CJM and NCC: 2014 Joint Program

PDF: 2014 CJM NCC Joint Program | CJM | NCC

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Dear East Asian Librarians:
The Committee on Japanese Materials (CJM) and the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC) will have a joint program at the CEAL 2014 annual conference. The program, titled Digital resource development for Japanese Studies: our opportunities and challenges will feature two informative presentations followed by a panel discussion. For more detail, please see the CJM NCC program PDF, linked above.

We look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia!

Kuniko Yamada McVey
Chair, NCC
kmcvey@fas.harvard.edu

Setsuko Noguchi
Chair, CJM snoguchi@princeton.edu

New: CEAL Technical Services Expertise List

Expertise List | Expertise Survey | CTP

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Dear Colleagues,
At the 2013 CEAL Annual Meeting, the idea was raised that the Committee on Technical Processing (CTP) should gather cataloging expertise information from CEAL members, so that it would be easier for CEAL members to find colleagues with special skills for consultation or collaboration. As a result, the Committee on Technical Processing worked with the Membership Committee to gather information on the technical services expertise of CEAL members.

We are pleased to announce that the survey results are available from the link below. We would like to thank Rob Britt (Library Technology Committee) for providing the technical support.
CEAL Technical Services Expertise List
The survey results will also be linked on the CTP webpage.

We hope this list will be a valuable resource for colleagues seeking technical services expertise among the CEAL membership.

We will keep the survey open so anyone who wants to be included or wants to update information can do so by clicking here. Please note that we will continue to maintain this list.

Please send any questions or correction requests to Mieko Mazza and Keiko Suzuki.

Thank you again for responding to the cataloging expertise survey.

Mieko Mazza (Committee on Technical Processing)
Japanese Technical Services Librarian
East Asia Library, Meyer Library, 4th Floor
Stanford University
T 650.497.5437
miekom@stanford.edu

Ms. Keiko SUZUKI 鈴木啓子 (CEAL Membership Committee)
Head, East Asia Library Technical Services,
International Collections & Research Support
Yale University
PO Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
TEL: (203) 432-2778
FAX: (203) 432-8527
keiko.suzuki@yale.edu

Committee on Korean Materials: 2014 Program

PDF CKM 2014 Program

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Dear Colleagues,
Above is a link to the 2014 CEAL Committee on Korean Materials (CKM) annual program.

I look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia!
Yunah Sung
Chair, CKM
yunahs@umich.edu

Committee on Public Services: 2014 Annual Meeting Program

CPS 2014 Program (PDF)

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Dear colleagues,
Above is a link to the program for the Committee on Public Services meeting at CEAL 2014. I look forward to seeing everybody again in Philly.
Jidong Yang
CPS Chair
jdyang@stanford.edu

Please Renew Your CEAL Membership!

Renewal Application Information | CEAL Directory

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Membership = 2014 or later CEAL Dues Paid + Current AAS Membership

Dear All,
This is a second reminder to renew your CEAL membership. I would be grateful if you could renew your membership by either sending a check for $30 (payable to the Association for Asian Studies) or providing your credit card information ($32, including credit card fee), as noted in the renewal application form (PDF and Word versions of the form are available on the webpage linked above).

Your membership status may be checked using the link to the CEAL Directory above.Sign in, and click Search, Search People to find your record. Current members have CEAL membership paid through 2014 or later, AND current AAS membership.

Please mail your completed form to the following address:
Hee-sook Shin
CEAL Treasurer, 2012-2015
Korean Studies Librarian
C.V. Starr East Asian Library
310M Kent Hall, Mail code 3901
Columbia University
1140 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10027

As you all know, an important election will begin very soon. Eight positions on the Executive Board will be filled. Only current CEAL members are eligible to vote. Please don't delay!

Thank you in advance for your prompt action.

Best regards,

Hee-sook Shin
CEAL Treasurer

Committee on Chinese Materials: 2014 Program

PDF 2014 CCM Program

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Dear Colleagues,
The 2014 program of the Committee on Chinese Materials is now available from CEAL/CCM website. For details of the CCM Work Session and the two workshops, please visit http://www.eastasianlib.org/ccm/Program2014.shtml. A PDF version of the program is linked above.

We look forward to seeing you all in Philadelphia!

CCM Members:
Susan Xue, Chair
Vickie Doll
Tang Li
Ming-sun Poon
Zhijia Shen
Ping Situ
Haihui Zhang

2014 CEAL Plenary Program

CEAL Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the 2014 CEAL Plenary Program on March 26 in Philadelphia. The theme, topics, speakers and venue are posted on the CEAL website. Click here to view now.

