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.

Chinese version of Guidelines for National Bibliographies officially released

The Chinese version of National bibliographies in the digital age : guidance and new directions is just released at the IFLA site:

http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/guidelines-for-national-bibliographies-in-the-electronic-age

with the direct link to the PDF file (800 KB):

http://www.ifla.org/files/bibliography/national_bibliographies_in_the_digital_age-zh.pdf

The original English version is published in August 2009:

National bibliographies in the digital age : guidance and new directions / IFLA Working Group on Guidelines for National Bibliographies ; edited by Maja Žumer. — München : Saur, 2009. — 140 p. : some ill. ; 25 cm. — (IFLA series on bibliographic control ; v. 39 )

and the Chinese translation is done by staff in National Library of China.