Revised 2016 Election Announcement

Dear CEAL members:

Thanks to research in the archives and close reading of the by-laws by several members of the CEAL board, we have determined that the make-up of the current roster of members-at-large require that we designate both Member-at-Large positions in the 2016 election.

Hyokyoung Yi, currently the “Korea focus” Member-at-Large will cycle off this spring and needs to be replaced. In addition, we currently lack a Member-at-Large elected with a “Japan focus.” My apologies to those who might have already sent in nominations that do not match these criteria! However, we have determined that this measure will be necessary to keep the composition of the board consistent with the by-laws.

Please see the amended announcement below (and keep those nominations for all of the positions coming in to Hana Kim and her committee!)

Thanks so much.

Best,
Ellen

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To all Members of CEAL:

Happy New Year!

I write today to announce the formation of the CEAL Election Committee as the first step in the process for our 2016 election:

• Tomoko Bialock (UCLA)
• Michael Meng (Yale University)
• Chiaki Sakai (University of Iowa)
• Hee-sook Shin (Columbia University)
• Haihui Zhang (University of Pittsburgh)
• Hana Kim (University of British Columbia), Chair

CEAL members will be voting for four members of the CEAL Executive Board by electronic ballot in the spring. The positions for election in 2016 are:

• Vice President/President-Elect
• Member-at-Large (two positions):
• Japan Focus
• Korea Focus
• Chair, Committee on Technical Processing (one-year term only)

The position of CTP Chair is considered a “special election” and will be for one year only. Erica Chang, elected as CTP Chair in 2014 for a three-year term, had to step down last October due to new job commitments. (Fortunately, Erica has agreed to continue serving as a CTP committee member.) Therefore, in accord with Article IX of the CEAL by-laws, two CTP members, Philip Melzer and Keiko Suzuki, were nominated and have been approved to serve as co-chairs for an interim period. Phil and Keiko have taken up the CTP chair duties with great energy and the EB is grateful to them for their willingness to serve. Neither of them, however, can serve beyond the CEAL meeting in Seattle. Therefore, the special election for a Chair to fill out the term is being held. The incumbent will serve from March 31, 2016 until the CEAL annual meeting in 2017, at which time a new Chair will be elected for a full three-year term as part of the regular election cycle.

My thanks go to those who agreed to serve on the Election Committee and to Hana for taking on the role of committee chair. I hope all CEAL members will consider standing for election this year!

All the best for 2016,
Ellen

Ellen H. Hammond
President, CEAL

Ellen H. Hammond
Director, International Collections & Research Support
Head, East Asia Library
Yale University
PO Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
USA

Tel: +1 203 432-1791
Fax: +1 203 432-8527

Univ. of Washington Gallagher Law Library EA Law Collection: Tour

Dear Friends,
While you're in Seattle for AAS/CEAL 2016, please visit one of the largest East Asian law collections in North America! The East Asian Law Department of the Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library cordially invites East Asian librarians and anyone interested to a short presentation, reception (light snacks, coffee, tea) and tour of our East Asian law collection. 

When?  

Friday April 1st 10:00-11:00 AM

Where?

Location of Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library:
The lower two floors (L1 and L2) of William H. Gates Hall, in the Northwest corner of the main University of Washington campus, just south of the Burke Museum. It's near the intersection of  Northeast 45th St. and 15th Ave. NE.

From the W.H. Gates hall main entrance, go down one flight of stairs to the Law Library. You will be greeted at the Circulation desk, near the library entrance.

Click here for a detailed online campus map, (W.H. Gates Hall is circled in yellow):
http://uw.edu/maps/?law

How?

From downtown, take Metro bus route #71, 72, or 73 to the University District (about 10-20 minutes). Get off on University Avenue ("The Ave") , between Northeast 42nd and Northeast 45th streets. Note that the new Sound Transit light rail from downtown to the University District (opening in March) will be an option, but would require a long walk uphill from the UW football stadium.

Please Register

A maximum of 15 guests can be accommodated. First come, first served. Please RSVP to Rob Britt (rrbritt@uw.edu). Do not reply directly to this message.

I look forward to seeing you here!

Regards,
Rob

Rob Britt
Coordinator of East Asian Library Services

University of Washington
Gallagher Law Library
East Asian Law Department
William H. Gates Hall, Room L138
rrbritt@uw.edu
206-543-7447

2016 Round of Innovation Grant Program Announced!

This message is the first announcement of the Request for Proposals (RFP) process for the 2016 Mellon Foundation-Council on East Asian Libraries Innovation Grant competition. 

