Author:Shaney Crawford, Issue: December 2003, Topic: Books

I volunteer at Tsukuba Public Library, so the staff there often asks me questions about their multicultural services. This month, they are looking into their magazine subscriptions. I had some ideas of my own, but I thought I would ask for some input from the international residents here in Tsukuba. I sent an email out to the TAIRA list and got some interesting responses. In total, fourteen (14) people gave their opinions. It would be better if that number were higher,

Chinese

NOW:

• Nihongo Journal (not currently publishing)
• Yazhou Zhoukau

SUGGESTIONS:
none

English

NOW:

• Hiragana Times
• National Geographic
• Nature
• Newsweek
• Nihongo Journal
• Scientific American
• Time
• Tokyo Journal

SUGGESTIONS:

• (2) drop Newsweek or Time as they are too similar to each other
• (2) drop Time and keep Newsweek www.newsweek.com
• (1) drop Newsweek and keep Time www.time.com
• (5) The Economist (includes library's vote) www.economist.com
• (2) Fortune (includes library's vote) www.fortune.com
• (1) US News and World Report (includes library's vote) www.usnews.com
• (1) against US News and World Report
• (1) Far Eastern Economic Review www.feer.com
• (2) Guardian Weekly www.guardian.co.uk
• (2) drop Nature
• (1) Science (as replacement for Nature) www.sciencemag.org
• (1) keep Nature
• (1) Natural History www.amnh.org/naturalhistory
• (1) Smithsonian www.smithsonianmag.si.edu
• (2) Reader's Digest www.rd.com
• (2) National Geographic Kids www.nationalgeographic.com/kids
• (1) Cricket Magazine (for kids) www.cricketmag.com
• (1) Ranger Rick (for kids) www.nwf.org/kidzone
• (2) Highlights for Children www.highlights.com

French

NOW:

• Figaro

SUGGESTIONS:

• (1) Le Monde www.lemonde.fr
• (2) Courrier International www.courrierinternational.com
• (1) L'Express www.lexpress.fr
• (1) against l'Express
• (1) Le Nouvel Observateur
• (1) Le Petit Chimiste

German

NOW:

• Schoner Wohnen

SUGGESTIONS:

• (2) drop Schoner Wohnen
• (3) Zeit Weekly www.zeit.de
• (2) Der Spiegel www.spiegel.de
• (1) Der Stern www.stern.de

Korean

NOW:

• City Life (not currently publishing)
• Weekly Chosun

SUGGESTIONS:
none

Portuguese

NOW:
none

SUGGESTIONS:

• (1) Viagem & Turismo assineabril.com
• (1) Boa Forma www.assineabril.com

Russian

NOW:

• Itogi (not sure if that is the right transcription of the name)

SUGGESTIONS:

• one vote for Natali www.eastview.com

Spanish

NOW:

• Look Japan

SUGGESTIONS:

• (1) Newsweek en Espanol (Latin America edition)
• (1) Discover en Espanol (Latin America Edition)
• (1) Cambio 16 www.cambio16.info/en_curso/default.htm

The library's website can be found at http://www.city.tsukuba.ibaraki.jp/lib/. (I am trying to get them to improve it!)

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