Membership Committee Agenda 2012

Time: Wednesday, March 14, 9:30-11:00PM
 Location: Dufferin, the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel.

1. Discussions on "Mobile Technologies/Social Media and Their Applications in the Library.” Guest speaker: Adam H Lisbon, North American Coordinating Council of Japanese Library Resources - Program Associate and State University of New York at Albany - Instructor of Japanese Studies. Enjoy the discussions regarding using cutting edge technologies to serve today's library patrons, such as developing library applications for mobile devices, using iPad for reference and collection development, e-books and patron driven acquisitions, using social media for outreach to faculty and students, and so on. If you have any questions, please contact Yunshan Ye, at yye@jhu.edu

2. “After one year greeting” “Meet and Greet for new mentors/mentees” hosted by Kazuko Hoki Thank you very much for those who are interested in serve as mentor/mentee. Even though you are unsure to be, your visit is more than welcome. If you are interested in being a mentor/mentee, but yet to send an application, please send it (available from CEAL website) to Kazuko Hoki at kazuko@uky.edu

3. “Get together! Paras!” hosted by Tomoko Kitayama Please join us as we start a conversation on the role of paraprofessionals and other non-librarian workers in Asia-related libraries. This is an opportunity for paraprofessionals and others to get to know each other and discuss such topics as: - Who are “paraprofessionals” in this field? What are common qualifications and certifications required for this role?

• What do we do? How does our work compliment and differ with professional librarians?
• How do we get training? What kind of expertise do we have?
• How do we pursue career development?
• What are the big issues facing paraprofessionals at this time?
• What is the future of paraprofessional work?

We welcome non-East Asian librarians’ and paraprofessionals’ participation as well. If you have any questions, please email tomoko.kitayama@ubc.ca.

The committee's goal is provide CEAL members with a place to discuss, exchange, and learn new ideas and practices as such. So, these are rather informal and inviting. So, please feel free to just stop by. Just bring your body! Please also spread the word about this initiative to your colleagues who may have an interest in these issues.

If you have any general questions, please contact Hikaru Nakano at hnakano@ufl.edu

We look forward to seeing you in Toronto

CEAL Membership Committee
 Hioki Kazuko, Hikaru Nakano (Chair)
Yunah Sung,
Yunshan Ye

CEAL CTP/CJK NACO Project Joint Webinar

Dear all,
The CEAL Committee on Technical Processing and the CJK NACO Project are pleased to announce the CTP/CJK NACO Project Joint Webinar on NACO References for Corporate and Conference Names.

Description: The webinar is designed to provide attendees with ability to use AACR2 and its related guidelines to create and evaluate corporate body and conference references in the CJK language area.

Presenter: Jessalyn Zoom, Cooperative Cataloging Program Specialist at Library of Congress.
Date: Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012
Time: 2:30-4:00 pm EST/11:30 am - 1:00 pm PST
Length: 90 minutes (60 minutes lecture, 30 minutes Q&A)

Registration is free: Click here to register

Click here to view: Course Description (PDF) | Course Outline (PDF)

We look forward to seeing you!
Shuyong Jiang
Coordinator, CJK NACO Project

Shi Deng
Chair, CEAL Committee on Technical Processing
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

Open House at Toronto East Asia Libraries

Revised Invitation | Directions from Sheraton to: EAL | Royal Ontario Museum

Dear Colleagues and friends,

We are pleased to announce that the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, University of Toronto (http://www.library.utoronto.ca/east/ ) and the H. H. Mu Far Eastern Library at Royal Ontario Museum (http://www.rom.on.ca/collections/library/east.php ) would like to invite you for an open house event and reception in our libraries on Thursday, March 15 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm for the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, and 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm for the H. H. Mu Far Eastern Library. 

Please RSVP with Lucy Gan (lucy.gan@utoronto.ca ) for a visit to the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library. The director of our Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (http://www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/index.html ) has also kindly offered to give a brief tour of the library (5:30 – 6:00). The tour is limited for 25 people in a first-come-first-serve manner. If you wish to visit the library, please indicate it in your RSVP to Lucy Gan.

