Chinese Rare Books Overseas: CEAL 2014 Program

Report on a Survey Project on the Collaborative Preservation of Chinese Rare Books Overseas

Mr. Zhang Zhiqing, Deputy Director of the National Library of China (NLC)

11:00-12:30pm, March 27, 2014
Independence Ballroom II, 3rd Level
Philadelphia Downtown Marriott

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Mr. Zhang’s report will give a brief overview of the NLC’s project on collaborative preservation of Chinese rare books overseas with a focus on the compilation of The Union Catalog of Chinese Rare Books in North America. He will also introduce the recent publications of Reprints of Chinese Rare Books (Overseas Edition) and Chinese Rare Books Series. Finally he will update the preparation for the “Workshop on Appraisal and Preservation of Chinese Rare Books for North American Librarians.”

Susan Xue
Chair, Committee on Chinese Materials (2012-14)

Electronic Resources: Librarians and Vendors Round Table

PDF: Roundtable Announcement | PDF: 2014 Plenary Program | Annual Meeting Schedule

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Council on East Asian Libraries 

Association for Asian Studies 

Electronic Resources: Librarians and Vendors Round Table 

9:30-11:00 pm 

Thursday, March 27 

 Liberty Ballroom C 

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown 

This Round Table is open to all CEAL members as well as vendors and electronic information providers who are strongly encouraged to submit issues and questions to their respective CEAL committee chairs for discussion at this Round Table. Jointly organized by Committees on Technical Processing, Chinese Materials, Japanese Materials, Korean Materials, and Public Services, this Round Table creates a dialog between East Asian librarians and vendors of electronic content. In particular, it articulates the need for compliance with well-established metadata standards for electronic resources when vendors provide e-content to East Asian libraries in North America. 

Moderator: Peter Zhou, CEAL President 

Issues and standards 

• Shi Deng
  Chair, Committee on Technical Processing 
• Bie-hwa Ma
  Co-Chair, CEAL Task Force on Metadata Standards and Best Practices for East Asian Electronic Resources 
• Chengzhi Wang
  Co-chair, CEAL Task Force on Metadata Standards and Best Practices for East Asian Electronic Resources Needs and requirements 
• Susan Xue
  Chair, Committee on Chinese Materials 
• Setsuko Noguchi
  Chair, Committee on Japanese Materials 
• Yunah Sung, Chair
  Committee on Korean Materials 
• Jidong Yang
  Chair, Committee on Public Services 

Open discussion

Vendors and CEAL members

Summary and next steps

Ellen Hammond, Incoming President, CEAL

Committee on Chinese Materials: 2014 Program

PDF 2014 CCM Program

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Dear Colleagues,
The 2014 program of the Committee on Chinese Materials is now available from CEAL/CCM website. For details of the CCM Work Session and the two workshops, please visit http://www.eastasianlib.org/ccm/Program2014.shtml. A PDF version of the program is linked above.

We look forward to seeing you all in Philadelphia!

CCM Members:
Susan Xue, Chair
Vickie Doll
Tang Li
Ming-sun Poon
Zhijia Shen
Ping Situ
Haihui Zhang

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/CCM 2013 Pre-conference Workshop

Title: Discover the mystery of Chinese local gazetteers: what to get and how to use
Time: 7-10 PM, March 19, 2013
Place: Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, California (Room TBD)

This workshop is to address the needs from librarians who would like to learn about Chinese local gazetteers but have limited access to and use of such materials in their institutions. Contents to be covered include: a brief history of old and new gazetteers; compilation styles and layout; types of gazetteers (administrative levels, subjects, professionals); tools of using gazetteers; and research value of local gazetteers as special primary sources. The workshop will be conducted in English and Chinese. Materials used for training require reading knowledge of Chinese. To allow effective interactions during the workshop, seats are limited to 30. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to Tang Li at tang.li@yale.edu by December 21, 2012.

Trainer:
Dr. Ming-sun Poon
Reference librarian and Chinese area specialist, Library of Congress

Haihui Zhang
Chinese bibliographer and cataloger, University of Pittsburgh

CCM 2012 Presentation Files Posted

The presentation files for the CEAL Chinese Materials Committee (CCM) Annual Program and the Forum on Chinese Digital Content have been posted on the CCM website, here:
http://www.eastasianlib.org/ccm/Program2012.html.

Enjoy !

Susan Xue
Head, Information and Public Services Electronic Resources Librarian
C.V. Starr East Asian Library
UC Berkeley 5
510-643-6327

CCM Forum on Chinese Digital Content: PPT Files

PowerPoint presentations for the CCM Forum on Chinese Digital Content are available on the CCM Annual Meeting and Forum 2012 webpage (click to view; see links near the bottom of the page to the presenations noted below).