Peter Zhou, PhD
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

CEAL Membership: Renew | Confirm | Join

Join CEAL | Confirm Status | CEAL Home

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Please make sure your CEAL membership is current, and if you haven't joined CEAL yet, this is a good time to do so.

Why? Because only current CEAL members are eligible to vote in the CEAL election, to be held in February, or to get involved in CEAL-related committee work. Besides, with CEAL membership you get a free subscription to JEAL, the Journal of East Asian Libraries, and the benefit of association with the oldest and most important group of East Asian Library specialists in North America.

Next Steps?

• Respond to the Email Renewal Notice
  If you received a CEAL membership renewal reminder email from CEAL Treasurer Hee-Sook Shin, please respond promptly.
• Confirm Your Membership Status
• Join CEAL as a New Member

Remember, the CEAL election is coming up in less than a month. Don’t delay!

Please let me know if you have questions.

Regards,

Sarah Elman
CEAL Membership Committee Chair
sse2109@columbia.edu

CEAL 2014 Annual Meeting Schedule Posted

AAS / CEAL 2014: Schedule | Announcement | Association of Asian Studies Conference Info

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The "2014 AAS Conference Schedule for CEAL and Related Meetings" is now posted on the CEAL website (link above). A link to the PDF version is near the top of the page, and a download button (Excel logo) for the Excel file is provided (near the bottom).

Full programs of various sessions will be posted by different CEAL committees later. I look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia in March!

Peter Zhou
CEAL President

Implementing the Japanese Romanization Table

LC Japanese Romanization Table (updated 2012) | Joel Hahn Macros (Includes Alif to Apostrophe) | Webinar on OCLC Macros (by Erica Chang) | NACO/SACO Change Request Form

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The Committee on Technical Processing (CTP)/Committee on Japanese Materials (CJM) Joint Working Group on the ALA-LC Japanese Romanization Table was formed in September 2013 to continue the work of the previous task force with regard to revisions and updates to the ALA-LC Japanese Romanization Table. It has been a year since the revision of the Japanese Romanization Table was approved and distributed. The Working Group would particularly like to raise the Japanese cataloging community's awareness that the current Table (linked above) specifies the use of the apostrophe | ' | (Unicode 0027) rather than the alif | ʾ | (Unicode 02BE) (see examples under "Diacritic Marks, 2").

What You Need to Know

• OCLC regularly updates Worldcat BIBLIOGRAPHIC records to the new standard, using an automated program to replace any alifs in Japanese cataloging with apostrophes (listserv post from Ms. Kotaka of OCLC).
• OCLC does not update AUTHORITY records. This is because the data management/control for LC/NACO authority files is in LC/NACO hands. As a result, pre-2012 authority records may still include the alif in romanized Japanese text.
• In bibliographic records, if the "control headings" feature is used with authority records that include the alif, the alif will be re-introduced. Alifs in controlled fields will be corrected when the linked authority records are updated with the apostrophe.
• Because of the normalization process, mixed use of these two diacritics will not cause any hindrance to searchers in WorldCat. However, it is still important to update authority records in order to maintain consistent use of diacritics in the records, as well as to prevent any search problems from occurring in local systems after importing records from OCLC.

What You Can Do

OCLC

• NACO (Name Authority Cooperative Program of the PCC) libraries : If you are a trained NACO contributor working for a NACO library, please update authority records by replacing any alifs with apostrophes in romanized Japanese, whenever time allows.
• Non-NACO libraries are not authorized to update the records. However, you may make a change request to the Working Group. Click here or above to submit a request form.
• Joel Hahn's macro for converting alifs to apostrophes, "AlifAyn2Apostrophe" (see links above) may be used in OCLC Connexion to update either bibliographic OR authority records.
• For more background on macros for this purpose and other related issues, see Erica Chang's presentation, "Using macros in Connexion for CJK materials webinar, Advanced session" (11/2012), linked above.
• Subject authority records may also include alifs, when they include romanized Japanese text. If your institution is a SACO library, ask your SACO coordinator to make a change proposal to LC. Non-SACO libraries may contact the Working Group using the request form link above.

Local Systems

• Be aware of the use of the alif in bibliographic records you download to your local integrated library system (ILS). You may want to replace any alifs with apostrophes in OCLC Connextion before exporting records to your local system.
• LC has kindly shared their alif-to-apostrophe macro for the Voyager ILS. For more information, please contact the Working Group chair, Yoko Kudo at yoko.kudo@ucr.edu
• For other local systems, each library must develop their own policy with regard to this issue depending on local needs and priorities. The effect of the mixed use of the alif and apostrophe may vary from system to system.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact Yoko Kudo (yoko.kudo@ucr.edu), or any other Working Group member.

