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

Technical Processing Committee: 2014 Program

Program (PDF) | CTP

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Council on East Asian Libraries Association for Asia Studies 

Committee on Technical Processing 

2014 Program 

RDA Implementation: Current Status and Known Issues

Philadelphia Marriot Downtown 

Marriott Liberty Ballroom C 

Thursday, March 27, 2014 2:30-3:20 p.m. 

The CEAL CTP Subcommittee on RDA will report a survey results on the current status of RDA implementation among CEAL members since March 31, 2013, the implementation date set by the national libraries. The Subcommittee will also present some examples of what public services and users would like to see on specific CJK known issues and how they may affect user tasks/experiences in resource discovery. A discussion of some possible solutions to some of known issues as well as how to prioritize these issues will be followed by a Q&A sessions.

2:30-3:00 pm RDA Implementation: Current Status and Known Issues (Charlene, Jessalyn, Sarah, & Shi)

• Survey report on RDA Implementation Status among CEAL Community
• Known Issues: how they may affect users’ experiences in resource discovery
• Known Issues: Some possible solutions to known issues and the committee’s priorities
• LC Updates on CJK Numerals, etc. (to distribute in writing via eastlib-l by Friday, March 21)
• PCC CJK NACO Project updates (to distribute in writing via eastlib-l by Friday, March 21)
• Q&A (5 minutes) 

3:00-3:05 pm Report: ALA-LC Japanese Romanization Table (Yoko) 
3:05-3:10 pm Report & Award: LC-CEAL Internship Program (Yue) 
3:10-3:15 pm Report & Recognition of CTP members and subcommittee members (Shi) 
3:15-3:20 pm Q&A

New: CEAL Technical Services Expertise List

Expertise List | Expertise Survey | CTP

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Dear Colleagues,
At the 2013 CEAL Annual Meeting, the idea was raised that the Committee on Technical Processing (CTP) should gather cataloging expertise information from CEAL members, so that it would be easier for CEAL members to find colleagues with special skills for consultation or collaboration. As a result, the Committee on Technical Processing worked with the Membership Committee to gather information on the technical services expertise of CEAL members.

We are pleased to announce that the survey results are available from the link below. We would like to thank Rob Britt (Library Technology Committee) for providing the technical support.
CEAL Technical Services Expertise List
The survey results will also be linked on the CTP webpage.

We hope this list will be a valuable resource for colleagues seeking technical services expertise among the CEAL membership.

We will keep the survey open so anyone who wants to be included or wants to update information can do so by clicking here. Please note that we will continue to maintain this list.

Please send any questions or correction requests to Mieko Mazza and Keiko Suzuki.

Thank you again for responding to the cataloging expertise survey.

Mieko Mazza (Committee on Technical Processing)
Japanese Technical Services Librarian
East Asia Library, Meyer Library, 4th Floor
Stanford University
T 650.497.5437
miekom@stanford.edu

Ms. Keiko SUZUKI 鈴木啓子 (CEAL Membership Committee)
Head, East Asia Library Technical Services,
International Collections & Research Support
Yale University
PO Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
TEL: (203) 432-2778
FAX: (203) 432-8527
keiko.suzuki@yale.edu

Implementing the Japanese Romanization Table

LC Japanese Romanization Table (updated 2012) | Joel Hahn Macros (Includes Alif to Apostrophe) | Webinar on OCLC Macros (by Erica Chang) | NACO/SACO Change Request Form

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The Committee on Technical Processing (CTP)/Committee on Japanese Materials (CJM) Joint Working Group on the ALA-LC Japanese Romanization Table was formed in September 2013 to continue the work of the previous task force with regard to revisions and updates to the ALA-LC Japanese Romanization Table. It has been a year since the revision of the Japanese Romanization Table was approved and distributed. The Working Group would particularly like to raise the Japanese cataloging community's awareness that the current Table (linked above) specifies the use of the apostrophe | ' | (Unicode 0027) rather than the alif | ʾ | (Unicode 02BE) (see examples under "Diacritic Marks, 2").

