Chinese Canadian Library Weblog

Like UBC, UW faculty hasn’t got to buy in. ( Blue Angels just flew by and made the noise. ) Librarians try to help Graduate School on Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Relevant work is being handled by committees and subject librarians. About 80 web authors across the system, look and feel is handled by the […]

OpenURL is transferring the information about an item from the information provider via a Link- Server. OpenURL can embed CrossRef DOI’s, and CrossRef DOI’s can be used to send OpenURL to libraries. This helps publishers and libraries collaborate to optimize the services for the ultimate consumers of their information. The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for […]

Chinese Medical Association Journal bought by Wanfang created the first ejournal publisher, and traditional publishers started to withdraw from the Big Three and transform to e-publishing. Is this the main reason of missing titles and issues from CNKI?

Prof. Madeleine Dong, Professor of History and Chair of the China Studies Program at UW thinks that Chinese historical studies is influenced by Sino-American relationship, not really history itself. Unlike Japan, China was studied as a model of failure. Its starting point is China’s reaction to Western influcence. Social history was developed a great deal […]

Prof. Joyce Chen shifts her topic to technical side today. Stanford made Guomindang archive into 35 mm microfilm first, microfilm readers can make into digital files. Ming archives with colorful seals should be scanned directly. Workflow includes: Metadata, digital objects and handle system Ontology, clustering, etc organized information Searching, browsing, portal, Web2.0 Digitizing text needs […]

UW worked with Cornell for a few years serving users on both campuses, until they both joined the national program. Now virtual reference is marketed on all subject web pages. UW is assigned 10 hours a day for the national virtual reference work and UW users get help 24/7. QuestionPoint has Chinese interface now, but […]

FTE/Head Count UW has 42,000, but for Chinese e-resources, Size, nature of programs should be the right model. Concurrent User is another one, and may save some money, but not good for course reserves. Tiers, Carnegie classification, works for resources on broad subjects such as JStore and Mute. Budget or Resource Budget and Custom quote […]

Very impressive! Taiwan U’s 淡新档案，National History Museum’s art works can be searched by image (content-based retrieval). Prof. Chen used searching butterflies as an example. National Repository of Cultural Heritage has tons of old photos, ancient contracts and multi-media resources. Yunshan was telling me how difficult to find anything like this from the Mainland, such as […]

Diane emphasized the importance of license as that “Contract or license is over the copyright.” The license needs to request for perpetual access, but how the vendor delivers the access may change over time. The six “terms of death” are practical: Indemnification, Don’t indemnify a provider Don’t take responsibility for user behavior Unreasonable termination Jurisdiction: […]

陈昭珍教授准时开启了研习班的第二周。人在西雅图还关注台湾业界并投稿中时让我钦佩。她就圖書館館長向郭台銘要錢被拒一事发表己见，将上周课堂上的收获运用到台湾的现实。 Like in Mainland, academic libraries in Taiwan purchase e-resources collaboratively. National Library and Taichung Library look after public libraries’ digital materials. ConCERT is responsible for networked acquistion and make sure that digital resources cover the entire island. Prof. Chen used Qing contracts and Canadian TumbleBooks as samples. Union Catalogs for different formats of materials […]