There about 200 people in the audience, from NLC and other libraries in Beijing.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
RDA Lecture in NLC
A lecture on RDA is held in the National Library of China, Beijing, now, by Ms. HU Xiaojing, an expert from the East China Normal University Library.
Friday, March 23, 2012
Tsinghua Library's Video wins IFLA International Marketing Award
Tsinghua University Library's video series "Falling in Love with the Library" wins the 10th IFLA International Marketing Award.
Please see details at:
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
40th Anniversary of President Nixon’s visit to China
Yesterday afternoon, I went to the U.S. Embassy in China to attend an ceremony to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of President Nixon's visit to China.
Chargé d'Affaires Robert Wang invited some guests to attend a reception and the China premiere screening of a new documentary produced by the U.S.-China Institute of the University of Southern California, Assignment: China – The Week That Changed the World. The screening was followed by a panel discussion moderated by Mrs. Mona Locke.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Planning the year
With the coming of the Chinese Lunar New Year (February 23, 2012), we are very busy with the planning of the whole year. The plan will be finalized next week.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Call for Papers, IFLA Cataloguing Section
Call for Papers
IFLA Cataloguing Section
Session Theme: Inspired moments in cataloguing!
The IFLA Cataloguing Section (IFLA CATS) invites proposals for papers to be presented at the World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) in Helsinki, Finland, August 11-17 2012.
In the 2012 open session the Cataloguing Committee wants to examine how well our rules and standards support an information infrastructure that fits user needs.
Could they even inspire new ways of using the data?
Proposals from all kind of users - from end users to professionals and researchers in cataloguing, cognitive science, persuasive technology, user behavior, interface design etc.– are welcome
Areas of interest include:
Do cataloguing rules support user needs?
Integration of metadata from different sources (avoiding silos)
OPAC integration with other discovery tools
User centered design
Learning from search engines e.g. relevance ranking, spell check,sorting, faceting, stemming …
User studies
User behavior vs FRBR user tasks
Four successful proposals on the topic will be identified.
Send a detailed abstract (1 page or at least 300 words) of the proposed paper (must not have been published elsewhere) and relevant biographical information of author(s)/presenter(s) by 31 January 2012 via email to:
Hanne Hørl Hansen
Chair, Cataloguing Section
e-mail: hah@dbc.dk
The abstracts will be reviewed by members of the Cataloguing Section's Standing Committee. Successful proposals will be identified by 1 March 2012.
Full papers will be due by 1 May 2012 to allow time for review of papers and preparation of translations; papers should be no longer than 20 pages. 15-20 minutes will be allowed for a summary delivery of the paper during the Cataloguing Section's programme.
Please note that the expenses of attending the Helsinki conference will be the responsibility of the author(s)/presenter(s) of accepted papers.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Shanghai Conservatory of Music: Forum & Workshop
A series of events concerning music manuscripts and digital libraries is now held in Shanghai Conservatory of Music as "Forum & Workshop".
Please see the following poster:
The official report of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music:
and the blog post of Dr. QIAN Renping, the librarian:
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Video about the National Library of China
BTV (Beijing Television Station) just released a video clip about the National Library of China, as one of its series "The Most Beautiful Beijing" (最美北京):
with three versions respectively in 30", 15" and 10".
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