Seeking NCC Council Nominations

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Seeking Nominations for NCC Council and Committee Members

During 2014 the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (the NCC) will fill positions on the elected NCC Council and on the Digital Resources Committee and the Multi-Volume Sets Grants Committee. NCC Council Members are elected for three-year terms and committee members serve rotating terms of three years generally with one or two new members joining each year. Committees are appointed by the NCC Chair with the approval of the NCC Executive Committee. Terms begin either January 1 or July 1 and run for three years from that date.

As is required by its by-laws, the NCC seeks to include among Council and Committee members faculty and librarians from diverse regions of the country, from institutions of varying size, and from Japanese and East Asian studies programs with a range of strengths and foci. Selection of candidates will, therefore, take into consideration current representation on those committees in filling these positions. A list of the current Council Members and is contained in the About NCC section of the website at http://guides.nccjapan.org/homepage. A brief description of positions follows:

NCC Elected Librarian Council Member

Elected librarian members come from a range of institutions and regions, and from institutions with collections of all sizes both those broadly covering Japan and East Asia and those that may be more specialized. All elected NCC members are expected to serve on a range of committees or working groups and will likely be asked to become chair or co-chair of at least one such group. Past experience as a member of an NCC committee or working group or a CEAL committee, as well as other service to the field is desirable.

NCC Elected Faculty Council Member

Elected faculty members arechosen to represent not only a range of institutions and regions but also to represent a diversity of disciplines, time periods and research methodologies. One of the faculty members serves also as the co-chair of the Multi-Volume Sets Grant Committee. An active engagement with libraries and library-related issues and participation in disciplinary and field wide service is also of important consideration.

NCC Digital Resources Committee (DRC)http://guides.nccjapan.org/jpn-db-directory

The digital resources committee serves as an intermediary between academic users and materials vendors and provides two-way education and advocacy for the needs of academic users abroad. The DRC’s at-large committee of librarians and faculty is actively involved in education about licensing of digital resources for Japanese studies, and coordinate such efforts for the NCC on a national and international basis, working especially closely with colleagues in Japan. The DRC especially seeks members who have experience organizing workshops and webinars, and those with experience negotiating and managing subscriptions to major Japanese databases.

NCC Multi-Volume Sets Committee (MVS) http://guides.nccjapan.org/mvs?hs=a.

MVS is the NCC’s oldest ongoing program making grants for expensive materials not otherwise circulating from North American collections. Each year MVS makes grants that cover up to 80% of the purchase cost for small institutions and 50% to 75% for larger institutions on sets of Japanese language materials in demand by users but beyond the normal budget of most institutions. Committee activities are especially busy in the fall and winter when MVS competition takes place.

To propose a candidate for one of these positions, please send an email by November 15, 2013 to NCC Chair Kuniko Yamada McVey kmcvey@fas.harvard.edu with a cc: to NCC Executive Director Victoria Bestor at vbestor@fas.harvard.edu. Self-nominations are invited. For further information about these positions and other NCC activities please visit the website.

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

2014 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians

Dear Friends & Colleagues:

The Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section (FCIL-SIS) of the American Association of Law Libraries is now accepting applications for the 2014 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians. The Grant subsidizes a foreign law librarian to attend the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), the world’s largest law librarian professional organization.

 

The FCIL Schaffer Grant for the AALL Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas (July 12-15, 2014) provides a waiver of the AALL Annual Meeting full registration fee and a grant of a minimum $2,000 to assist with accommodations and travel costs.

Applicants must be law librarians or other professionals working in the legal information field, currently employed in countries other than the United States, and with significant responsibility for the organization, preservation, or provision of legal information. The application deadline is November 30, 2013. The Grant Committee will not consider late or incomplete applications. Please note: Grant winners must pay all expenses in advance. Grant awards will only be disbursed shortly before or at the AALL Annual Meeting. 

Details regarding the FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians as well as the application form can be found at http://www.aallnet.org/sections/fcil/grants-awards/FCIL-Schaffer-Grant.

