Ren Jiyu's Farewell Service was held in Beijing yesterday

Prof. REN Jiyu's Farewell Service was held in Beijing yesterday morning. Prime Minister WEN Jiabao and other government officials attended the service.
There were about 3000 participants, including 600 staff of National Library of China.
REN Jiyu was Director of National Library of China (1987-2005) and Honorary Director of National Library of China (2005-2009). He is a notable scholar in Chinese philosophy, especially in Buddhist research.

Chinese Translations of IFLA Papers Available Online

Volunteers from National Library of China and East China Normal University Library have translated 13 papers related to cataloging for the IFLA General Conference (WLIC) in Milan:

• 编目组(Cataloguing Section)

  • ISBD的新进展 / 吴晓静（国家图书馆） 翻译 = News of ISBD / ELENA ESCOLANO RODRIGUEZ (Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, Spain), LYNNE HOWARTH (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada), MIRNA WILLER (University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia), BORIS BOSAČIĆ (University of J.J. Strossmayer, Osijek, Croatia)
  • 新的意大利编目规则和新的意大利音乐编目细则 / 王璐（国家图书馆） 翻译 =New Italian cataloguing code and new rules for music cataloguing in Italy / ALBERTO PETRUCCIANI (Università degli studi di Pisa, Pisa, Italy) and MASSIMO GENTILI TEDESCHI (Ufficio Ricerca Fondi Musicali, Milan, Italy)
    • 每位读者有其书，每本书有其题名(和作者)：新的意大利编目规则 / 王璐（国家图书馆） 翻译 = (REICATA)Every reader his work, every work its title (& author): the new Italian cataloguing code / ALBERTO PETRUCCIANI (Università degli studi di Pisa, Pisa, Italy)
    • 意大利音乐：一种卓越遗产的编目和编目细则 / 王璐（国家图书馆） 翻译 = Music in Italy: catalogues and cataloguing rules for an extraordinary heritage / MASSIMO GENTILI-TEDESCHI (Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Ufficio Ricerca Fondi Musicali, Milan, Italy)
  • 分享《文化对象编目》使用经验：为文化遗产界制订编目操作规范 / 陈宁（国家图书馆） 翻译 = Cataloguing Cultural Objects / ELISA LANZI (Smith College, Northampton, USA)
  • 波斯书目界相关作品的标识和分类：FRBR解决方案 / 郭建平（国家图书馆） 翻译 = Identification and categorization of related works in the Persion bibliographic universe / SHOLEH ARASTOOPOR and RAHMATOLLA FATTAHI (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran)
• 书目组(Bibliography Section)
  • 意大利国家书目服务(SBN)：合作的图书馆服务架构和书目控制 / 廖永霞（国家图书馆） 翻译 = The Italian National Library Service (SBN): a cooperative library service infrastructure and the Bibliographic Control / GABRIELLA CONTARDI (Instituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle Biblioteche Italiane e per le informatzioni Bibliografiche, Rome, Italy)
  • 文化遗产的数字化与书目存取方法和组织：立陶宛的解决之道 / 杨熙（国家图书馆） 翻译 = Methodological and organisational aspects of digitisation and bibliographic access of cultural heritage: the Lithuanian approach / REGINA VARNIENE-JANSSEN (National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania)
  • FRBR化：前景光明的国家书目 / 蔡成普 翻译 = Frbrisation: towards a bright future for National Bibliographies / JAN PSANSKI, MAJA ZUMER (University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia) and TROND AALBERG (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)
  • 印度国家书目的50年述评(1958-2008) / 高红（华东师范大学图书馆）翻译 = 50 years of Indian National Bibliography: a critical study / MAITRAYEE GHOSH (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India)
• 分类和标引组(Classification and Indexing Section)
  • 意大利的主题标引：最近进展和未来展望 / 刘华梅（国家图书馆） 翻译 = Subject indexing in Italy: recent advances and future perspectives / ANNA LUCARELLI, FEDERICA PARADISI (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, Florence, Italy) and ALBERTO CHETI (Research Group on Subject Indexing of the Italian Library (GRIS), Italy)
• UNIMARC
  • UNIMARC手册（规范格式）第三版：FRAD模型和IME ICC国际编目原则声明中概念的实施 / 顾犇（国家图书馆） 翻译 = Third edition of UNIMARC Manual: Authorities Format: Implementing concepts from the FRAD model and the IME ICC Statement of International Cataloguing Principles / MIRNA WILLER (University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia)
  • UNIMARC、RDA和语义网 / 郑晓雯 翻译 = UNIMARC, RDA and the Semantic Web / GORDON DUNSIRE (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland)
  • 新的意大利编目规则(REICAT)和UNIMARC标准：图书馆目录中应用的问题和建议 / 韩玲 翻译 = The new Italian Cataloguing Rules (REICAT) and the UNIMARC standard: open problems and proposals for the application in library catalogues / ANTONELLA TROMBONE (Universita' degli Studi della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy) and FERNANDA CANEPA (Berio Library, Genoa, Italy)

Prof. JI Xianlin passed away this morning

Ji Xianlin, Professor of Peking Univerisity and master of Chinese culture, passed away in Beijing this morning at 8:50am.

Prof. REN Jiyu, Honorary National Librarian of China, passed away

Prof. REN Jiyu passed away this morning at 4:30am (Beijing Time).
Prof. Ren was a famous philosopher, and used to be the Director (1987-2005) and Honorary Director (2005-2009) of National Library of China.

OLCC Annual Meeting to Be Held in Hangzhou

The annual meeting of the Online Library Cataloging Center (OLCC) is to be held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, soon in late May 2009.
As a component of the Chinese Acquisitions & Cataloging Department, National Library of China, OLCC, another name of the department, was founded in 1998. The mission of OLCC is to provide bibliographic records to Chinese libraries, and provide cataloging training services.
OLCC has 1000 users, 500 members and 13 subcenters.

Web Page for ISSN Directors' Meeting opened

A special Web page for the ISSN Directors' Meeting to be held in Beijing in September opened today:
http://www.nlc.gov.cn/yjfw/issn/about.html

Crowd on Great Wall on Labor Day

Yesterday was the International Labor Day (May 1), we went to the Great Wall at Badaling and saw a huge crowd of people there. I think it was dangerous, and tourists could hardly climb the Great Wall in two hours.