ROC National Central Library Workshop: October 2013

Registration: PDF | Word


The National Central Library of the Republic of China (Taiwan) will conduct an “International Workshop for Professional Librarians” between October 14-19, 2013. Provision is given to overseas East Asian professional librarians to register and participate in the workshop. This 6-days workshop will be open to East Asian professional librarians of different countries. Experts and scholars are invited to give talks. Approximately 30 persons are expected to register. Besides the study program, visits to libraries and cultural sites are included.

Above are links to registration information and forms.

NCC's 2nd Team-Building Workshop

Want to offer more undergraduate Japanese studies courses?
Need more Japanese digital resources?
Want to use interlibrary loan or document delivery from Japan?
Want to infuse Open Source materials into your teaching and research about Japan?


If you answered YES to any of these questions Team UP and Take Part in NCC’s Team-Building Workshop:


Where and When?  August 12-15, 2013 at Harvard University, cosponsored by NCC and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.  (Arrival in Boston, Sunday, August 11, 2013)

Workshop Content: An intensive four-day, small-group program with lectures by leading scholars, discussion sections, and hands-on training in Japanese digital resources.  Trainees will gain hands-on knowledge of freely available and subscription-based databases, learn to use international ILL, get visual images from Japan, use the Japan Digital Archive of the 2011 Disasters in teaching, and make non-print media more central to instruction and student projects.  All instruction will be in English.

Who should be on your team? Teams should include 2-3 members who are Japanese and/or Asian studies faculty and librarians (preference will be given to librarians who are NOT Japan-specialists themselves).  Teams may come from the same institution or neighboring institutions, which are jointly developing the Team’s resources on Japan.  Teams may come from any institution where undergraduate Japanese studies if offered, worldwide. 

What kind of projects should your team develop? Team projects may include undergraduate courses on Japan, instructional websites or webinars, strategies for infusing Japanese digital resources into the curriculum, materials for language learners at any level, multi-media resources on Japan, and projects that expand your teaching to better promote understanding of Japan in your community. 

Who to Contact? Please contact NCC Executive Director Victoria Bestor vbestor@fas.harvard.edu before applying, and to learn about limited travel and lodging support for eligible trainees. 

What should applications include: Applications should contain a background paragraph on your institution, a brief summary of your existing Japanese and Asian studies programs, details on your Team-Members, a short proposal (1-3 pages) summarizing your Team-Project, and information on the travel/lodging needs of your team.  Funds are limited and applicants are asked to seek institutional and/or individual matching funds. 

Workshop Sponsorship:  NCC is offering this Workshop with principal funding from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership.  Supplemental and logistical support will come from the Japan-US Friendship Commission, Toshiba International Foundation, and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University. 

Application deadline: April 30, 2013

Visit the NCC Website at http://www.nccjapan.org/ to learn more about NCC
and its freely available resources and services.
Victoria Lyon Bestor
Executive Director
North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources
149 Upland Road
Cambridge, MA 02140
Tel: 617-833-0755
Fax: 617-812-5854
Website: http://www.nccjapan.org/
Email: vbestor@fas.harvard.edu

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