The RFP is printed in its entirety below.   It is also available on Innovation Grant program home page available on the CEAL website: 
http://www.eastasianlib.org/MellonGrants.htm 
This page also contains guidelines for applicants.

Request for Proposals
Mellon Foundation – Council on East Asian Libraries
2016 Innovation Grants for East Asian Librarians

With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Council on East Asian Libraries is sponsoring a grant program aimed at East Asian studies librarians in United States universities and other cultural heritage organizations.  This is a call for proposals for grants designed to address critical needs in the area of East Asian collection development.  Preliminary proposals for grants in the amount of $25,000 to $100,000 are requested by March 1, 2016 for one-year (12-month) projects.  Total funding available for awards in 2016 is approximately $137,500.

Grant Program Vision

East Asian studies librarians face a range of challenges in collection development, especially as they address emerging scholarly needs in an environment of increased resource scarcity.  The Mellon Foundation – Council on East Asian Libraries Innovation Grants for East Asian Librarians aim to encourage new approaches to current challenges in collection development that are collaborative, innovative, and look beyond the institutional level to solutions that will have national impact.  Grants might focus on issues involving the acquisition of non-print formats (such as born digital materials), acquisition and resource sharing of multi-media materials, or collective solutions to the acquisition and maintenance of print and other traditional formats. The grants might address issues of perpetual access to content, enhance the discoverability of East Asian-script materials in local and national systems, or reduce redundancies across libraries in collection development activities.   They might develop creative solutions to the lack of fit between the world of East Asian information resources and the American library context.  The broad goal of the grant program is to fund projects that will provide new mechanisms and directions for a robust East Asian collections environment nationally.  Collaborative projects involving more than one institution are encouraged.  For more information about the grant rationale, please see the text of the original proposal to the Mellon Foundation on the CEAL website:
http://www.eastasianlib.org/MellonGrants.htm 

Grant Application Timeline for Proposals in 2016

Preliminary proposals are due March 1, 2016.  The subsequent grant evaluation process is outlined here:
March
The grant review board will read the grants and select the most promising for continued development.  All applicants will be notified by April 1 if they are selected to submit a final proposal.
April
Selected members of the Review Board will work with applicants to address issues raised by Review Board members and finalize their proposals.  Final proposals are due May 1.
May
Review Board members make their recommendations for funding based on the final proposals.  Awards will be announced no later than June 1.
June – August
Successful applicants will have three months to lay the groundwork for their grant projects.  Funding transfers will take place during this period and the official grant terms of 12 months may start July 1, August 1, or September 1, 2016.

Grant Applications

Applications should be submitted by the project lead, who must be a CEAL member in good standing and have institutional approval for the grant proposal as indicated by a letter of support from the University Librarian, Dean of Libraries, or equivalent, in their home institution.   Institutions must be universities or colleges recognized under U.S. Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3),  Section 115, Section 170(c)(1), or a similar designation for tax purposes.  Any project lead considering participation by personnel in a Canadian institution should contact the Grant Program P.I. prior to submitting a proposal.
Applications should address the following issues, which grant reviewers will use as key criteria in judging grant proposals.

• Impact of the project beyond the project lead’s own institution.
• Ways in which the project addresses current problems and issues in the East Asian collection development environment.
• Overall benefits of the project for the scholarly study of East Asia.
• Innovative aspects of the project (elements or models that break new ground in research libraries in general or application of new elements or models to East Asian libraries or collections)
• Collaborative elements of the project (such as joint applications by more than one institution or the involvement of personnel across more than one institution)

The following information will also be required as part of the application.

1. Summary and detailed description, outlining rationale, content, and goals.
2. Timeline, including benchmarks for evaluating progress.
3. Personnel involved in the project, including roles and responsibilities.
4. Collaborators and their institutions, including roles and responsibilities.
5. Description of sustainability issues and how they will be addressed after project funding ends.
6. Criteria for assessment.
7. Plans for dissemination and outreach regarding project outcomes.  (Project leads will be required to submit an article about their project to the Journal of East Asian Libraries or other appropriate journal.)
8. Budget information (including details on cost shares, if any, other funding sources available, and mechanisms for financial oversight at the project lead’s home institution).
9. Supporting documentation
1.   Letter from University Librarian or equivalent at project lead’s home institution indicating support for the project, acceptance of fiduciary responsibility, and understanding of grant policy on indirect costs (which cannot be paid from grant funds as per Mellon Foundation policy).
2.  Letter(s) of support from East Asian studies scholars.
3.  Letter providing evidence of non-profit status of project lead’s home institution.
4.  Statement from project lead to document that any software or digitized content created with grant funds broadly available, along with a description of how the software or digitized content would be made available.

