Shanghai Law Library Conference (CAFLL): June 2013

Register for the Third International Conference of the

Chinese and American Forum on Legal Information and Law Libraries (CAFLL)

Shanghai, China, June 10 – 12, 2013

This third international conference will be held in one of the world’s most dynamic, cosmopolitan and global cities - Shanghai, China.  The East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL) will be our hosts for the conference.  The venue for the meeting will be the beautiful Renaissance Shanghai Zhongshan Park Hotel: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/shabz-renaissance-shanghai-zhongshan-park-hotel/. 

With the conference theme of Collaboration: Information, Access, and Partnership, law librarians and legal information professionals will have the opportunity to share experiences and exchange views about legal information access, development, and management in both the United States and China. 

Conference topics:

•  Application of New Technology in Legal Information Services
• New Trends and Concepts in Law Library Services
• International Legal Information Resources Sharing and Cooperation in China and the US
• Subject-oriented Legal Information Services
• Public Access to Legal Information in China and the US
• Requirements for Librarians in Legal Information Services

Conference Dates:

·         Monday, June 10, 2013: Registration for American participants

·         Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - Wednesday, June 12, 2013: Conference

Meeting Registration Rate:

• $450: Non-members
• $300: Individual members
• $300: Institutional members (this rate applies to registrations for up to two individuals from member institutions; e.g., $300 X 2 individuals = $600)

Deadlines:

Conference registration: April 1, 2013

Hotel accommodations (to assure room availability): February 28, 2013

http://cafllnet.org/annual-conference/

Sponsored by:

• Chinese and American Forum on Legal Information and Law Libraries (CAFLL)
• American Association of Law Libraries (AALL)
• International Association of Law Libraries (IALL)
• China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL)
• East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL)
• Tongji University School of Law
• Other prominent law schools in China 

 Previous conferences were held in Beijing (2009) and Philadelphia (2011):

http://cafllnet.org/annual-conference/.  For a CAFLL membership, see: http://cafllnet.org/membership/.  More information on CAFLL is available at: http://cafllnet.org/. 

CEAL Election Notice

Dear CEAL members,

With this year’s CEAL meeting fast approaching, we will soon be sending out ballots to fill two positions on the Executive Board. In order to ensure that you will be able to participate in the voting, you must be a current member, i.e. you must have already paid membership dues to both the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and the Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL). If you are not certain of your membership status, you can easily check by going to the “Join CEAL” website:

<http://www.eastasianlib.org/cmb/joinceal.htm#MemberStatus>

Follow the instructions for confirming your current membership. If you find that you are not current, there is still time to renew your membership in time for this year’s election, but you will have to update your membership by next Friday (February 8th), at 2:00pm PST.

This year’s meeting in San Diego promises to be of particular interest. I hope to see you all there.

Kenneth Klein

CEAL Secretary

CCM Annual Programs (2013)

Dear Colleagues,

The Committee on Chinese Materials would like to announce CCM Annual Programs (2013), please visit this page for more information: http://www.eastasianlib.org/ccm/Program2013.shtml.  We look forward to seeing you all in San Diego!


Vickie Doll
Tang Li
Ming-sun Poon
Zhijia Shen
Ping Situ
Susan Xue (Chair)
Haihui Zhang

CEAL Plenary Program Details

Plenary Program (PDF)

CEAL Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the 2013 CEAL Plenary Program on March 20 at its annual meeting in San Diego. Please click the link above for a detailed program, outlining the theme, speakers and venues.

Peter Zhou, PhD
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

Call for Applications - 2013 CALA Jing Liao Award for the Best Research in All Media

Dear CEAL members,

The 2013 CALA "Jing Liao Award for the Best Research in All Media” is now accepting applications through April 1, 2013 for research published in 2012. 

The pursuit of excellence in research and service defined the career of Jing Liao (1954-2011), the late CALA member and a devoted and accomplished librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The CALA Jing Liao Best Research Award has been established to honor the memory of Jing Liao by awarding CALA members who achieve excellence in research in any media.

CALA members in good standing for at least three consecutive years are eligible for the competition that awards $500 annually. The deadline for this year's submission is April 1, 2013. The applications/submissions may be sent to the Chair or any of the Committee members listed below. The winner will be announced prior to the ALA annual conference in Chicago. The award will be presented and a citation read at the CALA Awards Banquet in June 2013.

Award Guidelines for 2013

1.     One award in the amount of $500 will be granted in 2013;
2.     Applicants must be CALA members in good standing for at least three consecutive years, including the year of application;
3.     Applicants must demonstrate excellence in scholarly research by publishing works in any media (e.g. print, multi-media, or e-Journals, including Open Access Journals);
4.     Applicants may submit one single work published in 2012 for consideration;
5.     Applicants must not be past recipients of the award.  

Selection Criteria

1.     Originality of the research;
2.     Quality and thoroughness of the research and its presentation;
3.     Contribution to the subject field;
4.     Significance to the library profession and to the library community.

For details, please check CALA website at http://cala-web.org/node/1297

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Karen Wei (kwei@illinois.edu), Chair, or any of the committee members.



Committee for the Jing Liao Award for the Best Research in All Media, 2012-2013

Karen Wei (kwei@illinois.edu), Chair
Heather Huibin Cai (heather.cai@mcgill.ca)
Vickie Fu Doll (vdoll@ku.edu)
Li Fu (lifuwc@gmail.com)
Wenling Liu (wliu@indiana.edu)

RDA in NACO Series Training (Jan. 22, 2013)

Long-awaited "RDA in NACO Series Training" (Jan. 22, 2013) now released to the general public at URL:

http://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/courses/rda_naco_series/course%20table.html

must be of utility to some CEAL members.

"Sleepless San Diego" by CEAL Membership Committee

Dear all,

The Membership Committee is proud to present a wonderful late evening program of networking and information sharing, "Sleepless San Diego,"   at this year's CEAL conference.

•    Do you want to meet new friends, or catch up with old ones?
•    Do you want to exchange ideas with your colleagues?
•    If you are new to the field, whether still in  library school or a recent graduate, do you want to get some sound job advice from seasoned veteran librarians?
•    If you are in the CEAL Mentoring Program, do you want to meet your mentor/mentee (finally) in person? 

If so, please come to our "Sleepless San Diego" on Wednesday March 20th, at Connaugh, from 9:30pm to 11pm. After a full day of talks and presentations, this late evening program would be a perfect opportunity for all of  us  to unwind, relax, and at the same time, pick up new ideas and build up our professional network. 

Yunshan Ye
On behalf of CEAL Membership Committee