From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 10:20 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: Asian Studies WWW Monitor, Jan 2011 - the final issue
> H-ASIA
> January 23, 2011
>
> Asian Studies WWW Monitor - 1994-2011 -- final issue
> ************************************************************************
> Ed. note: As mentioned in a few editorial notes on some Asian Studies
> WWW Monitor posts on H-ASIA previously this month, Dr. T. Matthew Ciolek
> has now closed his great initiative at the Australian National University
> after more than 25 years of service to scholarship. The Asian Studies
> Monitor, as it was first known, began operation just prior to the
> launching of H-ASIA and over the years the two initiatives have supported
> each other in publicizing scholarship in Asian Studies. Dr. Ciolek and I
> have co-operated also in presenting orientations at the International
> Conference of Asia Scholars conferences, and he served as a gracious host
> during several of my visits to Canberra. What is produced below is not,
> technically, the last post from the Asian Studies WWW Monitor, but it does
> report the full circumstances of the closing of this chapter in Dr.
> Ciolek's may contributions. It has been a privilege to know and work with
> Matthew--one hopes that his legacy will be honored and carried forward in
> the future.
> FFC
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Reviews of Internet resources for Asian Studies
> <asia-www-monitor@anu.edu.au>
>
> The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: Jan 2011, Vol. 18, No. 1 (320)
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Dear Friends and Colleagues of the Asian Studies WWW Monitor,
>
> This is to let you know that on the 2nd February 2011 I will formally
> end my more than 25 years-long work relationship with The Australian
> National University, Canberra.
>
> This means that in about three weeks time from now I will cease to
> identify, monitor and report Internet-based developments pertinent to
> the field of Asian Studies.
>
> The two flagship ANU information resources under my jurisdiction, namely
> # Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
> (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) and
> # Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library
> (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-PacificStudies.html)
> and their many subsidiary documents and pages will be mothballed and
> permanently archived at their original online addresses on the ANU's
> coombs.anu.edu.au web server.
>
> Moreover, the **LAST** entry from the last issue of # Asian Studies
> WWW Monitor: Electronic Journal
> (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html) will be published on
> the 21 January 2011.
>
> So, please, if you have the relevant details and the inclination,
> email me news of an online Asian studies' resource worth reporting in
> the last ever issue of our indefatigable Monitor. I think its is
> worth to become a part of the recorded history, wouldn't you agree?
>
> After that deadline (21 Jan 2011) the whole journal (i.e. all
> web-based materials from the Monitor's 18 volumes with 320 issues
> published over the period of 17 years and nine months of its online
> existence) will be permanently mothballed on the ANU servers.
>
> Needless to say, I will make extra sure that all 9200+ email
> addresses of the registered recipients of the email edition of the
> Monitor will be fully **ERASED**. The idea is that none of us from
> this special circle of Monitor's friends and associates should ever
> get bothered by mailouts from some over-enthusiastic operator.
>
> This is also to signal that in May 2011 I will re-join the ANU as a
> visiting fellow at the School of Culture, History and Languages (The
> CHL, formerly known as the RSPAS). While there I will continue with
> my investigations of geographical and logistical patterns of
> historical Eurasian trade routes
> (http://www.ciolek.com/OWTRAD/DATA/oddda.html), as well as (a
> separate topic) of the nature and extent of interactions between
> medieval (i.e. 200-1200 AD) Buddhist monasteries
> (http://monastic-asia.wikidot.com/).
>
> Finally, it appears that in 2011 the University is going to phase out
> most of the email addresses based on the old xxxx@coombs.anu.edu.au
> format. This means that my hitherto customary ANU address
> "tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au" eventually will disappear from the Net.
> I suggest that you too start gradually purging it from your notebooks.
>
> However, I will remain perfectly contactable (and for a number of
> years to come) via my private email address, one which is listed at
> my personal web site i.e. http://www.ciolek.com
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Src: The Asian Studies WWW Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
> URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
> URL http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/asia-www-monitor
> The e-journal [est. 21 Apr 1994] provides free abstracts
> and reviews of new/updated online resources of interest to Asian Studies.
> The email edition of this Journal has now over 9,230 subscribers.
> The AS WWW Monitor does not necessarily endorse contents,
> or policies of the Internet resources it deals with.
>
> - with warm regards and wishes of all success in 2011 and beyond -
>
> Dr T. Matthew Ciolek tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au
> Head, Internet Publications Bureau, RSPAS,
> ANU College of Asia and the Pacific,
> The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
> ph +61 (02) 6125 3124 fax: +61 (02) 62571893
> also, Asia Pacific Research Online at www.ciolek.com
>
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