What You Need to Know

• OCLC regularly updates Worldcat BIBLIOGRAPHIC records to the new standard, using an automated program to replace any alifs in Japanese cataloging with apostrophes (listserv post from Ms. Kotaka of OCLC).
• OCLC does not update AUTHORITY records. This is because the data management/control for LC/NACO authority files is in LC/NACO hands. As a result, pre-2012 authority records may still include the alif in romanized Japanese text.
• In bibliographic records, if the "control headings" feature is used with authority records that include the alif, the alif will be re-introduced. Alifs in controlled fields will be corrected when the linked authority records are updated with the apostrophe.
• Because of the normalization process, mixed use of these two diacritics will not cause any hindrance to searchers in WorldCat. However, it is still important to update authority records in order to maintain consistent use of diacritics in the records, as well as to prevent any search problems from occurring in local systems after importing records from OCLC.

What You Can Do

OCLC

• NACO (Name Authority Cooperative Program of the PCC) libraries : If you are a trained NACO contributor working for a NACO library, please update authority records by replacing any alifs with apostrophes in romanized Japanese, whenever time allows.
• Non-NACO libraries are not authorized to update the records. However, you may make a change request to the Working Group. Click here or above to submit a request form.
• Joel Hahn's macro for converting alifs to apostrophes, "AlifAyn2Apostrophe" (see links above) may be used in OCLC Connexion to update either bibliographic OR authority records.
• For more background on macros for this purpose and other related issues, see Erica Chang's presentation, "Using macros in Connexion for CJK materials webinar, Advanced session" (11/2012), linked above.
• Subject authority records may also include alifs, when they include romanized Japanese text. If your institution is a SACO library, ask your SACO coordinator to make a change proposal to LC. Non-SACO libraries may contact the Working Group using the request form link above.

Local Systems

• Be aware of the use of the alif in bibliographic records you download to your local integrated library system (ILS). You may want to replace any alifs with apostrophes in OCLC Connextion before exporting records to your local system.
• LC has kindly shared their alif-to-apostrophe macro for the Voyager ILS. For more information, please contact the Working Group chair, Yoko Kudo at yoko.kudo@ucr.edu
• For other local systems, each library must develop their own policy with regard to this issue depending on local needs and priorities. The effect of the mixed use of the alif and apostrophe may vary from system to system.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact Yoko Kudo (yoko.kudo@ucr.edu), or any other Working Group member.

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Japanese Romanization Working Group (JRWG)

Yoko Kudo (Chair, UC Riverside)
Rob Britt (U. Washington)
Mieko Mazza (Stanford)
Hikaru Nakano (U. Florida)
Chiaki Sakai (U. Iowa)
Keiko Suzuki (Yale)
Working Group charge

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CTP/CJM Working Group on the ALA-LC Japanese Romanization Table Formed

In 2012 CTP and CJM formed a joint Task Force on the LC Proposal for Japanese Romanization to respond and provide feedback to the LC Revision Proposal for Japanese Romanization Table. The revision was approved and released in Dec. 2012.

Based on the 2012 CTP/CJM Task Force ’s report and recommendations, CTP and CJM formed a new joint working group on the ALA-LC Japanese Romanization Table in September 2013 to collect feedback on the 2012 revision and work on unresolved issues, etc., to be chaired by Yoko Kudo.

Thanks to Yoko and the following CEAL members who are willing to take the leadership and serve on the WG on the important issues concerning the ALA-LC Japanese Romanization guidelines:

• Yoko Kudo, Chair (UC Riverside)
• Rob Britt (U. Washington)
• Keiko Suzuki (Yale)
• Chiaki Sakai (U. Iowa)
• Hikaru Nakano (U. Florida)
• Mieko Mazza (Stanford)

The WG’s charge is available at the CTP website. The WG welcomes suggestions/comments from CEAL members. Please contact Yoko Kudo at yoko.kudo@ucr.edu

Shi Deng, Chair, Committee on Technical Processing Setsuko Noguchi, Chair, Committee on Japanese Materials

CEAL Task Force on Metadata Standards Formed

I am pleased to announce, on behalf of CEAL Executive Board and CTP members, that CTP worked with CEAL Executive Board members recently to form the CEAL Task Force on Metadata Standards and Best Practices for East Asian Electronic Resources, to be co-chaired by Bie-Hwa Ma and Chengzhi Wang.

