Speech at LSC Annual Conference

I just gave a presentation at the "Information Resource Development" session of the Annual Conference of the Library Society of China, focusing on hot topics in information resource development and sharing, and the practices of National Library of China.

I will leave for Beijing this evening.

LSC Annual Conference to be held next Monday

The Annual Conference of the Library Society of China is to be held in Changchun, Jilin Province, next Monday.

There will be more than 800 participants from all around China, and about 80 from National Library of China.

I will have a 30-minute speech at the Resource Development and Sharing session, and lead about 20 colleagues from my department, the Chinese Acquisitions & Cataloging Department.

I am sorry, Gothenburg!

I am sorry, Gothenburg!

I will not attend the World Library and Information Congress (WLIC), or IFLA General Conference, in Gothenburg, August 9-15, 2010.

Of course, I will not attend the meetings of the Standing Committee of the Cataloguing Section and the ISBD Review Group.

I have organized the Chinese translation of 9 papers of the conference, among which 4 for the Cataloguing Session, 4 for the Bibliography Session and 1 for the UNIMARC Session. Most volunteers are my colleagues from the National Library of China, and two are from other libraries. I would like to express my sincere thanks for their efforts for IFLA.

CNONIX Working Group Established

CNONIX Working Group was established on July 14, 2010.

CNONIX is a Chinese localization of the international standard ONIX, which is for the information exchange of book publishing and trade industry.

The working group is sponsored by GAPP (General Administration of Press and Publication) of the government, organized by a secretariat under China Publishing Group Corporation.

The working group is divided into Steering Subgroup, Expert Subgroup, Drafting Subgroup and Secretariat.

I am one of the members of the Expert Subgroup. The expert subgroup members are mainly from publishers and booksellers and responsible for the review of the new standard.

OLCC UCS Training Held in Beijing

A training course for UCS system for OLCC is held in Beijing during July 10-11, 2010. 80 trainees from OLCC users and members attend the training.

UCS system is an union library cataloging system developed by Ex Libris specially for Online Library Cataloging Center, National Library of China.

The new system will be put into use in August as a new module of Aleph 500 of Ex Libris.

As the director of OLCC and the chair of the UCS project team, I spent five years for the system. I am very glad to see that the new system will be completed very soon.

30th Anniversary Reunion of Class 7906 of the High School Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University

I. Photos

• 新浪（顾犇） / Sina: http://photo.blog.sina.com.cn/category/u/1230856804/s/253976
• 网易（顾犇） / NetEase (Ben Gu): http://photo.163.com/bgu61/list/#aid=205322510&m=0&page=1
• 网易（顾犇） / NetEase (Joseph Yan): http://photo.163.com/josephyan/list/#aid=205388865&m=0&page=1
• Flickr (Ben Gu): http://www.flickr.com/photos/guben/sets/72157624248405831/

II. Video Clips

• 新浪（顾犇） / Sina: http://you.video.sina.com.cn/a/4157103-1230856804.html
• 优酷（顾犇） / YouKu: http://www.youku.com/playlist_show/id_4622976.html

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.