Second National Conference on Library Cataloging held in Nanjing, May 31-June 1

The Second National Conference on Library Cataloging is held in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, May 31-June 1, 2010. 120 participants attended the conference.

The conference is sponsored by the National Library of China, co-sponsored by Information Organization Committee of the Library Society of China, Nanjing Library and China Library Weekly, and supported by Ex Libris.

Yesterday, Prof. Wang Songlin gave keynote speech, and some experts from various libraries and library schools in China spoke about hot issues in international library cataloging and information organization community.

During the first session of the second day (June 1), about 10 speakers presented their papers for the conference, which are already published in the conference proceedings in May 2010.

Major topics of the conference are: outsourcing, roles of catalogers, ICP, FRBR, FRAD, FRSAD, name authority file, VIAF, Chinese Library Classification, Classified Chinese Thesaurus, SKOS, RDA, etc. Managing Director of Ex Libris China Office introduced the newly development Union Cataloging System of Aleph500 system.

During the first conference in Wuhan in 2006, participants discussed seriously about the unification of cataloging rules in China. The situation has been improved very much.

Both the first and the second conferences is mainly coordinated by me. I spent quite a lot of time for call-for-paper, review of submitted papers and arrangement of presenters. About 10 of my colleagues from the Acquisitions & Cataloging Department volunteered to do all the arrangements for the conference. I am glad that the conference is very successful, and is much better than the first conference in 2006.

OLCC held annual meeting in Nanjing

Online Library Cataloging Center (OLCC) of the National Library of China held its annual meeting in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.

During the meeting, the Jiangsu Provincial Sub-Center of OLCC was officially established.

Established in 1997 and operated by the Chinese Acquisitions & Cataloging Department of the National Library of China, OLCC have 14 sub-centers and 1160 users.

About 80 participants from 46 member libraries attended the meeting, and technicians from Ex Libris and OLCC showed the newly developed Union Cataloging System especially for OLCC and to be released next month.

I have been the director of OLCC since 2004, and have spent quite a lot of time for the development of the new system.

Children's Library of National Library of China to be opened today

National Library of China will open its Children's Library today. It will end the long-lasting controversy over the issue whether the national library should have a children's library or reading room, and will play a leading role in Chinese library community where children's library services are not well developed.

National Library of China shares its rich collection with libraries worldwide through OCLC's WorldCat Resource Sharing service

OCLC News:

http://www.oclc.org/us/en/news/releases/2010/201028.htm

Herbie Hancock and Dee Dee Bridgewater in Beijing

Herbie Hancock and Dee Dee Bridgewater with the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Ensemble

Forbidden City Concert Hall, Beijing, China

May 11, 2010

Chinese Library Classification at the Final Revision Stage

The final version of the fifth edition of Chinese Library Classification (CLC) is reviewed by experts from major libraries in China. The final revision meeting is now held in Xiamen (Amoy).

CLC was first published in 1975, and is now widely used in almost all libraries in China.

The fourth edition of CLC was published in 1999, and the electronic version of the fourth edition (version 1.0) was published in 2001.

The fifth edition was planned to be published in 2009, but it has been postponed until now.

Second National Conference on Library Cataloging to be held in Nanjing in late May

The Second National Conference on Library Cataloging is to be held in Nanjing during May 31-June 2, 2010. The conference is sponsored by National Library of China and supported by Information Organization Committee of the Library Society of China, Nanjing Library and China Library Weekly.

The first conference was held in Wuhan in 2006, with some topics such as the internationalization of Chinese library cataloging and the unification of cataloging rules. Since then, Chinese library catalogers have been studying latest developments in international library cataloging community, and have reached some agreements on library cataloging rules.