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Japanese Romanization Working Group (JRWG)

Yoko Kudo (Chair, UC Riverside)
Rob Britt (U. Washington)
Mieko Mazza (Stanford)
Hikaru Nakano (U. Florida)
Chiaki Sakai (U. Iowa)
Keiko Suzuki (Yale)
Working Group charge

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UW, UBC Receive Collaborative Chinese Cataloging Grant

University of Washington and University of British Columbia Libraries’ Collaborative Chinese Cataloging Project Receives CLIR 2013 Grant

We are very pleased to share the good news that the University of Washington Libraries has been selected to receive a 2013 Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant in the amount of $183,500 to support the project “Discovering Modern China: University of Washington (UW) & University of British Columbia (UBC) Collections.” Our project is one of the 22 selected from a total of 75 applications.

This is an international collaborative project to catalog the special Chinese language materials at the UW East Asia and the UBC Asian Library. Scheduled to start on June 1, 2014, the project will be completed in 18 months. The project will recruit two professional catalogers specializing in classic and modern Chinese to be based at UBC and UW respectively. The project will also recruit one Chinese rare-book specialist who will spend time to assess the special collections at each institution. UW and UBC libraries will share the expertise of the project staff through regular online meetings, site visits, and exchange. The project will make accessible to scholars worldwide up to 2,000 special Chinese publications, including pre-modern texts and some rare books, as well as rare publications of the Chinese Republican Era.

Our project is the first of only two international collaborative projects that CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources) has funded. We look forward to a successful collaboration between our institutions through this exciting project.

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Zhijia Shen
Director of the East Asia Library at UW 

 

Jing Liu
Chinese Studies Librarian at UBC Asian Library

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CTP/CJM Working Group on the ALA-LC Japanese Romanization Table Formed

In 2012 CTP and CJM formed a joint Task Force on the LC Proposal for Japanese Romanization to respond and provide feedback to the LC Revision Proposal for Japanese Romanization Table. The revision was approved and released in Dec. 2012.

Based on the 2012 CTP/CJM Task Force ’s report and recommendations, CTP and CJM formed a new joint working group on the ALA-LC Japanese Romanization Table in September 2013 to collect feedback on the 2012 revision and work on unresolved issues, etc., to be chaired by Yoko Kudo.

Thanks to Yoko and the following CEAL members who are willing to take the leadership and serve on the WG on the important issues concerning the ALA-LC Japanese Romanization guidelines:

• Yoko Kudo, Chair (UC Riverside)
• Rob Britt (U. Washington)
• Keiko Suzuki (Yale)
• Chiaki Sakai (U. Iowa)
• Hikaru Nakano (U. Florida)
• Mieko Mazza (Stanford)

The WG’s charge is available at the CTP website. The WG welcomes suggestions/comments from CEAL members. Please contact Yoko Kudo at yoko.kudo@ucr.edu

Shi Deng, Chair, Committee on Technical Processing Setsuko Noguchi, Chair, Committee on Japanese Materials

CEAL Task Force on Metadata Standards Formed

I am pleased to announce, on behalf of CEAL Executive Board and CTP members, that CTP worked with CEAL Executive Board members recently to form the CEAL Task Force on Metadata Standards and Best Practices for East Asian Electronic Resources, to be co-chaired by Bie-Hwa Ma and Chengzhi Wang.

This Task Force is charged to investigate the best practices for creating, manipulating, and managing electronic content and metadata for resources in East Asian languages including that for current and future databases, e-journals, e-books and media materials, and address the issues as those e-resources move through their life cycle from selection through user access, along with associated metadata across different systems and functions.

Under this general charge, the Task Force promotes compliance with well-established metadata standards and best practices for electronic resources used by research libraries in North America, and communicates the required compliance to vendors/ information providers of East Asian digital publications.

The Task Force will work as a liaison with national and international working groups on metadata standards and best practices to identify issues related to East Asian e-resources. When called for, it will form responses to national and international organizations on e-resource metadata standards in consultation with the CEAL community.

The Taskl Force will organize training workshops and educational programs for both East Asian library staff of research libraries in North America and East Asian content providers to promote metadata standards and best practices. The first workshop will be held at the upcoming CEAL 2014 conference on Tuesday, March 25, 2014. Please see registration for more details.