This Task Force is charged to investigate the best practices for creating, manipulating, and managing electronic content and metadata for resources in East Asian languages including that for current and future databases, e-journals, e-books and media materials, and address the issues as those e-resources move through their life cycle from selection through user access, along with associated metadata across different systems and functions.

Under this general charge, the Task Force promotes compliance with well-established metadata standards and best practices for electronic resources used by research libraries in North America, and communicates the required compliance to vendors/ information providers of East Asian digital publications.

The Task Force will work as a liaison with national and international working groups on metadata standards and best practices to identify issues related to East Asian e-resources. When called for, it will form responses to national and international organizations on e-resource metadata standards in consultation with the CEAL community.

The Taskl Force will organize training workshops and educational programs for both East Asian library staff of research libraries in North America and East Asian content providers to promote metadata standards and best practices. The first workshop will be held at the upcoming CEAL 2014 conference on Tuesday, March 25, 2014. Please see registration for more details.

Thanks to Bie-Hwa for taking the initiative on getting CTP to form this group and the following CEAL members who are willing to take the leadership and serve on this important TF:

• Bie-Hwa Ma (Co-Chair, UCSD, for technical services)
• Chengzhi Wang (Co-Chair, Columbia, for collections and public services)
• Susan Xue (UCB)
• Haruko Nakamura (Yale)
• Miree Ku (Duke)
• Connie Lam (HKU)
• Charlene Chou (U. Washington)
• Mieko Mazza (Stanford)
• Erica Chang (U. Hawai’i)
• Shi Deng (UCSD)
• Ex-officio and liaison to CEAL EB: Shi Deng, CTP chair.

The TF’s charge is available at the CTP website. The TF welcomes suggestions/comments from CEAL members. Please contact Bie-Hwa Ma at bcma@ucsd.edu or Chengzhi Wang at cw2165@columbia.edu

Shi Deng, Chair, Committee on Technical Processing

CTP Subcommittee on RDA Formed

Dear all,
Over the last two years, CTP was called upon numerous times to address and/or respond to RDA related issues, and sometimes we had to work on the RDA JSC and/or PCC’s timetable to provide comments/input on behalf of the CEAL community. The list of CJK specific RDA-related issues is getting longer. The need to have a group of members, who are the front runners and have more experience/knowledge with RDA, focusing on RDA related issues became more prominent with the implementation of RDA. With approval of CEAL executive board, CTP formed a Subcommittee on RDA, to be chaired by Charlene Chou.

The Subcommittee will work on CJK specific issues related to RDA instructions in consultation with CEAL community; facilitate and seek CEAL community input on any proposed RDA instructions or best practices that may improve the effectiveness of cataloging CJK language materials; propose RDA instructions or best practices that may facilitate and enhance user discovery; communicate with ALA, LC, PCC, OCLC and/or other stakeholders on behalf of the CEAL CTP and CEAL community with the approval of CEAL Executive Board; coordinate and/or work jointly with OCLC CJK UG on database maintenance projects as a result of RDA implementation and/or changes of RDA instructions; recommend to the CTP Chair to form working groups on specific RDA-related issues as needed and collaborate with those groups when appropriate; plan and develop for RDA training sessions if needed.

Thanks to Charlene and the following CEAL members who are willing to take the leadership and serve on the Subcommittee:

• Charlene Chou (Chair, U Washington)
• Erica Chang (Hawaii)
• Erminia Chao(BYU, AV materials)
• Jee-Young Park (Chicago)
• Mieko Mazza (Stanford)
• Rob Britt (U Washington, laws & public services)
• Shi Deng (UC San Diego)
• T.J. Kao (Yale)

• Consultant:  Hideyuki Morimoto (Columbia)
• Liaisons: Sarah Elman (Columbia, CJK NACO Project liaison); Jessalyn Zoom (LC, LC liaison)

The Subcommittee’s charge is available at the CTP website. The Subcommittee welcomes suggestions/comments from CEAL members. Please contact Charlene Chou at cc83@u.washington.edu

Shi Deng, Chair, Committee on Technical Processing

CEAL CTP 2014 Workshop Registration Open till Dec. 15, 2013

Dear all,

Based on the survey conducted via eastlib in Oct. 2013, CEAL CTP will sponsor two one-day pre-conference workshops jointly with other committees:
•    Electronic Resources Standards and Best Practices: What Do Bibliographers, Catalogers, Publishers, and Vendors Need to Know? 
•    Advanced RDA NACO Training

Please click here to register.  Registration will be closed on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013. A confirmation with instruction for collecting registration fee will be sent out after registration closed. Except for publishers/vendors for the Tuesday workshop, CEAL members are given first priority over non-CEAL members.

