NCC Open Meeting: Final Agenda 2012

Revised AGENDA (as of 3/9/12)
2012 Annual Open Meeting of the
North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC)

Thursday, March 15th, 12:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Civic Ballroom, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Toronto, Canada

12:30-12:40:        Brief report from NCC Chair, Keiko Yokota-Carter

12:40-12:55:        Report from the National Diet Library, Seiya Takashina and Terumi Fukushi:

National Diet Library 2011--- Launching New Services and

Building the Digital Archive of the Great East Japan Earthquake

12:55-1:25:          Reports from the National Institute of Informatics (NII) and NCC ILL/DD

                                Committee:

                                NII: Ikki Omukai and Mai Sekido,

NCC’s ILL/DD Committee: Michiko Ito, Co-chair

1:25-2:00:             Report and Discussion on New Collaborations in NCC’s Cooperative Collection

                                Development Efforts:

                                NCC Multi-Volume Sets Committee (MVS): Victoria Bestor for the MVS Committee

                                Cooperative Collection Development Working Group (CCWG): Azusa Tanaka, Chair

2:00-2:10              TEN MINUTE BREAK

2:10-2:30              Reports on International Collaborators and Groups:

European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists: Hamish Todd, EAJRS

Representative to the NCC

Rare Books: Toshie Marra, Group Chair

2:30-2:40              Activities of New Working Groups Affiliated with NCC:
                Disaster Preparedness Working Group (tentative name), Setsuko Noguchi  

Professional Development Working Group, Fabiano Rocha

2:40-3:30              Demonstration and Feedback on new Components of the NCC Website:

                                Project Introduction: Victoria Bestor, NCC Executive Director

                                New Navigational Options:  Tomoko Bialock

                   Introducing the first edition of the NCC Guide to Research Access in Japanese
                   Museums, Libraries, and Archives 日本研究のためのMLAアクセスガイド,
                   Victoria Bestor and Izumi Koide Yasue for the MLA Guides

                                Expanding NCC’s Social Networking and other New Content, Adam Lisbon,

NCC SNS Coordinator and Content Creator

                                Preview of Coming Attractions:

                                Chiaki Sakai, Fabiano Rocha, Adam Lisbon, and Victoria Bestor