Welcome to Takashi Nagatsuka's Home Page

Professor Emeritus,
Tsurumi University

Contact

Email:nagatsuka-t(at)tsurumi-u.ac.jp

Research Interests

My interests center on the design of appropriate media for different users in a variety of information environments.Specifically, I do research the interactive digital note-taking system, the digital archives of cultural heritage and digital libraries.

Recent Activities

December 10-12, 2012
Presented in "ICPE2012" and "ICAT2012" at Shih Hsin University in Taipei, Taiwan.

Tsurumi University concludes an agreement of sister school with Shih Hsin University in Taipei. The International Conference of ICPE2012（Information Capital, Property, and Ethics) was held at Shih Hsin University in Taipei with researchers participating from University of South Florida, North Carolina Central University, Peking University, Sun Yat-sen University and Nanyang Technological University. I spoke in the ICPE2012 on“The Change in Necessary Knowledge and Skills as an Information Professional with the Progress of Information and Communication Technology”. On December 11, I made another speech at the Annual Conference of ICAT2012 (Information Communication Association of Taiwan）titled “Progress of Department of Information & Communication in North East Asia- an international perspective”.

November 12-15, 2012
Presented and chaired in International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2012) on Nov 12-15, 2012 in Taipei, Taiwan.

International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2012) was held on Nov 12-15, 2012 at National Taiwan University in Taipei. The conference focused "The Outreach of Digital Libraries: a Globalized Resource Network". I presented on the poster session titiled "A Note-Taking Data Sharing System for Improving Student’s Performance"., and also chaired the Paper Session 12(short paper) titled "Retrieval and Browsing in Digital Library".

September 5, 2012
The Summer Seminar Camp of Nagatsuka Lab
The Summer Seminar Camp of Nagatsuka Lab. was held at a schoolroom in Tsurumi University as a part of the course to write graduation thesis.

August 31, 2012
The special lecture to students of Tsurumi University by Allison Zhang of the Library of Congress, US
Ms Allison Zhang who is a metadata manager of World Digital Library Project in the Library of Congress lectured to students and gave some practise to students for choosing appropreate metadata.

August 11～17, 2012
Participated and made two presentations in the 78th International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) General Conference and Assembly held in Helsinki, Finland.
One paper titled "A critical role of Academic Advisory Service in a part of the learning commons facility" was presented in Session 180(Innovative libraries: transforming our communities) organized by the Asia and Oceania Section. The other paper titled "Improving library use by Tsurumi University students: a collaborative effort among educators, librarians and students" was presented in Session 213(Building collaboration between LIS educators and practitioners in developing countries: transcending barriers, creating opportunities) organized by the LIS Education in Developing Countries Special Interest Group.

July 1～15, 2012
Five graduate students from Information & Communications Department,Shih Hsin University (SHU) in Taipei, Taiwan visited Library, Archival and Information Studies Department,Tsurumi University for Summer Internship from July 1 to July 15, 2012.

December 5～7, 2011
Dr. Ismail Abdullahi (Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Sciences, North Carolina Central University) visited to Tsurumi University for the lecture to our students and the open seminar.Dr. Ismail Abdullahi gave the lecture to our students titiled "Library and Information Science in the US", and also he gave the open seminar to our almin and fellows titled "Creation of information and Knowledge Societies:The Role of Libraries and Librarians".

October 24～27, 2011
International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2011) was held on Oct 24-27, 2011 in Beijing, China. The conference focused "Digital Libraries -- for Culture Heritage, Knowledge Dissemination, and Future Creation". I presented on the poster session titiled "Effect of the Number of Comments Inserted by Students during Each Lecture on Their Grades in the Course".

October 20～22, 2011
I gave a presentation titled "Trends of Cloud Computing in Educational Area in Japan." on the Conference on Information and Communications:Knowledge management with Competitive Intelligence held on 21st October, 2011. Shih Hsin University, Taipei, Taiwan. The international conference has beeen held in commemoration as the 10-year celebration of the Department of Information and Communication, Shih Hsin University.

September 12～13, 2011
The Seminar Camp of Nagatsuka Lab. was held at a hotel in Kawasaki city as a part of the course to write graduation thesis.

August 13-18, 2011
Attend the 77th International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) General Conference and Assembly held in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

August 11-12, 2011
Attend the PreConference of IFLA「Towards an Optimum Curriculum for Developing Countries: Prospects and Challenges」held at Graduate School of Information Sciences and Technologies of the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan