Chinese version of RDA Registry Updated

This week, I found the Chinese version of RDA registry was finally updated.

https://www.rdaregistry.info/

I spent half a year for the translation (of about 18000 entries) from December 2023 to June 2024. It was uploaded in July 2024.

Then, I spent two months to translate the updated English version.

Because of some problems concerning the the format of the character set and the communication with the ALA part, the uploading of the Chinese updates had not been successful until last month.

Now, we can see all the new entries.

New Year of the Dog

Today is the first day of the Chinese lunar new year (the Year of the Dog). We greeted readers in the morning as usual. Many readers received little souvenirs. For the first three readers, they received ten prize-awarded new books, but they arrived as early as 9:00 pm yesterday evening. I was glad to meet a student volunteer with traditional Chinese costume.

Xiaoguang Gu's New Book on the Beauty of Reading

A book on the beauty of reading, with 120 photos from 27 countries in 10 years by 1 photographer/librarian. It is a very special book! Mr. Xiaoguang Gu is a librarian of the Information Management Department, Peking University, and is very active in Chinese library community.
The Books is just published by the Tsinghua University Press, September 2017.

书名: 旅行之阅 阅读之美
作者: 顾晓光
出版社: 清华大学出版社
出版年: 2017-9
页数: 228
定价: 78.00
装帧: 平装
ISBN: 978-7-302-48003-7

Chinese speaker at the WLIC2014

Chinese speaker at the Session of  the Libraries for Children and Young Adults with Literacy and Reading:
Prof. Man SHU from the School of Economics & Management, South China Normal University, Guang Zhou, China.
http://library.ifla.org/826/

Chinese Interpreters at WLIC2014

Chinese interpreters at the IFLA General Conference (WLIC2014).

Chinese Caucus Meeting during WLIC2014

Photos from the Chinese Caucus Meeting during the IFLA General Conference, August 16, 2014

My Blog Book Published

My blog book Bookworm speaks (书山蠹语) is published by National Library of China Publishing House in May 2013.
书山蠹语 / 顾犇著 ; 韩盈插图. — 北京 : 国家图书馆出版社, 2013. — 350 页. — 978-7-5013-5056-8.
This book includes blog posts from my Sina.com blog during the last five years.
Mr. Ying HAN provides 15 illustrations for my book.

Cover

Catalogers are chefs

Colorful Memories, a Video Clip about the Foreign Acquisitions & Cataloging Department, NLC

Colorful Memories, a Video Clip about the Foreign Acquisitions & Cataloging Department, National Library of China, was released today at:

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/IK70ntdDgp8/

It shows all aspects of the department, including routine work, researches and organizational culture.

As the director of the department, I am very glad to have the video clip released at the end of 2012, which is the second year of my term of office in this department after my three-year term in the Chinese Acquisitions & Cataloging Department.

Chinese Interpretors in WLIC2012

Yesterday evening, I had dinner with six Chinese interpreters and translators from National Library of China for the IFLA General Confernce (WLIC 2012). Three of them are from my department, the Foreign Acquisitions & Cataloging Department.

IFLA Chinese Language Centre established!

Forwarding the latest news from IFLA Headquarters:

IFLA Chinese Language Centre established at the National Library of China, Beijing

In February 2009 the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and the National Library of China (NLC) in Beijing signed a cooperation agreement by which NLC received a status of IFLA Chinese Language Centre. It can now be seen as a permanent representative of IFLA/HQ for the Chinese speaking community, as well as the other way around: it is hoped that IFLA/HQ will get improved access to Chinese speaking library and information professionals.
The IFLA Chinese Language Centre will promote IFLA, support IFLA’s Asia and Oceania Section as well as other relevant IFLA professional bodies and liaise with IFLA/HQ. Among the priorities of the Centre are:
1. Active membership recruitment. This will be conducted with the help of national or other association members and/or national libraries. Institutions and associations (including specialist and state associations) within the Chinese language community will be actively encouraged to join IFLA.
2. (Co-) organising regional IFLA events. These will be co-organised with IFLA/HQ, and/or with IFLA professional units (Sections and Core Activities). This activity includes seeking sources for funding of IFLA projects.
3. Seek involvement in local or regional professional events to gain support within the Chinese language community, trying to get IFLA “branding” of local or regional events.
4. Contribute to more effective communication within the Chinese language community and with the IFLA bodies involved. These activities include the publication of newsletters, translations of key IFLA documents and publications and the production of a Chinese translation of IFLA Express during IFLA’s annual congresses.
5. Representing IFLA in the Chinese language community, in a pursuit to make IFLA more visible in that community, promoting IFLA goals, principles and core values.
6. Translation of key IFLA documents, guidelines, press-releases, papers prepared for the Assembly Meetings etc.

