Univ of Washington East Asia Library: Welcome Charlene Chou

Dear Colleagues:

I am delighted to announce that Ms. Charlene Chou will join the University of Washington Libraries as Head of East Asia Library Technical Services and Chinese Cataloger on October 1st, 2013. Charlene will be responsible for overall EAL technical services operations including acquisitions, cataloging, binding and other processing, as well as providing original cataloging for Chinese languages materials.

Charlene came to UW Libraries from Columbia University Libraries where she held various positions in Central Technical Services and departmental libraries for twenty years. Since 2007, she had served as the Chinese Cataloger at the Starr East Asian Library and was the Acting Head of the Starr East Asian Library Technical Services between January and August in 2008. Charlene is a seasoned cataloger and technical services librarian. She is also an experienced trainer in serial and monographic cataloging, and recently RDA training. She is an international speaker on a broad spectrum of tech service related topics. Currently she serves as president of OCLC CJK User Group Board (2012-2014) and was the lead trainer for the RDA & CJK Workshop team in 2012-13. Charlene received her MLS from University of Maryland, College Park in 1988. She also has an MA in Organizational Psychology from Teacher's College, Columbia University, and BA in Library Science & Humanities from National Taiwan University. 

We are very excited about Charlene’s joining us at the East Asia Library at University of Washington Libraries. Her rich experience in all areas of technical services will enable her to make significant contributions to our East Asia Library and to the University Libraries as well. Charlene can be reached at:

Room 338 Gowen Hall
East Asia Library, Campus Box 353527
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195 

Phone: 206-543-6155
Email cc83@uw.edu.

Submitted by Zhijia Shen

Director of East Asia Library University of Washington Libraries

2014 LC-CEAL CJK Cataloging Internship

Application Form (Word)

Dear CEAL Members,
Encouraged by the number of applications, strong support of our library community and the successful completion of the 2013 internship program, the Committee on Technical Processing is pleased to announce that the LC-CEAL Cataloging Internship Program is going to continue for the year 2014. CEAL developed this Internship Program partnership with the Library of Congress in order to provide training opportunities to those who may not have access to adequate cataloging training support in their own institutions, or to those who have been assigned to catalog materials in a language with which they are not entirely conversant. The interns selected will receive substantial training at the Library of Congress from LC’s Catalogers.

Logistics of the Program

Up to three internship positions are available in the calendar year 2014, each for up to three months in duration. Each intern selected will directly negotiate the length of the internship, its timing and general content with the Library of Congress.
The Library of Congress will supply training materials, workspace, training and review by experience catalogers in one or more aspects of cataloging East Asian language materials. All other expenses (travel, lodging, meals, and incidentals) are the responsibility of the intern and/or his/her employer.
CEAL will provide each intern with a scholarship of up to $1,000 upon successful completion of the program.
Upon completion of her/his internship at the Library of Congress, the intern will be required to submit an evaluative written report.

Procedures

The application process will be overseen by the members of the Subcommittee on CEAL-LC Cataloging Internship Program: Yue Shu (Chair), Yoko Kudo, and Erica Soonyoung Chang. The Subcommittee will recommend candidates according to a set of pre-determined selection criteria, and the Library of Congress will make final decisions. The application deadline is December 16, 2013, and the interns selected will be announced before or at the CEAL meeting in March 2014. 

Selection Criteria 

The Subcommittee members will prioritize applications according to the following criteria: 

The Candidate:

• Non-US citizens must be in a visa status that permits them to participate in the program;
• Is a CEAL member in good standing;
• Is recommended by his/her employer or university with a formal letter of recommendations;
• Has significant responsibility for East Asian language resources and experience in cataloging;
• Lacks in-house training support or language proficiency with which he/she isn’t entirely conversant.

To apply, please fill out the attached application form and send it as an email attachment to all three Subcommittee members: Yue Shu (shuyuex@si.edu); Yoko Kudo (yokokudo@ucr.edu); and Erica Soonyoung Chang (syoungc@hawaii.edu). The application deadline is December 16, 2013. For questions, please feel free to contact the Subcommittee members. I look forward to seeing many applications!

Sincerely yours,
Yue Shu Chair, Subcommittee on Internship Subcommittee Members
Yue Shu (Chair)
Yoko Kudo
Erica Soonyoung Chang


Yue Shu 舒悦
Assistant Librarian
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
shuyuex@si.edu
Tel: 202.633.0479

PO Box 37012, MRC 707
Washington DC 20013-7012
Package and courier deliveries:
1050 Independence Ave SW
Washington DC 20560

 

CEAL RDA Workshop Registration Open

Dear all,

On behalf of the CEAL Committee of Technical Processing, I am pleased to announce that CTP will sponsor two pre-conference workshops on RDA cataloging on Monday-Tuesday, Mar. 18-19, 2013 in conjunction with CEAL 2013 annual meeting.

For Workshop description and registration information, please click http://www.eastasianlib.org/ctp/2013%20CEAL%20RDA%20CATALOGING%20WORKSHOP.pdf

Happy Thanksgiving Holidays! –Shi


Shi Deng
Chair, CEAL Committee on Technical Processing
Head, Chinese Japanese Korean Acquisitions/Cataloging Unit
Metadata Services Department, UCSD Libraries
9500 Gilman Drive, 0175K
La Jolla, CA 92093-0175
Tel: (858) 822-2104
Fax: (858) 822-0349
Email: sdeng@ucsd.edu

Click to view the updated schedule for the 2013 CEAL annual meeting.

