AAS / CEAL 2016: Plenary, Reception

CEAL Plenary Overview

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Colleagues:

I hope everyone has made plans for Seattle!  The CEAL committee chairs and members have done a wonderful job drawing together a varied program for you.

A detailed overview of the CEAL Plenary (Wednesday, March 30) is now available on the CEAL website.

ALSO, please remember to join us for the CEAL reception at the University of Washington on Tuesday, March 29 (Kane Hall from 5 to 7 pm | Click for Campus Map to Kane Hall).  CEAL members qualify for free entrance; there will be a cash bar for beer and wine.    Non-CEAL members may also attend ($20 at the door).

Ellen

Ellen H. Hammond
President
Council on East Asian Libraries

CEAL Election 2016 Begins Mon. Feb. 29th

To all Members of CEAL:
I write to announce the upcoming CEAL election dates. The voting period will be as follows:
Start of voting period: Monday, February 29 (12:01 a.m. PST)
End of voting period: Monday, March 21 (11:59 p.m. PST) 

You will be voting for four members of the CEAL Executive Board by electronic ballot. The open positions are:

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

As in prior years, all CEAL members will receive an e-mail with a link to the ballot (email subject line: "Please Cast Your Vote for CEAL Executive Board Members". Note that the link is located at the bottom of the e-mail. The slate of nominees is revealed through clicking on the link and accessing the ballot, starting on Feb. 29. Election results are announced at the business meeting prior to the CEAL plenary session at AAS (March 30).

My thanks to all of those nominated who agreed to run. It is a great slate of candidates and I hope all CEAL members will take the opportunity to vote!

Ellen

Ellen H. Hammond
President, Council on East Asian Libraries

CEAL 2016 in Seattle: Final Program

CEAL 2016 Program

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Dear CEAL members,

Following up on my announcement of the CEAL 2016 program schedule last year, the final schedule has been posted on the CEAL website for our 2016 meeting in Seattle: East Asian Studies Librarians: Current Realities/Future Trajectories.
See: http://www.eastasianlib.org/CEAL/AnnualMeeting/CEALMeetingSchedule/CEAL2016Schedule.pdf

Please note, once again, some of the new features this year!

CEAL Reception (free entry to CEAL members) will be TUESDAY evening, not Wednesday evening as in past years. Venue: University of Washington campus.

Tours of the University of Washington Libraries and the UW East Asia Library will held prior to the reception on Tuesday.

We are trying to give you more options with “concurrent sessions” to be held on Wednesday evening. Please select the session of most interest to attend in the two time slots.

The plenary will feature the first “Presidential Panel,” as well as the first “CEAL Debate” between President Ellen Hammond and Vice-President/President-Elect Jim Cheng.

I look forward to seeing everyone in Seattle.

Best,
Ellen

Ellen H. Hammond
CEAL President

Director, International Collections & Research Support
Head, East Asia Library
Yale University

Journal of East Asian Libraries: Vote on Change of Publishing Format

Task Force Final Report (PDF) | Gail King's Presentation

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To All CEAL Members:

The CEAL Executive Board has been involved in discussions about the format of the Journal of East Asian Libraries since last year. As Past-President Peter Zhou announced during the Business Plenary at the CEAL meeting in Philadelphia, the Executive Board made a decision to ask CEAL members their opinion on this issue. Below is a summary explaining the actions of the Executive Board to date.

April, 2013

Task Force on JEAL chaired by Gail King created to examine the issue of whether JEAL should continue being published in print with an open-access electronic archive (the status quo) or move to entirely online publishing.

November, 2013

The Task Force completed its work and submitted its final report to the Executive Board

February, 2014

Following sustained discussion, the Executive Board voted to in favor of moving to online-only publishing for JEAL. It was also decided that the Executive Board would not proceed unless the membership indicated support for this option.

Next Steps

April, 2014

The Task Force on JEAL Final Report is to be circulated to all CEAL members.

May, 2014

Voting by the membership is to take place between May 1 and May 15, with an announcement of the results on May 20.

Linked above is a copy of the final report of the task force. Pages one and two of the report present the issues and the pros and cons of each approach. Please take the time to review this report and if you have any questions, send them to Gail King (gail_king@byu.edu) or Ellen Hammond (ellen.hammond@yale.edu). For further information, please also consult Gail King’s PowerPoint presentation at the CEAL meeting, also linked above.