Please RSVP to Jack Howard (jack.howard@utoronto.ca ) for your visit to the H. H. Mu Far Eastern Library. Due to space limitations, the visit to this library will be limited to 40 people on a first come, first served basis.

The RSVP deadline is March 2, 2012.

The instruction maps from the conference hotel to our libraries are linked here (and above) for your convenience:
Revised Invitation | Directions from Sheraton to: EAL | Royal Ontario Museum

We look forward to meeting with you in our libraries soon!

Stephen Qiao

Acting Director

The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library

University of Toronto

Jack Howard

Senior Librarian

H. H. Mu Far Eastern Library

Royal Ontario Museum 

Stephen Qiao

Acting Director

China Studies Librarian

The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library

University of Toronto Libraries

130 St. George Street

Toronto, Ontario

Canada, M5S 1A5

Online CEAL Directory Changes

Users of the online CEAL Directory will notice a few recent changes (please see below). Please note that the CEAL Membership Committee, headed by Hikaru Nakano, relies on "Designated Updaters" at institutions to keep the information in the CEAL Directory fresh.

• "Search Personnel" has changed to "Search People" (I thought it sounded friendlier)
• The "Search People" page now has two separate search boxes: One for standard searching by name or other data, and another for searching specific groups within the CEAL Directory: CEAL Members, AAS Members, Designated Updaters, etc. The group searches provide a quick and easy listing, and the new separate boxes by search type are very convenient and easy to understand. Please see the screenshot below. 
• CEAL Treasurer Ai-lin Yang has recently updated the database with the latest information on CEAL and AAS Membership.

Let me know if you have questions or concerns.

Rob Britt
Chair, Library Technology Committee

CEAL Election 2012

Dear CEAL Members,

I am excited to announce the upcoming CEAL election!  This year we will elect representatives to fill the following important positions:

• Vice President/President Elect (2012-2014)
• Secretary (2012-2015)
• Treasurer (2012-2015)
• Members at Large (two positions)  (2012-2015)

We are fortunate to have a slate of superb candidates this year.  I thank the candidates for their willingness to stand for election.  As you consider the candidates’ qualifications for their respective duties, you may wish to consult the CEAL Bylaws at: http://www.eastasianlib.org/CEAL/Bylaws/CEALbylaws.pdf

On Monday, February 13th , current CEAL members (defined as AAS members who pay CEAL membership dues) will receive an e-mail from Rob Britt, Technology Committee Chair, transmitting CEAL Secretary Beth Katzoff’s letter with a link to the online ballot. While membership can be renewed at any time, please note that the voters list has already been finalized for this election.  If you believe that you are a current CEAL member and did not receive the online ballot on Monday, February 13th, please send a message to both Ai-lin Yang, Treasurer <ayang1@stanford.edu> and Hikaru Nakano, Membership Committee Chair <hiknaka@uflib.ufl.edu>.  The last day to cast your vote will be  Monday, March 5th.

It may not be obvious, but preparing for an election takes a great deal of hard work by many people behind the scenes.  I congratulate and thank the Election Committee (Ying Zhang, Chair, Setsuko Noguchi, Mikyung Kang, and ex-officio members, Peter Zhou, Beth Katzoff, and myself) for successfully recruiting this excellent slate of candidates.  As usual, Ai-lin Yang and Hikaru Nakano also worked hard verifying and updating the membership records, as did Rob Britt, who prepared the online ballot and the voters list.  

Thank you in advance for your participation in the election!  The election results will be announced at the Plenary I (Business) meeting on March 14th  at the Toronto, Canada AAS / CEAL conference, and after the conference, on Eastlib and the CEAL News  blog (http://cealnews.blogspot.com/).