For further information about the Centre and its activities please contact
Mr. Yan Xiangdong
Email address: interco@nlc.gov.cn
Fax +86-10-68419271
The Hague/Beijing, March 2009

Happy Chinese New Year

Today is the Lunar New Year Eve. Tomorrow will be the Chinese Year of Ox.
I was born in 1961, also the Year of Ox, and the next year will be my year.
I am in Shanghai to spend the holiday with my mother, who is suffering from lung cancer. I hope the next year will be a good start for me.

NLC Records Displayed in WorldCat.org

National Library of China (NLC) submitted automatically converted MARC21 records of all its holdings of monographs to OCLC early this month. Today, I realized that some records (of the year of 2007) have been uploaded to WorldCat.org, such as:
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/288942397&tab=holdings?loc=china
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181359658&tab=holdings?loc=china

Association for promoting Chinese resources established in Macau

Association for Promoting Mutual Development and Use of World Resources Related to Documents in Chinese (Associação para Promover a Criação e Utilização Mútuas a Nível Mundial de Recursos Relativos a Documentos em Chinês = 全球中文文献共建共享促进会) was established in Macau, China, November 9, 2008.

More Chinese translations of IFLA papers

With the WLIC (IFLA General Conference) approaching, the number of the Chinese translations of IFLA papers has reached 14. In addition to the 8 translations related to cataloging and done by staff of the National Library of China, there are 6 more translations of papers for other sections and done by other Chinese librarians and foreign librarians, among whom there are Ms. Zhang from the Hainan University Library and Ms. Wong from the National Library of Australia. Compared to the figures of the last two years (4 and 5), the number of Chinese translations is the highest since Chinese language became one of the working languages of IFLA in 2006.

IFLA Cataloguing Section has the good tradition of translating all the papers into all the working languages. For the 4 papers for this year, there are translations in all of the 7 languages, and there are Chinese translations for all the 4 papers.

• New directions in digital information delivery in the Web environment at the NRC Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
  
  MICHAEL IRELAND (CISTI, Ottawa, Canada)

• Libraries without borders: document delivery, Singapore style
  
  CHAN PING WAH (Research and Innovation Services, Singapore) and NGIAN LEK CHOH (National Library, Singapore, Singapore)

• Document delivery services enhance access to information resources in remote Uganda
  
  MARIA G. N. MUSOKE (Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda)
• Legal deposit of audiovisual and multimedia materials in Scandinavia
  
  TROND VALBERG (National Library of Norway, Mo i Rana, Norway)

• The Legal Deposit Questionnaire: a step toward gathering information about the situation worldwide
  
  Questionnaire:
  
  JAMES M. TURNER [et al] (Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada)

• Cross-concordances: terminology mapping and its effectiveness for information retrieval
  
  PHILIPP MAYR and VIVIEN PETRAS (GESIS Social Science Information Centre, Bonn, Germany)

• Subject headings for the 21^st century: the lcsh-es.org bilingual database
  
  MICHAEL KREYCHE (Kent State University, Kent, USA)

• Platforms for real-time collaborative learning for practising librarians: using blogs, wikis and e-mailing
  
  WUN HAN CHOW (National Library of Singapore, Singapore)

• FRBRoo: enabling a common view of information from memory institutions
  
  PAT RIVA (Bibliothèques et Archives nationale du Québec, Montréal, Canada), MARTIN DOERR (Institute of Computer Science, Crete, Greece) and MAJA ŽUMER (University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

• Bibliothèques et archives: partager des normes pour faciliter l'accès au patrimoine
  
  FRANÇOISE LERESCHE (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France)

• Sharing standards and expertise in the early 21st Century: moving toward a collaborative, "cross-community" model for metadata creation
  
  MURTHA BACA (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, USA) and ELIZABTH O’KEEFE (Morgan Library and Museum, New York, USA)

• Synergy towards shared standards for ALM: Latvian scenario
  
  ANITA GOLDBERGA (National Library of Latvia, Riga, Latvia)

• Collaboration among producers of bibliographic data. Achievements and planned initiatives at the Italian National Bibliography
  
  FEDERICA PARADISI (National Central Library of Florence, Florence, Italy)

• Canadiana, the national bibliography for Canada, in the digital age
  
  LIZ McKEEN (Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Canada)