National Standards for CNMARC Format in Progress

The two China national standards for CNMARC bibliographic and authorities formats began early this year.

They are supposed to be based on the newly revised UNIMARC formats (bibliographic format, 2008, and authorities format, 2009).

I am chairing the drafting of the authority format, and Mr. WANG Dongbo is chairing the revision of the bibliographic format.

The translation of the UNIMARC Authorities Format is about to be completed. I hope the job could be done in the next year.

Lea Salonga and Miss Saigon

I finally found a DVD of Miss Saigon from a friend. It is the version of the performance at Fullerton Civic Light Opera on September 16, 2005. It is the only one I can find with the full stage performance of Miss Saigon, but I don't like the actors very much.

Some months ago, I got a DVD The Heat Is On: The Making of 'Miss Saigon', which describes the first performance of the musical in 1989, with Lea Salonga playing Kim. However, The Heat Is On contains just some pieces of the whole musical, and I cannot get a general idea.

Lea played Éponine in the Les Misérables: The Dream Cast in Concert in 1998. I like her very much, even more than the roles of Fantine and Cosette.

Long holiday for the National Day

Today is the second day of the long holiday for the National Day (October 1).

The long holiday is a good opportunity for me to recover from intensive and busy work, enjoy life with family, and find time to do something left behind.

IFLA MulDiCat released

IFLA just released MulDiCat - Multilingual Dictionary of Cataloguing Terms and Concepts.

National Librarian of Australia to retire this week

I just know from NLA that Jan Fullerton, Director-General of National Library of Australia is going to retire this week:

Director-General Jan Fullerton to retire

A staff of NLA told me that this Friday (September 24) will be her last day in NLA.

The position of Director-General has just been advertised so it will be some time before the new Director-General is appointed.

5th China-North America Library Conference held today

Today is the 101th anniversary of National Library of China.

The 5th China-North America Library Conference is held in Beijing during September 9-10, 2010.

WANG Wenzhang, Vice-Minister of Culture, ZHOU Heping, National Librarian of China, and Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian of Library of Congress, made speeches at the opening ceremony.

Ukrainian President visited National Library of China

Today, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych (Віктор Янукович) visited National Library of China and donated Peresopnytsia Gospels (Пересопницьке Євангеліє) to the library.