The announcement to open the voting will take place on May 1 and the process will be similar to that for CEAL elections (that is, online voting).

I want to thank Gail King and Peter Zhou for their leadership on this issue and also recognize the contributions of the other Task Force Members: Hee-Sook Shin, Vickie Doll, Chengzhi Wang, and Joy Kim. The Task Force members did an exemplary job investigating the issues.

Best regards,

Ellen Hammond
CEAL President

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 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

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

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

Help Wanted With Website, Directory, Blogs, Etc

Dear CEAL Members (or potential members):
As Chair of the CEAL Library Technology Committee (CLT; currently staffed only by me!), I am looking for help with various aspects of the CEAL website: Server routine backups; CEAL Directory MS Access database update; Blog Update (CEAL News and CEAL Jobs). In addition, I may need help with technical support for presenters at the annual meeting. The work is mostly routine, and not difficult if you have OR are willing to learn some basic skills. I am willing and able to help you learn.

Why? For one thing, my tenure as CEAL Library Technology Chair expires in about 20 months (March 2014). If requested, I may continue after that (the CLT chair position is appointed by the Executive Board). In any case, it would be good for CEAL to have a CLT backup who is at least familiar with the basics.

Are you interested? It's fun (if you like this sort of thing!) It looks good on your resume!

Please email or phone me (contact info below).

Rob
CEAL Library Technology Chair

Rob Britt Coordinator of East Asian Library Services University of Washington Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library East Asian Law Department (Room L138) Box 353025 Seattle, WA  98195-3025 USA Phone: 206-543-7447 Fax: 206-685-2165 Email: rrbritt@uw.edu http://lib.law.washington.edu/eald/eald.html

Executive Board Organizational Calendar

The CEAL Executive Board has created an organizational calendar, where the regular activities of Executive Board members are listed chronologically. EB members and CEAL general membership are welcome to consult this calendar, available in PDF on the CEAL website, as they make plans for CEAL events such as the annual meeting, the publication of JEAL, planning for elections, etc. The Calendar is intended to create a widely available "corporate memory" for CEAL, providing information about what needs to be done, and when.

The new Organizational Calendar page (with the calendar available in PDF) is here. As the chair of the EB Calendar task force, I would be happy to receive questions about the calendar and suggestions for other events to include.

Regards,
Rob

Rob Britt
Chair CEAL Library Technology Committee
Coordinator of East Asian Library Resources
University of Washington School of Law
Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library
East Asian Law Department

New CEAL Logo Adopted

Dear CEAL Colleagues:

Last August, the CEAL Executive Board set up a committee to solicit different designs

for a new CEAL logo. The committee has worked diligently to come up with a design and

presented the final choices to CEAL membership to vote for. I am very pleased to announce

that 73% of responding members voted in favor of Shirin Eshghi’s design below. It is now

the official logo for CEAL.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank members of the CEAL Logo

Committee for their hard work:

• Rob Britt, Logo Committee Chair
  Library Technology Chair
  University of Washington, Law Library
• Susan Xue
  Chinese Materials Chair
  University of California at Berkeley
• Setsuko Noguchi
  Japanese Materials Chair
  University of Illinois
• Yunah Sung
  Korean Materials Chair
  University of Michigan
• Gail King
  Publications Chair
  Brigham Young University
• Joy Kim (ex-officio)
  Past President
  University of Southern California
• Ellen Hammond (ex-officio)
  Vice President / President Elect
  Yale University

Peter Zhou, Ph.D.

President, Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL)

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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

CEAL Election 2012 Results

Dear colleagues,

It was a pleasure to see many of you in Toronto. Hope you had a pleasant trip back to your home. For those of you who were unable to attend the annual meeting, I am sharing with you the election results.

• Ms. Ellen Hammond of Yale University has been elected Vice President/President-elected 2012-2014
• Mr. Kenneth Klein of University of Southern California has been elected Secretary with a three-year term 2012-2015.
• Ms. Hee-sook Shin of Columbia University has been elected Treasurer 2012-2015
• Ms. Toshie Marra of UCLA and Ms. Wen-ling Liu of Indiana University have been elected Members-at-Large 2012-2015

Congratulations to all these five newly elected EB members. We trust that they will make invaluable contributions to our organization.

