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

Open House at Toronto East Asia Libraries

Revised Invitation | Directions from Sheraton to: EAL | Royal Ontario Museum

Dear Colleagues and friends,

We are pleased to announce that the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, University of Toronto (http://www.library.utoronto.ca/east/ ) and the H. H. Mu Far Eastern Library at Royal Ontario Museum (http://www.rom.on.ca/collections/library/east.php ) would like to invite you for an open house event and reception in our libraries on Thursday, March 15 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm for the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, and 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm for the H. H. Mu Far Eastern Library. 

Please RSVP with Lucy Gan (lucy.gan@utoronto.ca ) for a visit to the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library. The director of our Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (http://www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/index.html ) has also kindly offered to give a brief tour of the library (5:30 – 6:00). The tour is limited for 25 people in a first-come-first-serve manner. If you wish to visit the library, please indicate it in your RSVP to Lucy Gan.

Please RSVP to Jack Howard (jack.howard@utoronto.ca ) for your visit to the H. H. Mu Far Eastern Library. Due to space limitations, the visit to this library will be limited to 40 people on a first come, first served basis.

The RSVP deadline is March 2, 2012.

The instruction maps from the conference hotel to our libraries are linked here (and above) for your convenience:
Revised Invitation | Directions from Sheraton to: EAL | Royal Ontario Museum

We look forward to meeting with you in our libraries soon!

Stephen Qiao

Acting Director

The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library

University of Toronto

Jack Howard

Senior Librarian

H. H. Mu Far Eastern Library

Royal Ontario Museum 

Stephen Qiao

Acting Director

China Studies Librarian

The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library

University of Toronto Libraries

130 St. George Street

Toronto, Ontario

Canada, M5S 1A5

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

Speakers Wanted: Mobile/Social Media Roundtable

CEAL 2012 Schedule

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

On behalf of Membership Committee, I am calling for speakers for our Roundtable Discussion at this year’s CEAL/AAS Conference (9:30pm – 11:00pm, Wednesday March 14th). The particular roundtable I will be hosting is on the theme of Mobile Technologies/Social Media and Their Applications in the Library. If you have any level of work experience in this area and would like to share and exchange ideas with interested colleagues, please contact me off the list for becoming one of our speakers at the roundtable. For those who are new, the roundtable is a very casual, informal opportunity for information sharing and free discussion, led by our appointed speakers and monitored by the host. There will be no formal presentation or lecture.

Thanks and look forward to seeing you all in Toronto!

Yunshan Ye
Email: yye7@jhu.edu

East Asian Studies Librarian
Johns Hopkins

Plenary Program Agenda (Update)

Annual Meeting Schedule | Annual Meeting Page | Plenary Program (PDF) |

 Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL)

Association for Asian Studies

Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, March 12–18, 2012

***Plenary Program***

Organizational Changes in Research Libraries and 

Their Impact on East Asian Collections:
CEAL’s Strategic Position

Wednesday March 14, 2012

10:30–12:00 noon

Dominion Ballroom South, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel

For almost a decade, we have been witnessing major organizational changes in research libraries. Unfortunately, East Asian libraries sometimes are on the receiving end of these changes. Decision makers do not always seek the opinions of CEAL members, even though their decisions will inevitably impact how the libraries operate. This year’s plenary program aims to provide a study of some of the organizational changes impacting East Asian libraries in North America, in order to help CEAL members take the initiative to formulate a strategic position on issues critical to our services and operations.

Agenda

• 10:30–10:35
  Welcome and Introductions
  Joy Kim, University of Southern California
• 10:35–1:55
  The Future of Libraries and Area Studies Collections
  Larry Alford, Chief Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries
• 10:55–11:10 Strategic Directions at Harvard Libraries
  James Cheng, Harvard University 
• 11:10–11:25
  New Horizons and Boundaries: Discussions at the University of California Libraries
  Peter Zhou, UC Berkeley
• 11:25–11:40
  Reorganization of Technical Services at  Princeton
  Tai-loi Ma, Princeton University
• 11:40–12:00
  Q & A

CPS/CTP Joint Program Agenda 2012

Dear all,
The CEAL Committee on Public Services and Committee on Technical Processing are pleased to announce the CPS/CTP Joint Program:

“Discovery, Delivery, and Dissemination of Information In a Multilingual and Multicultural Environment"  

Wednesday, March 14 

1:20-4:30 P.M. 

***To be held at the***

Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Dominion Ballroom South

 Please click here to view the schedule (PDF)

We look forward to seeing you there!

Jidong Yang, Chair, CEAL CPS
Shi Deng, Chair, CEAL CTP