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.

ISSN Directors' Meeting to be held in Beijing

Meeting of the Directors of ISSN National Centres will be held in National Library of China, Beijing, September 14-18, 2009, immediately after the centennial celebration of NLC.

7th Conference of Chinese Resources Cooperation and Development held in Macau

The seventh Conference of Chinese Resources Cooperation and Development was held in University of Macau, November 8-9. About 100 Chinese librarians from China (including Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau) and from other countries (mainly U.S.A.) attended the conference. The focus of this conference is the cooperation of the digitization of Chinese rare books and books published during the Republican Period (1911-1949). Some new projects (such as Global Chinese Family Trees) have also been proposed.
The conference is co-sponsored by National Library of China and Macao Foundation.
Cooperative Committee for Chinese Name Authority (CCCNA) is also one of the projects, but it is not reported in this conference.
Partcipants are very interested in the efforts of National Library of China and the budgets allocated by the Chinese government.

CCCNA Meeting in Hong Kong

Yesterday, I arrived in Hong Kong. It is my first time in Hong Kong. Although I have been to quite a lot of cities around the world, it is surprising to say that I had never been to Hong Kong before.
Today, we will attended the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Cooperative Committee for Chinese Name Authority, and discussed the cooperative project with colleagues from Beijing, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Meeting Goli Ameri

Today, I attended the meeting with Ms. Goli Ameri, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. As representatives of Fulbright, Humphrey and International Visitor Leadership Program alumni, we talked about our experiences in USA and expressed our suggestions for the establishmen of alumni associations. I am a IVLP fellow for the year 1999, and visited libraries and related organizations in six cities in USA during June-July 1999.

VR Experience in NLC Phase II

In the Phase II (new building) of National Library of China (NLC), there is a Virtual Reality Experience Area beside the OPAC area. Readers can have a VR tour and try the VR reading station. The VR systems are controlled by user's hands through video cameras.

ISSN China Centre begins to provide records to Ulrich

National Library of China (NLC) has just signed an agreement with ProQuest to provide bibliographic records of Chinese periodicals for inclusion in ProQuest's Ulrichsweb.com and in the Ulrich's Periodical Directory. The ISSN China Centre in NLC will submit about 12,000 records this year, and will submit about 1,000 new and updated records every year since 2008.

The cooperation between NLC and ProQuest will promote the internationalization of both Chinese periodicals publishing and Chinese library cataloging.