Chinese translations of IFLA papers posted

After the work of a month, all the eight Chinese translations of cataloging-related papers for the IFLA Conference (WLIC) have been posted to the IFLANET at:
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/Programme2008.htm

• 编目组(Cataloguing Section)

  • 面向对象的FRBR：实现记忆机构对信息的共识 / 吴晓静翻译 = 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)

  • 图书馆和档案馆为实现文化遗产存取而进行的标准领域的合作 / 王璐翻译 = Bibliothèques et archives: partager des orms pour faciliter l’accès au patrimoine / FRANÇOISE LERESCHE (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France)

  • 21 世纪初，让我们分享标准与专业经验：为编制元数据建立一种合作、“跨行业”的运作模式 / 陈宁翻译 = Sharing standards: developing a cooperative/collaborative model / MURTHA BACA (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, USA) and ELIZABTH O’KEEFE (Morgan Library and Museum, New York, USA)

  • 档案馆、图书馆、博物馆的通力合作、标准共享——拉脱维亚的方案 / 许旭翻译 = ALM convergence in the field of standardisation /ANITA GOLDBERGA (National Library of Latvia, Riga, Latvia)

• 分类和标引组(Classification and Indexing Section)

  • 交叉语词索引：术语映射及其对信息检索的影响 / 刘华梅翻译 = Cross-concordances: terminology mapping and its effectiveness for information retrieval / PHILIPP MAYR and VIVIEN PETRAS (GESIS Social Science Information Centre, Bonn, Germany)

  • 21世纪的标题表：lcsh-es.org双语数据库 / 喻菲翻翻译 = Subject headings for the 21st century: the lcsh-es.org bilingual database / MICHAEL KREYCHE (Kent State University, Kent, USA)

• 书目组(Bibliography Section)

  • 书目数据提供者之间的合作：意大利国家书目取得的成果与未来改革措施 / 张蕾累翻译 = Collaboration among producers of bibliographic data. Achievements and planned initiatives at the Italian National Bibliography / FEDERICA PARADISI (National Central Library of Florence, Florence, Italy)

  • 数字时代的加拿大国家书目 / 韩玲翻译 = Canadiana, the national bibliography for Canada, in the digital age / LIZ McKEEN (Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Canada)

Translators are from three departments of the National Library of China:

• Chinese Acquisitions & Cataloging Department: 6
  
• International Cooperation Division: 1
  
• Foreign Acquisitions & Cataloging Department: 1
  

I hope Chinese librarians will get more information from the important international conference through this channel, and catch the latest developments in cataloging-related researches and practices.

More Chinese translations of IFLA papers to appear

In the past two years, I organized the Chinese translation of papers for the IFLA Cataloguing Section open programmes during the WLIC in Seoul and in Durban. There are 4 and 5 Chinese translations (including 2 for other sections last year) respectively for the Seoul and Durban conferences on the IFLANet (http://www.ifla.org).

This year, I called for volunteers to do the translation of papers for the Cataloguing Section and the Classification and Indexing Section. Plus translations of papers for other sections, I think there will be about 10 Chinese translations this year.

When I attended the IFLA Conference in Copenhagen in 1999, the Chinese delegation proposed to add Chinese as an IFLA working language. After seven years, we succeeded in 2006. We have Chinese version of IFLA Express, Chinese simultaneous interpreters and Chinese translations of IFLA papers.

I worked for the IFLA Express in 1996 in Beijing, volunteered to do some work for the Chinese version of IFLA Express in 2006 in Seoul, organized the Chinese simultaneous interpretation in 2007 in Durban, and organized the Chinese translation of IFLA papers for the Cataloguing Section in 2006 and 2007. I think Chinese translation is very important for the IFLA awareness in China and for the internationalization of cataloging practices in China.

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.