Rotation of NLC middle managers

According to the policy of middle manager rotation of National Library of China (NLC), I will become Director, Foreign Acquisitions & Cataloging Department on January 1, 2011.

I like my new iPhone 4

Two weeks ago, my old mobile phone (Nokia 6670) did work anymore. I bought a new Nokia (N97mini) and didn't like it. Then, I asked my vendor to change another one (iPhone 4) for me.

I like the functions of iPhone 4, especially the functions of Calendar, iPod, WiFi network, GPS, etc.

OLCC Quality Controller Training in Progress

The Quality Controller Training of the Online Library Cataloging Center (OLCC) began today in Beijing.

As the director of OLCC, I planned the training course several months ago for the improvement of uploaded bibliographic records of the cooperative cataloging consortium. This training course for senior catalogers of member libraries of OLCC will take four days from Friday to Monday.

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

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

NLC Games held today

The Ninth Games of National Library of China began today at the stadium of Renmin University of China.

Today's weather is not very good. All the staff attended the opening ceremony in the rain.

Prof. Yuan Mingdun passed away

Prof. YUAN Mingdun (1928-2010), former chairman of the Department of Library Science, Beijing Normal University, passed away last week. His farewell ceremony was held yesterday at an hospital.

Prof. Yuan was an early researchers in computer languages, library automation and MARC formats.

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.