NCC's 3-D Conference Planning - Mission of the NCC
NCC Strengths
- Collaboration between scholars & librarians
- Inclusive---no membership serves for and served by diverse range of people
- JUSFC support for personnel & operations
- International collaboration
Mission of The NCC
Mission 1: Growing distributed national collections
Multi-Volume sets (MVS) Project
1992-Grants for the purchase of expensive multi-volume sets of Japanese language materials that are in demand by users and are not held elsewhere in North America
Japan Art Catalog (JAC) Project
Project 1995-Facilitates access to Japanese art catalogs for art historians and the general public on site & via ILL
Mission 2: Expanding Digital Resources in the Classroom
- Electronic Resources Workshops
NCC E-Resources Workshops and Seminars Funded by the Japan Foundation
- Over 60 Programs offered to date
- Broad range of formats and levels
- Introductory User Training Workshops
- Special disciplinary topics
- Japanese Maps Series
- Museum of Fine Arts Digitization Project
- Japanese Legal Resources Workshops
- Using Visual Images from Japan
Faculty Forum Using Resources on the Front Line
- 20 Faculty members from 12 states + DC history, religion, language/culture, language/literature, anthropology, sociology
14 NCC Council members, 6 observers
- Presentations : NCC activities, MVS, commercial/free databases, Sharing research/classroom application
- Small group breakout sessions: listening to faculty needs
Task Force on Connecting to Japan on the Web
Mission 3: Learning Constantly, How Librarians Stay Ahead
What is your role?
What can the NCC do to help?
Mission 4: Accessing Knowledge on Japan
