China-Japan-Korea Library Conference

Call for presentations

4th China-Japan-Korea Library and Information Science Conference

November 30-December 1, 2012, Busan, Korea

 

Theme: Knowledge Organization: Issues and Trends

The Fourth China-Japan-Korea(CJK) Library and Information Science Conference organized by the  School of Information Resources Management, Renmin University of China, College of Knowledge and Library Sciences, University of Tsukuba, and the Department of Library, Archive and Information Studies of Pusan National University will take place in Busan, Korea during November 30-December 1, 2012

The main theme of the Symposium this year is “Knowledge Organization: Issues and Trends”.  The CJK Conference aims to bring together both researchers and information professionals to discuss the implications of various issues in library and information science.

Paper submission

Research papers must be written in English.  Presentations should be made in English, and will be limited to approximately 30 minutes plus 10-minute Q & A.  Either full paper or PowerPoint slides are to be accepted as a final draft and be included in the conference proceeding.  However, Presentation should be accompanied by PowerPoint slides.

Submit your proposal(up to 5 pages, doc, docx, pdf’s only) to the department email: july75@pnu.edu by 15th October 2012.  The submissions will be reviewed by a selection committee.  Authors will be contacted by 25th October 2012

Key Dates

Research proposal/Abstract submission: 15th October 2012.

Notification of acceptance: 25nd October 2012.

Final paper or PPT slides: 23^rd November, 2012

Venue

The Conference will be held at Induk Hall located in Pusan National University, Busan, Korea. Accommodations for all presenters and commentators will be provided by the Department of Library, Archive and Information Studies, Pusan National University

For more information please visit the conference site at

http://info.lib.pusan.ac.kr/

With kind regards,

Soo-Sang Lee, Chairman

Department of Library, Archive and Information Studies

Pusan National University

Busan, 609-735, Korea

Tel: +82-51-510-2139

sslee@pnu.edu

Four East Asia-related Films (FYI)

Lucy Ostrander of Stourwater Pictures, a film producer in the Seattle area, has contacted me with information about her East Asia-related films, and requested that I pass on the information to East Asian librarians.  Below are short descriptions of four of her films, with links, FYI.

Rob Britt

Coordinator of East Asian Library Services

University of Washington

Gallagher Law Library

East Asian Law Department
rrbritt@uw.edu
Phone: 206-543-7447

Four East Asia-related Films Produced by Lucy Ostrander

The Revolutionary

Sidney Rittenberg arrived in China as a GI Chinese language expert at the end of World War II. Discharged there, he joined the Chinese Communist Party, and was an active participant in the Chinese communist revolution and its aftermath. An intimate of the Party's leadership, including Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, he gained prominence at the Broadcast Administration, one of the most important agencies of government. But in the convulsions of a giant country constantly reinventing itself, he twice ran afoul of the leadership, and served a total of 16 years in solitary confinement. He returned to the United States in 1980. THE REVOLUTIONARY is an intimate, unflinching account of Sidney Rittenberg's journey through the 20th century's biggest revolution. Produced by Stourwater Pictures, this award-winning 92-minute documentary is now being offered to academic institutions and libraries.

For more  information: http://revolutionarymovie.com/store.html

Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol

Stourwater Pictures, an independent documentary production company based near Seattle, WA has produced a number of films about the Asian American experience. Their recent film FUMIKO HAYASHIDA: THE WOMAN BEHIND THE SYMBOL starts as a historical portrait of Fumiko, her family and the Bainbridge Island Japanese American community in the decades before World War II.  It develops as a contemporary story which follows 97-year-old Fumiko and her daughter Natalie as they return to the site of the former Minidoka internment camp, their first trip back together in 63 years. The film reveals how a 1942 iconic photograph became the impetus for Fumiko to publicly lobby against the injustices of the past.
For more information: http://www.stourwater.com/store.html

Honor and Sacrifice

Stourwater is currently completing their documentary HONOR AND SACRIFICE, a 27-minute documentary about the Japanese American men who were incarcerated in concentration camps, enlisted in the U.S. military, and volunteered to become linguists in the Military Intelligence Service in the Pacific Theater of WWII.

For more information: http://www.stourwater.com/honor.html

Witness to revolution: The story of Anna Louise Strong
The daughter of a Nebraska minister, Anna Louise Strong earned a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Chicago. But it was in the Pacific Northwest, where she witnessed the 1916 Everett massacre and chronicled the 1919 Seattle General Strike, that her political vision took shape. In Moscow she helped found the first English language newspaper, in Spain her many visits resulted in her book, Spain in Arms; and in China she interviewed Mao in a Yenan cave in 1946. She is buried in Beijing in a special cemetery for martyrs of the revolution.
For more information: http://www.stourwater.com/store.html

Japanese Romanization Task Force Update

Committee Response to LC Comments (PDF) | Latest Draft Romanization Table (PDF)

 

Dear East Asia Library colleagues,

On behalf of the CTP/CJM Joint Task Force, I would like to share the TF comments regarding LC’s July 18, 2012 response and the draft Japanese romanization charts, which the TF derived from several sources and which replaces Appendix G in our June 13, 2012 response. 

