Contribute Your Photos of CEAL 2013!

Dear Colleagues,

I hope you’re all doing well after CEAL 2013. I noticed a few of you taking photos during the conference, and I hope you’re willing to share them with the CEAL community. How? Please see below.

Picasa Photo Pane on the CEAL Website

As a start, I added some photos from the RDA training (contributed by Shi Deng) to a shared Google Picasa folder. You can view the photos on the CEAL website annual meeting page, here (click). From the Annual Meeting page, you can also click on the photo pane to view the photos on the Picasa website. 

How To Contribute Your Photos

To add to this shared Picasa folder visible on the CEAL Annual Meeting webpage, please contribute your photos of any part of CEAL 2013 in San Diego (meetings, social events, etc). Email me (rrbritt@uw.edu) and request a Picasa link to our shared CEAL 2013 Annual meeting photos folder on Picasa. The link will allow you to upload your photos to the shared folder, which will then be included in the slideshow. While you're at it, please also add captions to your photos, with identifying information, to remind everyone of the event in your photos.

Let me know if you have questions or concerns. I look forward to receiving and sharing your great photos of CEAL 2013!

Regards,

Rob Britt

Chair, CEAL Library Technology Committee

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

Bring Your Camera to CEAL 2013!

Dear Eastlib-ers:
Are you planning to bring a camera to San Diego? Do you hope to take some snapshots of CEAL events and your colleagues attending them? If so, would you consider sharing your photos? And if you’re not bringing your camera, please consider it!

At least two members of the Technology Committee hope to take some snaps as time allows, but we’d like to have many more sources for great photos.

I plan to create a shared Picasa folder, “CEAL 2013,” so that everyone can share a photo record of CEAL 2013. I will set up the folder after I return from San Diego.

Please consider taking plenty of interesting photos of all CEAL events, and then sharing them. I’ll let you know the details after CEAL.

See you in San Diego!

Rob

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-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

New Online Japanese Studies Directory

Directory of Japanese Studies in the United States and Canada

About the Directory

A new online directory of Japanese Studies has recently been completed, and is available at no cost. The useful resource includes information about scholars, librarians, programs and institutions that specialize in the study of Japan. The website displays the information collected from the Survey of Japan Specialists and Japanese Studies Institutions in North America in 2011-2012.

Please click the links above to access the Directory, and for more information.

CEAL Reception

This year, the Council on East Asian Libraries will hold a membership reception in the Manchester Ballroom C of the convention hotel on Wednesday evening (March 20th) from 5:30 to 7:30pm. We welcome all CEAL members, members of CONSALD and  CORMOSEA, and friends and colleagues from partner institutions and AAS to come. This will be a social gathering for people to get acquainted, share information, and renew friendships. Members will also have a chance to talk to the conference speakers on issues and trends in the library profession.

We also welcome vendors to come to the reception. However, in order to ensure a balanced representation of vendors, we respectfully request each vendor or company to limit their participation at the CEAL Reception to no more than two attendees.

I look forward to seeing you in San Diego!

Peter X. Zhou
President, Council on East Asian Libraries

Smithsonian Institution Libraries Professional Development Internship

Dear colleagues,

The Smithsonian Libraries has announced new, paid internships for graduate students interested in working in research and museum libraries in 2013.  If you have candidates who are interested in cataloging Chinese books in particular, please help us to circulate the announcement. The Libraries internship program covers areas such as special collections and preservation, cataloging and metadata services, digital projects and research, and reference and reader services. All internships are unique learning experiences designed for current graduate students or recent graduates who wish to gain experience in research and/or museum libraries. The 2013 paid internship projects are the following:
• Evaluating Our Future: Special Collections in the Smithsonian’s Art Libraries in the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY.
• Chinese Book Backlog Cataloging Project in the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington, D.C.
• National Air & Space Museum Library Sheet Music Project in the National Air & Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
• Special Collections and Preservation in the Book Conservation Lab, Landover, Md.
• Native American Artist Files in the National Museum of the American Indian, Suitland, Md.
• Biodiversity Heritage Library Virtual Reference Intern in the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.; virtual work options are also available.

Qualified applicants must be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States, currently enrolled in an advanced library degree program from an accredited institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education or have graduated in the past six months, demonstrate interest in the research and museological activities of the Smithsonian Institution and Libraries and show solid writing, analytical and computer skills. Interns may receive up to $500 dollars per week for a maximum of six weeks. Applications for summer 2013 internships will be accepted on a rolling basis until March 11.

To read more about these opportunities as well as the Libraries unpaid internship program, visit http://library.si.edu/internships. To apply online, visit https://solaa.si.edu.

Yue Shu 舒悦
Assistant Librarian
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
shuyuex@si.edu
202.633.0479

Call for images for a slide show at the CEAL Reception

Dear Colleagues,

The Library Technology Committee is going to compile a slide show of projects and activities by CEAL members during the CEAL Reception on March 20 in San Diego. We would like to invite submissions of photos from you in any of the following categories: conferences, seminars, lectures, trips, digitization projects, and workshops. We also welcome photos which do not fall into these categories but are relevant to CEAL members. So be creative and do not feel shy to share any images with us!

Please send your photos with a brief description to tang.li@yale.edu by March 1. To ensure the quality of the slide show, please submit photos with high resolution if possible, but not exceeding 8MB in size. 

On behalf of the Library Technology Committee,

Tang


Tang LI (Ms.)
Public Services Librarian
East Asia Library, Yale University Library
Phone: (203) 432-1794
E-mail:    tang.li@yale.edu
EAL Web: http://www.library.yale.edu/eastasian