Detailed application guidelines are available on the Council on East Asian Libraries website:
http://www.eastasianlib.org/MellonGrants.htm

Questions may be directed to the Principal Investigator for the Innovation Grant Program:
Ellen Hammond  (President, Council on East Asian Libraries)
ellen.hammond@yale.edu

Ellen H. Hammond
President
Council on East Asian Libraries


Ellen H. Hammond
Director, International Collections & Research Support
Head, East Asia Library
Yale University
PO Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
USA

Tel:    +1 203 432-1791
Fax:    +1 203 432-8527

CEAL Directory PDFs Updated

FYI
This morning I updated the PDF version of the CEAL Directory, linked on the website here:
http://www.eastasianlib.org/cmb/index.htm#Top
(Linked on the Membership Committee page under "Activities")

The online Directory is available here:
http://www.eastasianlib.org/cealdir/index.htm
(Linked on the Homepage under “CEAL Directory”)

Refresh your browser to view the latest PDF version.

Please let me know if there are questions or concerns.

Regards,
Rob

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Rob Britt
Chair
CEAL Library Technology Committee
rrbritt@uw.edu

Toshie Marra and Peter Bae to assume NCC ILL/DD Co-chairship

For Immediate Release:  NCC announces election of new ILL/DD Co-chairs

NCC is pleased to announce the election of Toshie Marra, Librarian for Japanese Collection at University of California, Berkeley as the new NCC Council member and co-chair of the Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Committee (ILL/DD).  Peter Bae, Circulation Services Director of Princeton University Libraries, who is a current member of NCC’s ILL/DD Committee, joins her as co-chair.  Both co-chairs have extensive experience in international librarianship and resource sharing.  They will serve a term from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2018.

Toshie Marra served as NCC Chair from 2004 to 2006 at the time NCC’s current ILL/DD projects were being planned.  From 2009 to 2012 she served as a member of the committee as a representative of UCLA.  She is also one of the founding members of the Subcommittee on Japanese Rare Books of the Council on East Asian Library’s Committee on Japanese Materials and received her MLIS from UCLA.  

Seangill Peter Bae received his MLIS from University at Albany, SUNY and worked at Columbia University before coming to Princeton in 2014.  He is active in the international interlibrary loan and resource sharing field, serving as a member of the ALA RUSA STARS International ILL Committee and as Information Coordinator of the IFLA (International Federations of Library Associations), Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Standing Committee.  In addition, he started and currently administering a Facebook group, ILLers; a FB Group For Interlibrary Loan Librarians in which various ILL/DD issues are discussed.

As co-chairs of the ILL/DD Committee they will oversee NCC’s international borrowing and document delivery services with special emphasis on expanding online information guides to enable users to more easily navigate the ILL/DD services offered by the National Diet Library, Waseda, Keio, and Ritsumeikan Universities, and the activities of the more than 270 members of the Global ILL Framework in Japan, North America, Australia and New Zealand.  This is an especially critical time for interlibrary loan activities due to Japan’s decision not to revise their systems to meet the ISO protocols that facilitate communications between the different catalog systems in Japan and the West.  The NCC ILL/DD Committee will be working closely with a new Japanese group recently established to recommend future directions in international resource sharing. 

As is required by its by-laws, NCC seeks to include among Council members librarians and faculty from diverse regions of the country, from institutions of varying size, and from Japanese and East Asian studies programs with a range of strengths and foci.  In addition to the new co-chairs representing UC Berkeley and Princeton, the current ILL/DD Committee includes members from University of California, Los Angeles; Emory University; University of Hawaii; University of Kansas; University of Notre Dame; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; University of Pittsburgh; Monash University in Melbourne Australia; and Tsukuba University in Japan.  The out-going co-chairs are Hiroyuki Good and Kazuyo Good of the University of Pittsburgh. 

The ILL/DD homepage is found on the NCC Website at http://guides.nccjapan.org/illdd.