Click the links at the top of this message to go directly to the latest PDF files. Or, find the PDF links under "August 17, 2012 Updates," near the bottom of the Task Force web page, on the CEAL Technical Processing Committee website.

This summary was included in our email to LC sent on August 17th, 2012:

As described in the TF comments, our latest recommendations are as follows:

• To include only minimum revisions in this current cycle of ALA-LC romanization table of Japanese, other than the alif/apostrophe clarification
• To work together for the comprehensive review after the initial implementation of RDA settle down
• To defer the switch from Kenkyusha's New Japanese English Dictionary to our own romanization charts to the comprehensive review

In addition, TF and CEAL community are looking forward to hearing from LC colleagues to clarify various important romanization and word division issues including the questions in the attached TF response and the ones from the Asian materials cataloging questions and answers (Appendix I of TF’s June 13, 2012 response) ...

In the same email, we wrote: “TF has been pleased to see the recent progress on the “Alif” clean-up initiatives by LC ([eastlib] Fwd: Announcing message on "Implementation of Apostrophes in Japanese Romanized Cataloging" on August 2nd, 2012) and OCLC ([OCLC-CJK] Conversion of alif and ayn to apostrophe on August 7th, 2012).”

Please let me or TF members know if you have any questions or concerns regarding the TF comments, the draft charts, and TF’s work as a whole.

We thank the CEAL community, LC and OCLC for their support of our work over the last eight months, and we look forward to the opportunity to continue to work together towards the important goal of further improving Japanese romanization standards in the near future.

- Keiko

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

Keiko Suzuki, Yale University, Chair

Rob Britt, University of Washington

Yoko Kudo, University of California Riverside

Mieko Mazza, Yale University

Hikaru Nakano, University of Florida

Shi Deng, University of California San Diego, ex officio (CTP Chair)

Setsuko Noguchi, CIC, ex officio (CJM Chair)

Help Wanted With Website, Directory, Blogs, Etc

Dear CEAL Members (or potential members):
As Chair of the CEAL Library Technology Committee (CLT; currently staffed only by me!), I am looking for help with various aspects of the CEAL website: Server routine backups; CEAL Directory MS Access database update; Blog Update (CEAL News and CEAL Jobs). In addition, I may need help with technical support for presenters at the annual meeting. The work is mostly routine, and not difficult if you have OR are willing to learn some basic skills. I am willing and able to help you learn.

Why? For one thing, my tenure as CEAL Library Technology Chair expires in about 20 months (March 2014). If requested, I may continue after that (the CLT chair position is appointed by the Executive Board). In any case, it would be good for CEAL to have a CLT backup who is at least familiar with the basics.

Are you interested? It's fun (if you like this sort of thing!) It looks good on your resume!

Please email or phone me (contact info below).

Rob
CEAL Library Technology Chair

Rob Britt Coordinator of East Asian Library Services University of Washington Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library East Asian Law Department (Room L138) Box 353025 Seattle, WA  98195-3025 USA Phone: 206-543-7447 Fax: 206-685-2165 Email: rrbritt@uw.edu http://lib.law.washington.edu/eald/eald.html

Response to LC’s Japanese Romanization Revision Proposal

Dear CEAL Community:

The CTP/CJM Joint Task Force on the LC Proposal for Japanese Romanization submitted its report to LC on June 13^th, 2012.  The report, created by the Task Force and approved by the CEAL Executive Board, documents the reasoning behind the Task Force’s belief that more extensive changes to the Japanese Romanization Table are needed. The Japanese Romanization Table is used as the standard for North American library cataloging. LC’s original revision proposal primarily addressed the issue of dropping the “alif” and using the apostrophe in all cases. The Task Force report spells out its belief that many other changes and updates are needed.

The Task Force’s new page on the CEAL website includes links to the June 13^th, 2012 report (click to go directly to the PDF) and other related materials.

Please contact us with any comments or questions.

Regards,

Keiko Suzuiki

Chair, CTP/CJM Joint Task Force on the LC Proposal for Japanese Romanization

keiko.suzuki@yale.edu

Shi Deng

Chair, CEAL Committee on Technical Processing

sdeng@ucsd.edu

Setsuko Noguchi

Chair, CEAL Committee on Japanese Materials

enoguchi@live.com

Call for Papers: International Library Conference in China

To the CEAL Community:

Please note the call for papers below, and that the paper due date has been extended to July 1st, 2012.

Regards,

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

LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
The 3rd International Conference on Library Cooperation and Resource Sharing

Late October 2012
Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

The 3rd International Conference on Library Cooperation and Resource Sharing will be held in late October 2012 in Capital Normal University, Beijing, China to commemorate the 10th anniversary of establishing the University Network Library of Beijing. Strengthening scholarly exchange and cooperation among library colleagues worldwide, exploring library collaboration, and developing new models of resource sharing will be the focus. Beijing Academic Library & Information System (BALIS), University Network Library of Beijing, and Capital Normal University Library in cooperation with DRCnet (Development Research Center of the State Council of P. R. China) are organizing the event. Library and information science colleagues from around the world are cordially invited to submit conference papers. The conference website and exact dates will be announced at a later date.

