NCC The North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources
2005 Open Meeting
September 16-17, 2005, University of Michigan 2005 Open Meetings: Report
Toshie Marra
Part I: NCC Open Meeting 2005
Friday, April 1, 2005, 1:00-4:00 p.m., Japan Information Center Auditorium, Consulate General of Japan, Chicago, IL
Digital Resources Committee (DRC) Report and Information Exchange Session:
Tomoko Steen and Robert Britt, Co-Chairs, and Members of the DRC
Japan Art Catalog (JAC) Projects:
Hiroyuki Good, JAC Western Art Collection Curator
Multi-Volume Sets (MVS) Committee Report and MVS Project Application Strategies:
Reiko Yoshimura, Co-Chair, and Members of the MVS Committee
MVS Titles at Chicago, 1993-2005-Tremendous Resources and Outreach Services:
Eizaburo Okuizumi
Update on the AAU/ARL/NCC Japan Project and ILL/DD Committee:
Victoria Bestor, NCC Executive Director, and Sharon Domier, ILL/DD Committee Co-Chair
Report on the Training the Trainers (T-3) Project and its Future Plans:
T-3 Committee Activities:
Kristina Troost, T-3 Committee Co-Chair
T-3 Workshops Report:
Sharon Domier, T-3 Workshops Instructor, and Chiaki Sakai, Tadanobu Suzuki, and Yunshan Ye
Electronic Resource Training Workshops Project-Discussion:
Victoria Bestor, NCC Executive Director
Presentation on the Japan Studies Information Specialist Training Seminar 2004:
Keiko Yokota-Carter and Michiko Ito
Presentation on NDL's Reference Kyodo Database:
Kiyoko Murakami, National Diet Library
For more information, please see a report on the NCC web site at:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ncc/openmeeting2005.html.
Part II: Japanese Publishers & Vendors Roundtable
Friday April 1, 2005, 7:00-9:00 p.m., Hyatt Regency Hotel Chicago
Purpose of the session:
To improve communication with major Japanese publishers specializing in academic publishing related to Japanese studies, and to outreach scholars and librarians in isolated environments without easy access to major Japanese studies collections or expert Japanese studies librarians
Guest Speakers:
Shinsuke Yagi (Fuji Shuppan), Yuichiro Ishida (Hon-No-Tomosha),
Hideo Okano (Kuroshio Shuppan/Languages and Linguistics Publishers Forum),
Hiroshi Tobe (Kashiwa Shobo), June Tateno (NetAdvance Inc.), Takashi Yoshizawa (Nihon Tosho Senta), Masao Yoneda (Ozorasha), Satoko Matsumura (Rinsen Shoten), Hiroshi Kawakami (Yumani Shobo), Sei Higuchi (Yushodo Company Ltd.)
Sponsors:
Those publishers who made presentations and the Kinokuniya Bookstores of America and the Japan Publications Trading Co., Ltd. covered equipments and refreshment costs.
After each speaker's presentation on their company's strengths and the new and outstanding publications, a questions & answers session followed. Questions asked include regarding publication year indication on "on-demand" publications from Japan, a user guide in English for JapanKnowledge, equipments to view 16mm microfilms of
Fujin Sansei Shiryo 婦人参政資料, a new publication from Nihon Tosho Center, and compatibility of the CD-ROM index for
Fujin Sansei Shiryo with English Windows XP.
For more information, please see a report on the NCC web site at:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ncc/pvroundtable2005.html
Planning for 2006 Open Meeting:
Scheduled to be held on Friday, April 6, 2006, 7:00-10:00 p.m., San Francisco Marriott, San Francisco, CA
- Meeting time options: Friday evening vs. Thursday morning concurrently with CEAL CKM (Committee on Korean Material) and CCM (Committee on Chinese Materials) meetings.
- We received a request for having a longer discussion session with DRC.
- Importance of communicating with Japanese publishers and producers of electronic resources has become clearer-Do we want to have a discussion with electronic resource providers?
- There is a possibility of getting a booth at the exhibition with sponsorship of several Japanese publishers and Kinokuniya Bookstores of America to provide personal off-line instruction for selected Japanese electronic resources to faculty and students-Do we want a booth?
- Any suggestions?
