New OPAC Address of NLC

After the upgrading from v. 14 to v. 16 of the Aleph500 system, the new OPAC address of the National Library of China is:

http://opac.nlc.gov.cn/

while the old one is no longer valid:

http://210.82.118.4:8080/F/

Staff Training during System Upgrading

During the Aleph500 system upgrading, acquisitions and cataloging librarians are unable to do their work in the National Library of China from March 24 to March 30. The Chinese Acquisitions & Cataloging Department arranged a series of training courses on Classified Chinese Thesaurus, authority control, bibliographic description and analysis of problems in bibliographic records. About 100 staff members attended every training course.

The objective of the training courses is to raise the quality awareness of catalogers and to improve the quality control of bibliographic records in the library.

NLC to Upgrade its Aleph500 System

The National Library of China will implement its upgrading of its Aleph500 system from version 14 to version 16 during March, 24 0:00-March 30, 24:00. Acquisitions and cataloging librarians will not be able to work during this period of time, and will receive training courses for a couple of days.