Housing: Both workshops will be held at the Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, about 2 miles from AAS conference hotel, so please make housing arrangement on your own.

Workshop details are described below: 

1. Tuesday Workshop: Electronic Resources Standards and Best Practices: What Do Bibliographers, Catalogers, Publishers, and Vendors Need to Know?  (Jointly sponsored by CEAL Committee on Chinese Materials, Committee on Japanese Materials, & Committee on Korean Materials)

Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 9:00 am-4:30 pm
Location: Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
Registration Fee: $30 or $35 (additional 20% for non-CEAL member)
Participants Capacity: 80

Workshop Description:
Renowned leaders in the field will introduce the well-established national/international e-resources metadata standards and best practices (Presentation and Identification of E-Journals (PIE-J), ISSN, name identification standards (ISNI, ORCID, etc.), Knowledge Bases And Related Tools (KBART), OpenURL, Digital Object Identifier (DOI)) for creating, manipulating, and managing electronic content and metadata for online resources. They will also address the benefit from complying with these standards and present examples with best practices. CEAL colleagues will address current metadata issues and challenges for East Asian online resources that affect user experience as well as to report the status of vendors’/librarians’ awareness of established standards and best practices.

Desired outcome:
1)    The workshop will bring catalogers, bibliographers, public service librarians, and publishers/vendors together to work collaboratively on improving discoverability and accessibility of e-content;
2)    The participants will have a thorough understanding of the impact on user experience from complying with standards;
3)    The audience will have recommended criteria to evaluate the e-content presentation and metadata for resources;
4)    The librarians will be able to communicate with publishers/vendors of East Asian materials on whether they are compliant with these best practices when negotiating and signing license agreements; and
5)    The publishers/vendors will be able to create quality e-content and associated metadata to effectively support different levels of user discovery as well as to eliminate access problems that consume staff time for resolution.

Presenters:
Regina Romano Reynolds (Head, ISSN Section and Director, U.S. ISSN Center, Library of Congress)
Nettie Lagace (Associate Director for Programs, National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Other CEAL specialists


2. Monday Workshop: Advanced RDA NACO Training (Jointly sponsored by PCC CJK NACO Project)

Date: Monday, March 24, 2014, 9:00 am-4:00 pm
Location: Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
Registration Fee: $20 or $25 (additional 20% for non-CEAL member)
Participants Capacity: 30

Workshop Description:
This one-day workshop is designed to provide in-depth study in the areas of CJK name authorities.  The workshop will cover the RDA updates on name authorities since the last CEAL workshop in 2013.  Name authorities in the areas of corporate body names, place names, and works and expressions will be discussed, as will the LC/NACO Authority File regarding changes to existing authority records.  Hands-on examples will be incorporated in the training.

Prerequisite: 
Fundamental knowledge of RDA authority record contents and structure. IT IS NOT INTENDED FOR BEGINNERS.

Trainers: 
Jessalyn Zoom (key trainer), Sarah S. Elman and other CJK cataloging specialists

CEAL CTP-OCLC CJK Users Group Joint Program, 3/21/2013

Dear CEAL Members,

This is a friendly reminder that On RDA Implementation, the CEAL CTP-OCLC CJK Users Group Joint Program, will be held on Thursday, 3:30-4:45, March 21 at Manchester Ballroom A, Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego.

CEAL members will hear updates from representatives of LC, PCC, and OCLC on their policies and inside stories of their decision-making process, especially some policies that may have more impact on cataloging CJK language materials, as well as answer questions collected before the program. We will also hear CJK NACO Project progress report. 

If you have a question, please submit at the link below:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDVJTDhUdVR5LWNHVW5wVXktUWlRdEE6MQ&nbsp ;

Your questions will be read/viewed by everyone. You have the option to provide your name or keep it anonymous.