Conference Themes: Library Cooperation and Resource Sharing 

 

Sub-topic Areas:

1. Establishment and development of library consortia (current status, issues, trends of library consortia and regional library cooperation)
2. Building and sharing literature information resources (models, restraints, and system guarantee for the construction and sharing of information resources)
3. Studies on combined reference work (status and development of combined reference services, qualities of reference librarians, and quality assessment of reference work)
4. Studies on library technological cooperation (application of information technology in librarianship, digital library construction, and service platform construction)
5. Library information service (information service and subject construction, information service and information literacy education, information service and lifelong learning)
6. Exchange and cooperation of library staff (library staff exchanges, qualifications of librarians, training of library staff, and librarians continuing education)
   

Important Dates:

Full paper submission: July 1st, 2012
Author notification: July 10, 2012
Final paper submission: July 15, 2012

Paper submission details:

Papers should be sent in electronic format as an email attachment. Please note the following requirements: simple text, Times New Roman, font size 12, 100-word abstract at beginning of the paper, 3 to 5 keywords, and APA style bibliography; include author’s contact information (author’s name, institution, address, email, and phone number) and a short bio of the author(s) at end of the paper. (The short bio should include: name, title, degrees, and research areas). The paper length is between 5-10 pages in single spacing. Pagination should not be inserted in the text. Submitted papers will be subject to a review process by the Organizing Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be sent to CICP for evaluation so that the proceedings can be indexed.

Please send completed paper to:

Dr. Michael Bailou Huang, Secretariat General
The 3rd International Conference on Library Cooperation and Resource Sharing
Health Sciences Library
Stony Brook University
HSC Level 3, Room 136
Stony Brook, NY 11794-8034, USA
Tel.: (631) 444-3794 Fax: (631) 444-6649
michael.b.huang@stonybrook.edu

Venues:

Capital Normal University
83 Xi Shan Huan Bei Road
Beijing, China, 100089
http://www.cnu.edu.cn
http://www.netlib.edu.cn/

The Organizing Committee, the 3rd International Conference on Library Cooperation and Resource Sharing

Michael Bailou Huang, DA (RI), LAc, MLS, MS, MEd
Associate Librarian, Health Sciences Library
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8034, USA
Tel. 631-444-3794 Fax 631-751-5809
michael.b.huang@stonybrook.edu

Chair, International Relations Committee, Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA)
CALA Liaison to Library Society of China

ALA Taiwan Program Agenda: 2012

To the CEAL Community:

Please note the ALA agenda below.
Regards,

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

2012 ALA Annual Conference Taiwan Program 

Agenda

Monday, June 25 8:00 am - 10:00 am
Convention Center Room 213C

08:00-08:20 Opening Remarks 

• Dr. Ismail Abdullahi
  Chair of Committee on Education ALA
• Mr. Michael Dowling
  Director of ALA International Relations Office
  
  Chair: Dr. Joyce Chao-chen Chen  

08:20-09:00 Session I LIS Education 

• Dr. Mei-Mei Wu
  “Information Literacy in Higher Education: Policy and practice in Taiwan”
• Dr. Chih-Feng Lin
  “Curriculum Development of Competitive Intelligence in Taiwan” 
• Dr. Chao-chen Chen and Ms. Chia-Fei Hung
  “An Evaluation of OpenCourseWare Use in National Taiwan Normal University and National Chiao Tung University”
  
  Chair: Dr. Shu-Hsien Tseng 

09:00-09:40 Session II LIS Services 

• Dr. Mei-ling Wang
  “Journals Publishing and E-journal Reading of Social Science Scholars in Taiwan” 
• Dr. Hsueh-Hua Chen
  “Digitization of Cultural Heritage: Taiwan Experience” 
• Dr. Shu-Hsien Tseng
• "The Strategies and Actions for Public Libraries and National Library in Taiwan to Promote Reading"
  
  Chair: Dr. Mei-Mei Wu  

09:40-10:00 Session III Poster Session and Interaction 

• Chou, Shu-Lai and Ming-Kai Lan
  “A Big Reading Room in a Small Town: the Renovation of Public Libraries in Taiwan”
  Shu-Yen Chen and Tswei-Bi Tsai
  “The OCW Services of National Taiwan Normal University” 
• Wan Yi Lin, Su Jane Chen, and Kai Lee Chang
  “When Action Library meets Dining Cart：Michelin-Starred Chef Table Service with Books of Love” 
• Chi-Chuan Wu, Yu-Ying Lee, and Ming-Hsin Phoebe Chiu
  “Exploring Consumer Health Information Needs in Action, Emotion, and Cognition: A Content Analysis of Questions in Social Q&A Site” 
• Shu-hsien Tseng, and Peng Kao
  "The 100th Year of the Republic, a Classical Time for Reading -- 108 organizations promote reading Chinese ancient classics”
  
  Chair: Dr. Hsueh-Hua Chen and Dr. Mei-ling Wang