Multilingual Computing and East Asian Library Work

CEAL Library Technology Committee
(Tentative) Agenda for the March 2001 Meeting In Chicago 

Date: Thursday, March 22 from 8:40 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Place:  Sheraton Chicago Hotel; the Michigan Room 
 

• Chair's Introduction (10 minutes)
  • Brief overview of Current CLT Activities
  • Outline of Topic and Format for Panel Discussion
  • Introduction of Panelists
• Panelists' Individual Presentations (about 16 minutes each)
  • Cathy Wissink (from Microsoft's group for Windows globalization; Cathy is a linguist by training, and serves as one of Microsoft's three representatives to the Unicode Consortium. She is their expert on language issues.) Cathy will address multilingual issues concerning Microsoft's applications and operating systems, and how they relate to East Asian library work.
  • Jim Cheng (our fellow CLT member, and East Asian Librarian at the University of Iowa) will discuss the various Integrated Library Systems available to East Asian librarians, and will give an introduction to their CJK capabilities.
  • Wooseob Jeong (a doctoral student in Information Studies at Florida State University) will discuss Unicode in multi-lingual documents on the web
  • Ken Klein (head of USC East Asia Library; former CEAL President) will discuss an innovative project to organize a large donation of Chinese materials at his library.  The materials were located in another state, and the challenge was to evaluate the materials before having them shipped to the USC library.   Since the donor is retired but still very active academically, he requested that USC first inventory his collection so that USC could sort out what he wants to hold onto for now, what USC already owns, and what could be sent immediately to USC.  Ken will describe USC's imaginative solution that involved scanning the colophons or title pages with a hand-held scanner.  Subsequently, the scanned images were imported into a Microsoft Access-based program.
  • Keiko Yokota-Carter (University of Washington East Asian Library, Japanese Librarian) will discuss various technological initiatives at her library undertaken recently (such as the installation of Windows 2000 workstations as public terminals where patrons can access the UW catalog and various CJK databases).  
• Panel Discussion:
  Multilingual Computing and East Asian Library Work (20 minutes)