74wqMZlpBJdOIJ6EuIvFt8yHGdVuzRyiXi5-GMs2gy5hnynXX1syzUbFi_aem_QFhngijC3Iu6p-thUQvyOQ</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Looking forward to seeing many of you soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Jing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:DE">Hu, Jing, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:DE">East Asia Department Subject Specialist for Korean Studies
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:DE">Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preuischer Kulturbesitz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:DE">+49 30 266 436 110<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:DE"><a href="mailto:jing.hu@sbb.spk-berlin.de"><span style="color:#0563C1">jing.hu@sbb.spk-berlin.de</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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