Joy Kim

President

Council on East Asian Libraries

http://www.eastasianlib.org

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

Speakers Wanted: Mobile/Social Media Roundtable

CEAL 2012 Schedule

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

On behalf of Membership Committee, I am calling for speakers for our Roundtable Discussion at this year’s CEAL/AAS Conference (9:30pm – 11:00pm, Wednesday March 14th). The particular roundtable I will be hosting is on the theme of Mobile Technologies/Social Media and Their Applications in the Library. If you have any level of work experience in this area and would like to share and exchange ideas with interested colleagues, please contact me off the list for becoming one of our speakers at the roundtable. For those who are new, the roundtable is a very casual, informal opportunity for information sharing and free discussion, led by our appointed speakers and monitored by the host. There will be no formal presentation or lecture.

Thanks and look forward to seeing you all in Toronto!

Yunshan Ye
Email: yye7@jhu.edu

East Asian Studies Librarian
Johns Hopkins

Plenary Program Agenda (Update)

Annual Meeting Schedule | Annual Meeting Page | Plenary Program (PDF) |

 Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL)

Association for Asian Studies

Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, March 12–18, 2012

***Plenary Program***

Organizational Changes in Research Libraries and 

Their Impact on East Asian Collections:
CEAL’s Strategic Position

Wednesday March 14, 2012

10:30–12:00 noon

Dominion Ballroom South, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel

For almost a decade, we have been witnessing major organizational changes in research libraries. Unfortunately, East Asian libraries sometimes are on the receiving end of these changes. Decision makers do not always seek the opinions of CEAL members, even though their decisions will inevitably impact how the libraries operate. This year’s plenary program aims to provide a study of some of the organizational changes impacting East Asian libraries in North America, in order to help CEAL members take the initiative to formulate a strategic position on issues critical to our services and operations.

Agenda

• 10:30–10:35
  Welcome and Introductions
  Joy Kim, University of Southern California
• 10:35–1:55
  The Future of Libraries and Area Studies Collections
  Larry Alford, Chief Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries
• 10:55–11:10 Strategic Directions at Harvard Libraries
  James Cheng, Harvard University 
• 11:10–11:25
  New Horizons and Boundaries: Discussions at the University of California Libraries
  Peter Zhou, UC Berkeley
• 11:25–11:40
  Reorganization of Technical Services at  Princeton
  Tai-loi Ma, Princeton University
• 11:40–12:00
  Q & A

CPS/CTP Joint Program Agenda 2012

Dear all,
The CEAL Committee on Public Services and Committee on Technical Processing are pleased to announce the CPS/CTP Joint Program:

“Discovery, Delivery, and Dissemination of Information In a Multilingual and Multicultural Environment"  

Wednesday, March 14 

1:20-4:30 P.M. 

***To be held at the***

Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Dominion Ballroom South

 Please click here to view the schedule (PDF)

We look forward to seeing you there!

Jidong Yang, Chair, CEAL CPS
Shi Deng, Chair, CEAL CTP

Japanese Romanization Task Force Report

Link to PDF Report

Dear CEAL colleagues,

On Sunday, January 22nd, the CTP/CJM Joint Task Force on the LC Proposal Regarding Japanese Romanization submitted a report to LC titled “CEAL Response to the Clarification of LCpractice concerning the use of diacritical marks in Japanese romanization,” based on the survey conducted early this month.

The Task Force is very grateful to those who responded to the survey. We received close to 60 responses in spite of the very short notice and the brief survey period. I would also like to thank some Japanese experts consulted by the Task Force. Based on the survey results, close examination of the proposed revision, and brief research on related topics by Task Force members (excellent jobs!), we have composed a seven page response (45 pages including appendixes). Click here to view the report (PDF file). We welcome further feedback.

