CEAL Logo Page Updated

Click to view the updated information page on the CEAL logo, including designer Shirin Eshghi's description of her design for the new logo, and information about the old logo.

Library Science Study in China

2012 Trip to China and LIS Study Program Opportunities

Are you interested in going to China this summer, learning about information technology, and visiting some of China's most magnificent sites?  

If you are interested, then the 2-week summer program from the information and library science school at Southern Connecticut State University may be for you. The course is following up on previous study abroad programs and opening up enrollment to graduates and students from other schools. Participants fly out of JFK airport on July 11 and return July 24. The trip cost is $3215, which includes round trip air fare from JFK, bed and breakfast at the International dormitory of a Beijing university, some additional meals and all tours, including the National Library, National Science Library, Peking University Library, as well as library and information science schools in Beijing. Cultural tours provided to the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, the Summer Palace, the Ming Tombs, and The Temple of Heaven.

In addition, if you are interested in taking an ALA-approved graduate school course, you may enroll as a special graduate student at Southern Connecticut State University¹s School of Information and Library Sciences. The course number and title: ILS 635: Seminar of International & Comparative Librarianship. Not including the course, the trip and tours are also open to undergraduates and high school graduates above age 18.

To reserve a spot, email Dr. Yan Q. Liu, liuy1@southernct.edu. For more information about trip and course, plus, videos from 2011, go to: http://home.southernct.edu/~liuy1/liu/general_information.html.

Payment Schedule: This program fee does not include tuition and medical care while abroad, laundry, meals, snacks, personal items, recreational activities, souvenirs or any additional expenses that alter itinerary or

arrangements. The cost of obtaining a valid passport, visa and textbooks are also participants' responsibility. Dining is very reasonable in China; plan to spend about $15 to $25 per day on meals.

A non-refundable deposit $500 (check or payment to ³SCSU Program in China²) is due upon application. This guarantees your participation in the program and reserves your room. A second payment of $2000 is due on

May 25, 2012. The remainder of the balance ($715) is due no later than June 25, 2012.

Yan Liu

Professor

Information & Library Science

Southern Connecticut State University

New Haven, CT 06515

Phone: 203-392-5763

fax: 203-392-5780

New CEAL Logo Adopted

Dear CEAL Colleagues:

Last August, the CEAL Executive Board set up a committee to solicit different designs

for a new CEAL logo. The committee has worked diligently to come up with a design and

presented the final choices to CEAL membership to vote for. I am very pleased to announce

that 73% of responding members voted in favor of Shirin Eshghi’s design below. It is now

the official logo for CEAL.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank members of the CEAL Logo

Committee for their hard work:

• Rob Britt, Logo Committee Chair
  Library Technology Chair
  University of Washington, Law Library
• Susan Xue
  Chinese Materials Chair
  University of California at Berkeley
• Setsuko Noguchi
  Japanese Materials Chair
  University of Illinois
• Yunah Sung
  Korean Materials Chair
  University of Michigan
• Gail King
  Publications Chair
  Brigham Young University
• Joy Kim (ex-officio)
  Past President
  University of Southern California
• Ellen Hammond (ex-officio)
  Vice President / President Elect
  Yale University

Peter Zhou, Ph.D.

President, Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL)

&

Assistant University Librarian

Director, C.V. Starr East Asian Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

Tel: (510) 643-6579

FAX: (510) 642-3817

pzhou@library.berkeley.edu

LC: New PCC CJK NACO Project Coordinator

Dear CEAL Colleagues,

We are happy to announce that Sarah Elman of Columbia University East Asian Library will serve as coordinator for the PCC CJK NACO Project.  Sarah formerly worked as Chair of the Committee on Technical Processing of CEAL and it is great to see Sarah will continue to work with CJK colleagues closely in the role of CJK NACO Project coordinator.  A big thank-you to Shuyong Jiang, the current Project Coordinator for her dedicated service in the past several years.  Please visit the PCC and CJK NACO Project homepages at: 

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco/CJK.html

Sincerely, 

Jessalyn Zoom  

Cooperative Programs Section

Cooperative and Instructional Programs Division

Library of Congress

CCM 2012 Presentation Files Posted

The presentation files for the CEAL Chinese Materials Committee (CCM) Annual Program and the Forum on Chinese Digital Content have been posted on the CCM website, here:
http://www.eastasianlib.org/ccm/Program2012.html.

Enjoy !

Susan Xue
Head, Information and Public Services Electronic Resources Librarian
C.V. Starr East Asian Library
UC Berkeley 5
510-643-6327

RDA for CJK Wiki Open to All

The CEAL Committee on Technical Processing is pleased to announce that the wiki site of the CTP RDA & CJK Materials Workshop is open to everyone who are interested to access.

Click to View: http://rdaandcjkworkshop.pbworks.com/w/page/49260024/Home

Please note that the RDA is still evolving, many more decisions and training resources will be available later on. This workshop training slides on the wiki site covered the contents as of March 1, 2012. The trainers will keep some information of this wiki up-to-date such as category I-VI, and hopefully this wiki could be an effective training tool for CJK community in the long run.  

I would like to take the opportunity to thank our trainers again:

• Charlene Chou, lead trainer, Columbia University
• Erminia Chao, Brigham Young University
• Hideyuki Morimoto, Columbia University
• Jai-Hsya Tsao, University of Chicago

Best,

--Shi

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

Japanese Romanization Taskforce Update

On March 21, 2012, the Library of Congress Policy and Standards Division announced that it will begin to follow recommendations of the CEAL Japanese Romanization Task Force, with the following message:

Implementation of Apostrophes in Japanese Romanized Cataloging and

Proposed Revision of the ALA-LC Japanese Romanization Table

The Library of Congress recently announced its interest in clarifying the use of apostrophes in romanized Japanese cataloging. Comments about the announcement were overwhelmingly in favor of using the apostrophe rather than the alif.

Based on this feedback, the Library of Congress will immediately align the use of the apostrophe in Japanese romanized cataloging with the published ALA-LC Japanese romanization standard. LC will also update headings in its bibliographic and authorities databases to reflect this decision. PCC member institutions are asked to adjust Japanese romanized cataloging records accordingly as they are encountered.

The announcement about apostrophe use in Japanese romanized cataloging revealed that additional revisions to the Japanese ALA-LC romanization table were needed. LC’s Policy and Standards Division is posting a revision proposal to the Japanese romanization table [PDF, 190 KB], along with a separate document [PDF, 36 KB] that enumerates changes in the revision proposal. These documents are available for download on the Library of Congress website at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman_japanesediacritics_Mar2012.html .

Comments on this proposed revision should be sent to Bruce Johnson in LC’s Policy and Standards Division ( bjoh@loc.gov ) no later than June 13, 2012.