This year, we received 19 nominations, among which 10 were selected as the candidates for the five seats on the Executive Board. For the election, we distributed 146 ballots to current CEAL members, and received 109 finished ballots at a 75% response rate. I want to thank again to those of you who participated in the nomination and election.

I also want to thank my teammates for their dedicated work in making the election another success. My teammates include--

• Election Committee members - Mikyung Kang and Setsuko Noguchi
• Ex-officio members-Joy Kim, Peter Zhou, and Beth Katzoff
• Treasurer -Ai-lin Yang
• The Chair of Membership -- Hikaru Nakano
• The Chair of Library Technology – Robert Britt.

See you next year in San Diego.

Regards,
Ying

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Ying Zhang, Ph.D.

Research Librarian for Asian Studies

University of California Irvine Libraries

P.O. Box 19557, Irvine, CA 92623-9557

Phone: 949.824.0489

fax: 949.824.0605

Email: yingz@uci.edu

Web: http://libguides.lib.uci.edu/asian_studies

Offices: Langson Library Room 466, 109 

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Online CEAL Directory Changes

Users of the online CEAL Directory will notice a few recent changes (please see below). Please note that the CEAL Membership Committee, headed by Hikaru Nakano, relies on "Designated Updaters" at institutions to keep the information in the CEAL Directory fresh.

• "Search Personnel" has changed to "Search People" (I thought it sounded friendlier)
• The "Search People" page now has two separate search boxes: One for standard searching by name or other data, and another for searching specific groups within the CEAL Directory: CEAL Members, AAS Members, Designated Updaters, etc. The group searches provide a quick and easy listing, and the new separate boxes by search type are very convenient and easy to understand. Please see the screenshot below. 
• CEAL Treasurer Ai-lin Yang has recently updated the database with the latest information on CEAL and AAS Membership.

Let me know if you have questions or concerns.

Rob Britt
Chair, Library Technology Committee

CEAL Election 2012

Dear CEAL Members,

I am excited to announce the upcoming CEAL election!  This year we will elect representatives to fill the following important positions:

• Vice President/President Elect (2012-2014)
• Secretary (2012-2015)
• Treasurer (2012-2015)
• Members at Large (two positions)  (2012-2015)

We are fortunate to have a slate of superb candidates this year.  I thank the candidates for their willingness to stand for election.  As you consider the candidates’ qualifications for their respective duties, you may wish to consult the CEAL Bylaws at: http://www.eastasianlib.org/CEAL/Bylaws/CEALbylaws.pdf

On Monday, February 13th , current CEAL members (defined as AAS members who pay CEAL membership dues) will receive an e-mail from Rob Britt, Technology Committee Chair, transmitting CEAL Secretary Beth Katzoff’s letter with a link to the online ballot. While membership can be renewed at any time, please note that the voters list has already been finalized for this election.  If you believe that you are a current CEAL member and did not receive the online ballot on Monday, February 13th, please send a message to both Ai-lin Yang, Treasurer <ayang1@stanford.edu> and Hikaru Nakano, Membership Committee Chair <hiknaka@uflib.ufl.edu>.  The last day to cast your vote will be  Monday, March 5th.

It may not be obvious, but preparing for an election takes a great deal of hard work by many people behind the scenes.  I congratulate and thank the Election Committee (Ying Zhang, Chair, Setsuko Noguchi, Mikyung Kang, and ex-officio members, Peter Zhou, Beth Katzoff, and myself) for successfully recruiting this excellent slate of candidates.  As usual, Ai-lin Yang and Hikaru Nakano also worked hard verifying and updating the membership records, as did Rob Britt, who prepared the online ballot and the voters list.  

Thank you in advance for your participation in the election!  The election results will be announced at the Plenary I (Business) meeting on March 14th  at the Toronto, Canada AAS / CEAL conference, and after the conference, on Eastlib and the CEAL News  blog (http://cealnews.blogspot.com/).

Joy Kim

President

Council on East Asian Libraries

http://www.eastasianlib.org

Curator, Korean Heritage Library

East Asian Library

University of Southern California

University Park

Los Angeles, CA90089-1825

Tel:  213-740-2329 or 213-740-2535

Fax: 213-740-7437

http://www.usc.edu/korea

http://libguides.usc.edu/korea