Annual Meeting 2013 Draft Schedule

The draft schedule for the 2013 CEAL annual meeting is now posted on the CEAL website (click to view). The current version is a tentative, planning document. As time for the meeting nears, the information will be updated.

This year, the schedule is posted as an "embedded" MS Excel file. The file can be downloaded and viewed in Excel, either on your desktop or online, in Microsoft SkyDrive. To download, click the Excel icon near the bottom of the window. You can then save a copy, print, etc. The online version (linked above) will be kept up-to-date until the annual meeting.

Let me know if you have questions.
Rob Britt
CEAL Library Technology Committee Chair
rrbritt@uw.edu

CEAL Annual Statistics Online Survey 2011-2012 Data Input

CEAL Annual Statistics Online Survey 2011/2012
Input/update time frame: Oct. 9 through Dec. 7, 2012
Online Forms (login with password) are at http://www.lib.ku.edu/ceal/php/

Dear CEAL Stats Coordinators,

The 2011/2012 CEAL Annual Statistics Online Survey has begun, and the deadline for submission is December 7, 2012 (Central Time, 11:59 p.m.). Online survey forms and instructions are located in the CEAL Statistics Database (http://www.lib.ku.edu/ceal/php/) accessible with institution password log-in. Internet Explorer version 6.0 (or above) is necessary to access database information and to correctly input/update data. To maintain data integrity and accuracy, each institution is responsible for its own data input via online forms.

Here are a few items for your attention:

COMPLETE ALL COLLECTION FORMS AND ALL CELLS IN EACH FORM

Please complete ALL survey FORMS and ALL CELLS in each survey form. Partial input in any form may result in incorrect total sums and, in some cases, may prevent form submission. The application is designed to calculate sums automatically.

ONLINE SRUVEY CLOSES ON DECEMBER 7, 2012 at 11:59 pm Central Time

The ONLINE SURVEY will be CLOSED after the input deadline (Dec. 7, 2012, 11:59 p.m. CT). No late entries will be accepted after the deadline. No changes can be made by any institutional online survey coordinators after the input deadline. Institutions have one week for final proofreading before the reports are run and submitted to the Journal of East Asian Libraries (JEAL). Any correction(s) should be directed to the members of the CEAL Statistics Committee BEFORE the data proofing deadline, Dec. 14, 2012. All data will be final after that date.

QUESTIONS?

Please contact Vickie Fu Doll (vdoll[at sign]ku.edu) for questions related to the survey database and NEW Library participation form, Calvin Hsu (ch8xy[at sign]virginia.edu) for questions concerning the online survey forms, and Wen-ling Liu (wliu[at sign]indiana.edu) for questions related to password.

Thanks in advance for your cooperation. Enjoy the beautiful Autumn!

CEAL Statistics Committee
Vickie Fu Doll
Calvin Hsu
Wen-ling Liu

CEAL Statistics Home http://www.lib.ku.edu/ceal/
CEAL Statistics Database: http://www.lib.ku.edu/ceal/php/
CEAL Statistics PDF: http://www.lib.ku.edu/ceal/stat

Seeking peer reviewers for ACRL/CHOICE publication

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Resources for College Libraries (RCL), a publication of ACRL’s Choice magazine and R.R. Bowker, is currently seeking academic librarians and faculty with collection development and/or teaching experience to participate in our peer review process. Available online at http://rclweb.net, RCL provides a list of core titles that are essential for undergraduate libraries.

We are currently seeking academic librarians and faculty with subject expertise in the following area: 

*Asian History, Languages, and Literatures

Referees will be responsible for comprehensively evaluating the RCL subject’s bibliographic content, along with its taxonomic organization. All referee work is scheduled for completion by January 1, 2013 and can be completed online and at your leisure. Referees will receive access to the RCL database to complete the review.

Please consider submitting your name to participate in this one-time professional service opportunity. Preference will be given to those with experience in teaching and/or collection development in the subject area. To volunteer as a reviewer, send an email to adoherty@ala-choice.org with your contact information, CV/resume, and a brief description of your qualifications, particularly any experience maintaining or assessing core collections in the subject area.

RCL is a subscription database that identifies 75,000+ titles across 61 subjects that are essential for research and instruction at the undergraduate level. For more information, visit: http://www.bowker.com/en-US/products/rcl.   

Contact: adoherty@ala-choice.org

Anne Doherty

Project Editor, Resources for College Libraries

CHOICE/ACRL

http://www.rclweb.net/

adoherty@ala-choice.org

860.347.6933 x140

Creating and Sharing Webinars

FYI

We have begun to organize a system to help CEAL members create, webcast, and archive webinars on aspects of East Asian libraries. Our new page on the CEAL website describes the steps to produce and share instructional and informational webcasts that will be useful to anyone interested in East Asian librarianship.

To get started, please take a look at the new Webinars page (click to view).

Rob Britt Library Technology Chair rrbritt@rasnoft.net

Shi Deng Technical Processing Chair sdeng@ucsd.edu

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