Thanks to Bie-Hwa for taking the initiative on getting CTP to form this group and the following CEAL members who are willing to take the leadership and serve on this important TF:

• Bie-Hwa Ma (Co-Chair, UCSD, for technical services)
• Chengzhi Wang (Co-Chair, Columbia, for collections and public services)
• Susan Xue (UCB)
• Haruko Nakamura (Yale)
• Miree Ku (Duke)
• Connie Lam (HKU)
• Charlene Chou (U. Washington)
• Mieko Mazza (Stanford)
• Erica Chang (U. Hawai’i)
• Shi Deng (UCSD)
• Ex-officio and liaison to CEAL EB: Shi Deng, CTP chair.

The TF’s charge is available at the CTP website. The TF welcomes suggestions/comments from CEAL members. Please contact Bie-Hwa Ma at bcma@ucsd.edu or Chengzhi Wang at cw2165@columbia.edu

Shi Deng, Chair, Committee on Technical Processing

CTP Subcommittee on RDA Formed

Dear all,
Over the last two years, CTP was called upon numerous times to address and/or respond to RDA related issues, and sometimes we had to work on the RDA JSC and/or PCC’s timetable to provide comments/input on behalf of the CEAL community. The list of CJK specific RDA-related issues is getting longer. The need to have a group of members, who are the front runners and have more experience/knowledge with RDA, focusing on RDA related issues became more prominent with the implementation of RDA. With approval of CEAL executive board, CTP formed a Subcommittee on RDA, to be chaired by Charlene Chou.

The Subcommittee will work on CJK specific issues related to RDA instructions in consultation with CEAL community; facilitate and seek CEAL community input on any proposed RDA instructions or best practices that may improve the effectiveness of cataloging CJK language materials; propose RDA instructions or best practices that may facilitate and enhance user discovery; communicate with ALA, LC, PCC, OCLC and/or other stakeholders on behalf of the CEAL CTP and CEAL community with the approval of CEAL Executive Board; coordinate and/or work jointly with OCLC CJK UG on database maintenance projects as a result of RDA implementation and/or changes of RDA instructions; recommend to the CTP Chair to form working groups on specific RDA-related issues as needed and collaborate with those groups when appropriate; plan and develop for RDA training sessions if needed.

Thanks to Charlene and the following CEAL members who are willing to take the leadership and serve on the Subcommittee:

• Charlene Chou (Chair, U Washington)
• Erica Chang (Hawaii)
• Erminia Chao(BYU, AV materials)
• Jee-Young Park (Chicago)
• Mieko Mazza (Stanford)
• Rob Britt (U Washington, laws & public services)
• Shi Deng (UC San Diego)
• T.J. Kao (Yale)

• Consultant:  Hideyuki Morimoto (Columbia)
• Liaisons: Sarah Elman (Columbia, CJK NACO Project liaison); Jessalyn Zoom (LC, LC liaison)

The Subcommittee’s charge is available at the CTP website. The Subcommittee welcomes suggestions/comments from CEAL members. Please contact Charlene Chou at cc83@u.washington.edu

Shi Deng, Chair, Committee on Technical Processing

Election 2014: Help CEAL!--Nominate Yourself or a Colleague Today!

CEAL Bylaws

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Dear CEAL members:

We have not been overwhelmed with nominations since we posted this call a couple of weeks ago. Please consider running for a CEAL office or encouraging a colleague to do so. It's a great way to get to know librarians from other universities while serving our organization and the profession. If you have any questions about the serving on the CEAL Executive Board or about the election process, please feel free to contact me or the other Election Committee members, listed below.

On behalf of the CEAL Election Committee, I am sending you this official call for nominations/self-nominations for a total of eight positions on the CEAL Executive Board. The positions are as follows:

• Vice President /President-Elect
• Chair of Committee on Chinese Materials
• Chair of Committee on Japanese Materials
• Chair of Committee on Korean Materials
• Chair of Committee on Public Services
• Chair of Committee on Technical Processing
• *Member-at-Large (all areas eligible)
• *Member-at-Large (China focus only)

*Please note: one of the member-at-large positions is open to all eligible CEAL members. In accordance with CEAL Bylaws Article V(D)(6a), the second member-at-large position will be open to eligible CEAL members who can represent China as their main area of focus.

Serving on the Executive Board is a wonderful opportunity for professional growth and career development. Pursuant to article VII of the CEAL Bylaws, the Election Committee is committed to ensuring a slate of candidates balanced in geographic representation, collection size, and area specialty. While also encouraging experienced members to continue their valued contributions, we also welcome nominations and self-nominations from newer CEAL members. For more information about the positions, please see the relevant section of the CEAL Bylaws.

Please address your nomination(s) to any of the Election Committee members (our contact information is below) by December 11, 2013. The Election Committee will confirm with nominees that they are current CEAL members and willing to serve.

