Updated Chinese Version of IFLA LRM Published in December 2025

The updated Chinese version of the IFLA LRM (Library Reference Model) was published at the IFLA repository: https://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/42.2

As the consolidation of FRBR, FRAD and FRSAD, separate conceptual models respectively for bibliographic records, authority data and subject authority data, the IFLA LRM was published in August 2017, and the corresponding Chinese version was published in May 2020.

Later, the updated version, as amended and corrected through December 2021 by the Bibliographic Conceptual Models Review Group, was issued in July 2024.

Last year, Pat Riva remind me to do the updating of the document. When doing the updating, I also found some typos, mistakes and typesetting problems. So I spent a month to revise the document.

I am glad to see that it was finally published. I am also glad to see that my name appears in the document as a member of the FRBR Review Group.

Brass Bookmark: An Addicted Data Librarian

An Addicted Data Librarian

Brass bookmark specially designed and produced by Anjianda, artitist, writer and one of my friends, for the Chinese Version of Mauro Guerrini's Book "From Cataloguing to Metadata Creation" to Published by the National Library of China Publishing House:

从编目到元数据：心路历程 / 马乌罗·圭里尼 著 ; 巴巴拉·Ｂ.蒂利特和彼得·洛尔 序 ; 乔瓦尼·贝尔加明 跋 ; 顾犇 译注. — 北京 : 国家图书馆出版社, 2025年3月. — 180 页. — ISBN 978-7-5013-8223-8.

Brass Bookmark: A Busy Cataloger

A Busy Cataloger

Brass bookmark specially designed and produced by Anjianda, artitist, writer and one of my friends, for the Chinese Version of Mauro Guerrini's Book "From Cataloguing to Metadata Creation" to Published by the National Library of China Publishing House:

从编目到元数据：心路历程 / 马乌罗·圭里尼 著 ; 巴巴拉·Ｂ.蒂利特和彼得·洛尔 序 ; 乔瓦尼·贝尔加明 跋 ; 顾犇 译注. — 北京 : 国家图书馆出版社, 2025年3月. — 180 页. — ISBN 978-7-5013-8223-8.

Chinese Version of Mauro Guerrini's Book "From Cataloguing to Metadata Creation" to Be Published

The Chinese version of Mauro Guerrini's book From cataloguing to metadata creation to be published in March 2025.

Translator: Ben Gu （顾犇）

Publisher: National Library of China Publishing House （国家图书馆出版社）

Chinese version of RDA Registry published

The RDA Registry is updated on July 25, 2024. I can see the Chinese version uploaded along with other 17 languages. This is very important for the sharing of library cataloging records (data) in the World Wide Web age.

New Year Ex-Libris

 I just received a new year gift from Mr. Han Ying, who is one of my friends and an artist from Qingdao, Shandong Province.

This ex-libris for the coming Year of the Dragon, beginning from February 10, 2024, is a red dragon seal image inspired from the Jade Dragon of the Hongshan culture in the Northeastern China 5000 years ago.

Mr. Han promised to design a complete set of ex-libris with 12 animals from the Chinese zodiac cycle. This is the eleventh ex-libris he designed for me, and the eighth in the zodiac cycle.

Bella Lingua : a Good Book about the Italian Language

This is a book review by me for the newly published Chinese edition of the book: La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language writted by Dianne Hales. The Chinese edition was just published by the Zhejiang University Press in September 2023.

In the review, I mentioned Professor Mauro Guerrini, one of my friends in the IFLA Cataloguing Section. We went back from Seoul to Beijing in August 2006, after the IME ICC4 meeting and the World Library and Information Congress. During the Seoul-Beijing flight, we talked about the beautiful language. He was the president of the Organizing Committee of the 2009 WLIC in Milan as the president of the Italian Library Association.

The book also mentions the passage "Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate" in the chorus of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Nabucco, with a special Chinese translation for the word "pensiero" in the Chinese edition of the book.

I learnt the Italian from the book Come imparare l'italiano da solo, which was introduced by Professor Zhou Zixiang, Department of Mathematics, Fudan University, who was preparing to go to Italy as a visiting scholar in 1986. He still remenber our discussion about the beautiful language at that time.

The book is very special, because the author has diverse thinking. Linguistic theorists would not write such a book, and other writers without gold linguistic knowledge will not be able to do so.

美丽的语言

作者: [美]黛安娜·黑尔斯

出版社: 浙江大学出版社

出品方: 启真馆

副标题: 恋上意大利语

原作名: La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language

译者: 沈毅

出版年: 2023-11

页数: 346

定价: 69.00元

装帧: 平装

丛书: 启真·闲读馆

ISBN: 9787308240437