CRL China Resource List Available

A Center for Research Libraries (CRL) / Global Resources Network (GRN) publication (Focus on Global Resources, Summer 2009) lists CRL China-related publications (click to view PDF).

Susan Xue

C. V. Starr East Asian Library

University of California Berkeley

CALIS/OCLC Cooperation Info at CCM Meeting

There will be a chance to know more about CALIS/OCLC cooperation and records

in Worldcat at the CCM annual program in Toronto thisMarch. The Committee

on Chinese Materials has invited a CALIS representative to give a talk which

will provide more information on this issue.

The committee is still in the process of finalizing the annual program, and

will share it with the list soon.

Best

Susan Xue

Chair, the Committee on Chinese Materials

LCSH Subject Cataloging Webinar

Thanks again to Mr. Morimoto for providing the training and rich contents in his presentation files. The recorded webinar is now available via Blackboard Collaborates at:

https://sas.elluminate.com/mr.jnlp?suid=M.D5F1442A348F6C59F2F2B33012168B&sid=2009019

You are welcome to view it. The recorded session will be posted on CEAL CTP web site (http://www.eastasianlib.org/ctp/index.htm)at a later date.

 

For these who participated or will view the recorded session, please provide feedback by filling out the short follow-up survey at:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dEtkSzVYZFJ

Thanks to these who have filled out the survey, and given us your candid feedback about needed improvements as well as suggestions for future webinar topics. The CEAL Committee on Technical Process members will review the survey result and hope we are able to provide more webinars on topics suggested.

Best,

--Shi

Shi Deng

Head, Chinese Japanese Korean Acquisitions/Cataloging Unit

Metadata Services Department, UCSD Libraries

9500 Gilman Drive, 0175K

La Jolla, CA 92093-0175

Tel: (858) 822-2104

Fax: (858) 822-0349

Email: sdeng@ucsd.edu

Japanese Romanization: Survey

Dear all

This is just a friendly reminder of the survey on “Clarification of LC practice concerning the use of diacritical marks in Japanese romanization.”

If you have already participated in the survey, thank you very much! Please disregard this message. However, if you haven’t done it yet, please take a moment to go and participate in: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CDKQ53G

The deadline of the survey is this coming Monday, Jan. 16^th, which is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and might be a day off to some of you. So please consider completing it today or tomorrow.

Thank you very much for your time and cooperation.

Sincerely,

For CJM/CTP Joint Task Force on LC Proposal to Japanese Romanization

Rob Britt

Shi Deng, ex officio (CTP Chair)

Yoko Kudo

Mieko Mazza

Hikaru Nakano

Setsuko Noguchi, ex officio (CJM Chair)

Keiko Suzuki, TF Chair

Search the CEAL Website

I've added a Google search engine to the CEAL website. The new CEAL search engine indexes the CEAL website and the two CEAL blogs (News and Jobs). Click the "Search" link in the yellow search bar, or go directly to the CEAL Search page. Please let me know if you have comments or questions.
Regards,
Rob Britt

Japanese Rare Book Directory

Directory of North American Collections of Old and Rare Japanese Books, Other Print Materials, and Manuscripts: Now Available at the NIJL Website

Dear Librarians and Curators of the Participating Institutions in the Directory of North American Collections of Old and Rare Japanese Books, Other Print Materials, and Manuscripts:

We are pleased to let you know that the Directory has been updated and is now available at the National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL) website:

In the NIJL Database page http://www.nijl.ac.jp/pages/database/, click 98."北米日本古典籍所蔵ディレクトリ," or,

go to: http://base1.nijl.ac.jp/~overseas/

Below please find the announcement in Japanese on the availability of the Direcotory at the NIJL website by Prof. Jun Suzuki. We would like to join Prof. Suzuki to express our sincere appreciation for all the support each of you provided to join this project.

Please notice that the Japanese page is available by clicking "日本語ページ" link in the menu bar right beneath the Directory name. We hope that the Directory will gradually include more information in Japanese also.

At this point, we would like to ask each of you to review your institution's entry in the NIJL website, and let Prof. Osamu Furuse of NIJL (email: furuse@nijl.ac.jp‎) and Toshie Marra (email: tmarra@library.ucla.edu) know as soon as possible of any changes that should be made to update the directory.  If possible at all, we encourage you to provide the Japanese version of the directory enty for the same content as well. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Toshie Marra any time.  

Thank you very much for your attention to this matter.

