Chinese Interpretors in WLIC2012

Yesterday evening, I had dinner with six Chinese interpreters and translators from National Library of China for the IFLA General Confernce (WLIC 2012). Three of them are from my department, the Foreign Acquisitions & Cataloging Department.

Chinese Caucus Meeting held before the WLIC2012

Just be fore the offical opening of the 78th IFLA General Conference (WLIC 2012), about 120 Chinese delegates attended the Chinese Caucus Meeting this evening, during which I introduced the latest developments in international library cataloging community.

Arrived in Riga for the Pre-conference

As the vice-group-head of the delegation of the Library Society of China, I arrived in Riga late this evening wth 24 other colleagues.
We met some troubles during the visa checking and waited for about 2 hours in the airport.
We will attend the pre-conference tomorrow.
It's a very tiring day.
We are glad that the Typhoon hadn't arrived before our departure from Shanghai Pudong Airport yesterday at 11:00, and the flight of the Russian Airlines is not late, because the transit time in Moscow was just 1.5 hours.

National Library of China Publishing and ALA Publishing reach agreement on Chinese language RDA

This news item is directly related to me and National Library of China:

http://www.rdatoolkit.org/content/425

RDA training begins today in Beijing

Barbara Tillett's RDA training began today in the morning at the auditorium of the National Library of China.

The training will last 2.5 days, and there will be a half-day seminar immediately after the training.

RDA training and seminar to be held soon

The National Library of China and the Library Society of China will jointly hold an RDA training session and a related seminar on the future of RDA in China.
Barbara B. Tillett, chair of JSC, will host the training session during July 9-11, 2012, and the seminar will be held in the afternoon of July 11, 2012.

"Anonymous Classics: a list of uniform titles for Chinese works" published

The IFLA Cataloguing Section just published Anonymous Classics: a list of uniform titles for Chinese works on the IFLA Website:

http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/anonymous-classics-a-list-of-uniform-titles-for-chinese-works

Beginning with 2006, the job was done jointly by French colleagues and Ben Gu.

It was approved by the Standing Committee of the IFLA Cataloguing Section in 2011, and was formally released yesterday.