New Japan Studies Librarian (Univ. of Washington)

Dear Colleagues:

I am delighted to announce that Ms. Azusa Tanaka has joined us at the East Asia Library of the University of Washington in Seattle as our Japan Studies Librarian as of July 1st, 2013. Ms. Tanaka received her MLS degree from Syracuse University in 2008 and her MA in Korean Studies from the Jackson School of International Studies at University of Washington in Seattle in 2005.

Prior to moving to UW, Ms. Tanaka served from 2009-2013 as the Japanese catalog/subject Librarian at the East Asia Library at Washington University in St. Louis. Ms. Tanaka has been actively involved in the National Coordinating Committee for Japanese Library Materials (NCC) and Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) committees.

The combination of her library experiences in Japanese cataloging, reference and library instruction services, and collection development, as well as her subject training in other areas of East Asian Studies will enable her to make significant contributions to our East Asia Library at the University of Washington Libraries and the university community.

Ms. Tanaka will be responsible for Japanese studies collection development, library instruction and reference services, and faculty and student liaison on campus, and she will actively participate in community outreach and all other professional activities and services associated with her primary job responsibilities as Japan Studies Librarian.

Ms. Tanaka can be reached at the East Asia Library by phone or email at 206-543-7051; azusat@u.washington.edu.

We are very excited to welcome Ms. Tanaka to join us at the University of Washington and look forward to working with her to further strengthen our collections and services.

Zhijia Shen
Director
East Asia Library
University of Washington Libraries

EA Librarianship Program Grant

Dear members of EASTLIB, 

I'm glad to announce this scholarship opportunity for the community of East Asian Libraries. 

Recently I received a grant ($444,906) from IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) to prepare the next generation of East Asian librarians, particularly those who are already working in East Asian libraries but without MLIS degree. By the grant, we can fully support up to 12 paraprofessionals for their completion of MLIS in our school. Our MLIS program is fully online, so the students' location doesn't matter as long as they are in the U.S. 

This grant could not be possible without CEAL's support. From the beginning of proposal preparation, the CEAL Executive Board along with the strong leadership of President Peter Zhou, has supported and endorsed the idea. Peter wrote an official supporting letter which was very important in securing this grant. I really appreciate the supports from CEAL. 

The admission criteria is the same as our normal admission, but for this particular opportunity, the applicants need a strong mentor's letter of commitment as the mentoring is the key to the success of this program. Our MLIS admission does not require GRE score unless an applicant's undergraduate GPA is below 3.0. TOEFL score above 79 (iBT) is required for non-native English speakers who do not have a degree from American (or English speaking) institution. 

If you have somebody working in your library without MLIS, please encourage the person to consider this opportunity and support the person with your commitment as her/his mentor. The application deadline is September 1st, 2013 for spring admission. 

For further information, please check this announcement (click to open PDF). 

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me at wjj8612@uwm.edu . 

Thank you very much for your attention.

Please, distribute this announcement as widely as possible.  

Wooseob. 

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Wooseob Jeong

Interim Dean

Associate Professor

School of Information Studies

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Milwaukee, WI 53201

TEL: (414) 229-4709

FAX: (414) 229-4848

Email: wjj8612@uwm.edu

Search for Unicode Values with UniView

FYI

Do you need to know the Unicode encoding value for a character in your database? You can see the character in OCLC Connexion or in your local system, but how can you find the character's encoding?

There is a great tool for that available free online:
UniView
http://rishida.net/rishida/scripts/uniview/

Uniview not only gives you the encoding, it also provides a direct link to the full record for the character in the Unihan database.

UniView was created by Richard Ishida of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Rob Britt
CEAL Library Technology Committee Chair

Plenary Reception Video Available

CEAL Plenary Reception Video

"Life of the Council on East Asian Libraries"

By Tang Li (Yale), Xiang Li (Colorado) and Yao Chen (Minnesota)

The video that played during the CEAL reception at the annual meeting in San Diego is available on YouTube. Please find the link to the video on the CEAL Annual Meeting page (under Plenary Programs, 2013) click the direct link above, or, view it here:

Credits for the Video

1) Opening video: Dreamworks Kung Fu Panda Intro
2) Music: a) Goodbye Master, Goodbye  – Internal Affairs (Hong Kong, 2002); b) 山水 (mountain and river) by 12 Girls’ Band; c) A melody tree by Daydream; d) 踏古 (Memories of the sky) by Lin Hai.
3) Ending video and music:  PSY - GANGNAM STYLE


CEAL Library Technology Committee
Rob Britt, Chair

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