Second National Conference on Library Cataloging to be held in Nanjing in late May

The Second National Conference on Library Cataloging is to be held in Nanjing during May 31-June 2, 2010. The conference is sponsored by National Library of China and supported by Information Organization Committee of the Library Society of China, Nanjing Library and China Library Weekly.

The first conference was held in Wuhan in 2006, with some topics such as the internationalization of Chinese library cataloging and the unification of cataloging rules. Since then, Chinese library catalogers have been studying latest developments in international library cataloging community, and have reached some agreements on library cataloging rules.

Chinese version of Guidelines for National Bibliographies officially released

The Chinese version of National bibliographies in the digital age : guidance and new directions is just released at the IFLA site:

http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/guidelines-for-national-bibliographies-in-the-electronic-age

with the direct link to the PDF file (800 KB):

http://www.ifla.org/files/bibliography/national_bibliographies_in_the_digital_age-zh.pdf

The original English version is published in August 2009:

National bibliographies in the digital age : guidance and new directions / IFLA Working Group on Guidelines for National Bibliographies ; edited by Maja Žumer. — München : Saur, 2009. — 140 p. : some ill. ; 25 cm. — (IFLA series on bibliographic control ; v. 39 )

and the Chinese translation is done by staff in National Library of China.

Web version of CCT officially released

The Web version of CCT (Classified Chinese Thesaurus) has been officially released. It was developed during 2008-2009, and the trial version was released in June 2009. After an official assessment, it was officially released last week.

The Web version integrated the contents of the printed version of CCT and Chinese Library Classification, and becomes a powerful tool for catalogers in their subject indexing.

The trial free accounts will be valid until June 15.

Please visit the CCT site the have a look:

http://cct.nlc.gov.cn/

Chinese Counterpart of ISO 5127 Published

The Chinese counterpart of ISO 5127 (Information and documentation -- Vocabulary) is published today:

《信息与文献 术语》 (Information and documentation -- Vocabulary) (ISO 5127:2001, MOD)（中华人民共和国国家标准，GB/T 4894—2009，代替GB/T 4894—1985, GB/T 13143—1991）（2009年9月30日发布，2010年2月1日实施）

I am one of the Working Group members during 2008-2009. I am glad to see that the Chinese National Standard is finally published.

Chinese National Standard for Bibliographic Description Released

Today, I received a copy of the new National Standard Bibliographic Description -- Part 1: General, published by Standards Press of China in January 2010.

It is based on ISBD(G) and ISBD Preliminary Consolidated Edition.

The Working Group for the Standard consists of four members:

HU Guangxiang (Chair) (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences),

LIU Xiaoling (National Library of China),

GU Ben (National Library of China) and

SHEN Zhenghua (Peking Universityy Library)

However, the new Standard is also controversial. Some experts think that there is no need for such a counterpart of ISBD(G), because we have already the ISBD Consolidated Edition.

Listening to Evita

I bought a CD "Evita: Music From The Motion Picture" in Frankfurt and listened to the music during my travel. I like it very much, especially the following pieces:

• Oh What A Circus / by Antonio Banderas
• Don't Cry For Me Argentina / by Madonna
• High Flying, Adored / by Antonio Banderas

I am looking for a DVD of the original motion picture. I hope I could borrow one after the holiday.

ISBD RG Extra Meeting held in Frankfurt

ISBD Review Group Extra Meeting is held in Frankfurt during February 4-6, 2010.