Here is a summary:

• The CEAL community thanks LC for clarifying the long-standing issue of alif and apostrophe usage in Japanese romanization.
• CEAL members support the idea of adding a “Diacritic marks” section to the Japanese romanization guidelines, and suggested moving the section towards the beginning of the document
• The TF also suggested adding a section on macron usage, with examples, to further clarify usage in more complex macron cases.
• The TF requests that LC continue to review the guidelines, and to establish a timeline for further revisions of the Japanese Romanization Table beyond the alif/apostrophe issue. The TF identified 17 additional examples and one deleted section included on the LC website version of the table (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/japanese_table_111215.pdf), but not in the version attached to the original email to Eastlib on Dec. 14, 2011.
• The TF welcomes both LC’s and OCLC’s intention to work together with the CEAL community to do necessary cleanup work resulting from this change.
• The TF hopes that over time further improvements, bringing even more clarity to the ALA-LC Romanization Table for Japanese, will be made and that these improvements will be done in a collaborative and transparent way, with the participation of a range of stakeholders, including LC, OCLC and the CEAL community.

Please let Task Force members or me know if you have any questions or comments regarding our report. We intend to do follow-up work, including the review of any counter-response from LC, and further research on Japanese romanization, with the aim of improving the Japanese Romanization Table with broad input from the community. Please share your opinions, ideas, or insights on this issue. Also let us know if you notice any misunderstandings or inaccuracies in our report.

We are looking forward to hearing from you. Thank you.

- Keiko

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

Rob Britt

Yoko Kudo

Mieko Mazza

Hikaru Nakano

Keiko Suzuki, Chair

Shi Deng, ex officio (CTP Chair)

Setsuko Noguchi, ex officio (CJM Chair)

Ms. Keiko SUZUKI  鈴木啓子

Japanese Catalog Librarian, East Asia Library

Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University

P.O.Box 208240

New Haven, CT 06520-8240

Tel.: 203-432-2778 / Fax: 203-432-7231

keiko.suzuki@yale.edu

Agendas: CCM; Forum on Digital Content

Dear Colleagues,

The Committee on Chinese Materials (CCM) cordially invites you to attend its 2012 annual meeting and the forum on digital content at CEAL in Toronto. Please visit CCM website for full agenda for these two events: http://www.eastasianlib.org/ccm/Program2012.html

Brief information on time and location:

CCM Annual Meeting

10:50 am -12:20 pm, Thursday, March 15, 2012

Dominion Ballroom South, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel

Forum on Chinese Digital Content

4:40-6:10 pm, Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Dominion Ballroom North, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel

We look forward to seeing you at CCM annual meeting and the forum.

 

Committee on Chinese Materials:

Vickie Doll 傅玉波 (U of Kansas)

Tang Li 李唐 (Yale U)

Ming-sun Poon 潘銘燊 (LoC)

Zhijia Shen 沈志佳 (U of Washington)

Ping Situ 司徒萍 (U of Arizona)

Susan Xue 薛燕, Chair (UCB)

Haihui Zhang 張海惠 (U of Pittsburgh)

Susan Xue

Head, Information and Public Services

Electronic Resources Librarian

C.V. Starr East Asian Library

UC Berkeley

510-643-6327

Subcommittee on Korean Studies E-Resources

Dear All,

I am pleased to announce that the Committee on Korean Materials (CKM) has appointed a Subcommittee on Korean Studies E-Resources.  

As many of you are well aware, Task Force on Korean E-Resources has played a great role in negotiating a group price deal for fast growing Korean E-Resources on behalf of participating institutions in North America. The CKM feels strongly that a subcommittee should be formally established with clear guidelines and charges to continue to carry out the TF’s tasks. Here’re details on the Subcommittee;

1.      Name: Subcommittee on Korean Studies E-Resources

Website: http://guides.library.duke.edu/korean_eresources

2.      Members:

Mikyung Kang (mlkang@fas.harvard.edu), Harvard University

Miree Ku (miree.ku@duke.edu), Duke University - Chair

Sun-Yoon Lee (sunyoonl@usc.edu), USC

Hee-Sook Shin (hs2148@columbia.edu), Columbia University

3.      Term of service: February 2012 – March 2014 (2 years)

I’d like to express my gratitude to the Subcommittee members who are willing to volunteer their time and efforts. Please contact the Subcommittee members if you have any questions on Korean E-Resources. Thank you.

