Call for Nominations --CEAL Election

Dear colleagues,

Seasonal Greetings!

I am sending you the official call for nomination/self-nomination for five important CEAL positions open for election. As you may have seen from CEAL President Joy Kim's announcement dated December 12, 2011, these positions are:

--Vice President/President Elect
 --Secretary
 --Treasurer
--Two At-Large members

The Election Committee (EC) would greatly appreciate your participation in nominations. Following the guidance of CEAL By-laws -Article VII http://www.eastasianlib.org/CEAL/Bylaws/CEALbylaws.pdf ,  we are committed to ensuring a slate of nominees balanced in geographic representation, area specialty, and collection size. We welcome nominations and self-nominations of newer CEAL members whereas encouraging experienced members to continue your valued contribution to the organization. Serving on the Executive Board is a wonderful opportunity of professional growth and career promotion.

Please send your nominations for any colleague who is a CEAL member and could make a contribution to the organization in your perspective. And please address your nominations to any of the EC members (contacts listed below) by January 13, 2012. The EC will check with the people nominated to make sure they are will to serve and have current CEAL membership. 

Thank you very much!

CEAL Election Committee:
Mikyung Kang   mlkang@fas.harvard.edu
Setsuko Noguchi    enoguchi@staff.cic.net
Ying Zhang (Chair)  yingz@uci.edu

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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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CEAL Election Committee appointed

Dear CEAL Members,

I am pleased to announce that the CEAL Election Committee has been appointed for the upcoming election. The members are:

--Ying Zhang (Chair)
--Mikyung Kang
--Setsuko Noguchi

According to the CEAL Bylaws, the following officers will also serve as ExOfficio members: Joy Kim (President), Peter Zhou (VicePresident/President Elect), and Beth Katzoff (Secretary)

Ying will shortly issue a call for nominations for the following 5 important positions:

--Vice President/President Elect
--Secretary
--Treasurer
--Two At-Large members (to fill Ellen Hammond’s and Ying Zhang's positions who will rotate off in 2012.)

Please join me in thanking the Election Committee members, and be prepared to nominate candidates including self-nomination!

P.S. Please be reminded that only current CEAL members can vote or stand for elections, so this is a good time to review your membership status and renew asap if necessary.

Joy Kim
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

President
Council on East Asian Libraries
http://www.eastasianlib.org

LCSH Changes

This is to bring to the attention of those affected CEAL members and their patrons that, after NNC's repeated enquiries filed with LC, the latter has finally proposed cancellation of its LCSH:

   LCCN:  sh2008006789
   hdg.:  Dewa Region (Japan)

in favor of its separate LCSH:

   LCCN:  sh 85037415 
   hdg.:  Dewa (Japan)

These two LCSHs appear quite similar in geographic extent to each other. LCC # DS894.39.D4 entered in LCCN sh 85037415 for "Dewa (Japan)" has caption "Dewa region":

   010 $a CF 95263496
   153 $a DS894.39.D4 $c DS894.39.D495 $h History of Asia
       $h Japan $h Local history and description $h Tohoku
       region $h Prefectures, subregions, etc., A-Z $j
       Dewa region

GEOnet, Dec. 9, 2011 carries:

   Dewa (Approved)
   Dewa-no-kuni (Variant)
   Dewa Province (Variant)
   Ideha (Variant)
   39° 00' 00"N 140° 30' 00"E
   Feature Type: region

Col. gaz., Dec. 9, 2011 carries:

   Dewa
   Type of Place:  former province
   Location:  Akita, Japan
   Dewa, former province in N Honshu, Japan; now Akita
   prefecture and part of Aomori prefecture.

LC's cancellation proposal of its LCSH sp2008006789 now carries:

   010    $a sp2008006789
   682    $i This authority record has been deleted 
          because the heading is covered by the subject 
          heading Dewa (Japan) (sh 85037415).

This LCSH cancellation proposal is scheduled for discussion at the first 2012 PSD Editorial Meeting.

Hideyuki Morimoto

NII Authority Records for Japanese Classics

The Dec. 2011 revision of NII's (Japan's National Institute of Informatics) coding manual, ch. 14, to change provisions of uniform title authority records for Japanese classics has been released to the general public, here: http://www.nii.ac.jp/CAT-ILL/archive/pdf/CM14_kaitei.pdf. It may be of some interest to some CEAL members and their patrons. NII's explanation of this revision is available here: http://www.nii.ac.jp/CAT-ILL/archive/pdf/CM14_kaisetsu.pdf

Hideyuki Morimoto

Tokyo Metropolitan Lib Authority Data Offline

During Tokyo Metropolitan Library's system renewal, which is scheduled until Dec. 21, 2011, at 9:00am (Japan time), their authority data search service (URL:  http://catalog.library.metro.tokyo.jp/) is offline, and inaccessible.

(Click to view the Tokyo Metropolitan Library announcement in Japanese)

Hideyuki Morimoto

CEAL Directory PDFs Updated

The PDF version of the CEAL Directory Personnel and Institutions files have been updated. Links to both PDFs are here, along with more information about the CEAL Directory.

Click here to log in to the online CEAL Directory.

Annual Meeting Schedule: Toronto March 2012

Keep up-do-date with planning for the 2012 CEAL Annual Meeting in Toronto by checking the 2012 CEAL Annual Meeting Schedule, here (updated as information comes in).