CEAL 2012 Schedule Updated; Vendor Displays Start Friday

Updated CEAL 2012 Schedule
Exhibit Hall hours and list of vendors on the AAS website

The CEAL 2012 online schedule has just been updated (link above). Note that unlike other years, the Exhibit hall with vendor displays will not open on Friday (3/16), NOT Thursday.

According to the AAS website, the Exhibit Hall hours will be:

Friday, March 16, 10:00am – 6:00pm

Saturday, March 17, 10:00am – 7:00pm

Sunday, March 18, 9:00am – 12:00pm

 --Rob Britt

Forum on Chinese Digital Content: Agenda 2012

View Agenda on CCM Website

Forum on Chinese Digital Content

Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 4:40-6:10 pm
Dominion Ballroom North, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel

4:40 – 4:45	Opening remarks Susan Xue, Chair of CCM, University of California at Berkeley
4:45 – 5:35	Database presentations. Forum attendees may want to review all the presentation PPTs online prior to the forum. During their 10 minutes, presenters will not go over their entire PPT slides but rather highlight their presentations and answer questions about the database. Presentations will address these issues: Content/coverage/value Publisher/agent Perpetual access or not Pros and cons Pricing and consortia arrangement if any Database to be presented:
4:45 – 4:55	Chinese Classic Text database by Erudition 中国基本古籍库及分库 Yang Jidong, University of Michigan
4:55 – 5:05	Later Qing and Minguo Periodicals full-text database 晚清民国期刊全文数据库 Martin Heijdra, Princeton University
5:05 – 5:15	The Chinese Cultural Revolution & Anti-Rightist Campaign Database 中国文化大革命及反右运动数据库 Yongyi Song, California State University at Los Angeles
5:15 – 5:25	中国历代典籍总目分析系统 Chengzhi Wang, Columbia University
5:25 – 5:35	Dragon Source龙源 / 申报 Cathy Chiu, UC Santa Barbara / Susan Xue, UC Berkeley
5:35 – 5:50	A CEAL Libraries Self Study: Levels of e-Resource Affordability Vickie Doll, University of Kansas
5:50 - 6:10	Q&A on databases, the CEAL libraries self study, and format for the future forum on digital content

This forum was organized and hosted by Committee on Chinese Materials

Chinese Materials Committee: Agenda 2012

View Agenda on CCM Website

2012 CEAL Conference
Committee on Chinese Materials
Annual Meeting
Thursday, March 15, 2012, 10:50 am - 12:20 pm

Dominion Ballroom South, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel

Theme: Collection Development for Chinese Studies in Digital Age
– Challenges and Strategies

10:50 - 10:53	Opening Remarks, introduction of Members Susan Xue 薛燕, Chair of CCM, University of California at Berkeley
10:53 - 11:08	Overall Publishing Trends in Chinese Scholarly Resources Li Wang 王立, Curator, East Asian Collection, Brown University Abstract
11:08 – 11:20	Developing New Library Business Models for e-Books: The Beyond Print Initiative Undertaken by the Triangle Research Libraries (TRLN) Hsi-Chu Bolick 黄熹珠, Librarian for East Asian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Luo Zhou 周珞, Chinese Studies Librarian, Duke University Abstract
11:20 – 11:33	Collecting Non-Chinese Materials from China: Needs, Methods, and Issues Jidong Yang 杨继东, Head of Asia Library, University of Michigan Abstract
11:33 – 11:45	PDA: Are We Ready to Step into the River Julie Wang 王晓燕, Librarian for Asian Studies, Binghamton University, SUNY Haihui Zhang 张海惠, Chinese Studies Librarian, University of Pittsburgh Abstract
11:45 – 12:00	Cooperation and Collaborations between CALIS and East Asian Libraries in North America – Services for Services 浅谈CALIS与北美东亚图书馆的合作意向: 以服务换服务 Yan Wang 王燕，, Manager of Portal Services, CALIS Abstract
12:00 – 12:20	Questions & Answers
Announcement:	Chengzhi Wang, Columbia University: Archival Resources of Republican China in North America

NCC Open Meeting: Revised Agenda 2012

Revised AGENDA

2012 Annual Open Meeting of the

North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC)

Thursday, March 15th, 12:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Civic Ballroom, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Toronto, Canada

12:30-12:40:    Brief report from NCC Chair, Keiko Yokota-Carter

12:40-12:55:    Report from the National Diet Library, Seiya Takashina and Terumi Fukushi:

National Diet Library 2011--- Launching New Services and

Building the Digital Archive of the Great East Japan Earthquake

12:55-1:25:      Reports from the National Institute of Informatics (NII) and NCC ILL/DD

                        Committee:

                        NII: Ikki Omukai and Mai Sekido,

NCC’s ILL/DD Committee: Michiko Ito, Co-chair

1:25-2:00:        Report and Discussion on New Collaborations in NCC’s Cooperative Collection

                        Development Efforts:

                        NCC Multi-Volume Sets Committee (MVS): Mari Nakahara, Co-Chair

                        Cooperative Collection Development Working Group (CCWG): Azusa Tanaka, Chair

2:00-2:10         TEN MINUTE BREAK

2:10-2:30         Reports on International Collaborators and Groups:

European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists: Hamish Todd, EAJRS

Representative to the NCC

Rare Books: Toshie Marra, Sachie Noguchi

2:30-2:40         Activities of New Working Groups Affiliated with NCC:
            Disaster Preparedness Working Group (tentative name), Setsuko Noguchi  