Please feel free to contact me or another member of the Selection Committee if you have any questions about the 2014 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians. Also, please feel free to distribute this announcement to any listserv or individual who might be interested in attending the 2014 AALL Annual Meeting.

Sincerely,

Sherry Leysen,
2014 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians Selection Committee

CEAL 2014 in Philadelphia

Annual Meeting | AAS Housing | CEAL News

The Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) will hold its two-day annual meeting on March 26-27, 2014 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown. Our theme for 2014 will be:

Scholarly Networking, Inter-disciplinary Research and e-Scholarship: Implications for East Asian Libraries

A full program schedule will be posted in January 2014. The CEAL Annual Meeting is open to the public and does not require registration.

• HOUSING: We will open hotel reservation booking at the conference rate on October 16, 2013 See the housing page for conference rate information. 
• MEETINGS-IN-CONJUNCTION: CEAL committees may hold workshops before the CEAL annual meeting. Please contact committee chairs for information.

Check this CEAL News blog and the CEAL Annual Meeting page on the CEAL website for updated information.

Peter Zhou
CEAL President

Library Travel grants to use Japanese collections in NC

The Triangle Center for Japanese Studies is pleased to offer travel grants to scholars outside the Durham/Raleigh/Chapel Hill/Greensboro area to conduct Japan-related research at Triangle institutions using Japanese materials in the Duke Library <http://library.duke.edu/>, UNC’s Ackland Art Museum <http://www.ackland.org/index.htm> or NCSU’s Gregg Museum of Art and Design <http://www.ncsu.edu/gregg/>.

Duke’s East Asian Collection <http://library.duke.edu/ias/eastasian/> consists of about 85,000 volumes in Japanese. The Japanese collection is focused on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is especially strong in art history, Buddhism, history, labor, literature, popular culture (film, advertising and manga), women’s studies and the Japanese colonial experience. We have a fairly comprehensive collection of Japanese databases, http://databases.library.duke.edu/content.php?pid=345478.

The Ackland Art Museum’s collection <http://www.ackland.org/Collections/about-collection/index.htm> was built by Sherman Lee and is notable for Japanese paintings and sculpture.

NCSU’s Gregg Museum of Art and Design <http://www.ncsu.edu/gregg/collections.html> holds textiles and ceramics while the NCSU libraries <http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/> have strong collections in design, landscape architecture and textiles.

GRANT AMOUNT: $750 to cover travel, hotel and photocopy expenses

PRIORITY GIVEN TO APPLICANTS:

* who document how their research will benefit from access to Japan-related materials in the Triangle and whose research will take advantage of our strengths
* who are located in the Southeast or at institutions which do not have easy access to comparable resources.

DEADLINES:

* Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis. A total of ten awards will be made.
* Awards must be used and receipts submitted by August 15, 2014.
* Each recipient is required to submit a short summary of the research accomplished with the grant by August 15,2014.

TO APPLY:
Submit (email applications preferred) a brief description of your research topic, sources in the collection you plan to use, a brief curriculum vitae, and an estimated budget to Kristina Troost, kktroost@duke.edu .  If you have any questions, please contact me first.

Dr. Kristina Troost
Head, East Asian Collection
Dept. of International and Area Studies
Duke University
kktroost@duke.edu
919-660-5844

Univ of Washington East Asia Library: Welcome Charlene Chou

Dear Colleagues:

I am delighted to announce that Ms. Charlene Chou will join the University of Washington Libraries as Head of East Asia Library Technical Services and Chinese Cataloger on October 1st, 2013. Charlene will be responsible for overall EAL technical services operations including acquisitions, cataloging, binding and other processing, as well as providing original cataloging for Chinese languages materials.

Charlene came to UW Libraries from Columbia University Libraries where she held various positions in Central Technical Services and departmental libraries for twenty years. Since 2007, she had served as the Chinese Cataloger at the Starr East Asian Library and was the Acting Head of the Starr East Asian Library Technical Services between January and August in 2008. Charlene is a seasoned cataloger and technical services librarian. She is also an experienced trainer in serial and monographic cataloging, and recently RDA training. She is an international speaker on a broad spectrum of tech service related topics. Currently she serves as president of OCLC CJK User Group Board (2012-2014) and was the lead trainer for the RDA & CJK Workshop team in 2012-13. Charlene received her MLS from University of Maryland, College Park in 1988. She also has an MA in Organizational Psychology from Teacher's College, Columbia University, and BA in Library Science & Humanities from National Taiwan University. 