Best regards,

Subcommittee on Japanese Rarebooks, CEAL Committee on Japanese Materials

Toshie Marra

Hideyuki Morimoto

Hisako Rogerson

Reiko Yoshimura

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ディレクトリ公開のお知らせ

このたび人間文化研究機構 国文学研究資料館では、北米日本古典籍所蔵機関ディレクトリの公開に向けた準備が整いましたので、二〇一一年一二月下旬を目途に当館のウェブサイトから発信することになりました。ご承知のように、本ディレクトリは、北米を中心とする、日本の古典籍やその他の文化資料を所蔵する大学図書館、美術館などの機関について、コレクションの概要やコンタクト方法などの情報を集約したものです。本ディレクトリの公開によって、今後、各所蔵機関の日本資料コレクションが日本及び世界各国の研究者、学生などによって、さらに有効活用されることが期待されます。

現段階では、英語表記が基本で、日本語は不十分ですが、情報のリニューアルとともに、言語表記の面も追々充実を図って行きたいと思います。また、北米以外では、欧州の参加機関が少数参加しているに過ぎませんが、これも徐々に拡大していければと願っています。どうか今後ともご協力のほど、お願い申し上げます。

最後に、本ディレクトリの公開が、もっぱらこれまで長い間、作成に携わって来られた、東アジア図書館協議会（CEAL）の日本資料委員会の元に組織された日本古典籍小委員会の皆様のご尽力と、各所蔵機関のご協力の賜物であること、またシステムについては、当館の事業部が担当させていただきましたことをお断りし、関係各位には、この場を借りて厚く御礼申し上げます。

国文学研究資料館教授　鈴木淳

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Toshie Marra
Japanese Studies Librarian
UCLA East Asian Library
21617 Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Tel. (310) 825-2765
Fax: (310) 206-4960

2012 CEAL Membership Renewal Notice

Dear All,

I am writing to remind you to renew your 2012 CEAL membership as the election is approaching. Please renew your membership as soon as possible if you have not done so. The cut-off date for a valid membership is Feb.1, 2012. All renewals received after the cut-off date will not be able to get an election ballot.

Confirming Your Current Membership Status:
Only CEAL members are eligible to vote on CEAL issues, run for elected offices, or be nominated for appointed positions. To be a CEAL member, you must:
1. ...be a current member of AAS (Current AAS members may login at the AAS website, here)
AND
2. ...be current in your annual $30 CEAL membership dues (You may check your membership status by searching the CEAL Directory.  Or, email CEAL Treasurer Ai-lin Yang about the status of your account.)

Joining CEAL is a 2-step process:
Step 1) Join AAS
Before submitting the CEAL membership application form, please join the Association for Asian Studies(AAS).  According to article III. A. of the CEAL Bylaws, a CEAL member is “...an Association for Asian Studies member who pays CEAL membership dues.”
Your CEAL membership will become effective only after you have joined AAS.

Step 2) Submit the Application Form and Dues
Print out the CEAL Membership Application form, and fill it in.  Write a check or money order for thirty dollars ($30), payable to "The Association for Asian Studies Inc." For credit card payments, please add a $2 credit card service fee to your payment amount (Total: $32), and provide your credit card information in the form.

Please note that you may also choose to pay for multiple years by sending the appropriate amount. For example, pay $60 for two years, $90 for three years, etc.

Membership comes with a subscription to the Journal of East Asian Libraries.

Mail your completed application form to:

Ai-lin Yang
CEAL Treasurer (2009-2012)
East Asia Library
Meyer Library, 4th Floor
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6004

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Ai-lin Yang
Technical Services Coordinator/
Chinese Cataloging Librarian
East Asia Library
Meyer Library, 4th Floor, Room 470
Stanford University
Stanford, CA94305-6004
Email: ayang1@stanford.edu
Phone: 650-736-7676
FAX:   650-724-2028

Call for Nominations --CEAL Election

Dear colleagues,

Seasonal Greetings!

I am sending you the official call for nomination/self-nomination for five important CEAL positions open for election. As you may have seen from CEAL President Joy Kim's announcement dated December 12, 2011, these positions are:

--Vice President/President Elect
 --Secretary
 --Treasurer
--Two At-Large members

The Election Committee (EC) would greatly appreciate your participation in nominations. Following the guidance of CEAL By-laws -Article VII http://www.eastasianlib.org/CEAL/Bylaws/CEALbylaws.pdf ,  we are committed to ensuring a slate of nominees balanced in geographic representation, area specialty, and collection size. We welcome nominations and self-nominations of newer CEAL members whereas encouraging experienced members to continue your valued contribution to the organization. Serving on the Executive Board is a wonderful opportunity of professional growth and career promotion.

Please send your nominations for any colleague who is a CEAL member and could make a contribution to the organization in your perspective. And please address your nominations to any of the EC members (contacts listed below) by January 13, 2012. The EC will check with the people nominated to make sure they are will to serve and have current CEAL membership. 

Thank you very much!

