Friday, November 13, 2015

CEAL Directory PDFs Updated


FYI
This morning I updated the PDF version of the CEAL Directory, linked on the website here:
http://www.eastasianlib.org/cmb/index.htm#Top
(Linked on the Membership Committee page under "Activities")

The online Directory is available here:
http://www.eastasianlib.org/cealdir/index.htm
(Linked on the Homepage under “CEAL Directory”)

Refresh your browser to view the latest PDF version.

Please let me know if there are questions or concerns.

Regards,
Rob



Rob Britt
Chair
CEAL Library Technology Committee
rrbritt@uw.edu

Monday, November 9, 2015

Toshie Marra and Peter Bae to assume NCC ILL/DD Co-chairship

For Immediate Release:  NCC announces election of new ILL/DD Co-chairs

NCC is pleased to announce the election of Toshie Marra, Librarian for Japanese Collection at University of California, Berkeley as the new NCC Council member and co-chair of the Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Committee (ILL/DD).  Peter Bae, Circulation Services Director of Princeton University Libraries, who is a current member of NCC’s ILL/DD Committee, joins her as co-chair.  Both co-chairs have extensive experience in international librarianship and resource sharing.  They will serve a term from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2018.

Toshie Marra served as NCC Chair from 2004 to 2006 at the time NCC’s current ILL/DD projects were being planned.  From 2009 to 2012 she served as a member of the committee as a representative of UCLA.  She is also one of the founding members of the Subcommittee on Japanese Rare Books of the Council on East Asian Library’s Committee on Japanese Materials and received her MLIS from UCLA.  

Seangill Peter Bae received his MLIS from University at Albany, SUNY and worked at Columbia University before coming to Princeton in 2014.  He is active in the international interlibrary loan and resource sharing field, serving as a member of the ALA RUSA STARS International ILL Committee and as Information Coordinator of the IFLA (International Federations of Library Associations), Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Standing Committee.  In addition, he started and currently administering a Facebook group, ILLers; a FB Group For Interlibrary Loan Librarians in which various ILL/DD issues are discussed.

As co-chairs of the ILL/DD Committee they will oversee NCC’s international borrowing and document delivery services with special emphasis on expanding online information guides to enable users to more easily navigate the ILL/DD services offered by the National Diet Library, Waseda, Keio, and Ritsumeikan Universities, and the activities of the more than 270 members of the Global ILL Framework in Japan, North America, Australia and New Zealand.  This is an especially critical time for interlibrary loan activities due to Japan’s decision not to revise their systems to meet the ISO protocols that facilitate communications between the different catalog systems in Japan and the West.  The NCC ILL/DD Committee will be working closely with a new Japanese group recently established to recommend future directions in international resource sharing. 

As is required by its by-laws, NCC seeks to include among Council members librarians and faculty from diverse regions of the country, from institutions of varying size, and from Japanese and East Asian studies programs with a range of strengths and foci.  In addition to the new co-chairs representing UC Berkeley and Princeton, the current ILL/DD Committee includes members from University of California, Los Angeles; Emory University; University of Hawaii; University of Kansas; University of Notre Dame; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; University of Pittsburgh; Monash University in Melbourne Australia; and Tsukuba University in Japan.  The out-going co-chairs are Hiroyuki Good and Kazuyo Good of the University of Pittsburgh. 

The ILL/DD homepage is found on the NCC Website at http://guides.nccjapan.org/illdd.

November 1, 2015

Monday, November 2, 2015

Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Grant Program




Each year, the Friends of the Princeton University Library offer short-term Library Research Grants to promote scholarly use of the library’s research collections. Up to $3,500 is available per award.
Applications will be considered for scholarly use of archives, manuscripts, rare books, and other rare and unique holdings of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, including Mudd Library; as well as rare books in Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, and in the East Asian Library (Gest Collection).  Special grants are awarded in several areas:  the Program in Hellenic Studies supports a limited number of library fellowships in Hellenic studies, and the Cotsen Children’s Library supports research in its collection on aspects of children’s books. The Maxwell Fund supports research on materials dealing with Portuguese-speaking cultures. The Sid Lapidus '59 Research Fund for Studies of the Age of Revolution and the Enlightenment in the Atlantic World covers work using materials pertinent to this topic.

The deadline to apply is January 15, 2016.