Professional Development Working Group, Keiko Suzuki

2:40-3:30         Demonstration and Feedback on new Components of the NCC Website:

                        Project Introduction: Victoria Bestor, NCC Executive Director

                        New Navigational Options:  Tomoko Bialock

                Introducing the first edition of the NCC Guide to Research Access in Japanese        

                         Museums, Libraries, and Archives 日本研究のためのMLAアクセスガイド,         

                        Takumi Ohata, NCC Staff and Manager MLA Guides

                        Expanding NCC’s Social Networking, Adam Lisbon, NCC SNS Coordinator and Content

                        Creator

                        Preview of Coming Attractions:

                        Chiaki Sakai, Fabiano Rocha, Adam Lisbon, Takumi Ohata, and Victoria Bestor

Please share your experiences, and make recommendations to NCC during this session!

   

CEAL Members: Have You Voted Yet?

Dear CEAL Members,

By now, all current CEAL members should have received an email like the sample below, asking you to click a hyperlink in order to open the web ballot and submit your vote. Currently, 98 of 139 CEAL members have submitted their online ballots.

If you are a CEAL member but have not yet voted, please do so as soon as possible. The deadline is Monday, March 5th at midnight. Click the voting link in the email you received to begin voting. 

If you believe you are a current CEAL member, but you did not receive the email ballot, please let us know.

What’s a CEAL member?

Click here for more information.

Am I a member?

• Search the CEAL Directory online database (click to enter).
•  Use "ceal" as your login id and "member" as your password.
• Click the link “Click Here to Search”
• Click “Search People”
• Select the “CEAL Member” search (bottom Search button)

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Beth Katzoff

CEAL Secretary

bsk9@columbia.edu

Ying Zhang

CEAL Election Committee
yingz@uci.edu

Rob Britt

rrbritt@uw.edu

(CEAL Library Technology Chair, CEAL Election technical manager)

***Sample of 2012 CEAL Election Email Ballot***

Japanese Materials Committee Agenda 2012

Dear Colleagues:

I am pleased to announce the upcoming Committee on Japanese Materials (CJM) program at the CEAL annual meeting on March 15, 2012 in Toronto. This year, we have a special program focusing on the lessons we have learned from the Great Tohoku Earthquake (Higashi Nihon Daishinsai on March 11, 2011) and awareness of disaster planning. The Committee cordially invites you to attend the panel on “Lessons and Messages from The Great Tohoku Earthquake: Awareness of Preparedness for Libraries, Museums, and Archives.” This will be a brainstorming session for all of us. 

Date and Time: Thursday, March 15,  9:10 am -10:40 am

Location: Dominion Ballroom South, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel

9:10-9:15         Opening remarks.  Setsuko Noguchi, (Chair, Japanese Studies Librarian, Committee on Institutional Cooperation)

9:15-9:20         Committee report

9:20-10:40       Presentations & panel discussion “Lessons and Messages from The Great Tohoku Earthquake: Awareness of Preparedness for Libraries, Museums, and Archives.”

Moderator: Mari Nakahara (Reference Librarian, Library of Congress)

9:20-9:30         Satoshi Sonehara (Professor, Tohoku University Archives) "Disaster report and

current activities at Tohoku University library and archives"

9:30-9:40         Makoto Okamoto (SaveMLAK) "Business Continuity Program and know-how for damaged materials"             

9:40-9:50         Andrew Robb (Section Head for Special Formats, Library of Congress) "Lessons Learned from the 2006 Katrina and Rita Hurricanes in the United States"

                       

9:50-10:00       Kazuko Hioki (Conservation Librarian, University of Kentucky) “Strategies for disaster preparedness and recovery“

10:00-10:30     Panel discussion

Q&A

Closing

I look forward to seeing you all at the CJM annual meeting in Toronto.

Sincerely,

Setsuko

Setsuko Noguchi

Librarian for Japanese Studies, CIC 

enoguchi@staff.cic.net

(217)244-9424, fax (217)333-2214

Asian Library, 325 Main Library

1408 West Gregory Drive,

Urbana, Illinois 61801

Open House: RCL Canada-Hong Kong Library

Dear colleagues and friends,

We would like to invite you for a tour, refreshment and networking in the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library on 16 March 2012 (Friday) from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

This Library is the largest research collection for Hong Kong and Canada-Hong Kong studies outside of Hong Kong, with a focus primarily on Hong Kong, Canada-Hong Kong relations, and Chinese Canadians. It has approximately 50,000 volumes, including 2,500 periodical titles, 1,000 reels of microfilm, 7,000 newspaper clippings and an expanding collection of audio and visual materials. The Library also provides a wide range of information and research services in support of teaching, learning, research and other academic initiatives at the University of Toronto. Please click the link below for a short video about the library:

http://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/spotlight-libraries-richard-charles-lee-canada-hong-kong-library

Please RSVP to Candy Yip (candy.yip@utoronto.ca) by March 9, 2012.

Directions to the library: We are located beside the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library. Please contact Candy off the list if you need directions.

Look forward,
Jack

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  Jack Hang-tat Leong, Ph.D.

  Director

  Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library

  University of Toronto Libraries

  http://www.library.utoronto.ca/hongkong

  Tel: (416) 946-3892

  Fax: (416) 946-3805

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