Thank you very much!

CEAL Election Committee:

• Sarah Elman, sse2109@columbia.edu
• Toshie Marra, tmarra@library.berkeley.edu
• Hyokyoung Yi, hkyi@uw.edu
• Dawn Lawson (chair), dawn.lawson@nyu.edu

CEAL Directory: Updated Printable Version

View Updated CEAL Directory Printable Version | Online CEAL Directory

Newly updated PDF files (as of 11/22/2013) include new institutions and CEAL members)

Three newly updated PDF lists created from the current CEAL Directory are available. Please click the link above to view the links on the CEAL Membership Committee page, or click the direct links below.

• People With Interests in East Asia Libraries, Worldwide
• Current CEAL Members
• East Asia-Related Institutions Worldwide

Please remember that the online CEAL Directory is also available (see link above).

Rob Britt
Chair, CEAL Library Technology Committee
rrbritt@uw.edu

CEAL CTP 2014 Workshop Registration Open till Dec. 15, 2013

Dear all,

Based on the survey conducted via eastlib in Oct. 2013, CEAL CTP will sponsor two one-day pre-conference workshops jointly with other committees:
•    Electronic Resources Standards and Best Practices: What Do Bibliographers, Catalogers, Publishers, and Vendors Need to Know? 
•    Advanced RDA NACO Training

Please click here to register.  Registration will be closed on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013. A confirmation with instruction for collecting registration fee will be sent out after registration closed. Except for publishers/vendors for the Tuesday workshop, CEAL members are given first priority over non-CEAL members.

Housing: Both workshops will be held at the Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, about 2 miles from AAS conference hotel, so please make housing arrangement on your own.

Workshop details are described below: 

1. Tuesday Workshop: Electronic Resources Standards and Best Practices: What Do Bibliographers, Catalogers, Publishers, and Vendors Need to Know?  (Jointly sponsored by CEAL Committee on Chinese Materials, Committee on Japanese Materials, & Committee on Korean Materials)

Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 9:00 am-4:30 pm
Location: Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
Registration Fee: $30 or $35 (additional 20% for non-CEAL member)
Participants Capacity: 80

Workshop Description:
Renowned leaders in the field will introduce the well-established national/international e-resources metadata standards and best practices (Presentation and Identification of E-Journals (PIE-J), ISSN, name identification standards (ISNI, ORCID, etc.), Knowledge Bases And Related Tools (KBART), OpenURL, Digital Object Identifier (DOI)) for creating, manipulating, and managing electronic content and metadata for online resources. They will also address the benefit from complying with these standards and present examples with best practices. CEAL colleagues will address current metadata issues and challenges for East Asian online resources that affect user experience as well as to report the status of vendors’/librarians’ awareness of established standards and best practices.

Desired outcome:
1)    The workshop will bring catalogers, bibliographers, public service librarians, and publishers/vendors together to work collaboratively on improving discoverability and accessibility of e-content;
2)    The participants will have a thorough understanding of the impact on user experience from complying with standards;
3)    The audience will have recommended criteria to evaluate the e-content presentation and metadata for resources;
4)    The librarians will be able to communicate with publishers/vendors of East Asian materials on whether they are compliant with these best practices when negotiating and signing license agreements; and
5)    The publishers/vendors will be able to create quality e-content and associated metadata to effectively support different levels of user discovery as well as to eliminate access problems that consume staff time for resolution.

Presenters:
Regina Romano Reynolds (Head, ISSN Section and Director, U.S. ISSN Center, Library of Congress)
Nettie Lagace (Associate Director for Programs, National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Other CEAL specialists


2. Monday Workshop: Advanced RDA NACO Training (Jointly sponsored by PCC CJK NACO Project)

Date: Monday, March 24, 2014, 9:00 am-4:00 pm
Location: Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
Registration Fee: $20 or $25 (additional 20% for non-CEAL member)
Participants Capacity: 30

Workshop Description:
This one-day workshop is designed to provide in-depth study in the areas of CJK name authorities.  The workshop will cover the RDA updates on name authorities since the last CEAL workshop in 2013.  Name authorities in the areas of corporate body names, place names, and works and expressions will be discussed, as will the LC/NACO Authority File regarding changes to existing authority records.  Hands-on examples will be incorporated in the training.

Prerequisite: 
Fundamental knowledge of RDA authority record contents and structure. IT IS NOT INTENDED FOR BEGINNERS.

Trainers: 
Jessalyn Zoom (key trainer), Sarah S. Elman and other CJK cataloging specialists

Seeking NCC Council Nominations

NCC |  NCC MVS | NCC DRC |

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