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)