We are very excited about Charlene’s joining us at the East Asia Library at University of Washington Libraries. Her rich experience in all areas of technical services will enable her to make significant contributions to our East Asia Library and to the University Libraries as well. Charlene can be reached at:

Room 338 Gowen Hall
East Asia Library, Campus Box 353527
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195 

Phone: 206-543-6155
Email cc83@uw.edu.

Submitted by Zhijia Shen

Director of East Asia Library University of Washington Libraries

2014 LC-CEAL CJK Cataloging Internship

Application Form (Word)

Dear CEAL Members,
Encouraged by the number of applications, strong support of our library community and the successful completion of the 2013 internship program, the Committee on Technical Processing is pleased to announce that the LC-CEAL Cataloging Internship Program is going to continue for the year 2014. CEAL developed this Internship Program partnership with the Library of Congress in order to provide training opportunities to those who may not have access to adequate cataloging training support in their own institutions, or to those who have been assigned to catalog materials in a language with which they are not entirely conversant. The interns selected will receive substantial training at the Library of Congress from LC’s Catalogers.

Logistics of the Program

Up to three internship positions are available in the calendar year 2014, each for up to three months in duration. Each intern selected will directly negotiate the length of the internship, its timing and general content with the Library of Congress.
The Library of Congress will supply training materials, workspace, training and review by experience catalogers in one or more aspects of cataloging East Asian language materials. All other expenses (travel, lodging, meals, and incidentals) are the responsibility of the intern and/or his/her employer.
CEAL will provide each intern with a scholarship of up to $1,000 upon successful completion of the program.
Upon completion of her/his internship at the Library of Congress, the intern will be required to submit an evaluative written report.

Procedures

The application process will be overseen by the members of the Subcommittee on CEAL-LC Cataloging Internship Program: Yue Shu (Chair), Yoko Kudo, and Erica Soonyoung Chang. The Subcommittee will recommend candidates according to a set of pre-determined selection criteria, and the Library of Congress will make final decisions. The application deadline is December 16, 2013, and the interns selected will be announced before or at the CEAL meeting in March 2014. 

Selection Criteria 

The Subcommittee members will prioritize applications according to the following criteria: 

The Candidate:

• Non-US citizens must be in a visa status that permits them to participate in the program;
• Is a CEAL member in good standing;
• Is recommended by his/her employer or university with a formal letter of recommendations;
• Has significant responsibility for East Asian language resources and experience in cataloging;
• Lacks in-house training support or language proficiency with which he/she isn’t entirely conversant.

To apply, please fill out the attached application form and send it as an email attachment to all three Subcommittee members: Yue Shu (shuyuex@si.edu); Yoko Kudo (yokokudo@ucr.edu); and Erica Soonyoung Chang (syoungc@hawaii.edu). The application deadline is December 16, 2013. For questions, please feel free to contact the Subcommittee members. I look forward to seeing many applications!

Sincerely yours,
Yue Shu Chair, Subcommittee on Internship Subcommittee Members
Yue Shu (Chair)
Yoko Kudo
Erica Soonyoung Chang


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

PO Box 37012, MRC 707
Washington DC 20013-7012
Package and courier deliveries:
1050 Independence Ave SW
Washington DC 20560

 

Taiwan Lectures on Chinese Studies

Please see the announcement below, of interest to CEAL members.
Regards,
Susan Xue
Chair, CEAL Chinese Materials Committee

September 9: Columbia (PDF)

September 11: Berkeley (PDF)

Dear colleagues and friends:

We have organized “Taiwan Lectures on Chinese Studies” in the U.S.A. in September. Please find the information in the above PDF links. Welcome to join us for the events.

Thanks for your time,

Have a nice day,

Sincerely,

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National Central Library
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FAX:+886-2-23820747
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