New CEAL Logo Adopted

Dear CEAL Colleagues:

Last August, the CEAL Executive Board set up a committee to solicit different designs

for a new CEAL logo. The committee has worked diligently to come up with a design and

presented the final choices to CEAL membership to vote for. I am very pleased to announce

that 73% of responding members voted in favor of Shirin Eshghi’s design below. It is now

the official logo for CEAL.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank members of the CEAL Logo

Committee for their hard work:

• Rob Britt, Logo Committee Chair
  Library Technology Chair
  University of Washington, Law Library
• Susan Xue
  Chinese Materials Chair
  University of California at Berkeley
• Setsuko Noguchi
  Japanese Materials Chair
  University of Illinois
• Yunah Sung
  Korean Materials Chair
  University of Michigan
• Gail King
  Publications Chair
  Brigham Young University
• Joy Kim (ex-officio)
  Past President
  University of Southern California
• Ellen Hammond (ex-officio)
  Vice President / President Elect
  Yale University

Peter Zhou, Ph.D.

President, Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL)

&

Assistant University Librarian

Director, C.V. Starr East Asian Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

Tel: (510) 643-6579

FAX: (510) 642-3817

pzhou@library.berkeley.edu

LC: New PCC CJK NACO Project Coordinator

Dear CEAL Colleagues,

We are happy to announce that Sarah Elman of Columbia University East Asian Library will serve as coordinator for the PCC CJK NACO Project.  Sarah formerly worked as Chair of the Committee on Technical Processing of CEAL and it is great to see Sarah will continue to work with CJK colleagues closely in the role of CJK NACO Project coordinator.  A big thank-you to Shuyong Jiang, the current Project Coordinator for her dedicated service in the past several years.  Please visit the PCC and CJK NACO Project homepages at: 

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco/CJK.html

Sincerely, 

Jessalyn Zoom  

Cooperative Programs Section

Cooperative and Instructional Programs Division

Library of Congress

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

RDA for CJK Wiki Open to All

The CEAL Committee on Technical Processing is pleased to announce that the wiki site of the CTP RDA & CJK Materials Workshop is open to everyone who are interested to access.

Click to View: http://rdaandcjkworkshop.pbworks.com/w/page/49260024/Home

Please note that the RDA is still evolving, many more decisions and training resources will be available later on. This workshop training slides on the wiki site covered the contents as of March 1, 2012. The trainers will keep some information of this wiki up-to-date such as category I-VI, and hopefully this wiki could be an effective training tool for CJK community in the long run.  

I would like to take the opportunity to thank our trainers again:

• Charlene Chou, lead trainer, Columbia University
• Erminia Chao, Brigham Young University
• Hideyuki Morimoto, Columbia University
• Jai-Hsya Tsao, University of Chicago

Best,

--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

Japanese Romanization Taskforce Update

On March 21, 2012, the Library of Congress Policy and Standards Division announced that it will begin to follow recommendations of the CEAL Japanese Romanization Task Force, with the following message:

Implementation of Apostrophes in Japanese Romanized Cataloging and

Proposed Revision of the ALA-LC Japanese Romanization Table

The Library of Congress recently announced its interest in clarifying the use of apostrophes in romanized Japanese cataloging. Comments about the announcement were overwhelmingly in favor of using the apostrophe rather than the alif.

Based on this feedback, the Library of Congress will immediately align the use of the apostrophe in Japanese romanized cataloging with the published ALA-LC Japanese romanization standard. LC will also update headings in its bibliographic and authorities databases to reflect this decision. PCC member institutions are asked to adjust Japanese romanized cataloging records accordingly as they are encountered.

The announcement about apostrophe use in Japanese romanized cataloging revealed that additional revisions to the Japanese ALA-LC romanization table were needed. LC’s Policy and Standards Division is posting a revision proposal to the Japanese romanization table [PDF, 190 KB], along with a separate document [PDF, 36 KB] that enumerates changes in the revision proposal. These documents are available for download on the Library of Congress website at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman_japanesediacritics_Mar2012.html .

Comments on this proposed revision should be sent to Bruce Johnson in LC’s Policy and Standards Division ( bjoh@loc.gov ) no later than June 13, 2012.

CEAL Election 2012 Results

Dear colleagues,

It was a pleasure to see many of you in Toronto. Hope you had a pleasant trip back to your home. For those of you who were unable to attend the annual meeting, I am sharing with you the election results.

• Ms. Ellen Hammond of Yale University has been elected Vice President/President-elected 2012-2014
• Mr. Kenneth Klein of University of Southern California has been elected Secretary with a three-year term 2012-2015.
• Ms. Hee-sook Shin of Columbia University has been elected Treasurer 2012-2015
• Ms. Toshie Marra of UCLA and Ms. Wen-ling Liu of Indiana University have been elected Members-at-Large 2012-2015

Congratulations to all these five newly elected EB members. We trust that they will make invaluable contributions to our organization.

This year, we received 19 nominations, among which 10 were selected as the candidates for the five seats on the Executive Board. For the election, we distributed 146 ballots to current CEAL members, and received 109 finished ballots at a 75% response rate. I want to thank again to those of you who participated in the nomination and election.

I also want to thank my teammates for their dedicated work in making the election another success. My teammates include--

• Election Committee members - Mikyung Kang and Setsuko Noguchi
• Ex-officio members-Joy Kim, Peter Zhou, and Beth Katzoff
• Treasurer -Ai-lin Yang
• The Chair of Membership -- Hikaru Nakano
• The Chair of Library Technology – Robert Britt.

See you next year in San Diego.

Regards,
Ying

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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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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