November 1, 2015

Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Grant Program

Each year, the Friends of the Princeton University Library offer short-term Library Research Grants to promote scholarly use of the library’s research collections. Up to $3,500 is available per award.
Applications will be considered for scholarly use of archives, manuscripts, rare books, and other rare and unique holdings of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, including Mudd Library; as well as rare books in Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, and in the East Asian Library (Gest Collection).  Special grants are awarded in several areas:  the Program in Hellenic Studies supports a limited number of library fellowships in Hellenic studies, and the Cotsen Children’s Library supports research in its collection on aspects of children’s books. The Maxwell Fund supports research on materials dealing with Portuguese-speaking cultures. The Sid Lapidus '59 Research Fund for Studies of the Age of Revolution and the Enlightenment in the Atlantic World covers work using materials pertinent to this topic.

For more information, or to apply, please go to http://rbsc.princeton.edu/friends-princeton-university-library-research-grants.

The deadline to apply is January 15, 2016.

Online course: Area and International Studies Librarianship

Dear All,

In spring 2016, the IU Libraries Area Studies Department is offering an online course, Area and International Studies Librarianship. 

We will be able to enroll students beyond the boundaries of Indiana University.  If you know librarians, library students, or others interested in Area Studies Librarianship would you kindly help us spread the word?  This course is team-taught by the entire department, who collectively have global subject expertise. Additionally, we will bring in other relevant experts in our discipline.

You will find more details about the course in the flyer and application instructions (attached below). International students are welcome; all non-IU students, please see the attached form for enrollment information. If you have any questions about the class, please feel free to contact Marion Frank-Wilson at mfrankwi@indiana.edu.

Wen-ling Liu

Wen-ling Liu
Librarian for East Asian Studies and Tibetan Collection
Wells Library E860
Indiana University Libraries
1320 E 10th St.

How to apply for an ILS non-degree seeking program

Follow this link: https://onestart.iu.edu/sisad-prd/p/Guest.do?methodToCall=start&inst=IUBLA&career=GRAD&parm1=DEGR

If you have never applied to an Indiana University program before you will need to “Create a new guest account.” If you are currently an employee or student of IU, you should be able to use your onestart/one.iu.edu username and password to log in.

Once logged in please select the following options:

Academic Program: Information and Library Science Nondegree
Academic Plan: ILS Nondegree
Term: Spring 2016
Select “Next”

Please complete the applicable personal information.

Because this is a non-degree seeking program, you will not need to supply any reference letters or transcripts at this stage of the application process. (International applicants will need to supply transcripts. This is an IU Office of International Services requirement. Please feel free to contact us for more information or with questions.)

On the final page of the application you will be required to enter information for at least one reference. Because we do not need any references at this point, please use your own personal information in the blanks provided. You will receive an email asking to supply a reference for yourself, but this can be ignored.

Once these steps are completed you should be able to submit your application. Please make sure to disable your pop-up blocker as the application fee payment page opens as a pop-up.

The application fee is $55.00 for domestic applicants and $65.00 for international applicants.

**If you are an international application please contact the ILS office at ilsmain@indiana.edu as there may be extra steps involved with the application process**

Should you choose to complete an ILS degree in the future, 2 courses taken while a non-degree seeking student can be applied towards a Master of Information Science, or Master of Library Science degree.

If you have any additional questions or concerns please feel free to contact the ILS administrative office by email at ilsmain@indiana.edu or by phone at (812) 855-2018.

Best,
ILS Admissions

ONLINE COURSE: AREA & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES LIBRARIANSHIP
OFFERED TO IU AND NON-IU STUDENTS ILS-Z 604 Class 15368

This class will provide students the opportunity to explore issues related to area studies librarianship, focusing on COLLECTIONS, DISCOVERY, and ADVOCACY.

Topics include:

• history and current trends in the US
• collection development
• reference and instruction
• outreach
• partnerships and collaboration
• emerging technologies

Taught by librarians from the Area Studies Department of Indiana University Libraries. To learn more visit https://libraries.indiana.edu/area-studies.

Students will:

• Hear from prominent guest speakers from other institutions.

• Learn about important tools for working with area and international studies collections.

• Gain an understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing area studies librarianship.

Hardware requirements:

• webcam
• microphone and speakers
• high-speed internet

Appropriate for current library science students, practicing librarians, and those with subject expertise that are interested in librarianship.

For more information about the course, contact Marion Frank-Wilson at mfrank-wi@indiana.edu. For more information about registration, contact the ILS ad-ministrative office at ilsmain@indiana.edu or call (812) 855-2018.