CEAL Election Committee:
Mikyung Kang   mlkang@fas.harvard.edu
Setsuko Noguchi    enoguchi@staff.cic.net
Ying Zhang (Chair)  yingz@uci.edu

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Ying Zhang, Ph.D.
Research Librarian for Asian Studies
University of California Irvine Libraries
P.O. Box 19557, Irvine, CA 92623-9557
Phone: 949.824.0489
fax: 949.824.0605
Email: yingz@uci.edu
Web: http://libguides.lib.uci.edu/asian_studies
Offices: Langson Library Room 466, 109 
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CEAL Election Committee appointed

Dear CEAL Members,

I am pleased to announce that the CEAL Election Committee has been appointed for the upcoming election. The members are:

--Ying Zhang (Chair)
--Mikyung Kang
--Setsuko Noguchi

According to the CEAL Bylaws, the following officers will also serve as ExOfficio members: Joy Kim (President), Peter Zhou (VicePresident/President Elect), and Beth Katzoff (Secretary)

Ying will shortly issue a call for nominations for the following 5 important positions:

--Vice President/President Elect
--Secretary
--Treasurer
--Two At-Large members (to fill Ellen Hammond’s and Ying Zhang's positions who will rotate off in 2012.)

Please join me in thanking the Election Committee members, and be prepared to nominate candidates including self-nomination!

P.S. Please be reminded that only current CEAL members can vote or stand for elections, so this is a good time to review your membership status and renew asap if necessary.

Joy Kim
Curator, Korean Heritage Library
East Asian Library
University of Southern California
University Park
Los Angeles, CA90089-1825
Tel: 213-740-2329 or 213-740-2535
Fax: 213-740-7437
http://www.usc.edu/korea
http://libguides.usc.edu/korea

President
Council on East Asian Libraries
http://www.eastasianlib.org

LCSH Changes

This is to bring to the attention of those affected CEAL members and their patrons that, after NNC's repeated enquiries filed with LC, the latter has finally proposed cancellation of its LCSH:

   LCCN:  sh2008006789
   hdg.:  Dewa Region (Japan)

in favor of its separate LCSH:

   LCCN:  sh 85037415 
   hdg.:  Dewa (Japan)

These two LCSHs appear quite similar in geographic extent to each other. LCC # DS894.39.D4 entered in LCCN sh 85037415 for "Dewa (Japan)" has caption "Dewa region":

   010 $a CF 95263496
   153 $a DS894.39.D4 $c DS894.39.D495 $h History of Asia
       $h Japan $h Local history and description $h Tohoku
       region $h Prefectures, subregions, etc., A-Z $j
       Dewa region

GEOnet, Dec. 9, 2011 carries:

   Dewa (Approved)
   Dewa-no-kuni (Variant)
   Dewa Province (Variant)
   Ideha (Variant)
   39° 00' 00"N 140° 30' 00"E
   Feature Type: region

Col. gaz., Dec. 9, 2011 carries:

   Dewa
   Type of Place:  former province
   Location:  Akita, Japan
   Dewa, former province in N Honshu, Japan; now Akita
   prefecture and part of Aomori prefecture.

LC's cancellation proposal of its LCSH sp2008006789 now carries:

   010    $a sp2008006789
   682    $i This authority record has been deleted 
          because the heading is covered by the subject 
          heading Dewa (Japan) (sh 85037415).

This LCSH cancellation proposal is scheduled for discussion at the first 2012 PSD Editorial Meeting.

Hideyuki Morimoto

NII Authority Records for Japanese Classics

The Dec. 2011 revision of NII's (Japan's National Institute of Informatics) coding manual, ch. 14, to change provisions of uniform title authority records for Japanese classics has been released to the general public, here: http://www.nii.ac.jp/CAT-ILL/archive/pdf/CM14_kaitei.pdf. It may be of some interest to some CEAL members and their patrons. NII's explanation of this revision is available here: http://www.nii.ac.jp/CAT-ILL/archive/pdf/CM14_kaisetsu.pdf

Hideyuki Morimoto

Tokyo Metropolitan Lib Authority Data Offline

During Tokyo Metropolitan Library's system renewal, which is scheduled until Dec. 21, 2011, at 9:00am (Japan time), their authority data search service (URL:  http://catalog.library.metro.tokyo.jp/) is offline, and inaccessible.

(Click to view the Tokyo Metropolitan Library announcement in Japanese)

Hideyuki Morimoto

CEAL Directory PDFs Updated

The PDF version of the CEAL Directory Personnel and Institutions files have been updated. Links to both PDFs are here, along with more information about the CEAL Directory.

Click here to log in to the online CEAL Directory.

Annual Meeting Schedule: Toronto March 2012

Keep up-do-date with planning for the 2012 CEAL Annual Meeting in Toronto by checking the 2012 CEAL Annual Meeting Schedule, here (updated as information comes in).