Search for Unicode Values with UniView

FYI

Do you need to know the Unicode encoding value for a character in your database? You can see the character in OCLC Connexion or in your local system, but how can you find the character's encoding?

There is a great tool for that available free online:
UniView
http://rishida.net/rishida/scripts/uniview/

Uniview not only gives you the encoding, it also provides a direct link to the full record for the character in the Unihan database.

UniView was created by Richard Ishida of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Rob Britt
CEAL Library Technology Committee Chair

Creating and Sharing Webinars

FYI

We have begun to organize a system to help CEAL members create, webcast, and archive webinars on aspects of East Asian libraries. Our new page on the CEAL website describes the steps to produce and share instructional and informational webcasts that will be useful to anyone interested in East Asian librarianship.

To get started, please take a look at the new Webinars page (click to view).

Rob Britt Library Technology Chair rrbritt@rasnoft.net

Shi Deng Technical Processing Chair sdeng@ucsd.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

CEAL CTP/CJK NACO Project Joint Webinar

Dear all,
The CEAL Committee on Technical Processing and the CJK NACO Project are pleased to announce the CTP/CJK NACO Project Joint Webinar on NACO References for Corporate and Conference Names.

Description: The webinar is designed to provide attendees with ability to use AACR2 and its related guidelines to create and evaluate corporate body and conference references in the CJK language area.

Presenter: Jessalyn Zoom, Cooperative Cataloging Program Specialist at Library of Congress.
Date: Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012
Time: 2:30-4:00 pm EST/11:30 am - 1:00 pm PST
Length: 90 minutes (60 minutes lecture, 30 minutes Q&A)

Registration is free: Click here to register

Click here to view: Course Description (PDF) | Course Outline (PDF)

We look forward to seeing you!
Shuyong Jiang
Coordinator, CJK NACO Project

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

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