To view questions that have been already submitted, please go to:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkORljPz2xdGdDVJTDhUdVR5LWNHVW5wVXktUWlRdEE#gid=0

Shi Deng (sdeng@ucsd.edu), Chair, CEAL CTP
Charlene Chou (cc179@columbia.edu), Chair, OCLC CJK Users Group

Japanese Romanization Table Revision Approved

Dear all,

Please read the LC announcement below approving the ALA-LC Japanese Romanization Table Revision. The major difference between this approved version and the September proposal you read is that Table C, Long Vowels and Diphthongs, was not included.

Japanese Romanization Table Revision Approved

The ALA-LC Romanization tables are developed jointly by the Library of Congress (LC) and the American Library Association (ALA). Romanization schemes enable the cataloging of foreign language materials. Romanized cataloging in turn supports circulation, acquisitions, serials check-in, shelf listing, shelving, and reference, particularly in library catalogs that are unable to display non-roman alphabet information.
The ALCTS Committee on Cataloging: Asian and African Materials (CC:AAM) recently received and reviewed a proposal to revise the Japanese romanization table. The table has subsequently been approved.

The revised Japanese romanization table is now available for downloading from the ALA-LC Romanization Tables webpage http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html .

Please direct any questions about romanization tables to Bruce Johnson, Policy and Standards Division (bjoh@loc.gov).

The CEAL Committee on Technical Process and Committee on Japanese Materials wish to thank the CTP/CJM Joint Task Force on the LC Proposal for Japanese Romanization for their great leadership and intellectual efforts in working closely with CEAL community and LC to provide significant contribution to this revision.

The Task Force members are:

• Keiko Suzuki, Yale University, Chair
• Rob Britt, University of Washington 
• Yoko Kudo, University of California Riverside 
• Mieko Mazza, Yale University (now at Stanford University) 
• Hikaru Nakano, University of Florida

Thanks also to CEAL members who have contributed to the revision by providing feedback.

As the work of the CTP/CJM Joint Task Force on the LC Proposal for Japanese Romanization is now complete, we are pleased to announce that it is formally discharged. For more details about the work of the TF, please check its web page at: http://www.eastasianlib.org/ctp/sub_Japaneseromanization.htm

Meanwhile, the revision of the Japanese Romanization Table will continue. CTP and CJM are working on the formation of a new working group. We will send out the announcement soon. If you are interested in joining the working group, please contact me (sdeng@ucsd.edu) or Setsuko (enoguchi@live.com). 

Best,

Shi Deng
Chair, CEAL Technical Processing Committee

Setsuko Noguchi
Chair, CEAL Japanese Materials Committee

Call for presenters for the joint CTP/CPS session, CEAL 2013

Dear CEAL members,

The theme of the coming 2013 CEAL annual conference in San Diego will be “Open Access and Discovery in the Academic Universe: Next Steps for East Asian Studies Research and Library Development.” The CEAL committees on technical processing and public services will organize a joint panel focusing on the issue of open access and library services. The joint session will last for 1.5 hours. In addition to a guest speaker, we need two more presenters from the CEAL community. If you're interested in giving a presentation on open access and its impact on library services for East Asian studies and librarianship, please submit a proposal to us by December 15. We will review the proposals and announce the results in early January.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Shi Deng (CTP Chair, University of California at San Diego)
Jidong Yang (CPS Chair, University of Michigan)

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.

RDA Workshops at CEAL 2013

CEAL 2013 Schedule

Dear all,

The CEAL Committee on Technical Processing (CTP) is planning to offer two workshops on RDA Monday-Tuesday, Mar. 18-19, 2013.

Creating CJK RDA Bibliographic Records

Monday-Tuesday, Mar. 18-19, 2013 (one and half days)

Prerequisite: For better results, please do self-study using the LC RDA training materials. The course table includes 9 modules, and takes about 3 hours.
Click to view the LC RDA training course table.

CJK RDA NACO

Tuesday, Mar. 19, 2013 (half day in afternoon, after the first workshop)

PREREQUISITE: Only for NACO catalogers who have participated in LC RDA NACO training, either with the CJK NACO Project or with your institutions. IT IS NOT INTENDED FOR BEGINNERS.

This announcement is only intended to help you plan your conference arrangement (i.e. budget planning, hotel reservation, etc.). We are still working on finding the workshop venues, trainers, and deciding on the contents. I will provide the workshop details once we have everything in place.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

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

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

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