OR, go  directly to the PowerPoint presentations using the links below.
1. Chinese Classic Text database by Erudition
中国基本古籍库及分库
Yang Jidong, University of Michigan

2. Later Qing and Minguo Periodicals full-text database
晚清民国期刊全文数据库
Martin Heijdra, Princeton University

 3. The Chinese Cultural Revolution & Anti-Rightist Campaign Database
中国文化大革命及反右运动数据库
Yongyi Song, California State University at Los Angeles

4. Dragon Source 龙源 / Shen Bao 申报
Cathy Chiu, UC Santa Barbara / Susan Xue, UC Berkeley

Forum on Chinese Digital Content: Agenda 2012

View Agenda on CCM Website

Forum on Chinese Digital Content

Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 4:40-6:10 pm
Dominion Ballroom North, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel

4:40 – 4:45	Opening remarks Susan Xue, Chair of CCM, University of California at Berkeley
4:45 – 5:35	Database presentations. Forum attendees may want to review all the presentation PPTs online prior to the forum. During their 10 minutes, presenters will not go over their entire PPT slides but rather highlight their presentations and answer questions about the database. Presentations will address these issues: Content/coverage/value Publisher/agent Perpetual access or not Pros and cons Pricing and consortia arrangement if any Database to be presented:
4:45 – 4:55	Chinese Classic Text database by Erudition 中国基本古籍库及分库 Yang Jidong, University of Michigan
4:55 – 5:05	Later Qing and Minguo Periodicals full-text database 晚清民国期刊全文数据库 Martin Heijdra, Princeton University
5:05 – 5:15	The Chinese Cultural Revolution & Anti-Rightist Campaign Database 中国文化大革命及反右运动数据库 Yongyi Song, California State University at Los Angeles
5:15 – 5:25	中国历代典籍总目分析系统 Chengzhi Wang, Columbia University
5:25 – 5:35	Dragon Source龙源 / 申报 Cathy Chiu, UC Santa Barbara / Susan Xue, UC Berkeley
5:35 – 5:50	A CEAL Libraries Self Study: Levels of e-Resource Affordability Vickie Doll, University of Kansas
5:50 - 6:10	Q&A on databases, the CEAL libraries self study, and format for the future forum on digital content

This forum was organized and hosted by Committee on Chinese Materials

Chinese Materials Committee: Agenda 2012

View Agenda on CCM Website

2012 CEAL Conference
Committee on Chinese Materials
Annual Meeting
Thursday, March 15, 2012, 10:50 am - 12:20 pm

Dominion Ballroom South, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel

Theme: Collection Development for Chinese Studies in Digital Age
– Challenges and Strategies

10:50 - 10:53	Opening Remarks, introduction of Members Susan Xue 薛燕, Chair of CCM, University of California at Berkeley
10:53 - 11:08	Overall Publishing Trends in Chinese Scholarly Resources Li Wang 王立, Curator, East Asian Collection, Brown University Abstract
11:08 – 11:20	Developing New Library Business Models for e-Books: The Beyond Print Initiative Undertaken by the Triangle Research Libraries (TRLN) Hsi-Chu Bolick 黄熹珠, Librarian for East Asian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Luo Zhou 周珞, Chinese Studies Librarian, Duke University Abstract
11:20 – 11:33	Collecting Non-Chinese Materials from China: Needs, Methods, and Issues Jidong Yang 杨继东, Head of Asia Library, University of Michigan Abstract
11:33 – 11:45	PDA: Are We Ready to Step into the River Julie Wang 王晓燕, Librarian for Asian Studies, Binghamton University, SUNY Haihui Zhang 张海惠, Chinese Studies Librarian, University of Pittsburgh Abstract
11:45 – 12:00	Cooperation and Collaborations between CALIS and East Asian Libraries in North America – Services for Services 浅谈CALIS与北美东亚图书馆的合作意向: 以服务换服务 Yan Wang 王燕，, Manager of Portal Services, CALIS Abstract
12:00 – 12:20	Questions & Answers
Announcement:	Chengzhi Wang, Columbia University: Archival Resources of Republican China in North America

Agendas: CCM; Forum on Digital Content

Dear Colleagues,

The Committee on Chinese Materials (CCM) cordially invites you to attend its 2012 annual meeting and the forum on digital content at CEAL in Toronto. Please visit CCM website for full agenda for these two events: http://www.eastasianlib.org/ccm/Program2012.html

Brief information on time and location:

CCM Annual Meeting

10:50 am -12:20 pm, Thursday, March 15, 2012

Dominion Ballroom South, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel

Forum on Chinese Digital Content

4:40-6:10 pm, Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Dominion Ballroom North, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel

We look forward to seeing you at CCM annual meeting and the forum.

 

Committee on Chinese Materials:

Vickie Doll 傅玉波 (U of Kansas)

Tang Li 李唐 (Yale U)

Ming-sun Poon 潘銘燊 (LoC)

Zhijia Shen 沈志佳 (U of Washington)

Ping Situ 司徒萍 (U of Arizona)

Susan Xue 薛燕, Chair (UCB)

Haihui Zhang 張海惠 (U of Pittsburgh)

Susan Xue

Head, Information and Public Services

Electronic Resources Librarian

C.V. Starr East Asian Library

UC Berkeley

510-643-6327