Regards,

Yunah

Chair, CEAL Committee on Korean Materials

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Yunah Sung (성윤아)
Korean Studies Librarian / Coordinator, Technical Services

Asia Library, University of Michigan
414 Hatcher Graduate Library North
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190

Tel : 734-936-2408

E-mail: yunahs@umich.edu

Korean Collection: http://guides.lib.umich.edu/koreanstudies

Small Collections Roundtable 2012: Topics?

The Google poll.

 **Call for discussion topics for the Small East Asian Collections Roundtable at CEAL 2012**

Happy New Year of the Dragon! It's about time to meet and chat again! The Small Collections Roundtable is scheduled for Thursday, March 15, 9:30-11:00 P.M, in the Peel Room at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel (click to view the CEAL 2012 schedule).

As usual, we would like to invite interesting topics for discussion at CEAL 2012. Based on the topics received, we will do a Google poll to pick a few for the roundtable discussion this year. We'd love to hear from you!
Please click here to fill out the online Google poll.

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Please visit the Small Ea Collections group page (click here to view). If you are interested in joining the group, please send request to Xi Chen (xi.chen@oberlin.edu) or Julie Wang (jwang@binghamton.edu)

2012 CEAL Fellowship Dinner Information

Registration Form (PDF) | Directions from Sheraton to Mandarin (PDF)

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

I am pleased to announce that 2012 CEAL Fellowship Dinner will be held at Mandarin restaurant in uptown Toronto on Wednesday, March 14, 7:00-9:00 pm, 2012. Mandarin is located at 2200 Yonge Street (phone number: 416-486-2222), about six subway stops away from Sheraton Hotel downtown. The restaurant is right above the Eglinton subway station for your convenience. It may take 20-30 minutes by taxi depending on traffic.  

Buffet will be served at the restaurant, with a variety of food selection, including many vegetarian choices. The cost of the dinner is $33 per person (either Canadian or US dollar). There are bigger and small tables in the area we reserved for the event to give us certain flexibilities.

All the CEAL members are more than welcome to join the gathering.  Please complete the reservation form (as attached) and  mail it with your check or credit card information to Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library (The deadline for reservation is February 20, 2012): 

Lily Yip

The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library

University of Toronto

130 St George Street, 8th Floor

Toronto, ON, M5S 1A5, Canada

If your check amount covers more than one participant, please ensure the amount and also include their names in English on the form.  If you decide to cancel your reservation, please inform us no later than February 20 for a full refund.  All the receipts will be sent electronically (cash payers can get their print receipts on March 14).  Please do not send cash with the form.  Participants paying by credit cards shall send their forms by mail due to security concern.
We also prepared a direction guide (another attachment) to help you find the venue.  If you have any further questions regarding the CEAL dinner, please email Lucy Gan at lucy.gan@utoronto.ca.
We look forward to seeing you all in our fellowship dinner.
Sincerely,

Stephen Qiao

 

Stephen Qiao

Acting Director

China Studies Librarian

The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library

University of Toronto Libraries

130 St. George Street

Toronto, Ontario

Canada, M5S 1A5

CEAL Logo Committee Request for Proposals

As you recall, the CEAL Logo Committee is charged with soliciting proposals for a new design for the CEAL logo. The Committee has decided to distribute a "Request for Proposals" (RFP) to solicit designs. The RFP is now being sent to several university art and design departments. Anyone can submit a design based on the specifications in the RFP. Please feel free to download and forward the RFP pdf file to anyone who might be interested.
Click to view "Request for Proposals (RFP) for a New CEAL Logo Design"

--The CEAL Logo Design Committee--
Rob Britt (Chair)
Susan Xue
Setsuko Noguchi
Yunah Sung
Gail King
Peter Zhou (Ex-Officio)
Joy Kim (Ex-Officio)

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