Annual Meeting

2025 Annual Meeting

This year’s meeting will be hosted by Tohoku University in Japan from October 29th– 31st 2025. 

Meeting Details

Date: October 29th-31st, 2025 (JST, Japan Time)
Format: hybrid (in-person +  Zoom)
Host: Tohoku University Library

Theme
Registration
  • Registration closing on July 31st, 2025
Travel Information

Travel information for details. (Link to PDF

Please read carefully before you register.

  1. Information for Nationals Requiring a VISA
  2. Visa-exempt Countries and Regions
  3. Online Immigration Procedures
  4. Getting to Sendai
  5. Accommodation in Sendai
  6. Shuttle Bus Between Sendai Station and the Venue
  7. Contact Information
Accomodation
  • We will arrange accommodation for participants at the following hotel: Hotel Metropolitan Sendai East
  • 〒980-8487 1-1-1 Chuo Aoba-ku Sendai-shi Miyagi-ken Japan
  • If you wish to stay in this hotel, please contact us and do not make a reservation individually. 
Annual Meeting Venue
Program
  • October 29: Opening – Presentation Session
  • October 30: Presentation Session – Business Meeting – Closing
  • October 31: Half-day excursion around Sendai City
  • Program schedule

Introduction of Tohoku University (The Movie Released 2025.4.15)
Program Committee

Hatsumi Sato, Tohoku University Library, Chair
Monica Ghosh, University of Hawaii at Manoa Library
Hideyuki Seki, Keio University Library
Lei Wang, Sun Yat-Sen University Library
Benjamin Meunier, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library , Secretariat Chair
Angela Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library, Secretariat Assistant
Linda Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library, ex-officio
Yukinae Yoshida, Tohoku University Library
Aiko Watanabe, Tohoku University Library

We extend our heartfelt appreciation to our generous sponsors—Cambridge University Press, De Gruyter Brill, Gale, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley, for their invaluable support in the program.

        

Previous Annual Meetings

Thanks to University of Melbourne for hosting a successful online meeting.
We appreciate Sun Yat-Sen University in Shenzhen for hosting a successful hybrid meeting.
The University of Hawai'i at Mānoa successfully hosted an online meeting during COVID-19.
The 2020 PRRLA meeting has been postponed to 2021 in light of the health and safety risks posed to members by the global COVID-19 outspread and travel restrictions.