2013 LC-CEAL Cataloging Internship Program

Internship Announcement (PDF)

Dear CEAL Members,

On behalf of the Committee on Technical Processing, I am pleased to announce that we are going to continue the LC-CEAL Cataloging Internship Program for the year 2013.   CEAL developed this Internship Program partnership with the Library of Congress in order to provide training opportunities to those who may not have access to adequate cataloging training support in their own institutions, or to those who have been assigned to catalog materials in a language with which they are not entirely conversant.  The interns selected will receive substantial training at the Library of Congress from LC’s Catalogers.

Logistics of the Program

• Up to three internship positions are available in the calendar year 2013, each for up to three months in duration.  Each intern selected will directly negotiate the length of the internship, its timing and general content with the Library of Congress. 

• The Library of Congress will supply training materials, workspace, training and review by experience catalogers in one or more aspects of cataloging East Asian materials.  All other expenses (travel, lodging, meals, and incidentals) are the responsibility of the intern and/or his/her employer.

• CEAL will provide each intern with a scholarship of up to $1,000 upon successful completion of the program.

Procedures

The application process will be overseen by the members of the Subcommittee on LC-CEAL Cataloging Internship Program: Yue Shu (Chair), Yoko Kudo and Erica Soonyoung Chang.  The Subcommittee will recommend candidates according to a set of pre-determined selection criteria, and the Library of Congress will make final decisions.  The application deadline is December 17, 2012, and the interns selected will be announced before or at the CEAL meeting in March 2013. 

Selection Criteria

The Subcommittee members will prioritize applications according to the following criteria:

The Candidate:

• Non-US citizens must be in a visa status that permits them to participate in the program;

• Is a CEAL member in good standing;
• Is recommended by his/her employer or university with a formal letter of recommendations;
• Has significant responsibility for East Asian resources and experience in cataloging;
• Lacks in-house training support or language proficiency with which he/she isn’t entirely conversant.

 To apply, please fill out the attached application form and send it as an email attachment to all three Subcommittee members:  Yue Shu (shuyuex@si.edu); Yoko Kudo (yokokudo@ucr.edu); and Erica Soonyoung Chang (syoungc@hawaii.edu).  The application deadline is December 17, 2012.  For questions, please feel free to contact the Subcommittee members.

I look forward to seeing many applications!  

Sincerely yours,

Yue Shu

Chair, Subcommittee on Internship

Subcommittee Members

Yue Shu (Chair)

Yoko Kudo

Erica Soonyoung Chang

Yue Shu 舒悦

Assistant Librarian

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Smithsonian Institution Libraries

shuyuex@si.edu

202.633.0479

PO Box 37012, MRC 707

Washington DC 20013-7012

Package and courier deliveries:

1050 Independence Ave SW

Washington DC 20560

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

Webinar on Chinese Rare Book Cataloging

Dear all, 

The CEAL Committee on Technical Processing is pleased to host the following webinar. We look forward to see you in the session. Instruction on login to the webinar will be send to the registered participants by Monday, June 11, 2012.

• Title: Webinar on Chinese Rare Book Cataloging: Descriptive cataloging focus 
• Date & Time: Wednesday, June 13, 2:30-4:30 pm (EDT)/11:30-1:30 (PDT) –2 hours 
• Presenter: Haihui Zhang, University of Pittsburgh 
• Presentation language: CHINESE 

Description: This session will help catalogers who are responsible for Chinese materials cataloging to get familiarized with Cataloging Guidelines for Creating Chinese Rare Book Records in Machine-Readable Form. This session will focus on descriptive cataloging rather than identifying Chinese rare book versions (some of important version related concepts will be briefly mentioned). The presenter will go through MARC fields with samples of Chinese rare books. Explanations will particularly focus on how to determine and select relevant bibliographic information for each field from the book in hand, and from other reference books when cataloging a Chinese rare book, and how to make notes in 5xx field. 

Due to a number of special terms in Chinese rare books this session will be presented in Chinese. 

Registration fee: Free 

Registration deadline: Friday, June 8, 2012 

Please register at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFh5S3ZObng0bFN5TnYwR2sxUUZtUFE6MQ

Shi Deng 

Chair, CEAL Committee on Technical Processing 

Head, Chinese Japanese Korean Acquisitions/Cataloging Unit 

Metadata Services Department, UCSD Libraries 

9500 Gilman Drive, 0175K 

La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 

Tel: (858) 822-2104 

Fax: (858) 822-0349 

Email: sdeng@ucsd.edu

LCSH Subject Cataloging Webinar

Thanks again to Mr. Morimoto for providing the training and rich contents in his presentation files. The recorded webinar is now available via Blackboard Collaborates at:

https://sas.elluminate.com/mr.jnlp?suid=M.D5F1442A348F6C59F2F2B33012168B&sid=2009019

You are welcome to view it. The recorded session will be posted on CEAL CTP web site (http://www.eastasianlib.org/ctp/index.htm)at a later date.

 

For these who participated or will view the recorded session, please provide feedback by filling out the short follow-up survey at:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dEtkSzVYZFJ

Thanks to these who have filled out the survey, and given us your candid feedback about needed improvements as well as suggestions for future webinar topics. The CEAL Committee on Technical Process members will review the survey result and hope we are able to provide more webinars on topics suggested.

Best,

--Shi

Shi Deng

Head, Chinese Japanese Korean Acquisitions/Cataloging Unit

Metadata Services Department, UCSD Libraries

9500 Gilman Drive, 0175K

La Jolla, CA 92093-0175

Tel: (858) 822-2104

Fax: (858) 822-0349

Email: sdeng@ucsd.edu