Executive Board Organizational Calendar

The CEAL Executive Board has created an organizational calendar, where the regular activities of Executive Board members are listed chronologically. EB members and CEAL general membership are welcome to consult this calendar, available in PDF on the CEAL website, as they make plans for CEAL events such as the annual meeting, the publication of JEAL, planning for elections, etc. The Calendar is intended to create a widely available "corporate memory" for CEAL, providing information about what needs to be done, and when.

The new Organizational Calendar page (with the calendar available in PDF) is here. As the chair of the EB Calendar task force, I would be happy to receive questions about the calendar and suggestions for other events to include.

Regards,
Rob

Rob Britt
Chair CEAL Library Technology Committee
Coordinator of East Asian Library Resources
University of Washington School of Law
Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library
East Asian Law Department

Webinar on Chinese Rare Book Cataloging

Dear all, 

The CEAL Committee on Technical Processing is pleased to host the following webinar. We look forward to see you in the session. Instruction on login to the webinar will be send to the registered participants by Monday, June 11, 2012.

• Title: Webinar on Chinese Rare Book Cataloging: Descriptive cataloging focus 
• Date & Time: Wednesday, June 13, 2:30-4:30 pm (EDT)/11:30-1:30 (PDT) –2 hours 
• Presenter: Haihui Zhang, University of Pittsburgh 
• Presentation language: CHINESE 

Description: This session will help catalogers who are responsible for Chinese materials cataloging to get familiarized with Cataloging Guidelines for Creating Chinese Rare Book Records in Machine-Readable Form. This session will focus on descriptive cataloging rather than identifying Chinese rare book versions (some of important version related concepts will be briefly mentioned). The presenter will go through MARC fields with samples of Chinese rare books. Explanations will particularly focus on how to determine and select relevant bibliographic information for each field from the book in hand, and from other reference books when cataloging a Chinese rare book, and how to make notes in 5xx field. 

Due to a number of special terms in Chinese rare books this session will be presented in Chinese. 

Registration fee: Free 

Registration deadline: Friday, June 8, 2012 

Please register at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFh5S3ZObng0bFN5TnYwR2sxUUZtUFE6MQ

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

CEAL Treasurer Hee-sook Shin Publishes Article

CEAL Treasurer and Columbia University Korean Studies Librarian Hee-Sook Shin has published an article about her institution (conveniently in Korean and English) titled The Korean Collection in the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University in the City of New York. The article appeared in the December 2011 issue of Trends in Overseas Korean Studies Libraries (no. 6 Dec. 2011, p. 1-32), published by the National Library of Korea. 
(Click to view online version, available in PDF)

Congratulations to Hee-sook on publishing such an interesting and informative piece!

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